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by yen223 2y ago
Javascript is a funny one. Javascript being an open standard meant there were no barriers to re-implementing them on alternative browsers. So when Internet Explorer started to lose its throne to Chrome and Firefox, Javascript survived while
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by yen223 2y ago
> You can still see a stark difference between rich and poor neighbourhoods to this day based purely on tree cover. You can see that here in Sydney. The poorer Western Sydney suburbs have a noticeable lack of tree coverage when compared
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by yen223 2y ago
When you're doing long-term investments, it's not a zero-sum game. It is possible - likely even - that you and those hordes of PhDs all come out ahead.
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by yen223 2y ago
That dark mode is hilarious
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by yen223 2y ago
It wasn't that long ago that all the interesting infrastructure projects (vagrant, chef) were written in Ruby.
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by yen223 2y ago
I keep thinking about how ChatGPT was a name that clearly wasn't given much thought, but it's one of the most popular brands in recent history.
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by yen223 2y ago
I have pondered if a hypothetical race of liquid or gaseous aliens living in a fluid world invented maths that were not rooted in counting numbers, what would that look like.
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by yen223 2y ago
I suggest reaching out to people from your target demographic and asking them.
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by yen223 2y ago
And then realising you don't actually know which person is "average" and how smart they are.
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by yen223 2y ago
Start with a trillion dollars and launch a grocery delivery startup
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by yen223 2y ago
Lisa Su is one of the (surprisingly rare) tech CEOs who comes from an engineering background.
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by yen223 2y ago
I think the most likely way Google dies is if web search itself dies. Maybe because something else replaces the "web" and Google failed to catch up. Much like how Microsoft monopolised desktop, but failed to capture the rising (an
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by yen223 2y ago
Kind of, at least in regards to mobile. When developing iOS and Android apps, the "default" frameworks for storing data (Core Data for iOS, Room for Android) are wrappers around sqlite. I would guess >50% of apps installed on y
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by yen223 2y ago
React's server components is pretty fundamentally different from how something like Rails or old-school PHP does "server-side rendering". It's a lot closer in spirit to something like Phoenix LiveWire.
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by yen223 2y ago
That effect comes from their font - "Jetbrain Sans"
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by yen223 2y ago
The biggest costs to online transactions, I believe, are related to fraud and fraud detection.
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by yen223 2y ago
I don't actually think it will change all that much. Ad-supported media existed long before the Internet became mainstream. In the good old days when we paid for newspapers and newspaper deliveries, newspapers made money off of selling
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by yen223 2y ago
This is the norm, not the exception for big companies. The more I spend time in mid-large companies, the more I'm amazed that that Apple somehow managed to avoid releasing three different messaging apps that do the same thing.
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by yen223 2y ago
> This error would immediately get caught if you simply registered twice on a test instance Friendly reminder: check if your codebase is actually testing this! One of the interesting consequence of running unit tests with a fresh databas
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by yen223 2y ago
I highly recommend reading this list of built-in macOS terminal commands: https://ss64.com/mac/ Some commands I use often: - `pbcopy` and `pbpaste` to copy and paste data via the clipboard - `date -u` to give the date
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by yen223 2y ago
cmd-shift-5 lets you choose between all the screen capture options, plus it also allows you to do screen recordings.
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by yen223 2y ago
The plural of "regex" is "regices"
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by yen223 2y ago
Based on the software people actually use and the languages they are written in, probably not.
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by yen223 2y ago
Haha, you might be right. Fitness and stamina are pretty important to get those APMs in.
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by yen223 2y ago
How many people do you personally know play way too much video games? And out of them, how many has made a successful living out of playing video games?
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by yen223 2y ago
Person A spends their 8 hours playing sports, reading books and socialising Person B spends their 8 hours only playing video games I would expect Person A to be better than Person B in every notable category, except for video game skill.
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by yen223 2y ago
Based on recent financial filings, Datadog hasn't shown any signs of losing customers or declining revenue.
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by yen223 2y ago
Australians are getting an income tax cut next year, so that's nice.
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by yen223 2y ago
This might have been an unpopular opinion 10 years ago. But since then, we have supply-chain attacks, and we have left-pad. I think vendoring or mirroring all dependencies is starting to become standard practice nowadays. At the very least,
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by yen223 2y ago
I did notice, when looking up resources online about JWTs, that a lot of folks out there are under the mistaken understanding that JWTs and "bearer tokens" mean the same thing.

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