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Out of curiosity, what response time do you expect on a page like that? And what level of detail? I'd much rather have their team focus on fixing this as fast as possible than trying to update that dashboard in the first 5 minutes.

Another challenge is time zone differences.

I'm not sure what I said conflicts with that.

If we made access to prepaid debit cards dead simple (i.e. going to a bank and getting a debit card for the equivalent amount of cash) easy for small amounts, then they would not only get access to the cashless shops in town but they'd also be better served online and could access cheaper goods through online retailers.

This gives the individual an easy way to get around it without penalizing small businesses. Larger businesses likely all take in cash without issue.

This legislation should really be about making this process free and easy rather than punishing stores for being lean.

This strikes me as ridiculous and heavy-handed.

We should focus on finding a way to provide vulnerable groups a way to pay at cashless stores rather than increasing the overhead of operating a business (accepting cash, maintaining change, coordinating bank deposits, etc.). Many of these places are coffee shops where their entire ledger is automated.

How can we complain that small businesses are closing in NYC and then continue to add regulations which may make it harder for them to operate? That seems like an oxymoron.

My experience was different: had my top case replaced in < 24 hours and zero issues getting them to do it.

I've got another contender.

From my Grandpa, transcribed by Google Voice:

Hey,<redacted first name>, It's Pam on Pat be just driving up to the lake with his check in and see if you had a nice thanksgiving and enjoy the parade yesterday, and you were missed you had a nice thanksgiving with Kevin ward and it's only for a couple days just grandma died so talk to you later, okay. Alright

Relevant part: "it's only for a couple days just grandma died so talk to you later, okay."

This is similar to a realization I had the other day: for many people collecting things is less about the objects and more about the memories and nostalgia and associated with those objects.

I have been having a lot of "identity" problems lately, and it occurred to me that very little of what I own has any substantial story about it nor does it say much about who I am as a person.

The objects we collect exist as affirmations of the identity we've chosen for ourselves.

> Kill vibration.

I did this a while ago. What happened was I ended up checking my phone significantly more due to FOMO. Hiding your phone is a better solution, since it's more out of sight.

This seems like it might have been a bug. Yesterday I saw this issue on Chrome + Linux and am now able to log in.

My only guess is that large companies suffer from too much bureaucracy when it comes to naming. As a result, you'll never get a phenomenal name, but you also won't get a really bad name either. Odds are you'll get something within a couple standard deviations of "normal" and end up with a name that's just kind of... boring.

That's awesome, thanks for sharing that!

I wonder if it would be helpful to describe the indentation level you are on:

e.g:

  def method_here(value): # Indentation level 0
    x = 10 # Level 1
    y = 5  # Level 1
    if x == value # Level 1
      print 'x!' # Level 2
    elif y == value # Level 1
      print 'y!' # Level 2

You could maybe even throw in a block number so it's clearer.

My plan right now is to rent in the city, buy a cabin or getaway house upstate for 200k and move there when I get older. Hard part is just finding somewhere that doesn't suck.

Agreed. There's something fundamentally different about contacting someone via a video conference versus the organic nature of a quick chat about something.

This puts remote workers behind quite a ways. My old team was partially located in NYC and partially located in the Bay Area. There was a major difference in inter and intra location interactions and it affected the team in some negative ways.

Please read this: https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...

I had so many problems with my XPS that I switched to a Macbook for the first time ever after 1.5 years of using it. My development process went something like this:

- Start to code. - Find weird quirk (laptop keeps typing multiple letters, screen resolution doesn't match up, random lag). - Research weird quirk to see if I can fix it. - Forget why I was even on my computer.

Anecdotally, I've found that it works much better for me if I only have notifications on for apps I care about and judiciously turn the rest off. I then leave my phone on vibrate because turning it on silent always lead to me wondering "What if someone tried to message me?" and checking it.

I like the idea of trying out airplane mode.

It would be cool to start seeing more of this from other companies. Also, I wonder if anyone has done an extensive cost-benefit analysis of using OCaml instead of a more common language. It seems like the training and cost of always needing to build your own frameworks would be exceptionally high.

I didn't hate Solo, but it's really disappointing that Disney is throwing away a whole bunch of ridiculously good IP.

One example is the Knights of the Eternal Empire trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkgzXpKbVGE). I want to see that story. I felt more in this 5 minute trailer than I felt all throughout The Last Jedi. That can be said for pretty much all of the trailers from The Old republic.

> It is overwhelmingly obvious that YouTube designed their site in a way that would get people addicted to the point of needing a tool like this. The fact that they auto-play videos when they know the viewer is a child is downright disgusting.

I don't personally see a significant difference here versus something like cable TV. Do you think this issue carries over into that domain as well?

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16420004

That's because it's a repost from yesterday where it was also on the front page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16420004

I had the opportunity to sit down with Warren Miller and a few others 7 or 8 years ago for dinner. He was an all-around nice guy. Sad to see him go, but at 93 he definitely lived a full life.

Now that you point it out, I definitely remember the quippy dialogue from Oathbringer. You should give the original Mistborn trilogy a go or the Reckoners series.

One of the reasons he's my favorite author is that he 1) pumps out solid books almost yearly and 2) his series are very different even though they're all fantasy.

This is pretty awesome. Kudos to the author. It's cool to see the thought process around designing for clarity instead of purely simplicity on high-impact systems like this.

As much as it pains me to say it, I stopped using Snapchat because my experience with Instagram Stories + Messaging in Instagram is simply better. Especially on Android.

The Snapchat Android app is completely garbage. :|

Seems like this may have been less out of concern of bad press and more because of the author's agency as a journalist. I'd imagine a most bug reports have trouble standing out from the "noise" surrounding Google's day-to-day operations, but the author can make their request a little "louder" so Google noticed. Probably helps too that it sounds like the population of people with the home minis is currently pretty small (only attendees of the release event).

You'd think we'd have some sort of baseline for an "acceptable" number of queries. Alarm bells should probably go off if a home thinks people are talking to it 24/7.

Disclaimer: I work at Google and don't actually have any idea how any of this works.

I've started drinking coffee just in the last 1 - 1.5 years and I am not really sure how I feel about it. On one hand, I love the boost that it gives me in the morning to get into the zone fast. On the other hand, I am completely useless without it.

I also wonder if it doesn't decrease my attention span.

Great phrasing. Context is key. There are absolutely times when throwing together a quick solution is better than seeking an optimal solution. Because sometimes it just simply does not matter and you can spend your time working on more impactful items.