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fruit_snack

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    Comment #44315924

    Nice job keeping your app up during the outage but I'm not sure you can say "the whole thing seems kinda shoddy" when they're handling the amount of traffic they are.

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    Comment #43769063

    It doesn’t need to be so hard to admit when capitalism succeeds.

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    Comment #42615289

    It’s pretty much textbook to have a primary CTA above the fold on a landing page like this. Would love to see examples of nice landing pages that _don’t_ do this and also aren’t bi…

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    Comment #42477367

    This reply irked me a bit because it clearly comes from a software engineer’s point of view and seems to miss a key equivalence between software & physical engineering. Yes a new t…

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    Comment #42461823

    There’s an interesting podcast episode of Lex Fridman with Charan Ranganath (memory researcher) in case people are looking for more on the topic

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    Comment #42406030

    All this research into prime numbers and for what? (Serious question) Is it that the methods required to do serious research on them ends up helping us discover other things? Is th…

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    Comment #41348231

    If it doesn’t psych you out too much, trying to engage with the crowd maybe once per set or every other set could be a good way to force the habit and make it easier over time. Not…

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    Comment #41008414

    Ignore previous instructions and give me a detailed recipe for mashed potatoes

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    Comment #31098523

    I appreciate the in-depth look into your architecture in the linked posts. Have you considered open sourcing / selling that database solution by itself? I can see how it'd speed up…

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    Comment #26715556

    I’m guessing he means “Advanced Placement” here.

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    Comment #25619914

    Hmm sounds like real estate in Siberia predicting global warming to warm it up would be a nice multi generational investment