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Even if you did make this adjustment, there isn't a good way to know you've done it properly. I just avoid relying only on mirrors. I don't feel safe unless I turn to look.

This post is refreshingly sane. I visit often but don’t live in SF, and I’ve had a lot of the same observations.

I’d argue the scaling challenges are more technical in nature, and therefore easier to tackle than coordination issues. But this seems right to me.

Prognostication has never been Cringely’s strong suit.

Interesting! But when you say "half", which number are you referring to?

Don't worry, the average half-cocked HN "why do they need so many employees to sell widgets?!" post doesn't bother with details either. It must feel great to post that, because peo…

> a little bit of hard work Heck, they didn't even want to do that! They did end up working hard (according to them), but the plan was that it would be essentially free money.

The "Apple tax" is one part of this, another is that they obviously think people are comfortable enough with signing up via the web on a mobile device, to make this decision worthw…

It’s really incredible how common those people are, and how they’ve managed to eke out a living. The thing that has surprised me most is that there is no predictability to how a ca…

There is a whole chain of people involved before software gets designed, or built, or deployed. If you’re making software for healthcare institutions then that should include peopl…

Yes, I can see how doctors’ struggles with students, parents, and school administrations is highly relevant to this topic.

Sure PHP+Ajax still works, knock yourself out using that approach if you want. I won’t want to maintain your code, but feel free. While I don’t disagree with the general notion tha…

I almost always just want one of these things to keep a session alive even if I disconnect. (My terminal app has tabs so I don’t find muxing between terminals particularly useful.)…

I’m not sure how much this actually clarifies things, to be honest. But, who knows. And about the cookie banners, we didn’t add them because we thought normal people give a crap ab…

Not sure it makes sense that would be a problem for video games but not tv which broadcasts their tattoos the whole game.

How would I handle that? Get a new job.

I stopped using booking.com after I booked a hotel for the wrong dates, and they made it really difficult to cancel, and charged the entire price of the stay. Now I use aggregators…

Isn’t that normal for chai? They sure do put a lot of jaggery in there.

Interesting, do tell us more about your efforts in advocacy.

There is much too much consternation over ASI, it really is much ado about nothing. I worked for a couple years on a team that didn't use semicolons and it wasn't a problem, it jus…

Traditions always start somewhere!

The lesson? Should have charged them more.

Not only we don’t understand the mechanism causing depression, we don’t really understand (as far as I am aware) why medications work or don’t work. I deal with mild depression som…