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Who's IPO? Broadcom and Google are already listed, obviously.

So we can call this one Chen's Fence

what could go wrong

For all the people talking about 5 hour PR review delays... This reminds me of some teams that rotate the "fire extinguisher/emergency bug fixer" duty every day/week/sprint to a different developer. One could rotate a dedicated "first review duty" person. That developer would be in charge of focusing on rapidly starting PR reviews as their priority, with option to request other reviewers if necessary. Spreading the duty around would make people be respectful of the reviewer because if they send unreviewed slop to the reviewers, it's likely that people will send them slop too.

alongside, we can poison the nextjs cache for everyone for any site,

What??

Oh so that's why my bank app said it thought my old device was rooted when it wasn't...

It's not impossible that the Pentagon could have thought "alright, we want these readings. is there a civilian use for this kind of data and decided to see if a civilian project could be sprung up... Though that's more of a Cold War conceit. These days they would just do it themselves, it's probably an easy and cheap project.

On the origins of the term "monkey patching"

Imagine the chaos if English had a phonetic spelling reformation like Spanish had a while ago...

Blame HN users for upvoting the story, not this chrome page...

So, WWE more than war-like fighting

Okay but the solution here is to identify and parcel your cases into discrete entities. The article doesn't say "don't accept anything odd", it says "clearly identify what you accept". If you have to accept odd cases, identify them so it's clear what's happening.

So this isn't about purity, it's about being declarative. i.e. make your code say what it accepts, instead of writing board/implicit acceptable inputs that inevitably forget cases and crashes.

If you limit what you accept as inputs then you can stop worrying about downstream error handling and debugging.

It's probably worse in warm climates, but macbook cables were disintegrating everywhere for the longest time.

Half of developers in North America, and especially those at top tier companies, use Macs. You can't buy that kind of top tech mindshare with marketing. Also now with the M-series CPUs, Macbooks aren't PC Clones anymore, they're back in the game of being an exclusive platform, which will get even more exclusive as they add other specialized chips. Their sales share of the market and as you mention, their profit share of the market keeps increasing, so even on that alone, why would a bean counter decide to drop them?

Don't forget Apple's size... the AirPod business, stood alone, would be a Fortune 500 company. Even if an Apple business is a bit small compared to the iPhone, it's still a humongous business by any other comparator.

I'm not an Apple fanboy (e.g. I use an old Chinese Android phone) but I'm still awed by their business.

Okay but if I was living downstream from these plants, I'd still take my chances on bottled water that's coming from elsewhere. :P

So lesson of the story, avoid the AAA named companies because they've been in the respawning business for a long time

I wasn't asking about your feel of things. I was asking about whether you're serious about thinking that no one cares about page load speeds.

Anyway, it was a rhetorical question, not one that needed an answer.

That's not "lab-grown meat" means, course. Count on a headline writer to muddy any issue for attention...

Are you serious?

I post to Facebook and Twitter using bookmarklets and i just made a bookmarklet to use newsproxy.ca to get around Facebook's news blockade in Canada.

These you posted are really great

You stopped hearing about it because the chips Qualcomm made were dreadful.

(despite them doing their best to squander their reputation with releases like this)

...how?

Not to mention GOOGLE

Back in 2000/1, I had such trouble taking them seriously, with that name and that colourful logo, I was like, whuuuut? But then I started using it and obviously it was miles ahead of everything else. That taught me a good lesson on whether you need a clever brand name or not. The product makes the brand name, not the other way around.

“The flake-out rate is so much higher at events now,” says Gretchen Goldman, a research director in Takoma Park, Md.

This summer Goldman sent an invite to 100 colleagues for casual after-work drinks at some picnic tables just outside the office as a goodbye party. She was taking a new job with the federal government. Fewer than 10 showed up.

Maybe don't have an event where people have to BYOB at work?? If I'm doing a going away thing I'm going to a pub.

You... know about the iPhone SE, right? https://www.apple.com/ca/iphone-se/

Is this the first time you see a substack page buddy

It's like the whole anti-trust trial thing didn't happen...

It's not uncommon, when an article from a niche site hits high on YC, for multiple people to see what else is on that site (especially if there are related links at the bottom of the article), and to submit whatever else is interesting on that site as well. You could call it a slashdot effect echo...

Harsh. You'd think they would work this on a spectrum...

People in low-income and "bad" neighbourhoods actually stand to gain a lot more by knowing their neighbours because they get a lot more out of community solidarity when there's trouble, they'll have networks to identify trouble earlier, etc.