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This is a great point. In-person work has higher bandwidth and lower latency than remote work, so for certain roles it makes sense you wouldn't want to farm it out to remote worker…

Every time I see this argument made, there seems to be a level of complexity and/or operational cost above which people throw up their hands and say "well of course we can't do tha…

Thanks for the updated link. I'm not able to update the post anymore, but maybe one of the mods can.

I enjoy riding e-bikes, for the record. Going fast on an e-bike is like having happiness on tap. I think more people should own them so that we can collectively start to realize a …

I tend to agree with you about e-bikes. A class 3 can go up to 28 MPH from the manufacturer, and getting them to go faster is an easy modification. For anyone that isn’t aware, a S…

This project in Tempe, AZ markets itself as the first planned car-free community in the US: https://culdesac.com/ I’m hoping that if it is successful, developers will build similar…

A mental analogy that I personally use for this is cabinets. A section of an app is kind of like a cabinet in a kitchen. Some people like opaque cabinet doors while others prefer g…

Something I've been thinking about is what happens once the market for software developers becomes saturated. I think the answer is something along the lines of blending traditiona…

My take is that it implements the benefits you describe for simple sites that might have less infrastructure at their disposal. It seems like you still need a node runtime to rebui…

Serious question: how long does it take for humans to permanently adjust their sense of normalcy? There is a concept of `creeping normality`[0] that gets at this, but there isn't a…

I would argue that an even more insightful view of money is to go one level up to “wealth”. Paul Graham covers it nicely: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html Skip down to the “Mo…

Perhaps Amazon knows something about planned obsolescence that the consumer does not.

Interesting thoughts. It could be that PayPal has over extended certain models for far longer than they should have. Some forms of tech debt should be resolved sooner, rather than …

I don’t have hard evidence, and certainly not every VC would act this way. There is a great episode of Startup where they seek additional funding and eventually settle on an invest…

The sentiment here is a response to a minority opinion that has deeper pockets than the majority opinion. It is interesting because VC math forces a level of intensity that Basecam…

There is a chance that Facebook is trying to change public opinion for the better with a move like this. Unlikely, but possible.

I agree. The superscript example is a good one. In most contexts it refers to the exponent, but in the context of a cost function that minimizes a linear regression (for example), …

They were probably looking for references to 'MEAN' stack.

`tldr`[0] can be helpful for quick references like this. I never worry about commands like `ssh` anymore because of this. This is the output for `dd`: $ tldr dd dd Convert and copy…

> Seduction is a gift, and most people in technology vastly overestimate how much of customer happiness is solvable by data-driven algorithms while underestimating the ROI of seduc…