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The whole email was just so off - I know they build up to these things, but am sure the announcement of the re-org could have waited, and could have led with the most pressing news…

Seems like an apt analogy - adding in friction for the small minority of instances where someone would undertake an action you don't want them to. Not literally "if I don't make so…

What use-case of YouTube would you want a competitor to though? Personal video hosting? Independent creator video distribution? Social network for video? Music video streaming? One…

It depends on the context - but each time I've interviewed someone, the "we" is important, but the "I" is important-er. It's almost implicit that everyone works in a team to achiev…

Although influential, surely Twitter's recent run isn't because of Jack himself, but the new culture he instigated? Him leaving doesn't change the dynamic there now, just another p…

Even in the mid-2000s, photography classes were still teaching through B+W - as you mention, developing is easier (and therefore faster). The film and photo paper were also cheaper…

It's akin to post-purchase rationalization and sunk cost bias rolled into one - likewise I think it's a specific bias in its own right, but a search hasn't turned up anything yet!

Depends where you draw the line on "platform". There's still the old-school cPanel shared hosting types out there where you can drag and drop through a file manager. But then you u…

And getting in front of it means they get to dictate the pricing structure - you can bet your spare parts will be beautifully packaged and sold at a decent markup.

You can also seed with the cocoa butter you add in, seeding with pre-tempered chocolate tends to require more added as far as I remember.

Also used to do it too - amazing how far you can get with a £15 coffee grinder and a bag of beans. Like anything that goes through multiple step processing (same when I roasted cof…

It's very difficult as you need a lot of pressure in order to squeeze the fats out from the mass - there were some small batch machines for doing so, but a homebrew approach would …

> most men take only a fraction of the allowed time I truly don't understand this, and each time I see the stats on it sit in even greater disbelief. Why would anyone turn down the…

You also tend to pay for the privilege of a 5 year fix (as a first time buyer) - about a 0.4% increase for a 5 year vs a 2 year for us.

> the best thing I could have done with my money would have been to buy the most expensive house in the best neighborhood I could possibly manage Usually the best thing to do is to…

I edited the hosts file on my Mac to send all these sites to 127.0.0.1... doing something means you're quite likely to know how to reverse it too though, hence why I'm writing this…

Also keep in mind the flip-side of this is that if you leave before 6 months, some hiring managers will see it that you "failed" your probation and the previous employer took the e…

Very good! About 7/8 years ago I did the same to make HN look like some PHP code - did a looot of "code reviews" back then.

As a developer I want the option of App Stores taking their cut - them being the Merchant of Record takes out a monumental admin overhead from selling apps globally for a small dev…

Was coming here to say exactly this - you're not really being paid for the work itself, but to have access to you for a certain amount of time. Sometimes there's as much value to t…

A hard +1 to Jumpstart. I stan Chris a lot in the comments here, but Jumpstart combined with Hatchbox[0] is a pretty awesome mix to get started. Especially with the recent upgrades…

I'm not sure we're going to get much further here if you're arguing on the dichotomy of checked out employees punching a clock vs exploitation by the employer. Suffice to say, this…

> So urban cities are anti-child? Thus we will see cites change or depopulate? Or, people now value cities more than they value having more children, leading to depopulation due to…

> Employees are being paid by hour, so they wouldn’t care at all Sorry, but that's just not correct. It's always someone's job to clean up this mess, and that falls on individuals.…

> Companies are not people. No, but employees and customers are, and they feel real, human costs as a result. Just because a management team has underfunded security is not an excu…