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That’s really lovely and polished. Nice job…

Eh. Maybe. Who knows?

It's more the attitude that I'm mocking: "I've seen that this company performed very well, perhaps better than any company in history. I, a random person with absolutely no idea what metrics / etc... they've used to make these decisions, insist that they should do it a totally different way."

I’m not sure I really understand what you’re trying to say here, but in general, I’d be inclined to let the people who successfully built Amazon into a 2.25 trillion dollar company continue to do their thing

AMZN employees are very well compensated for their efforts. Hard to see this as an attack on the proletariat

Doesn’t that observation support the point I’m making?

Given your obvious expertise and experience, I’m shocked that they didn’t consult you.

Random smarty pants internet people always crack me up... like -- Amazon is super successful company. Like, maybe they know something about being a super successful company?

That’s true in AZ. Waymo is not allowed to operate on freeways yet

A lot of that energy / expertise went to YouTube. Like Practical Engineering and the like…

The term is nebulous

Yeah... Doesn't seem fair to imply that it's a big secret if you don't ask.

They really are amazing. I've been wearing them to concerts to help with noise... work incredibly well. They're the only earbuds I've had that survived a full summer of sweaty running in the desert.

Grumbling about having to pay $100 for a new case though, while I watch my old case (left on a trail in Sedona) wander around PHX.

Does a full quarter of the US smoke? That’s way outside my experience…

Super fun read. Reminds me of the old software cracking days… totally appreciate you sharing it, even though i likely will never have one of those AC units.

Interesting. So are you just looking at names with a dramatic slope / climb after a given year, then trying to figure out why?

Right on. Outta curiosity, whatcha up to with the name data?

Fair. I'm sure there are waaaay more efficient ways to load that into the db. That said, it's one of those things - like, where do I wanna spend my time -- sorting that out, something I only gotta do once a year and I can basically push "go" and walk away -- or something else. It's not like I gotta keep turning the crank.

... and, of course, PRs are welcome :)

Working on a convoluted app devoted choosing a baby name for your new child... but the underlying library is open source, based on public domain data:

https://github.com/jonroig/usBabyNames.js

We're engineers, we want to make data-driven decisions about what we name our children. My app won't necessarily help you choose a name, per se, but it can assist in eliminating a lot of possible names, giving you a much smaller set of choose from, each of which you can research more. So... like filter by name origin, length, popularity, etc..

I'm not really sure what you mean by "base models?"

Everyone who builds anything should read From Bauhaus to Our House.

down in phx az

Built on the Social Security Administration baby names files, usBabyNames.js returns interesting historical data on baby name usage from 1880-2023. With almost two million total entries packaged within a sqlite3 database, each record contains the following:

* Name

* Sex

* Number of births that year

* Rank for that year

* Pronunciation

* Notes about history and usage

* Origin

... since it's built on the SSA data, it's 100% public domain data. Pretty interesting to chart and graph.

Of course, suggestions as to how to improve it, totally welcome

Love the name.

It's not really the same thing.

We literally have driverless cars here in PHX.

I’d love to start a business buying up old band brands, licensing them out. HMU if you wanna join me

I'm a senior dev who works on an app you've almost certainly used. Some of us just think the overhead of typescript is silly when you have react propTypes and whatnot.

In general, I'm an alpinist. Bring only what you need.

Worth noting - it was 115 the other day in PHX. I’m not sure who lives at Culdesac, but my guess is they’re child-free part time AZ residents.

AllTrails has, I think, seen this coming and offers their sub as part of a larger package that includes some other, related apps.

That's a weird end to a crazy story. 2.5 month trial, completely acquitted. What's the takeaway here? Did HP make some horrible mistake and totally mismanage the acquisition as alleged?

That's... surprising. But it kinda goes to the whole "the stuff that people really care about on social media is really only part of the picture" thing.