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by hellofunk 6y ago
> Gmail was great when it came out, but today it’s a pretty mediocre product. Gmail has actually gotten super slow to me, I'm not sure what the problem is. Their site loads slowly, navigating around it is slow, the whole UX is slow.
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by hellofunk 6y ago
I think we can just chalk this up to a competition between Canon and Adobe on who can delete the most photos from the world.
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Sweden records highest death tally in 150 years in first half of 2020(edition.cnn.com)
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by hellofunk 6y ago
Eh, I read it differently. It’s not just one line, it’s three sentences followed by a reference to the political climate. I think it’s a bit much and it threw me off while I was reading it. I’ve seen those kinds of jesting comments in other
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by hellofunk 6y ago
> We are at around 50,000,000 cases. Where is that number coming from? If you were talking about United States, you were off by a factor of 10! If you’re talking about the whole world, you’re still off by a factor of two! At least as far
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by hellofunk 6y ago
Your observations are quite subjective and flawed. Yes, Disney world is open, that is hardly the end of it. Is it the same Disney World as before the pandemic? It’s not a binary situation. You can’t just point out that because a place is no
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by hellofunk 6y ago
That first paragraph, where the author seems to, even in jest, place blame on his college professor, all the wording and weird emphasis on that, it’s just really really strange. I certainly would not want to be his college professor.
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by hellofunk 6y ago
A lawyer in Boardwalk Empire, from the 1920s, charges $80 per hour. So hypothesis disproven.
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by hellofunk 6y ago
If the story doesn't make sense, that usually means we haven't heard the whole story.
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by hellofunk 6y ago
I don’t think they deliberately thought they were doing something inadequately, these problems are always obvious in hindsight. Issue is that eventually most companies will have this moment seeing through the lens of hindsight, the reasons
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by hellofunk 6y ago
That does not look like Gosling to me. Why does the photographer think it is him?
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by hellofunk 6y ago
There is one somewhat reassuring lesson here -- No matter the company, no matter the brand, no matter their worth: software development is wrought with challenges, and major mistakes for seemingly obvious things are made by everyone, all th
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by hellofunk 6y ago
Are you referring to this as "cringey": ? > I am in no way delusional enough to think we are partners or that Apple needs us in any respect. Of course we are insignificant to the success of Apple. Our departure from the App Sto
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by hellofunk 6y ago
> The amount of derogatory references to the web and Android also make it really hard for me not to question the motivation behind this letter. A lot of people and developers feel the same way about these technologies as the author. They
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by hellofunk 6y ago
This snarky response undermines the meaningful content found throughout the whole letter.
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by hellofunk 6y ago
This is an impressive letter. It makes solid points, and it walks the fine line between emotional and reasonable.
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by hellofunk 6y ago
Perhaps because I do have a production background in nearly half a dozen languages, this has complicated it for me. I guess someone who has only ever written JavaScript and has settled on react as their tool of choice will just do anything
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by hellofunk 6y ago
> Decision fatigue is almost universally the result of executing against an insufficient plan. Contrary to the sibling comment, I actually think this explains a lot of my experience. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by hellofunk 6y ago
> But John D. Cook recently posted an idea ( https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/07/25/worst-tool-for-the... ) that I also thought useful: Try to choose the worst tool for the job. There are some killer
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by hellofunk 6y ago
> When suffering from perfectionism, a person overweights the consequences of arriving at an imperfect solution and underweights the consequences of not arriving at any solution at all. So eloquently put, thank you!
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by hellofunk 6y ago
> There are no solutions, just tradeoffs. Don't think there's a perfect tech stack. Wow I really love this perspective.
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by hellofunk 6y ago
One thing I've wondered about: I see it frequently written that someone new to Julia sits down and write an algorithm, and despite that language's marketing, the code runs at a fraction of C++ speeds. Eventually, the code gets a s
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by hellofunk 6y ago
> without rewriting 90% of django. No need to rewrite Django: https://genieframework.com/
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by hellofunk 6y ago
> now-somewhat-forgotten 70s band Steely Dan. That's a well-known classic band and I don't think they are nearly forgotten, as you say.
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by hellofunk 6y ago
> I've found for Nim and Crystal I have to run the compiler in the terminal, look where the errors were, and then find those lines in my editor. I pretty much do this with any language I use, including C++ or even Java and Kotlin.
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by hellofunk 6y ago
> Back in the day it was hot rodders who were talking about fast cars. I’m not sure where you’re from, but this is just simply not correct. I have never been in that group and I know lots of people who regularly use that phrase. It’s a f
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by hellofunk 6y ago
I hear that phrase still today , often enough that I’d consider it current.
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by hellofunk 6y ago
Are you running FFmpeg in the browser?! Like with the web assembly? If so that’s pretty amazing.
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by hellofunk 6y ago
First half of 2020 also a 6X increase in the number of Americans giving up their citizenship compared to the prior year.
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by hellofunk 6y ago
> The servo stuff was merged into ff already. Really? The project was done? That is at odds to what nearly every person I follow involved with the project has had to say recently.

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