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So the same as every other ad network then? Only half joking.

Our niche SaaS sees 90% of Google Ad spend going to India, Russia and South America unless we create a short-list of countries to specifically target. And Google is full of dark-patterns around your targeted countries, by default it selects "people in, or interested in, your targeted locations" unless you drill down and find an obscure setting to change this. Then you only need to deal with the domestic and/or more sophisticated ad fraudsters, which will still probably end up as the majority of the spend.

"standard" volumes are legacy. If you search for "previous generation" on a given service pricing page you'll usually find a link to the old stuff. In this case, https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/previous-generation/

Unless you're specifically looking for high-IOPS or massive HDD volume, you should just default to "gp2" SSD volumes these days.

Even running an interpreted language we've found that there's just a hundred small papercuts when it comes to switching over to an ARM distro. Missing native modules, third party deps, even some shell scripts mysteriously not working properly. Over time this will hopefully ease, and having all developers on Mac using ARM will help massively, but right now there's just enough friction to make it not quite worth it.

You also don't want to just target the largest number of users, but the largest amount of users who are willing to pay for your plugin. I'm not familiar with the demographics of this particular market, but perhaps it's akin to iOS vs Google? Even though the latter has a hojillion users, app developers make way more money on iOS.

Or just pony up the $5/mo for Pro... not as fun as re-engineering your CI pipeline, once again.

In the US we pay hundreds of dollars in monthly medical premiums, thousands in deductibles per year, and still need to live in fear of surprise bankruptcy-level bills arriving if god forbid you collapse and need an emergency procedure at the closest out-of-network facility.

Absolute insanity. Yet changing this at a fundamental level is somehow considered radical, nothing we can do etc., except what every other western country has already done. We keep telling ourselves we have the best medical care in the world, which anyone who has lived outside the US for some time can attest is complete bullshit.

I would think so, no more running multiple apps as a driver if you're employed.

Because the pool of drivers for a particular company would be massively reduced as well, driver down-time between rides on their platform may be expected to significantly decrease, which was a major reason for running multiple apps in the first place. Basically the remaining drivers will essentially partition themselves into two pools, driving exclusively for either Uber or Lyft. I'm not saying anything about whether that's good or bad, but it seems a likely outcome.

Yes, companies have no problem paying for tools and resources, just don't call it "supporting open source" or a "donation".

Give everyone free access to MDN for X articles per month, New York Times style. Then sell a MDN Pro subscription with unlimited access and exclusives for $39/mo/user or $399/year. There's tons of examples in the cloud space of this working, like Linux Academy's online training or A Cloud Guru etc. that are making millions per year.

Just for reference, a MSDN subscription is $5,999 the first year and $2,569 for a renewal (but does come with a ton of stuff)... None of this 50-100 dollars per year or you're just setting yourself up for failure from the start.

I'm sure Epic would be willing to forgo all those things, if they could have iOS visitors to their own site click a download button, up pops the ol' install app OS dialog (same as now), face ID / passcode, bam, Fortnite is installed.

Your book list on Amazon is a bit confusing since the first and second editions are both listed with the exact same title. If they can't be consolidated as one entry, maybe add "Second Edition" to the title of the latest one?

Also when visiting the old listing for your book, you should try to get one of those "There's a newer version of this book available" boxes that I sometimes see on Amazon.

Carmack famously quipped that "I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen" [1]. For VR and AR to break through, they're going to have to be in a form factor that resembles normal glasses, and at a much higher render quality (4K+) than anything we've got now. That's almost certainly going to require rendering remotely Stadia / Xbox Cloud style, with some minimal local processing.

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-fa....

The article makes it unclear, but this feature is available right now for all Nest Aware subscribers (if you have any type of Nest camera, you'll have a Nest Aware subscription). The article mentioned that this feature was "accidentally" available to non-Nest Aware subscribers as well, but it's the same existing feature and not some test of upcoming features.

You can toggle glass break and fire alarm detection on any of your Google Home devices in the Home app, and this includes the old Google Home mini pucks and hubs, as well as new Nest branded minis and hubs.

Typescript transpilation is already pretty slow when just used for your own application, if all the node_modules directory entries were in TS I'd probably be looking at hours for the transpilation.

Lots of fireflies in Central Park as well.

They do, it just happens to be a $4 / month fee and they'll even throw in some other features ;) For security reasons you cannot pay for the service if you're not able to access the account, so you better enable it ahead of time.

Although framed as a security improvement, I'm sure it's also a massive support burden. When you have hundreds of thousands or millions of users, at some point you probably have support staff who do nothing but helping users reset their MFAs all day every day. It seems fair not to do this for free users. Some services gate MFA to paid accounts which seems like a worse trade-off.

With free users you also have less information available to you as a provider in determining if the reset request is legit or not.

AFAIK the AOA disagree alert was an optional add-on sold by Boeing!

https://qz.com/1608362/boeing-says-it-didnt-deactivate-stand...

All of the involved parties should fix the problem on their own. Any single one of them fixing the issue won't prevent it from popping up again, since you can substitute or circumvent the fixed layer.

Signal should handle this case explicitly in the app, since it's a common frustration for their own users when typing dots, commas and parenthesis.

Android should maybe fix the library, but at the very least fix the documentation to mention that it is not intended to be used in context of prose. Android fixing their library is the least useful of all possible fixes, since it won't propagate to users of Android in any meaningful way for a decade.

The Virgin web team should see that there's elevated 404's, and configure their system to ignore trailing full-stops.

A company the size of Virgin probably already has a process to review marketing messages, but it's likely to be someone eyeballing it, and they should fix it to catch this automatically. They probably already use a marketing automation and scheduling system, that could fix it by verifying the links before pushing.

See all of professional sport in the US before 1950, and what professional teams look like today? How come none of the pre-1950 teams simply figured they could completely dominate their respective leagues by just not ignoring all the "value left on the table".

The story in the article about how the Duke university students were wined and dined, given direct recruiting contacts and wooed, and the A&T students were given the previous days leftovers and NO recruiter contacts isn't some aberration. It's happening right now, this year, literally leaving all that talent on the table.

Can you do the same for say Duke? Even Googling, I couldn't find an obvious CS superstar name or practical everyone-knows-them Jeff Dean-type. And the whole point of the article is exactly that in the insular tech circles and parties we move in, we don't get to hear or see from the NC A&T folks.

If you add a one paragraph or even one sentence cover letter that is unique to the company your applying for, you'll already be ahead of 95% of the other applicants in my experience.

Even when we state that a cover letter is required, the number of people who actually supply one is minuscule. It does effectively filter out people who can't read or follow instructions though.

Even if a few million people signed up for that (which is a stretch IMO), it amounts to chump change that probably doesn't cover the cost of their content moderation team alone. You can't build a business on $12/year.

The trick is to charge Twitter business account $399/mo for something... like a business verified badge or the ability to edit and curate their own posts and replies.

Even in this already a few year old data you linked, the fossil fuel share has gone from 70%+ to just 30% since 2005. That's nothing short of amazing, and the trend is clear.

Just like shoehorning traditional office work into a remote setting doesn't work, you just end up with various forms of online butt-in-seat monitoring while losing all the benefits of asynchronicity, perhaps remote learning needs to be fundamentally rethought for the new medium. What would a remote-first learning experience look like? Probably more like a Khan Academy course than a real-time lecture, with the student-teacher time dedicated 100% to helping and interacting with students instead of going through new material.

They probably look at the metrics and see that a lot of people are going to the Pinterest results. That the results are garbage and undermine the Google images search experience is much harder to measure.

When you open the Hey inbox, it only has the important stuff in it, not the messages of whoever decided to reach out to you today. It's a subtle difference but I love it.

Then when you have a moment, it's also very satisfying to just go through the screener list in bulk and click thumbs down/up and knowing you'll never see that sender again. Sometimes in GMail, no matter how many times I mark some thing as spam, the mail keeps on coming. Hey is the nuclear option to Gmail's fly swatter.

Apple also quietly announced a change to the App Store review process, including no longer delaying bug fix rollouts over guideline violations for applications that are already available on the store, and a formal appeals process and the ability to challenge the store guideline themselves:

https://www.engadget.com/apple-developers-challenge-app-stor...

So many folks said "It's Apple's store, they should be able to do whatever they want". But if everyone is too scared to complain, for sure nothing will change!

Superhuman is a slightly faster GMail, while Hey (https://hey.com/features/) on the other hand seems like a rethinking of the fundamentals of email starting from "Anyone can email you".

I've tried inbox zero etc. but they all fail in the long run for me (I'm one of those folks with the red badge of shame with literally 40,000 unread emails on my phone), so I'm eager to give Hey a try which gives you a workflow of how to do email: screen, reply-later, focus mode bulk reply.

Personally I'd rather grab one of those as my daily driver, and wait a few years for all the issues to get worked out during the transition.

We recently evaluated using Graviton2 over X86 for our Node.js app on AWS. There was enough friction, some native packages that didn't work out of the box, etc. and some key third party dependencies missing completely, that it wasn't worth the effort in the end even considering the savings, as we'd likely keep having these issues pop up and having to debug them remotely on Graviton.

If macOS goes ARM and there's a sizable population of developers testing and fixing these issues constantly, the math changes in favor of Graviton and it would make it a no-brainer to pick the cheaper alternative once everything "just works".