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Do they get paid to host this? How much?

The blind community is 200% sarcastic. Don't take anything read there seriously.

Remove all the housing regulation in California and allow builders to build. You'll smoothly see rents going down to $500/month. Start having integrity and finally do what's best f…

I think that's just clickbait heading. They just promote their full version in their light version. That's normal and expected since forever.

Where to download it?!

Off topic: I can't subscribe to this blog with any of my emails (at the bottom of the page), getting a "Invalid email" for literally any valid email address I would enter.

WHY does this happen? Does loud music sell better than silent music? Nobody here, not even Wikipedia, mentions the reason WHY it happens.

I'm also not a huge fan in general, but it's a distinctly good method for getting feedback when building an API or product. Let me tell you this story: October 2019 we did somethin…

"current customers who would switch to linux". Again, this is 0 incremental revenue but a ton of incremental costs to Adobe.

Why not study at a top German university instead? It's 100% free and you get a ton of international experience, learn a new language, and can still go to MIT/Harvard/Stanford/... f…

One more idea: "$BIG_TECH has huge developer economies-of-scale". Whenever I or one of our devs has a problem with AWS or configuration, there's a 99% probability that anyone had t…

According to the results, shouldn't the title be "The Microsoft Premium"?

One more idea: "$BIG_TECH will still exist in 10 or 20 years."

Tiny improvement suggestion: remove the "collapse" button and show the residual items on mouse hover of any of the top right menu bar area automatically. Save me the extra clicks. …

It's exactly the same with hiring at FANG/McKinsey/BCG/... :). You optimize for the (well known) interview process. You study 10 hours/day for 2 weeks. And you get the job with 99%…

What's the difference between initonly and const?

FIRST build a successful business, THEN try to sell it. You try so sell something that's essentially worthless, and even worse: you have zero negotiating power. So at best, you wou…

Guy Macros: Okay, good. What do you suggest doing now?

Dropbox ultimately failed at B2B, and Box/Azure/Apple/Amazon/Google/ and others have taken their spot way before Dropbox opened up a B2B product.

Same for US, Japan, Germany, UK, and France

I can as well highly recommend this course, as well as the professor! Outstanding!

The BIGGEST problem with research is this: it's HARD, not easy, to understand. Most papers written are absolute trash. Not because the content is. Because it's written in a shitty,…