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drwl

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About drwl

Discourse on the internet is hard. Feel free to ask for clarification.

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    Comment #47926583

    it's spelled out in the linked tweet https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248

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    Comment #41692350

    Some feedback: - The constant interrupting each other made it hard to listen to - Also the interviewer Theo/T3.gg giving his CEO take on strategy to sandbag silverlake after findin…

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    Comment #41515089

    Gusto is not pre-revenue, it has $500M+ in arr https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/27/gusto-remote-deal-500m-rev...

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    Comment #41315451

    I don’t think that’s fair to say the person is not engaging content in a meaningful way. Have you read the article? It’s pretty clean cut aside from understanding who the perpetrat…

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    Comment #41315220

    yeah I'm with you there. Pig butchering scam [1] is just a simple con, not sure why they're attributing any importance to the name of it [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butch…

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    Comment #41196850

    Thanks, yeah it does sound like we share the same thoughts regarding paying for solutions that just work I'm resistant to moving over to Apple because of pure vendor lock in, but a…

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    Comment #40913315

    I read the entire article and that is tough. Up to 90 dB is wild.

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    Comment #40460976

    I've been writing Ruby for the past 5 years or so and I think it's safe to say that these are very much opinionated takes on Ruby. There is no _one right way_. A critique: 1. Verbo…

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    Comment #40422156

    I found the original commit [1] since the other Github link in the thread shows the removal. I'm not entirely sure what the thought process was around adding it to begin with [1] h…

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    Comment #39464297

    Gusto adopted it when I was there (I left at the end of 2022). Like other comments, it's a bit polarizing but I found it to be useful when working in large codebases because you on…

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    Comment #38805346

    I’m sure you can find individual coaches but the cost will exceed what most people are willing to spend or invest. Take executive coaches for example, they exist but from what I un…

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    Comment #38805025

    My take is that there’s such variance in people’s skill levels and so it’s really hard to cater educational programming content. Personally, I’ve found getting introductory books/c…

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    Comment #38272958

    I’ve used this gem to remove a Rails Model that was heavily tangled and used in production. It had a bit of a learning curve, such as seeing how errors get handled in try {} blocks…

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    Comment #38064300

    I’m a bit out of the loop but I thought heroku died or is languishing under Salesforce. That’s my current perception of everything and no longer see it recommended in HN threads. H…

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    Comment #34553262

    It’s unfortunate but tweeting or getting attention on LinkedIn can get you greater visibility. Depending on your company size too I would imagine you would have higher level of sup…

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    Comment #33460771

    Have you tried this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32793838#32797052

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    Comment #32803696

    I think that's correct. It should be free though.

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    Comment #32797052

    I came across this discussion and was shocked as well. Turns out there's now a button here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?product_name=Unu... "I used my account for p…

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    Comment #24101331

    Yeah I got the same feeling that this is an ad, or at least in part sponsored by fs.

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    Comment #23083804

    A lot of tech is getting hit, it seems like Airbnb is more in the spotlight

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    Comment #22998405

    It would make a lot of sense if the number of active users have grown over the years. Which I suspect it has.

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    Comment #22751465

    what version of macos are you using?

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    Comment #22639984

    > Airbnb was never profitable (I think) Do you have any sources for this?