jakemal

There has to be a law about the permanence of "temporary" code.

The number of times I've picked up my phone to do something, see a notification, and completely forget what I had picked my phone up to do 5 seconds later is mind boggling.

I started pruning the notifications that I allow quite aggressively because of it, but it's still a very regular issue.

Is that the only use of the currency or just one possible use?

> It sounds more like a Ponzi scheme in a Gold farming disguise to me.

I would agree with this if the primary income stream came directly from the increase in value of Axies as the game attracted more users. From my understanding, the income comes from acquiring and selling in-game currency rather than from the Axies themselves.

Is this a bullshit job? Maybe. Ponzi scheme? I don't think so.

If people are working this bullshit job, it means that this bullshit job is better than their alternatives. I'm not convinced the existence of these kinds of games is a net-negative.

Is there an equivalent extension to open Hacker News links in an app on iOS? I'm currently using Hacker, but would be willing to switch for this feature.

Sounds like it was in up-peak mode? https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Up_peak_(MIT)

Hard work is necessary but not sufficient. I agree that the essay glosses over the element of luck that is involved, but I don't think that makes the rest of what Paul is saying wrong. Even if hard work alone doesn't always lead to success, not working hard guarantees that you won't be exceptional.

Really interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing.

I'd like to know the answer to this as well. I'm not sure what I would do if I were to become financially independent before "retirement age", but it certainly wouldn't be getting a job at a BigCo. Really curious to hear the motivations behind it.

I'd bet 30% of the URLs it lengthens are rick-rolls. I did it immediately and sent it to several people on Slack.

It is not unreasonable to request that devs building on top of your platform use an API. They also aren't requiring it, they are simply suggesting it to avoid future breakages when they change the internals of how their application works.

Requiring that they maintain this compatibility would be like requiring the maintainer of an OS library to maintain the contract of a private method because my app relies on grepping their code base to parse the contents of the method.

When you don't have a defined set of public interactions with your app, every change is a breaking change.

I was going to temporarily cancel my NYT subscription because I wasn't using it enough at the time. Once I found out I had to talk to a person in order to cancel, I told them that I would never resubscribe because of it. It's infuriating that they try to use inconvenience to hold your dollars hostage. Why not just focus on making a great product?

I wonder how it compares to the average salary for an experienced hardware engineer. It may be a ~50% pay bump in 1996 vs a 10-25% bump today.

Yes, only a billion people in the wealthiest countries in the world who are most likely to own an Apple device.

FWIW I use all of those apps on a daily basis with Firefox and have not noticed any performance issues. It may be worth giving it another try if you haven't in a while.

> a legal case can be filed and it can go through the courts before the ban-hammer falls

Once a community that cannot be shut down is declared illegal, what happens? One of the major points of decentralized communities is that there is no effective "ban hammer" to shut them down.

If Google decided not to pay Mozilla someone else would. Google would lose traffic and eyeballs in that case.

Though I do think there is some truth to the monopoly hedge as well.

> If they didn't give all participants a Covid antibody test before starting, it is very likely that several participants were previously infected.

Doesn't comparing to a control group account for that?

I moved about 5 months ago and purchased a few thousand dollars worth of furniture. I could have paid cash but since it was 0% APR, I used Affirm and set the money aside in an investment account that has paid for ~20% of the total cost. Of course it could have gone the other way, but it was a risk I was willing to take.

It's a really great deal as a consumer.

What does this have to do with a car being electric?

Love the product! Since you asked, one request that I would find helpful is having the stat comparisons from the previous day based on the same time the previous day rather than the total. The comparisons almost always show some -X% because you are comparing a 24 hour period yesterday to a 24 - X hour period today.

Based on the definition of household, it sounds like roommates wouldn't be included in the median income calculation.

> If I owned an iPhone 6 in 2015 and own a Samsung A50 today, and the web is slower and jankier today than it was five years ago, then isn't it fair to say that the web got slower?

Yes. But what do you suggest as an alternative? Refuse to take advantage of technological progress to cater to the small portion of the population who haven't updated their phones in half a decade?

I can seriously relate to this. I have been going to the gym 5-6 days a week for years and absolutely loved it. As soon as the gyms closed down, my motivation to stay in shape plummeted. It was like a light switched off. I did absolutely nothing fitness related for a few months, just waiting for the gyms to open back up.

I finally started biking recently, but I struggle to get motivated and get out of the apartment to do it. That was never a problem when going to the gym.

Also, South Dakota is on the complete opposite end of the spectrum from SV. Today, there is a sizeable population of talented developers living in the suburbs of major cities with a COL of a third or less than the Bay area.

The only reason such an inhumane black market can exist is because no one is allowed to produce it legally. I would argue regulators are responsible for the harm caused by the trade.

Unfortunately that would require political action that would never be accepted by society until they're hurting enough that it's too late. No politician is going to win an election by promising to make your life worse now for the future generations.

What suggests these are targeted "top down" forces and not just a natural progression of society and technology?

I have never had anyone indicate to me that this is a problem. However, every time I spend days on a problem that ends up being a trivial number of LOC, I get a feeling of anxiety that I am going to be seen as incompetent. That's been the case my whole career even though I know it's unfounded.

The kinds of people who own watches worth double most people cars most likely have enough money to make losing it a minor inconvenience.