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by untog 7y ago
Both things can be true. The gig economy can provide people with the kind of flexible work that wasn't possible. It can also utterly fleece workers that would like to having full time jobs but cannot.
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by untog 7y ago
I can only speak for myself, but my development environment being mobile is precisely the point. I can work from home, I can commit changes while on business trips... it's valuable. I also have a large monitor at the office that I plug
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by untog 7y ago
That doesn't really make sense, though. Go is entirely open source. If Google dropped it tomorrow there are more than enough non-Google people invested in it to continue development.
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by untog 7y ago
Just my personal preference but using these string union types means that you don’t have to import the enum. Plus it’s less verbose and translates back to JS better than an enum does. Really just a matter of preference though.
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by untog 7y ago
Remember how it really didn’t matter at all in the long run? Even “disaster” is overselling it, I doubt many outside of HN circles are aware of it at all. Did they even lose a noticeable number of users from it? I don’t mean to imply that i
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by untog 7y ago
I’d argue... not that. It’s a pop culture reference. Beyoncé is known by people of pretty much every age group. Are you saying Gen Zers wouldn’t get the reference? Because I’m not convinced by that at all.
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by untog 7y ago
They could open up iMessage, which they originally said they were going to do, then stopped talking about it entirely. Even if they didn’t want to open it up they could make an iMessage Android app, like their Apple Music app.
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by untog 7y ago
Counter point: no.
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by untog 7y ago
People who try to make tech writing relatable to a wide audience. Is it really so bad?
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by untog 7y ago
Wouldn’t it be easier to get each and every one of your friends to change their daily behaviour to suit a personal choice you made? Erm, no, no it would not be.
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by untog 7y ago
It isn’t, though. Group MMSes are notoriously fickle, and doing something like sending a video to the group without it appearing in potato quality feels all but impossible at times. iMessage simply is better for group messaging.
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by untog 7y ago
But a lot of larger companies have great programs for junior developers that ensure they learn a lot. In my experience and stories I've heard it seems that you can have an amazing time as a junior developer at a startup. If it's a
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by untog 7y ago
> You say this as though the ad industry cares. They don't have a choice? The point about passive vs active is that it places control with the browser/user where they didn't have it before. You'll be able to respond t
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by untog 7y ago
Absolutely they should. But they haven't. Checking the UA string allows a developer to get around the issue, but once it's gone an individual developer will be powerless to fix the issue for their users.
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by untog 7y ago
IMO at least part of it is that not all date picking contexts are the same. Sometimes I want to do something tomorrow, sometimes it's three months in the future, sometimes it's two years in the past. It's difficult to make a
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by untog 7y ago
One where we enter dates through touch interfaces very often?
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by untog 7y ago
I think a lot of it is whether you consider the price (whatever it is) to be reasonable. I am willing to spend $1000 on something I spend literally half my life on top of.
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by untog 7y ago
That's a very different social experience, though. You're still blocking yourself off from other people in the room with you.
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by untog 7y ago
> For regular people in China, does the addition of Google with some censorship make their life better? Does it improve information flow over existing domestic search engines? I think the answer is obvious. What does that have to do with
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by untog 7y ago
> I doubt strapping the headset on is anywhere near the top For me personally, a side effect of that is the reason I'm not excited about VR: it's anti-social. I'm shutting myself off from anyone else in my apartment in a w
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by untog 7y ago
> How is replacing Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg with anybody else will give you a Utopia Facebook? Not to speak for the OP but the idea is that you don’t replace them, you just remove them. And use decentralised, open source sol
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by untog 7y ago
...no? PWAs all share the same system webview. Three PWAs are essentially no different to having three tabs open in Safari/Chrome. The load they place on the phone is significantly less than most native apps. I've noticed when hav
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by untog 7y ago
I don't really understand why people consider CORS to be such a blocker. It's trivial to implement and it's a useful security measure.
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by untog 7y ago
The vast majority of native apps need next-to-no extra features on top of what the web provides. Facebook, Uber, Seamless, etc. etc... all they really need is an internet connection and location. And the web provides that.
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by untog 7y ago
It was a flip, lighthearted comment and I thought that was pretty self-evident. But fine, I’ve deleted it.
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by untog 7y ago
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by untog 7y ago
[edit: deleting comment]
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by untog 7y ago
Because who wants to miss out on the next Facebook !! Zuckerberg holds huge control over FB and he's a visionary . This rocket ship is going to the moon, are you strapped in ?!? TL;DR: stupidity combined with the myth of the founder
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by untog 7y ago
> In today's environment of 3% unemployment, if someone doesn't like their job, they can find another one pretty quickly. Have you ever talked to a real person about that theory? Do you really think that a nationwide unemploy
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by untog 7y ago
Tipping isn't charity, though. There is literally a legal loophole that lets employers pay less than minimum wage on the basis that the employee will receive enough in tips to make up the difference. Don't get me wrong, I hate tip

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