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What made you prefer Mail to Gmail, given you don’t seem satisfied with Apple’s Mail app?

Define “smarter” —- already a vague and overloaded term. And then consider whether the point of the class is to test smarts, or something else. I’d expect that’s not the intent of …

Agreed. I vaguely remember another HN link that said Apple tried a competing-team approach to building a better siri, but it fell apart due to internal politics reasons?

Why is it the fastest possible? Wouldn’t you be able to run a higher clock-speed simulation, and therefore compute the sound ahead-of-time, on a digital device?

one forgotten difference is, the underlying hardware would have been built (by woz or others) to a high degree of quality in general, the bar has fallen. it is not limited to desig…

Exactly, this form of internet bullying always detracts from the point its author is trying to make.

That is a crazy low rate. Which gym is it?

What part of it seems like a criticism to you?

For anyone who's wondering, their estimation method works like so: 1. Assume a range of values 2. Assume a fair probability function for sampling over the range of values The estim…

In your example, the amino acids order is sufficient to directly model the result: the sequence of amino acids can directly generate the protein, which is either valid or invalid. …

> For some reason […] Likely because Apple themselves provide an emulator that accommodates most developers’ needs.

So sign your UUIDs and combine them into “$UUID:$HASH” strings for the same benefit. Or a more structured JWT-like payload that still verifies auth against the DB (as opposed to ca…

If anything, an obfuscated microservice-based application is easier to understand than a monolithic version: network data transfer is easier for observers to understand than memory…

> An ambassador service can be thought of as an out-of-process proxy that is co-located with the client. > This pattern can be useful for offloading common client connectivity task…

What is this comment even trying to say?

This number includes taxes, benefits, etc, not just raw salary. Notably Signal employees do not get equity, so the salary must be higher to remain competitive. Signal is probably t…

I think you may be misinterpreting it. Was there an option to log into another account after you clicked “Sign out and Remember”? Being able to switch between two accounts seems us…

“Google gave the second-place bidder a built-in handicap to make their offer more competitive” is the tamest way of phrasing it, given that the “handicap”’s only effect is to cost …

I was skeptical when the author implied automation was the solution. But actually, the given solutions are mostly communication-focused, and the automation is to aid in that. Good …

Strengthening the rail network and increasing the cost of oil? Sounds like the right incentives to me.

How do you calculate this? Is it based on your previous prescription somehow, or does it require another optometrist appointment?

As easy as it is to reply to a salesperson’s email

> Maybe in context of old C, but in java you have two nestings just for being in class method. So as a general point, it does not stand anyway. In reference to your above point. Yo…

And screens are bigger than they used to be, so you conveniently have more tabs to make up for it. I think it evens out