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pretty simplistic and bad take

I don't think it's comparable to Amazon's mark-up. The alternative to Amazon is walmart.com, ebay.com, etc., all of which can be directly compared. Instacart provides a delivery se…

If you remove the government backing you'll see more of a divide on the socioeconomics of who gets to go to college and who is too risky to lend to.

I think button touches aren't triggered until animations finish so if you do 1 + 2 + 3 real fast, the second "+" won't register.

Yeah, I tried that advice yesterday and none of the links work. They just give some error after you fill them out.

The utility is that it's a trust-less transfer of value between two parties. Essentially, it's like being able to send cash, anonymously if you chose, to someone else, without an i…

I agree but Swift is a new enough language that I'm not sure such a resource exists yet. When I learned Swift I just skimmed through the parts that weren't interesting and that wor…

I think, as a starting place, Apple's Swift Programming Guide is hard to beat

I'm not an expert on this but I think the point was market cap is the value of all outstanding shares. Tesla raised money through venture capital while GM raised money by going to …

It's TDD. Just because the whole app wasn't developed with TDD doesn't mean you can't test drive a bug fix. There's a bug, you write a test, "this bug shouldn't exist", that test c…

I think TDD helps or doesn't help depending on the circumstances. The problem is the people who claim there's One True Way. For instance, if you were working on a big app and there…

I think they said the product decision was made primarily to prevent abuse. I don't think a cookie could stop a sophisticated abuser.

selection?.organization?.owner is an optional value, meaning it might be nil/null. That "if let" basically says if it's not nil to assign its value to "person" and execute the bloc…

checkout Koa to see a great use case of generators. By yielding to asychronous code (instead of callbacks) you can write JS that looks like it's synchronous.