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Readability is hit and miss. Very nice to have everything written to the same standard, it makes it much easier to navigate through any project. Downside is it's pretty rough for m…

Yeah, it's good for these kinds of discussions when it's a universal requirement, or when the white paper concerns will actually be addressed before confirming a design. I do get s…

There's a site for this http://www.nohello.com/

It's think it's pretty common when billing for time when the base rate is high. Lots of big law firms bill in six minute increments.

I'm trying to find the original source for this, but there's a quote I've seen about how finding a cycle in a linked list used to regarded as a FizzBuzz like test. It came of age w…

Ah yeah that's definitely going to be different HTML on Lynx, then, since I bet they don't support that and Google's not missing out on tracking. Yup - curling with Lynx user agent…

Did they also remove link wrapping with this? The HREF goes straight to the destination for me now on Chrome, where previously it went to some Google domain redirect. It's there on…

There's something related called the bullwhip effect. I think that throwing away requests under load rather than putting them in some overflow queue prevents it. The effects aren't…

Are there any alternatives? It often gets very weird at the high end of drug prices, but usually in a way that inverts normal economic logic - this story from a few years ago blew …

This is a very thorough explanation of why it matters https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/

Odd coincidence, seems like it might have been some upstream banks having a bad SCA rollout

That really might have been the tech, codebases can get pretty weird after a while.

This is one of those situations where it's not what you know, it's who you know. The only thing that matters is if you know someone who can bypass their support and flip a boolean.…

Or you have a system with incredible amounts of fraud that still manages to function, like CPC ads

Yeah, I think it's most likely that. Seems very plausible Nest wanted to have some voice features but they got cut before launch. The mic's still there because changing hardware is…

The hard part is how to make it work politically. I don't know if any place has really done it in an environment that was mostly built out already. Manhattan used to have 700k more…

It's mostly about 1979 and the humiliation of the hostage crisis.

Doesn't matter how low is if the payout is high enough. Also, it's not like they've got any better ad to show you, CTR is something like one in a thousand for display.

I see this sentiment a lot, but I think it probably does make financial sense to show you ads for a thing you already bought. There are often a few whales out there who are buying …

Probably the most honest explanation of how companies actually hire I've seen.

https://medium.com/teachable/how-we-code-at-teachable-ff4285...

Elastic, Mongodb, and Docker all have this business model. I guess the difference is in their case they developed it first and then open sourced - they've got a much more credible …