jakemal

The only reason one senator can hold the nation hostage is because he has the support of the majority of senators.

The linked article was posted on January 6th, 2020. For some reason many people received an email about it today. Must have just been a soft rollout and now they are starting to actually publicize the feature?

What's worse is that they didn't just make a decision. They reversed their previous statement that universities were using as guidance up until this point.

> For your Mac to become infected, you would need to torrent a compromised installer and then dismiss a series of warnings from Apple in order to run it

The people getting infected are the people that are knowingly bypassing all of the security measures Apple put in place to protect the uneducated users.

I just moved from Chicago to San Francisco last weekend and can definitely relate. I had such anxiety as I was locked inside watching the few months where it's enjoyable to be outside pass by. Even without the pandemic, I always felt such a need to go non-stop all summer because I knew the warm days were limited and it got exhausting. There are a number of things that I am going to miss about Chicago, but I really appreciate the fact that I'll be able to enjoy outdoor activities here year-round.

Yes, it's life advice, but no assertion is made that this advice should be applied by everyone. It's more "If you want to do X, here is some advice" not "You should do X".

I don't think it's possible to define "best" for everything. Being the best tennis player and being the best cook involve optimizing for two completely different objectives. What's more, you can define what best means to you and work towards that. The author's opinion on what best means is irrelevant IMO.

Maybe the advice is trivial, but it provoked me to reflect on how I am using my skills. I am going to keep this in mind as I choose how to spend my time. In hindsight it's obvious, but I still think it's a constructive article.

You seem to be incorrectly applying this article as advice on self development and then making an argument against that.

The author isn't suggesting that this is the way to achieve true happiness. They are suggesting that this is a good strategy to become the best at something, regardless of why you want to be the best at it (financial benefit, personal fulfillment, etc.).

> More so, what happens if industry trends shift and it turns out you specialized on the 'wrong' thing

What's the alternative to this? Remain mediocre at a number of skills just in case one of them go out of style? If you want to be the best at something, specialize in that thing but keep a pulse on the direction the field is moving and adapt as needed. The world's best mainframe developer probably won't immediately be the world's best PC developer upon switching, but they will be far from starting from square one.

I know it's early so you're building for the largest initial audience, but a Firefox extension would be great. I would be even more happy if there was just a website I could use.

I used Google Music for years and switched to Spotify about a year ago. The difference in music discovery is like night and day. Every week, Spotify gives me a new list of music I've never heard where I tend to favorite ~30% of them. Google Music just played the same songs over and over. It was work for me to actually find new music.

That said I still pay for it to get rid of YouTube ads.

I think people put a little too much faith into "safety in numbers" during these riots.

Ads that, with a single click, you can hide forever.

It looks like they are already monetizing it. A few of the articles have a "Sponsored by X" below them. I don't love that, but at least they set it up in a way where they aren't collecting data on users to show them. They have to pay the bills somehow.

If they're hard to kill because there are a web of dependencies then I would argue they are doing microservices wrong.

I hope Facebook would get slapped with an anti-competitive behavior suit if they tried to pull that one.

I suspect they are conflating mid-career with mid-level engineer. The latter would generally be around 6 years of experience.

I live in downtown Chicago with a Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and a Jewel Osco all within 3 blocks of me. I'm not sure what makes you think there is a lack of access in this area. I live here because I love how accessible everything I want to do is.

typeracer.com has done wonders for my typing speed.

No he didn't want to be a Rails maintainer. He wanted the improved job prospects of being a Rails maintainer but didn't have real interest in developing the product itself.

Sure. But given someone has drowned, a 1-2% of something happening should result in serious precautions being taken.

When I was a kid I was swimming in a children's pool in our backyard with my two younger brothers. One of my brothers was afraid to go under water. At one point, I turned around and noticed that he was underwater. It looked like he was making swimming motions as people normally do. I was surprised that he decided to do it, given his fear, and just watched him for maybe ten seconds. After some time passed I got concerned and pulled him up. Sure enough, he was drowning and I was just sitting there watching him.

I learned that day how non-obvious drowning looks. I still feel bad about it to this day, even though he ended up being alright.

Isn't that voice encoding?

I wonder if the sleeves help your wrists slide more rather than your skin "sticking" in place against the desk/laptop and causing you to bend your wrists more to reach keys.

Does the US administration have the authority over the IRS to file and pull the suits at their will?

I don't think surgical enhancements are inherently bad, but if the reason they are getting them is because social media is having a negative impact on people's self-esteem then I think that's worthy of discussion.

To me, it feels like outages are much less frequent than they were 7-10 years ago. It used to be a couple times a month. I don't remember the last time I saw one of their snoo error pages.

I think it depends on what the consequences are for missing a deadline.

I wasn't aware of that. So it's a bad example but the idea behind VC investing still stands.

Is this really all that significant? It seems that since the WeWork fiasco, all of SoftBank's failures are being covered by news organizations. But isn't that simply the nature of venture capital? Invest in a lot of different things, most of which will fail, and make up for the losses with the Ubers of the world. (edit: It sounds like Uber was a bad example to use)

$375 million sounds like a lot of money, but it's 0.3% of their investment fund.

I'm not sure if SoftBank is suddenly performing worse than they have been in the past or if people simply just care more about the losses since they had such a major one recently.

It's actually O(n) where n is ∞

When developers build high income housing, high income households move to those new developments and reduce demand for the places they vacated, making them more affordable for lower income households.