corybrown

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by corybrown 1y ago
This is not the first recent example of people joining cursor and not lasting long, same thing happened recently with an eng manager over there They've grown a ton, but the four founders have low EQ and don't know what they'r
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by corybrown 3y ago
You're basically right, though the IE dev team was effectively disbanded in 2002 so it's even earlier then you mentioned
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by corybrown 4y ago
This could be a great initial premise for a novel
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by corybrown 4y ago
"just"
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by corybrown 5y ago
Used this as my daily driver for dev work for years, works great. Only downside is it doesn't do emoji rendering well
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by corybrown 5y ago
Yes, this is something the 45th US president did quite well
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by corybrown 5y ago
Jobs offered to buy them in 2009 when AAPL stock was around $5 a share (obviously a lot of splits happened), compared to today's price of over $120 so that $1B in stock would be around $25B, more than double Dropbox market cap
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by corybrown 6y ago
Japan is over 125 million people, not exactly a small set and perfectly valid to compare to the US
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by corybrown 6y ago
I've tried a few of them and always end up a bit disappointed since you have to spend a ton of time being very specific with the task, otherwise the person on the other side inevitably does a mediocre job at best since the incentive is
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by corybrown 6y ago
You live on Reunion? What is that like?
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by corybrown 7y ago
DC trounces SF
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by corybrown 7y ago
I use a Wacom Intous tablet that was sub $100 that works just fine on Linux (I use it with Krita)
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by corybrown 7y ago
It took a while to get there, but this is the right call. All the other big conferences have cancelled, holding this would have been terrible PR. Question is: How far out does your conference have to be for you to not cancel right now?
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by corybrown 7y ago
Are there a lot of farmers in the US? I don't seek it out, but I've read a few times that small family farms are quite rare and most food is produced by huge agribusiness farms
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by corybrown 7y ago
15+ years later, we will try to standardize something that's barely used anymore > This is a similar "Linkback" mechanism to the ones of Refback, Trackback, and Pingback. It uses a different protocol, though, and thus shou
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by corybrown 7y ago
Ballmer was the 2nd in command of MSFT for years as well, doesn't he deserve the same credit as Cook?
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by corybrown 7y ago
> The one that found success with the Laffer Curve Care to explain? The most recent tax cuts that were supposed to pay for themselves haven't. So where are we on the Laffer Curve right now?
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by corybrown 7y ago
There's a faction of US politicians that are philosophically against (most) government and taxes. It's not about ROI, it's about their goals.
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by corybrown 7y ago
Can anyone tell me what apps they're using? I'd love to play around with a green screen, but don't have much budget either
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by corybrown 7y ago
> Some of those buildings will never be fully occupied. Remember 2008? 2001? Aren't those buildings fully occupied today?
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by corybrown 7y ago
But I don't think Netlify provides logs, so that's not an option, right?
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by corybrown 7y ago
Really excited about this, I miss the days of static server-side logs! Pricing is a bit high for my super-low-traffic hobby sites, unfortunately. But I'm glad they're doing this!
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by corybrown 7y ago
Fabio Paim https://thesefootballtimes.co/2018/02/22/the-roller-coaster-... "Aurélio Pereira, the Sporting scout who discovered Quaresma, Ronaldo and Moutinho, once said of Paim: “Do you think Cristiano i
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by corybrown 8y ago
Wow, Linux support. I guess that's useful for those times when the OS package manager is out of date? Or is it in order to not run as root?
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by corybrown 8y ago
Interesting use of Notion as a publishing platform
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by corybrown 8y ago
Great photos, but why did they publish this w/o a map of any kind? Would be great to see this in geographic context
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by corybrown 8y ago
Related: https://brilliantmaps.com/empty-netherlands/
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by corybrown 8y ago
> I charge clients similarly. I overbid projects that I don't really want to do. If you want me to setup Wordpress for you, I'll charge you out the nose. Granted, you get to accept my fees before I ever send you a bill. It&#x27
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by corybrown 8y ago
Not OP, but have had to buy insurance as a freelancer before. Do you have a family? Health insurance prices are far, far higher if you have a family. The type of coverage you can by as an individual is also inferior to those you get access
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by corybrown 8y ago
Web scraping is such an underappreciated art. Unfortunately, it's harder and harder to do little hobby projects since many sites will quickly ban you. I was working on a music project, trying to use Rate Your Music as the data source.

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