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Fair, I retract my cynical conjecture

Taking a blind guess here because I have never worked at Google, but I would assume there is one organization that has the data, and another organization that can block IPs from clicking on the ads and consuming the spend. There is a byzantine process preventing that second org from getting the data along with a lack of motivation because it would decrease ad-spend, which is one of their key metrics. Org2 which deals with people clicking the ads is a bad place to work and no one who is actually good sticks around long enough to navigate the process and implement this, so the can gets perpetually kicked down the road.

Tends to be how it goes once you reach a certain size.

Growing proof that PR for autonomous car companies has aligned on a strategy of painting you as a bad person if you want to drive your own car, and therefore you should pay them money to continue being a good person.

The complexity was real, and honestly that’s a good callout

It really doesn't need to be that deep. Or pretentiously moralistic.

No, I don't think I will. Thanks for the suggestion though.

A basic picture or even description of what the thing is is a low bar for “professional”

Hard hitting interview right here

If you've ever read "Working Backwards" it's interesting to see how Amazon today is basically the polar opposite of everything they talk about in the book. I wonder what the author's opinion is.

You're limited by the resources available to you on your local laptop and when you close that laptop the dev environment stops running. Remote dev environments are more costly and complicated to maintain but they can be shared, can scale vertically (or horizontally) on demand, can persist when you exit them, and managing access to various internal services from dev environments can in some cases be simpler.

It also centralizes dev environment management to the platform team that owns them and provides them as a service which cuts down on support tickets related to broken dev environments. There are certainly some trade offs though and for most companies a local VM or docker compose file will be a better choice.

How does this impact the share holders?

Can't wait for someone to turn this into a product and make this available to the public!

I think no because an android compatible watch would be compatible with any other android phone, not only Google Watch <--> Google Phone.

So why don’t they use those companies as examples instead?

In the YC Youtube videos it's amusing that they (Jason and the other guy) almost always reference Google and Facebook despite the fact that neither of those companies were YC companies and none of the YC companies out of 4000+ funded (not even Stripe) come close to the scale or valuation of either Google or Facebook.

https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/valuation

Is it impressive though? They have about a 50% success rate delivering things to me across multiple addresses and I know other people who have had similar long term issues.

They would just jack up prices to account for the additional costs and then they would never actually pay you that $10

You should bring it up to the Architecture Committee

It’s okay we can’t get past Node 8

> As long as you have people who are half-decent with SQL

:/

Yeah but let's say your time is worth $60/hr. If you save only 40 minutes per month then you've broken even. Basically one lunch break. Some things are just a hassle to do, personally I would try to self host the Next app but I definitely see where the author is coming from purchasing Vercel.

Isn't that basically all for-profit software though? not to mention exactly how most of the people on this board have paying jobs?

I would argue that it's exactly how the open source ethos works

All you need considered harmful

Actually it was just an ad

Having recently dealt with a surprise runaway DataDog bill and personally completed lots of work to reduce our spend internally all I have to say is that their pricing is outrageously high and there is almost no way to put controls in place to prevent overspend.

If you're considering using them keep that in mind and tbh I would strongly recommend considering if CloudWatch or some other cheaper alternative is suitable for your needs.

> Required inputs

> Since we introduced Angular in 2016 it has not been possible to get a compile-time error if you don’t specify a value for a specific input. The change adds zero overhead at runtime since the Angular compiler performs the check at build time. Developers kept asking for this feature over the years and we got a strong indication that this will be very handy!

> In v16 now you can mark an input as required

Amazing to finally see this land, awesome release

what-about-ism doesn't persuade me at all, just because cars are dangerous and obnoxious doesn't justify the poor behaviors and culture around bicycles in the city.

An "e-bike" that is going 25mph and running red lights without anyone doing any pedaling at all is a motorcycle end of story and they should be banned or require a license.

Here is my controversial opinion: The bikers are the worst people in NYC, they are constantly running through crosswalks while they don't have the light, going the wrong way down the street, riding on the sidewalks, etc. They never stop for anyone or for any reason and if they hit you they'll likely blame you also. You are far more likely to get hit by a bike than a car. I actually hate the bikes and bike lanes and would be overjoyed to see them banned or at least heavily ticketed for bad behavior. In my years of living here I have never once seen a bicycle stop at a stop light. ("Idaho stops" don't count, that's just stopping and then running the light)

Furthermore the electric "bicycles" are actually just electric motorcycles with auxiliary pedals and as such should require a license to drive.

Don't be evil!

This has to be the stupidest take in the entire comment chain.