sethherr

My lived experience is that public transit is great. I take BART 5 days a week and have a 15 minute late experience once every few months.

This to me is something like the “I can’t live in a city because I can’t afford a 2000 square foot detached unit” issue.

You just need to modify your expectations. I’m far happier and less stressed not driving every day - but yes, it’s noisy and I have to stand and sometimes something smells bad.

There’s room for improvement, but that doesn’t mean public transit is unuseable.

Have you seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18618365 ? It brought interesting insight into additional factors in TSLA’s valuation

Case in point, from the article:

> Any API change had to be deployed simultaneously to all services using that API to avoid downtime, which often went wrong and resulted in long release cycles.

There’s an easy solution to that problem, which is a versioned API.

I agree with this experience, I learned everything I know on the job.

I don’t hire any developer unless they can demonstrate they’re willing and able to deliver business value. Junior devs have a harder time demonstrating this ability.

Also works correctly on iPhone safari

Seems like language to me

Har har har har, right?

Voting machines and nuclear reactors get hacked with code - which is just something people say on computers.

Is having cars parked on the street out of place? I agree that bikes blocking pedestrian right of way is bad and needs to be stopped. The easiest way to do that is to replace some of the car parking with bike parking.

The concept that a bike parked on your street would be bad for your neighborhood is an opinion you should rethink - bikes are great!

Exactly

Ideas don’t matter much, execution is far more important and much harder.

The graphics are clearly critical - a plain ascii version wouldn’t convey the information as successfully.

Personally, the animations drew me in. Basically all things can be reduced to a single sentence explanation, but that doesn’t mean a single sentence has all the impact of the original.

Russia tampering in the election isn’t a conspiracy theory. It is a well reported fact.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_...

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As someone who has been on the other end of receiving incoherent and inaccurate bug bounty reports, this!

To find the bug is impressive. To write about it so well is truly exceptional.

Thanks! Wouldn't have seen it without this comment, and it's a clever addition.

Your proposed solution doesn’t resolve the issue you’re responding to, or a number of other issues I can think of. And it doesn’t resolve any issues for returns without receipt, which is definitely a large concern.

I really don’t think Australia has this solved any better than the US, if this is the only solution.

This is the most amusing part of this whole article, as someone who moved from Chicago to the bay a year and a half ago.

If midwesterners are hungry enough and good enough, they’ll move to the bay (or they’re already working remote for Bay Area salaries).

I’m not sure that article says what you’re suggesting it says? Apple offered to "expedite [its] response to any legal process."

It’s unclear whether they’re committing to unlocking the device. Judging by the prior case, I’m not confident that they are?

Hmmm. If you think what the source (Plover’s shitpost blog, not an email) provides is not beneficial, then I’d think the link should be to the original document.

I, on the other hand, think his selection and publication of this excerpt has merit and is useful. His framing of the quote is what drew me to read it in the first place.

This was posted within today, not 1993. Title fix?

This. Diehard fan - at least previously, but times are a changing.

Let alone the OS feeling less polished, the removal of time remaining on battery and other user hostile changes, the touch bar being poorly thought out net loss (e.g. the fact that you can’t adjust the brightness so in low light typing, it messes with your eyes), I’ve had to warranty 3 MacBook pros in the past year. I’d never had to warranty an apple product before.

I don’t want another iPad or iPhone. I want a laptop that just works and I’m willing to pay for it. Please somebody deliver that, since apple isn’t chasing it anymore.

I second this. A cover letter, for me, is the opportunity to write a short thing about why you’re interested in the specific position. You aren’t expected to edit your resume for each job posting, but I expect to receive a cover letter that explains why you’re interested in the job you’re applying for. People who don’t include a cover letter (or an email, or some writing of any type) about why they want the job get devalued significantly when I’m evaluating applications.

Cover letters have helped me get jobs in the past, and have led me to get interviews (and to interview people).

It doesn’t have to be long, in fact, it really shouldn’t be. But if you’re up for writing a well phrased comment on HN, you should be up for writing a well phrased explanation of why you’re a good fit for the role.

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Also "interfering with car traffic" is silly. Bikes are traffic too and have just as much right to being in the road as cars.

In the US, the majority of streets have at least a lane of space taken up by parking. If half of that was offered to bikes there wouldn't be any bike parking issues.

The amount of space taken up by car parking makes me generally unsympathetic to complaints about bike sharing "taking up too much public space" - though perhaps there is less car parking in china.

- San Juan (2-4 players)

- Haggis (2-3)

- Dominion (2-4 players, box is nice but you can just have a stack of cards)

All the other suggestions are good, but it's nice to have flexibility with player size.

I'm curious what you mean by "crappy" - I don't find Basecamp useful for my needs, but lots of people do.

Are you saying you don't personally enjoy using it? Or that you think it's poorly engineered?

I'm quite aware - and I think it's often a useful lense. After seeing the parent comment, I initially was concerned I was in the wrong for finding interesting parts of the piece but the first sentence of your comment reminded me that it was silly to think that. The rest of your comment didn't enlighten me though, it just made it clear that you have an agenda.

For the record, I downvoted the og comment and upvoted you - I think your reaction added more to the conversation than their initial criticism.

This is awesome and exciting.

Looking at it I can only be disappointed in science fiction's failure (specifically tv and movies) to move beyond Minority Report inspired glass touch screens.