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811.
by xmprt 5y ago
YouTube premium supports background playback. Or if you have an Android phone, you can try YouTube Vanced.
812.
by xmprt 5y ago
There are still a ton of people learning how to make basic games using Processing or Python. Excel is also used a lot to automate things which can be a gateway to learning a more advanced programming language. Just people kids are learning
813.
by xmprt 5y ago
See point 1. Programmers still need to be on-call during trading hours.
814.
by xmprt 5y ago
Do people still have $100/month cable plans that don't come bundled with Internet? Also, 5 lattes/week is more than a few lattes and $5 per latte is extremely expensive.
815.
by xmprt 5y ago
The thesis of that article is that early retirement is simple formula and isn't as complex as people make it out to be. When one of the examples they give to explain that claim is to just get rid of cable and a few lattes it makes me t
816.
by xmprt 5y ago
In that case, every single airline in the US doesn't care about their passengers' time because I can't remember the first time that boarding actually started at boarding time. And when it does, I'm stuck waiting an extra
817.
by xmprt 5y ago
I've deleted/privated/unlisted a few cringy YouTube videos from about 10 years ago. I have fairly high confidence that even in the insanely rare case that my other videos become popular or I become a celebrity, no one will fi
818.
by xmprt 5y ago
I hate when apps lock out rooted Android phones for "security purposes" when it's so simple to get around it by just directly accessing the API or spoofing. It's even dumber when the app/website can be accessed thro
819.
by xmprt 5y ago
I get that rule. But why does the door close at boarding time and not at the flight time or some predetermined time like 10 minutes before flight time or when boarding completes, whichever is later.
820.
by xmprt 5y ago
I understand what they're saying but I don't trust their math when they claim "simply cutting cable TV and a few lattes would instantly boost their savings to 15%." That implies that cable TV and a few lattes accounts fo
821.
by xmprt 5y ago
You're right but for the people who are confused, it's because of the semantics of the question. If you specify the question a little more and ask "What came first? The chicken or the chicken egg" then the question is ho
822.
by xmprt 5y ago
This game is pretty cool but it doesn't play well on desktops because you have to scroll to see all four words. In my opinion it would be better to have all four side by side instead of trying to fit a mobile design for desktop website
823.
by xmprt 5y ago
Inbox was pretty much just a new frontend to Gmail. Why would it impede in any data-gathering if that was Google's goal?
824.
by xmprt 5y ago
The decision to get rid of Inbox smells like a lot of office politics. Someone probably create Inbox as a fun new 20% project and then it took off with a massive customer base that was eating into Gmail's metrics and so they decided to
825.
by xmprt 5y ago
It doesn't seem like many policies are being made in the first place.
826.
by xmprt 5y ago
If their main way distributing profits to investors is through stock buybacks then that would mean that their stock should have grown right? 10% down without real dividends is terrible.
827.
by xmprt 5y ago
Another big part of it for me is that they make their ads appear almost like tweets so now when I scroll, my brain has learned to tune them out as useless filler. I don't think making them easier to distinguish would be better because
828.
by xmprt 5y ago
That video made me laugh. It almost sounds like a parody of a reset procedure. Every time you expect it to be done, he comes back with another cycle of off for 2 seconds and on for 8 seconds. It's also unfortunate that the dislike butt
829.
by xmprt 5y ago
I love the warnings that they put on these things. (paraphrasing) "Under no circumstances should you follow these extremely specific steps listed below or else you might accidentally make an alcoholic beverage which would be illegal&qu
830.
by xmprt 5y ago
Wouldn't you be able to trace that transaction back to the original wallet?
831.
by xmprt 5y ago
I've studied blockchains a little bit but I don't understand how you can transfer funds between two wallets that you own without linking them. How would that be possible without either having some kind of zero sum proof (which non
832.
by xmprt 5y ago
Could you elaborate? What do you learn from a success where everything you did went right? How replicable is a success like that?
833.
by xmprt 5y ago
Isn't that simply because you experience failure many more times than you experience success. In fact on your path to success you are almost guaranteed to experience multiple failures. So by that metrics one success teaches you the les
834.
by xmprt 5y ago
Slightly off topic but I extremely worried about schools shying away from teaching the horrific things that their countries have done in the past. You can't sugar coat things like slavery and colonization. Especially with the fight aga
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by xmprt 5y ago
> DACA is a true slap in the face to everyone who made the decision to follow and respect the law. It's different if you had a choice in the matter but how does DACA affect the decisions that you made? If you knew that DACA was goin
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by xmprt 5y ago
I believe that the way forward isn't complex UIs or things like ribbons. Command palettes [1] solve most of the problems of discoverability while also helping power users by giving them quick access through shortcuts or highly configur
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by xmprt 5y ago
That sounds like an issue with how Java was designed. There are plenty of languages that solve Java's boilerplate problems without adding new syntax for records.
838.
by xmprt 5y ago
I don't think I agree. Most people spend more time reading than writing code so programming languages should be optimized to be easier to read whereas tooling should be made to simplify writing code. New syntax or macros sounds like it
839.
by xmprt 5y ago
Why is spending money on the rich considered an investment whereas spending money on the poor is considered welfare? For example, it is clear that investments made in public school education has much higher returns.
840.
by xmprt 5y ago
Crafting a message well is important but more often, fast writing and decision making skills are more important. Why do you think so many professors and managers write extremely short, almost informal sounding replies. If you're an exc

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