jayparth

How is steam a monopoly? If you don't like Steam, just use another distributor like GoG or self publish.

There's definitely place in the industry for a no 1 and a no 2, but no. I don't think they're complementary, I think they're competitive. Both are trying to own the whole storage + compute layer eventually. I guess you can see Snowflake as a storage layer but they have attached scalable compute to it. Databricks started out as scalable compute and is now becoming more focused on storage.

The idea of storing your data in Snowflake and querying it in Databricks is pretty silly. Why would you want to do that? Why not just use Snowflake's compute? Sure you could argue Spark has some transformations that are hard to express in SQL, but that is why Snowflake introduced Snowpark.

It's not that much higher though. Back of napkin tells me that it's like 60$

Recruiters are not incentivized to get people to the onsite where I work. Not sure about the original commenter.

To your point, I had never heard of Redux toolkit or those hooks. Thank you for sharing!

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I agree, very happy with it personally for my MVPs

P.S. Hey Colin, funny seeing you here :)

What's your resume look like and what stage of your career are you at? I moved over when I was 19 so happy to give my POV.

In the past the Redux docs were something that was really hard for me to follow. I can't be super precise with my feedback, but the docs weren't able to cleanly explain the concepts and the React example was hard to follow. I had to learn from Youtube tutorials.

Thanks for rewriting them!

Just a note of feedback (I'm hiring a tech writer right now): there's no reason why I would request your resume from this info. I'm just going to move on. You gotta at least put /why/ I would ask for it if you're not going to publicly post it. What is your actual experience?

Yeah they do Fullstory-type stuff, Heap-type stuff, plus they have an SDK in most popular languages (which no other company has.) If I didn't already set my stuff up before I had heard of them, I would have gone with them. They have the best parts of other tools.

Unless their stuff doesn't work well. I only spent a couple of hours so I might not have noticed UX issues that would have been painful to deal with.

I mean... have you ever used Matomo? It isn't good. I checked it out earlier this year.

Literally tons within the data ecosystem. dbt, Great Expectations, Dagster, Seldon. The list goes on. My employer Tecton has an "open core" called Feast and we are doing great. Mattermost, PostHog also come to mind.

Databricks has shown that you don't need a crazy license to win. I disagree with this article from my personal experiences and my industry experience but I respect you writing it. The business model is clearly alive though. Those companies that I listed have raised 100-200M in the past year at high velocities.

Innovation can make lending that seems risky to one party significantly less risky to another.

Example: you think lending to folks with low credit scores is a risk, but I evaluate credit in a different way that lets me discover that some folks with low credit scores really are credit worthy.

Note that I am not supporting Ant Financial with my comment. I have no clue how their business works. But your comment is missing a key point.

"Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money." —@natfriedman

Kind of dead thread but... If the company says to you: "you can work whatever hours you want!" And then turns around and says, "oh, but if you work those unprofitable hours, we'll fire you.." then how exactly is that not restricting the hours that you work? You can't have both.

Your comment is actually pretty ironic.

You're saying hating on FB is justified. That's not my point at all, although I agree with you.

My point is that it's conformist, and aggressively conformist people will apply the hate blindly, like what's happening here.

Your comment is written weirdly so I don't really get your point but I think you are being sarcastic and calling the dude you replied to a bootlicker. But that person actually had a valid point here. Login with Facebook is a relatively well received feature for third parties. Why would a first party platform use a bespoke solution?

Hating on Facebook has now become a conformist thought pattern. There's plenty of Facebook to hate if you look, but most people just blindly apply their dogmatic hate everywhere.

True, it doesn't have to tell you when you work. But it does have to pay you a minimum wage. If a staffing company said: "work whenever and we'll pay you a minimum wage", then drivers would probably routinely drive at times they found pleasant, not profitable times for the staffing company. In this case the staffing company would start up restrict the hours a driver could drive.

A staffing company wants to reduce the amount of unprofitable hours driven. To do that they have to restrict working hours. It's not guaranteed but a highly likely outcome of the set up.

DDG just uses Bing under the hood I think

Which reports? Reports that require disclosure of political advertising spend?

Yes. They're incredibly important. I want to know who is paying to try to influence an election. Many times, actionable information is exposed through these reports.

Agreed! It's very well written -- I noticed that immediately too

What style of communication are you referring to? Why would it be the downfall of society? Who are these experts? Your comment makes me curious and I want to know more.

From the article:

> “Trends in Income,” which hasn’t yet been peer reviewed, estimates what would have happened in the U.S. if the 1945-1975 tax regime had continued until 2018.

This isn't what the paper says though. From the abstract:

> [We] estimate that aggregate income for the population below the 90th percentile over this time period would have been $2.5 trillion (67 percent) higher in 2018 had income growth since 1975 remained as equitable as it was in the first two post-War decades. From 1975 to 2018, the difference between the aggregate taxable income for those below the 90th percentile and the equitable growth counterfactual totals $47 trillion.

The paper doesn't say anything about the cause of income inequality or attribute it to tax policy or anything. Am I missing something? It seems like the article author grossly misinterpreted the paper.

(Disclaimer: not agreeing with, or disagreeing with the article. Just pointing out that it's proposition is false.)

I was actually thinking of writing "as a non-driver..." at the beginning of my post. Dude. I'm 20 and I don't own a car, I take public transit and bike everywhere. But I also have traveled to rural areas and I see how they use automobiles and it doesn't seem feasible to implement a system like this to me.

Do you have a concrete source on the Google Quora thing?

Administering a policy with a ton of loopholes and exceptions almost always becomes a rotting, horrible thing. Look at tax codes.

You need exceptions for 90 million people? How does that get enforced, generally? Even though no one has mentioned a specific policy that we can have a concrete discussion about, I see the abstract problem.

Well I agree with your first example.

But would you call someone who wins a supposedly drawn endgame after 100 moves a tactical player or positional player? No one I know would claim that what happened on the 100th move was a tactic. It was 90+ moves of jockeying for position.

I mean, if you get into MIT, you can definitely get student loans... lenders agree that your MIT degree is proof that you'll make significant income later in life and pay off that debt.

Your situation sucks. It's not really applicable for top schools though. With a combination of financial assistance and debt, it's possible for most people coming from bad financial situations.

What? Facebook built react to solve these problems.

When they built Luna stuff like react didn't exist.

Investing in developer tooling including frameworks is a fine use of time and often pays off hugely. There wasn't a better alternative 11 years ago.