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> where it didn't shine Care to expand on this for the curious?

What does this mean for their partners like Stable? The only reason I used Stable was because it was part of the onboarding flow for Stripe Atlas. Is that considered a physical biz…

Nope, not trying to trap anyone into a conversation they don't want to have. The purpose of the site is to match you with someone politically different. All marketing copy is forth…

It was a reference to the featured article. It does not have any good or evil connotations. The author suggested that, like light and dark matter coexisting without any knowledge o…

Noted and good call, I'll take that out of the art.

> There are certain theories of dark matter where it barely interacts with the regular world at all, such that we could have a dark matter planet exactly co-incident with Earth and…

Well that certainly piqued my interest. Found this too, though: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/50631/did-abner...

One aspect of working in a big company is figuring out where all the bits of specialized knowledge live, and what the company-specific processes are for getting things done. One us…

Nice find!

I mean, businesses change? The founders didn't have a crystal ball to see how every decision would play out. Reading through these comments, I'm reminded of a pop psychology book t…

I don't mind it. If a business is providing good software, and they have to make a license change to prevent someone from wholesale copying the work and selling it as a direct comp…

> This is why bankers earn more than nurses and teachers I think it has more to do with the proximity to money. A banker is close to lots of money moving around, and in a position …

> No one is taking their self driving car to work and then lending it out to Uber Sounds like a business opportunity

Why are you trying to dismiss this guy? I don't understand it. If you don't like the product or feel that $19 is too much money, then move along. God forbid someone tries to make a…

> The point is that the entire model deployed by VCs is to profit by disrupting the marketplace with predatory pricing, and leave the losses to the suckers who buy into the IPO. Th…

This has not been my experience at all. I was compelled to use Chrome at my last job (there was a bunch of internal tooling built around Chrome assumptions). I was there for almost…

The body of the op.crypt test is pretty neat. He is clearly excited about the perf optimization: # this evaluates entirely at compile time! if (crypt('uh','oh') eq 'ohPnjpYtoi1NU')…

It's hard to argue against the power of separating content from presentation when we can see the results with our own eyes in a couple clicks on Zen Garden. I have a hard time seei…

opensnoop is also a good one that usually stays under the radar

It drives me nuts when systems are unnecessarily built with "magic DI" frameworks rather than initializer/constructor DI. Why is it so hard to pass a dep into the initializer? Make…

I watched Office Space for the first time in like 20 years this week. Some of the stuff I never noticed as a teenager cracked me up. My favorite was a whiteboard in the back of the…

> It seems to me that a lot of desk jobs that feel like bullshit to the employee are really part of the nervous tissue of the organization, and the value they provide to the organi…

Go Kay Dean! Yelp should hire her and give her a team. It's a win-win. She is clearly passionate about the problem, and effective. Yelp gains added trust of their bread and butter,…