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You're definitely right, advice shouldn't be taken as gospel. We definitely need to have some sort of self reflection and analysis to figure out if things are benefiting the things that really matter most to us

Serpapi definitely did the right thing here. Shame on the maintainers for introducing such a breaking change in a minor version update. I guess the takeaways are: - review change logs for any gems that are updated - have extensive test cases for anything that charges customers

Hindsight is always 20/20 of course.

This horror story is more than enough to keep me away form ever touching mongoid.

Bookmarking this for future reference.

Everyone has their unique value to a company. That could range from large expertise with certain libraries/type of problems to deep knowledge of an industry or even your network (more applicable to sales/leadership). Not all developers do the same exact job and I think we can universally agree that some work performed is more valuable to a company than others.

The biggest time saver I noticed is a suite of vim functions I wrote to run rspec.tests in rails projects. I can easily run a whole spec file, a specific test (via line number) and run failures with leader based commands in normal mode. Saves significant dev time and avoids the slow down of switching to the terminal and writing out the commands.

I never thought about this until you mentioned it but my love for markdown only came after I learned vim.

Vim is easily my most used application; I use it for my task list, to write notes when learning new topics and even to journal my personal thoughts.

Prior to this I used applications like evernote, google keep, google docs etc. I think the only advantage of those tools had was easy sync notes between devices but I solved that with syncthing[0].

[0]:https://syncthing.net/

I've only used vim for three years and it's been a fantastic experience. Every time I'm in a normal editor I long for vim. I think the most important video I watched about vim was about text completion in a thoughtbot meetup [0]. There I learned about ctags, the jumplist and ways to complete words, sentences, lines and blocks of code.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TX3kV3TICU

After reading, I don't think the author is willing to look stupid, I think they don't care at all if they look stupid, an attribute that I still think is remarkable. I wish I had the self-confidence to not care so much about what others think. Something I'm still slowly working on.

I wonder how fire resistant hardened wood is. I can imagine cities like Chicago having a hard time to use wood in commercial buildings with history launch as "The Great Chicago Fire"[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire

Syncthing is really amazing, I have been using it for nearly two years to sync notes on all of my device; three laptops, one iPad, raspberry pi and a pixel 2. The most difficult thing was finding a solution to work on the iPad, ended up having to use an app to remotely access and edit files on my raspberry pi, it's kinda clunky but gets the job done.

Let's assume cryptocurrencies we're stable for a second. Wouldn't banks still have a place? How would loans be provided in the realm of cryptocurrencies? Would it look more like peer to peer loans? Or would a similar bank like entity be needed?

I'm not well-versed on this topic so forgive me if the answer is obvious.

Why is it highly questionable? It's pretty common to shorten long words or phrases.

Jobs was pretty bold asking Dell for a royalty of every Dell PC sold.

I'm curious what a world like that would have looked like, where you can choose between OS X and Windows when purchasing a computer.

I believe that this answers my original question I made in a previous comment regarding the impact on environmental fast fashion. Sounds like it's better for the environment for someone to use rent the runway versus making a purchase at H&M.

I'm not the most familiar with rent the runway but I'm curious if this type of business alleviates or worsens the fast fashion environmental issue.

In theory it helps by reducing the need for people to own the latest fashion and that could lead to a reduction in waste. But I'm assuming that they also have to bulk purchase the latest trends.

Has anyone read any of these books? I'm interested in picking up a few but want to hear other opinions before I make a purchase.

Not the OP but I would say it's "objective" from telegrams perspective.

They shared their decision making process which I agreed with, not too sure what would have been a better choice in that situation.

The web is not open for everyone some countries block certain traffic. I guess one can use a VPN, thankfully that's becoming more mainstream.

I understand their choice, their hands were tied by the distributors; apple and Google. At least for Android phones they make it easy to sideload an apk so I'm little less empathetic on that end but for iOS, you're pretty much at the mercy of apple.

> I deliberately train my feeds not to have news-type content because once I've read the news, I don't need to see it popup in my feeds again throughout the day.

Sad that we have to train the feed on our apps to be more positive. I'm happy that you found a way to beat the system but I believe some people do have a negative relationship that feels "out of their control" with their phones and the internet. I think apple wants people to always have a positive relationship with their devices and promoting healthier habits on their devices is a step to keep iOS users happy.

IMO, that seems like apple but the lines are getting closer than ever

Unfortunate that this researcher, shame on apple for not handling these vulnerabilities quickly.

I used to believe that iphones were more secure than android and was considering making the switch. After reading this article and with some other recent news (CSAM[1], spam on the app store[2]) I don't think I'll be hopping on the iOS train anytime soon.

[1]:https://www.apple.com/child-safety/ [2]:

Yes but what pushes the knife further into the gut is how apple claims it has a strict app review process to protect iOS users when they have obviously done a poor job here. They were quick to catch epic games bypassing their payment system but can't catch a very obvious scam that made it to their top 10 grossing app list.

Well there are the two types of "free" to play games, the ones that are malware and the ones that are "Pay" to win.

With the latter, I think people are mostly aware of how much they spend in the "Pay" to win games even if it's just for cosmetic items. The most common argument I hear is that it's no different than spending $3.00 on a coffee or a snack and it gives roughly the same amount of value, it's just a digital asset.

This looks really promising, I can see myself watching this like sports.

Congrats to the founders for such a creative ideas.

I've only done a few leet code questions but only in languages that I'm comfortable with. Even then, I've had similar experiences to the author mentions where I've gotten different perspective on how to approach certain problems.

I never thought about reviewing existing open source project PRs to get better at a language. It seems so obvious considering it's similar to how I get ramped up with new projects.

> 2. When you want to level up, start reading the diff, and review the code and changes yourself before reading the comments.

> 3. Finally, when you start feeling more confident, start leaving those comments on new PRs so that the maintainer doesn’t have to. You’re starting to contribute to open source!

The steps from two to three are pretty dramatic, I personally would replace step 3 with tackling an open issue related to code you reviewed before. I feel like to give feedback on a PR you need to be intimately familiar with the code, something you get from writing and/or making changes to it.

I agree, I think most of my meetings there is a designated scribe/chair and they speak out loud when they are documenting the important details. It's kinda useless to have a second to second transcription of the whole meeting.

I had the same problem as well. The unhook extension works great. I also uninstalled the YouTube app on my mobile and only use the browser.

I agree with points 2 and 3, but I think it's easy for people to be attentive and take notes during the meeting, especially if they are part of the discussion. My handwriting is too illegible for me to consider this option. I only resort to handwritten notes on my ipad if there isn't enough space for me to pull out my laptop.