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I gotta be honest, I don’t find it particularly hard to read. I like how it makes it feel like there is “depth” to the screen, and when I focus on the top layer (eg Notification Center) the background falls away.

I can personally see how others would find it hard to read, just really doesn’t bother me. I can imagine being unconvinced that anyone really finds it to be that bad, and thinking it’s just HN contrarians being annoying, as usual.

7 hours later, still down. Glad my business doesn’t depend on it; like a payment processor or other core piece of infrastructure going down, I’m guessing there are a lot of fires being put out.

Plenty of (non-VC backed) startups raise some money and then sell privately; it’s often the case that preference does not cause the common stock value to drop below the most recent 409a in these cases.

(In my experience, the 409a is on the order of 20% of the most recent raise, and preference is not more than 50%, in my area. And obviously you hope to sell for more than the last raise!).

I tried to read up on this DSP thing and was immediately lost. How do I know if I need to comply? What does compliance look like? The FAQ is 100+ questions long!

It feels likely that it could apply to any company that draws the current administration’s ire.

I agree it’s very reasonable to imagine that legal departments across tech are worrying, and might consider shutting down — especially if they are already losing money.

Scammers successfully sell reskinned Android phones as iPhones to unsuspecting marks, I’m sure you’re right that many people wouldn’t notice.

Indeed, I recently was asked to sign an NDA to view an off market home; the seller was (apparently) a local business owner and didn’t want folks thinking the business might close — in many industries confidence in long term staying power is critical.

I agree you don’t have to justify your art. But which was not a meme? I clicked many and found only memes.

A degree is worth almost $1MM in lifetime earnings (for men). So yes, compared to no degree. A more fine-grained analysis seems difficult, and one could imagine the conclusion is dominated by which specific schools and specific degrees you are comparing.

I think a lot of dishwasher opinions are based on how your mom told you to wash the dishes 35 years ago.

How would you know? If you heard about it through word of mouth, and the person you heard it from heard it from an ad…

That seems reasonable. I’m talking about testing APIs for performing a variety of different kinds of transactions, not just CC.

“Penny testing” is common in the real world, and isn’t limited to verifying bank accounts. It’s more broadly used to describe testing with very small amounts in production. That’s my experience anyway, working with various payments processors and BaaSes.

Having extensive experience running billions of dollars through Stripe, this is not accurate. Production is always different, except for the simplest cases.

It seems strange to demand they ask “permission” in this instance but not e.g. to let you sort you photos by date, or album, or location.

(I agree this is the point in contention, I just don’t understand it).

Do you not see how insane it is to at once 1) demand cheap housing and 2) demand it increases in price at breakneck pace?

I did not have this issue on iOS FWIW, so there must be something more subtle going on for this bug.

A lot of people that are in tech because it’s a good job got pressured to make it their life. They reasonably pushed back, but the upshot was those of us that are passionate about programming as a hobby got pressured to not do it for fun.

Both things are unreasonable. You shouldn’t have to program for fun to get a job. You can be good at it as a profession only. You also should be allowed to love it as a vocation or avocation. That doesn’t make you a sucker.

I think with a suitably expansive definition of “type” you can get pretty far in this direction.

I have personally used AI for control flow analysis of a toy OO language.

Work is unpleasant, that's why people are paid for it.

If unpleasantness had anything specific to do with with getting paid, janitors would be rich.

I enjoyed several episodes of “Philosophize This!”.

“The Inverted World” by Christopher Priest involves a world that appears to be based on hyperbolic geometry I believe.

I wonder why the error message is also in … French? (I’m not located anywhere French speaking).

Désolés!

Une erreur s'est produite lorsque nous avons tenté de traiter votre requête. Soyez assuré que nous travaillons déjà à la résolution du problème que nous pensons trouver très rapidement.

1. Apply for new job, get 30% raise (apparently everyone is doing it).

2. Cut expenses by 30% (how hard can it be? Avocado toast is tre expensive!)

3. Save for just one single year.

4. Hey there’s your salary replacement! Looking forward to awesome security tools (seriously, legit looking forward to it).

(Lest you fear obsolescence;

5. Get your new new job, 30% raise again).