northerdome

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by northerdome 4mo ago
This is very much expected while the kinks are worked out. The reason Waymo is rolling out their vehicles in Atlanta in partnership with Uber is precisely for scenarios like this. Standard Uber service provides a backstop for when times whe
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by northerdome 8mo ago
I was hoping the project would be like Twitch Plays Pokémon when I read the headline. Build the scaffolding and just let it run!
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by northerdome 2y ago
If they relocate engineers to Palo Alto, that's halfway between San Francisco and San Jose. And a lot of engineers (not necessarily at X but in general in Silicon Valley) live in the suburbs between SF and SJ already. It might be mildl
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by northerdome 3y ago
This was me with Neeva but they sold out. I fully expect Kagi to do the same unfortunately.
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by northerdome 3y ago
They didn't actually launch anything though. And self-hosting is also a real pain. There can be reasons but I seriously doubt many IT departments yearn deeply for the on-premise deployment days of yore.
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by northerdome 4y ago
A very foone Christmas!
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by northerdome 4y ago
I remember Steve Jobs explicitly forgoing ads for iCloud during his last keynote in 2011. So sad to see where Apple is today. https://youtu.be/KTrO2wUxh0Q?t=412 > We build products that we want for ourselves, too, and we
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by northerdome 4y ago
The worst part of this is how the Mobile Web experience is actively hampered on iOS by Apple. When web apps on mobile do have a worse experience for me, it is often due to Safari. This is especially frustrating because the average consumer
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by northerdome 4y ago
For SF specific data on housing and zoning I highly highly recommend http://socketsite.com . Such a thorough and great resource! I only wish more cities had something like it!
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by northerdome 4y ago
This! I don't doubt that Bolt still requires a lot of work and honestly the 4 day work week is probably more marketing speak than anything real. But the world (at remote companies at least) has drastically changed and there is no reaso
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by northerdome 4y ago
It got worse during the pandemic. All policing stopped and downtown became a free for all. When I moved to San Francisco in 2016, I constantly had to reassure others it’s not as bad as the media makes it out to be. Now it is worse than medi
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by northerdome 5y ago
Also worth noting that AWS is not exactly the most stable either.
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by northerdome 5y ago
Any chance going through the process of updating all my cards could earn a Cashback key? :)
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by northerdome 5y ago
I thought this way until I realized I personally value portability over simplicity of signup. Most apps I use often I use on my phone and laptop. When I had an iPhone, I ran most subscriptions through IAP. As soon as I wanted to try Android
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by northerdome 5y ago
I thought this until I tried an app with IAP and wanted a refund when it didn't work for me. The developer told me they had no way to issue one on their side since I went through IAP. Apple support gave me the runaround before eventual
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by northerdome 5y ago
There is so much corruption in this city the trash cans are an entertaining artifact of a much, much deeper problem. The quest for trash cans isn't bizarre when you consider where the incentives for those in government lie... This is a
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by northerdome 5y ago
Mask mandate for everyone who isn't the mayor. https://www.sfgate.com/bay-area-politics/article/London-Bree...
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by northerdome 5y ago
A native app from the ground up in 10 weeks is impressive. Now I want to know how Superhuman has gotten away with not having an Android app for so long, and what on earth they could be doing given they say they have been "working on it
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by northerdome 5y ago
Raising prices. Even with higher prices they will still be relevant in much of the country where there is no credible alternative than to drive.
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by northerdome 5y ago
NYC is exceptional. Manhattan is dense enough you can hail a cab on demand. The same can not be said for the rest of the country. Uber may never be competitive in Manhattan but they don't need to. In much of the country, a ten minute d
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by northerdome 5y ago
Uber operates in almost every major US city today. It has overcome years of predictions it would fail. Yet I still can get an Uber in minutes almost anywhere in the country. Will it get more expensive? Probably. Is it a replacement for car
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by northerdome 5y ago
This is magnified by the fact that Apple won't allow competing rendering engines on the iPhone. If you could install Chrome or Firefox (the actual browsers, not just re-skinned Safari) they would be forced to keep up.
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by northerdome 5y ago
And Google Workspace still doesn't play nice with Google Home, Photos, etc. I used to pay for GSuite and switched back to Gmail because of all the services I was ironically locked out of when I paid for them.
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by northerdome 5y ago
Autocomplete is a black box. Trying to build a form that consistently works with Autocomplete is basically just trial and error. There should be a standardized API for this. I understand trying to support pages that weren't built with
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by northerdome 5y ago
I think your comment is solely calling out Americans' singular focus on cars as transit but I wanted to make a tangentially related point that Americans care deeply about accessibility. ADA has cemented accessibility into the core of p
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by northerdome 5y ago
And 12 weeks is a long time. I honestly would rather get an immunity boost after 3 weeks than wait the 12 for a second. A lot can happen in twelve weeks.
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by northerdome 5y ago
I used to not get Ember but of all the frameworks its users love it the most. I remember when Ember was the "cool" framework almost ten years ago. The community has evolved it and kept it relevant which is truly impressive. Ember
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by northerdome 5y ago
The bubbles are such a stupid status symbol. I hate the conspiracy theory that Apple did it intentionally to make iPhone users hate Android. The original iPhone had all green bubbles. The blue was only to differentiate.
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by northerdome 5y ago
No one wanted iMessage when it came out. Making it opt out on iPhones and defaulting made people try it and they started to prefer it when they realized. The opt out was Apple's key to success. Google should have done the same on Andro
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by northerdome 5y ago
That is some very, very back of the envelope math that ignores a lot of factors. For example, the idea that Google will indefinitely suspend promotions is preposterous. And the idea that taking exceptional financial numbers from the beginni

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