jakequade

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by jakequade 3y ago
If the company is already huge and makes a tonne of profit, there's little/no need to double-dip on an accessory service that already makes a good case for pushing people into their main service (i.e prime video is free if you use
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by jakequade 5y ago
I like how you've followed the delusional -> delusional pattern.
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by jakequade 5y ago
They would be upset. 100%. Many of them just don't care about the inner workings of the app.
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by jakequade 5y ago
If you have punitive anti-drinking policy, and a racial group susceptible to that problem, it becomes a racist policy. There's alternatives that don't set people with problems back even further.
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by jakequade 5y ago
You misread his question. He asked if the AFP could create a new account and masquerade as him (seeing as he doesn't have profiles now).
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by jakequade 5y ago
> I guess it would be possible(?) to go into the new .yarn folder but its just not the same Except it's exactly the same. CD into a folder.
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by jakequade 5y ago
> Knowing nothing about software. A few lines in: > I created a horse-racing simulation game in Applesoft BASIC in Manhattan Beach Middle School’s computer classroom and ran a small gambling operation. ... Ok.
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by jakequade 5y ago
> it's pretty obvious that any developer involved in a project can make a reasonable assumption of how rare a bug is ... is it? The fact that a bug exists means there's a logic gap. You can try and patch it with theory, but tha
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by jakequade 5y ago
> I didn’t need comments if I wrote self-documenting code. More than any other approach to coding (x-based-development etc), this has come up most frequently for me personally, and it astounds me how many people have this mentality. Comm
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by jakequade 5y ago
> whether it's fair or not, personal connection and trust play a huge role in collaborating effectively and deciding who gets what work, who gets promoted, etc. You're assuming a bunch of stuff here. There's something to b
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by jakequade 6y ago
Brave is still based on Chromium, and Google is the opposite of "no tracking, no profiling". I'll stick to Firefox + DDG, thanks.
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by jakequade 6y ago
Hasn't been my experience, but good to hear.
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by jakequade 6y ago
Grab a revolut account. They're free, and they have a tool called 'digital temporary card' that is good for one use. After the card number is used, it's cycled. Not affiliated, I'm in Aus and I use my temp card for
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by jakequade 6y ago
I've signed up, because what you've said here sounds interesting - but good lord that website is hideous. I would _never_ give a site like that my email. Consider at least showing your product/research/something that&#x2
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by jakequade 6y ago
Also, they have no fucking idea what we're talking about, and "can't read their messages" just flat sounds like a bad idea to them.
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by jakequade 6y ago
I love haskell, but personally don't want haskell ideas to be popular until they're possible for a given language. Yes, lazy evaluation and tail-call recursion are awesome... At least they are in haskell. Outside of haskell, it&#x
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by jakequade 6y ago
In what world is having geo-specific social networks run by corporations a good outcome? "Like China" is a pretty bad north star for almost any country.
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by jakequade 6y ago
> Failure to validate a product before building it? Premature optimization. I largely agree with your comment, minus this. Unless everything after the initial idea for a product is an "optimisation" - which is quite a claim - b
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by jakequade 7y ago
What's happening is an appropriate response. Sure, anyone blaming individuals / residents is being out-of-line, but this _needs_ to happen.
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by jakequade 7y ago
---- Fullstack developer, started in backend, more recently building an app with React Native and GQL. Have a side project in Rust, Rust being my favourite language. In my third year of development work ---- Location: Sydney, Australia
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by jakequade 7y ago
I think you're both giving marketing too much credit in the product's creation, and inverting the creation process in general. > It’s like waiting to build the backend until the frontend is 100% complete It's more like bui
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by jakequade 7y ago
Ah, another "forget <framework>, use mine instead" shtpost. Nice job.
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by jakequade 7y ago
I see you've never designed anything frontend, ever.
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by jakequade 7y ago
Attempts to make a system more 'legible' often ignore (or don't fully comprehend) why they exist in a certain way. Remaking the system without understanding these aspects leads to something that makes more sense 'on pape
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by jakequade 7y ago
Firewatch devs used this for the intro - and it's beautiful. Nice work team.
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by jakequade 7y ago
Your splash page does nothing for showing me what I'll actually learn, or what context/'scenario' I'll learn it in.
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by jakequade 7y ago
> cyborg devices Uhhh....
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by jakequade 7y ago
Yeah, site is busted as hell on mobile.
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Ask HN: Best web E2E testing library?
1 points by jakequade 7y ago|1 comments
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by jakequade 7y ago
"We're hiring, here's some blog posts. What's that, you want to know about the roles? Oh, they're _all_ in this link. Most are sale-BUT here's some info on our stack!" Lame.

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