davidsawyer

Yeah, transparent emoji backgrounds are crucial.

> College needs to be a business decision on the part of the individual.

As much as I agree, can we just step back and think about how much pressure is put on these 17, 18, 19 year olds? Parents, counselors, and other adults have to do a better job helping these kids to make sound decisions around their major and college they attend.

I didn't have anyone coaching me to think about my debt load vs. what my career prospects would be, so I basically lucked out that I chose computer science as my major in my freshman year after coming in undeclared to a UGA, a public school. Pell grant and Georgia's HOPE Scholarship helped to reduce the amount of debt I took on, and I lived in Athens, a cheap college town, and paid $265-300 a month for my rent.

I feel so bad for people who didn't have such luck and are now getting crushed under the weight of an un-marketable degree and a heavy student loan burden. Seems so unfair.

> The beatings will continue until moral improves.

And until morale improves, as well!

Another similar approach is to see what crazy process they're trying to jam into Excel or Google Sheets, and then you can build a more tailored app for that process, ideally if other businesses could benefit from it.

Edit: I should've read giarc's comment below! We're essentially saying the same thing.

Gas stations do that at a very regular cadence: daily.

Visa and Mastercard change prices much less often than that, so this take is a little too apples-and-oranges for me.

Do you have any good extension recommendations for VS Cocde as it relates to PHP development?

Speaking as someone who moved from a company that heavily leaned on an ORM to a company that is using jOOQ (a thin Java wrapper around SQL) for everything, not being able to use an ORM is pretty painful.

I greatly miss the nice, clean ORM experience. It's so much better for developer efficiency.

Yeah, I think that's the right way to do it. You don't really want to add entire domains that your extension does nothing with yet. Though in hindsight, I should have just found all the Airbnb subdomains, TLDs, etc. up front because my extension was intended to be used throughout all of Airbnb, if that makes sense.

Yeah, I agree it's definitely a good security practice of Chrome. On the developer side of this, though, it definitely can lose you a lot of users pretty quickly if you add new permissions at any point, so I think it's important to carefully consider permissions before launching an extension.

For my Chrome extension[1], a change[2] in the Airbnb URLs that it runs on caused a significant spike in uninstalls[3] just because it probably scared people a bit. Not a huge deal or anything. Just wanted to share my experience with this stuff.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/airbnb-price-per-n...

[2] https://github.com/davidsawyer/airbnb-price-per-night-correc...

[3] https://i.imgur.com/JBBolM1.png

Wow, that's absolutely insane. How did people think that was a good idea?

I'll toss mine out there as well: https://www.david-sawyer.com

Written from scratch. Just wanted to keep it simple and straightforward. It runs on a $5/month DO box.

And if you're told something "increased by 150%", for example, make sure it really is 150% and not just 50%.

Needs a hit counter!

Here's a great video that covers "AI winters" for those who are curious: https://vimeo.com/170189199

Reminds me a lot of massive email validation regex: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html

Doctor pay doesn't tend to grow all that much over the course of one's career. Their specialty is the #1 determining factor of pay, hands down.

https://blog.doximity.com/articles/doximity-2018-physician-c...

Maybe this is what is being referenced: https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-San-Francisco-apart...

Though, I don't think this is "rent control" in the NYC sense of the term where rents are kept way under market rate.

Rather, it seems to be a set of ordinances around what landlords can and can't do, largely pertaining to rent increases: http://sfrb.org/rent-ordinance

Starter Story looks like a great site! Love the metrics on this post: https://www.starterstory.com/blog/how-i-hustled-my-way-from-...

"Just another put another if statement in there, you know, just in case." -Anonymous

I would argue that is it still in everyone's best interest to curb sprawl. Taxpayers are still paying for highways and infrastructure to go out into suburbs where we could instead be spending it in a more efficient manner: in an urban environment. I could go on and on about the negative externalities of sprawl (pollution, obesity, etc.), but money is typically at the top of the list of motivating factors for the voting public.

I own AirPods and Jaybird X3s, and the sound quality of AirPods crushes that of the Jaybirds. I completely switched over to AirPods a few months ago and have never looked back.

Hey, you may want to remove the word "young" from your job description, as it could be perceived as discrimination on the basis of age.

The contrast of the text of those articles is absolutely abysmal.

Yeah, as I Georgia resident, I will gladly accept that we "misspell" a word that really has two acceptable spellings.

FWIW, I'm a fan of spelling it "gray". It just feels slightly more American for some reason.

What about the iPad Mini 4? That's still currently in their offering.

Same

From the website:

>you can listen for 5 hours on a single charge

8 days uptime, 237GB written, 10GB read

Pretty heavy usage, though.

I'm curious to hear from anyone with a Groovy background that has worked with Kotlin as well.

Absolutely. Whenever a user sees "$XX", it's a hurdle they have to psych themselves into jumping over. Why on earth would you want to make a user jump over more than one hurdle by including "$XX" for the product and then "$XX" for the shipping?

The obvious counterargument to this is, "If you get the user far enough down the purchase funnel and then show them that second hurdle of another fee or explicit shipping cost, they will have already invested enough time and effort into the purchase process that they will then justify that extra cost just before purchasing." This may well be true sometimes, and people will often pay for shipping if you itemize it out of the total price, but I think everyone would agree that this sort of nickel-and-diming practice pisses people off. Pissing people off hurts your brand. It just does.

Businesses often think too short-term when it comes to getting someone to purchase a product online. Yes, they may purchase that first time and pay "extra" for shipping. But do you think they'll come back a second time if they know they're just gonna get pissed off about that darn shipping price again? I'd say they're much less likely to.