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I think they meant the scooters have firmware which can limit the top speed of the rider.

This recently happened to me as well - Venmo tried to invalidate my payment method and pushed me to go through their "instant verification" process. Note that "manual verification"…

I see, thanks for the detailed reply. Yeah it's sad that companies have no incentive nowadays to support open protocols (besides the ones that already exist). I wonder if regulatio…

I see this argument made often on HN, but it's not clear to me how an internet protocol would make social networks more accountable towards their users. Do you mind explaining your…

I think the issue isn't that they're spending money on an order in the moment, it's an auto-renewing subscription that users may not even remember about.

From the last paragraph: > Strict modules are still experimental. We have a working prototype and are in the early stages of rolling it out in production. Sounds like it's in-house…

What language was the team counting in nanoseconds using?

It's satire written by a disgruntled engineer :P

It seems like payment/e-commerce companies in general are shifting towards offering "express checkout" experiences nowadays - Shopify, Paypal, Amazon Pay, are a couple prominent ex…

I wonder if they're referring to this? https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/16/peter-thiel-palantir-nhs-dea...

My impression is there are a segment of technically-minded backend engineers who look down on frontend work - who cares what the damn thing looks like as long as it works? I think …

Except that in Go, you always return the error alongside the value, like this: return 0, errors.New("unable to get price") It's less elegant than Options but still, very common pra…

Sounds like your company is just using a unidiomatic library. It's poor practice to return a zero value as an error instead of, well, returning the error. As someone else said, it'…

My read on it is the author is saying that seemingly small changes can have big impacts. I agree it could have been worded better, though I doubt he's trying to promote himself as …

Not saying this applies to every company, but I've worked at two different companies that have done something similar: * Healthcare startup that basically outsourced its entire inf…

Probably cost of training. You'd have to hire consultants to teach best practices and that could cost significantly more than hiring a new engineer. Plus there are other risks to m…

True, there are definitely edge cases to account for. Maybe the problem is these AI assistants are trying to make everything location-aware when that may not always be the desired …

But you'd still be in the same time zone, no? For different queries, like the one you mentioned, that might be reasonable, but asking for the time in London means the assistant sho…

As someone who works with Python a lot, Coffeescript always looked more like Ruby to me, especially with all the syntactic sugar (lack of parens, keywords like `unless` or `isnt`, …

Why do you think it's a huge disadvantage? Your advice seems defeatist, and at best, is highly discouraging. Do you really think it's a good idea to tell a young high schooler to g…

Yeah... I wouldn't listen to GP, because being Asian-American is not a disadvantage, and gaming the system is bad advice . As someone who is Asian and went to a predominantly Asian…