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thedevelopnik

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About thedevelopnik

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    Comment #31977258

    Elon thinks that because humans can do all this with two eyes his cars should be able to do it with just cameras. Literal truth.

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    Comment #31849846

    Yeah Denver turned one of the residential roads in my neighborhood into an official bike road two years ago. They replaced stop signs with roundabouts, put up tons of signage, and …

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    Comment #31049824

    I did Galvanize in the first half of 2016. 6 month program that I’m glad I did over some of the shorter ones. Salary was 90k coming out. I make 125 now, could be making much more b…

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    Comment #30813798

    From one YC nonprofit to another, this looks awesome! Amazing work and really interesting to read about the stack powering it. We run a free tutoring service for low income student…

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    Comment #30359747

    Even as someone who has invested time in learning to write regexp, they are still hard to read and maintain. This project looks super cool!

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    Comment #30275633

    Totally, the problem is all expectations. I bought a NordicTrack S22i (their peloton competitor) in early 2019, and love it. I pay like $450 a year or something for my family subsc…

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    Comment #30273173

    I used to pride myself on my ability to fit into small parking spaces and parallel park even big vans pretty precisely, and a backup camera blew all that out of the water because I…

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    Comment #30272989

    The thing that kills me is even these investors seem to see Peloton as a hell of a lot more than it is. The “peers” they list are Netflix and Roku. No. Peloton’s peers are NordicTr…

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    Comment #30258745

    Wow, real comic book villain energy here. “A video game company messed with my favorite spell, so I decided to go all in on wrecking the planet in the name of capitalism.”

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    Comment #30234185

    I think the OP was trying to reference the difference between libel laws in the US and UK regarding who has the burden of proof.

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    Comment #30190657

    Jason, leader of the Argo-nauts :)

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    Comment #30162631

    This. We use a non-Google analytics product that we could even move to self-hosting if needed. But the marketing director basically was like “This is better than GA, and I will use…

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    Comment #30052811

    Another classic is his review of “North” https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/north-1994 I remember for the Friar’s Club roast of Rob Reiner one comedian just read that review. “ I h…

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    Comment #29979334

    Bill Gates. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/microsoft-bi...

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    Comment #29970163

    My Bachelor’s is in marketing and the main thing I learned from it is I didn’t have the stomach/moral flexibility for marketing.

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    Comment #29924759

    But there are so many good games that have none of this bullshit. Check out Hades. It is so fun. And it is self-contained. The dev doesn’t even have interest in making an expansion…

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    Comment #29854303

    Yeah my MIL had a 2012 Dell that my son uses at her house. It was running Windows 7, and took about 10 minutes to boot and the same to shut down. I put Pop_OS on it. It has Firefox…

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    Comment #29845909

    Nah he’s that crazy. Ghostbusters was pretty close to a possible documentary for him.

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    Comment #29845600

    If you’re gonna call him Mr., then you call him Mr. Tibbs.

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    Comment #29767534

    As an American my favorite thing to hear British and similarly influenced (Australia/New Zealand) people say is “h.” We say “aych” but they say “haych.” I don’t know why but an Eng…

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    Comment #29524521

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    Comment #29477900

    Our society is being destroyed by purposeful misinformation on the internet. I don’t think this argument is what you think it is.

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    Comment #29450986

    Alpha Protocol was removed from stores over music licensing issues. I freaked out because I didn’t have it downloaded, but it’s still in my library and I can download it. You just …

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    Comment #29416082

    Love the part where you take the example of Boris Johnson and his staff, and instead of going “What wrong-headed idiots,” you instead somehow take away “It’s the epidemiologists wh…

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    Comment #29357076

    My wife and I have the Cinemark subscription and used to see an average of 1-2 movies per month. My son has a sleepover with his grandma once a week and we have date night. We migh…