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Yeah between this and Toyota's similar talk about amazing tech just around the corner ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36833836 ) it feels like this could be a concerted effo…

Apple already does the same thing. Apple Search Ads is not limited to the same restrictions that Facebook and Google are with regards to iOS tracking and reporting for advertising …

My understanding is that pre-agricultural hunter/gatherers worked a lot less than post-agricultural workers.

My understanding is that it's essentially Looker minus the dashboarding. What you would define via LookML is essentially the "semantic layer" that this is addressing. DBT is attemp…

The Shopify layoff memo ( https://news.shopify.com/changes-to-shopifys-team ) has a pretty interesting graph of exactly this effect. Basically a huge leap in e-commerce adoption wi…

Can you elaborate on some of the points the random redditor made that you think aren't valid?

Used it for several years, beat the pants off Redshift and was comparable to BigQuery for our use cases. They have a ways to go on the maturity/reliability front though.

I too am in Victoria. I used to be a hiring manager and had people turn down 6 figure (CAD) offers due to receiving a better one. Although there is admittedly a huge gap between th…

When we've looked at BigQuery it seemed that if you prepay you essentially get a similar effect to what you're describing. You're given a certain number of "units" of compute, and …

I have the same printer and I too have had no issues in 5+ years of use.

Rather than conditionally execute code (to avoid performing an unnecessary expensive operation) always execute the code, then discard the result if it is unneeded. The idea being t…

I've often wished Dropbox's selective sync was managed by folder rather than by client. It would be more helpful to me to mark folders to not automatically sync account wide than t…

I read the linked webpage, and I have had none of the issues he seems to think occur with git pull --rebase. I believe he uses git differently than I, and many other people, do. Wh…

You are correct that the problem is the manager and not Kanban, but in my experience it has been the case that the problem is always the management at some level. The point of this…

I'm fairly certain they do, from experiences in the past where otherwise completely private (but unprotected) URLs have ended up indexed.

The difference between cable and having 5 Netflix competitors is that you don't have one company with a local monopoly setting your pricing.

I just purchased an Asus UX51VZ with 2x128gb SSDs and a 15" 1080p display that weighs less than a Macbook Pro Retina, for $400 less than the Macbook would've cost. The Retina has a…

I think it is usually easy to determine by context when someone is referring to a language and when someone is referring to the typical implementation, libraries, etc that come alo…

Yes I agree. I've never felt that I shipped a product late because it took me too long to type. A good editor and a nice setup certainly help me feel better, but I think it's very …

I agree with this. There are certainly situations where more than 40 hours of week are a necessity, but those situations should typically be temporary for the majority of employees…

He didn't know how many people would pay $5, I imagine it was just an arbitrary number he felt was reasonable. Only 25% went to charity, so really it was a pretty good guess. Maybe…

Yes, but the main argument for the hardware back button being "broken" was that it was inconsistent. This article shows that the only thing it is inconsistent with is the iOS model…

Has the author of this article never used Spaces on OS X? The very first point seems to indicate they have not.

If you are using Chrome this extension does the same thing without signing up for anything: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipkfnchcgalnafehpg... I have been using it for…