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It also struggles with my NYC-area accent, which is only medium thick.

There are four stages to any successful companies lifecycle and Bending Spoons's model is to maximize what they can get in the final stage of decline. There's nothing wrong with th…

This is not sustainable forever unless their hypothetical usage is realized, and eventually the bill will come due. Meanwhile, component makers will surely be spinning up more capa…

I have one. I got it so I could have something small to slip in a small bag for when my toddler went to a playground. The thing that makes it's unusable is the trackpad. A better t…

ios Native App > web app > android app > anything made with a cross platform toolkit like react native or flutter. I would much prefer a really well-crafted ios Native App with ext…

I read what the author is saying as “time is fixed, so I adjust the scope.” The problem is when product or management is demanding both fixed time and fixed scope. “Here’s a list o…

Oftentimes, broadly accessible services are lower quality than more personalized ones, to the consumer. As an example in US government bureaucracy, government software teams digiti…

The author talks about how software creation processes at large organizations are an artifact of how large organizations operate, but in all 3 of the 3 cases, I would ask “why does…

For enterprise mobility venues like a commercial aircraft or a cruise ship it costs far more.

Maduro, Castro, and Saddam Hussein are/were bad. Castro and Hussein, at least, committed murders to maintain power and Maduro pulled a coup after he lost an election. Whether they …

I’m old enough to remember not having an iPhone and not feeling sexy.

Two types of sales philosophies: 1. It doesn't matter what you're selling, it's about the sales technique. 2. Develop deep domain and customer expertise. The former is the scammy t…

Here's a theory... Although illegal now, San Francisco used to have a widespread practice of "key money"--a bribe you paid the landlord to choose you to rent the apartment that due…

The author leaves out what to me is the most compelling argument against static types: it is somewhat at odds with interactive development with a running system, as seen in smallta…

I’m reminded of Alan Kay’s observation that software is a pop-culture. Simplicity is great, how can we combine it with the 17 other frameworks we saw on HN this week and have to us…

Sorry, there was a typo. Astro is more focused on SSG than SSR. This is what happens when trying to comment on a phone keyboard first thing in the morning.

You wouldn’t use Astro with NextJS, but you absolutely would with react. Astro is an SSR more tuned to generate static sites than SSR with hydration. It uses the islands architectu…

From context they are almost certainly referring to the city of Washington (DC), which is part of the northeast corridor described, and not the state of Washington, which is on the…

Do I have any sources that systemic racism is real? I mean, there's a large body of evidence (I personally like the economics methodology of this study, which has been repeated man…

For 350 years of US history africans and their descendants were enslaved. Native Americans were ripped from their land and relocated, often with genocidal levels of casualties. Aft…

The complaint that at ideal viewing angles, the resolution will only be 720p is silly. 720p is fine for watching movies, even if it's not home theater perfect. But it's absolutely …

Since the link won't open for some, here's the relevant bit (the first two lines of the abstract of the paper linked to): "MVC was conceived in 1978 as the design solution to a par…

It's a pdf. It opens for me when clicking. Are you on a browser that can't easily open PDF?

> One of my ideas is that if you were to log the behaviour of a program with timestamps and implement a program that implements the same log, then its behaviours are identical. Thi…

There’s no reason your model can’t have an abstraction layer that contains the business logic and a concrete layer that has the persistence (indeed, if it’s complex at all it shoul…