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She was on a 3mo training stint and only started truly "working" in December. Unsure if she was expected to make sales during training or not.

It’s also hyper strict, which is ok for a new project, but won’t play nicely with any legacy app.

Though I’m surprised DHH didn’t write his own RuboCop from scratch.

Theoretically, it sounds great, but in practice it seems very hard unless your bond is better than most couples’.

I love how you've implemented models, particularly generating the entity from the database. I did something similar with PHP 20 years ago, but abandoned it when Rails came around.

Is it a Haskell/Elm thing I’m unfamiliar with?

IMO, the content and software industry has a pricing problem. From $80/yr (or nothing!) for a weekly blog subscription to software subscription licensing for products that might be feature-complete-ish after the first year.

Maybe the economics/market research doesn't support people who are fine supporting at a lower price but not the requested price. Or, maybe the recent zeitgeist of "fewer people paying more" works out well for creators.

How about a 30s ad before a 10s video?

1. which I only sorta agree with depending on the context

2. 75%? To be figured out by someone more informed than I, and not declarable.

I just began reading it with my 10yo daughter. The beginning discusses how Fermi raised the important question "where are they?", and we just started on how the Drake equation provides a set of smaller, more obtainable questions to answer.

    1. Companies say they won't raise rates, or that rates will go down
    2. People believe them

Prices for parts and labor for repairs and upgrades will increase, if only because these costs are additive -- things will break, new tech will need supporting, etc...

The real question, IMO, is at what frequency do costs rise and by how much? Sure, I'd like to limit the amount of big money transfers to execs, but that's not really possible.

These LEO satellite internet companies need to pay a tax to fund more space telescopes!

I remember in 1989 or 1990 wanting to play NetTrek, but the only machines capable of playing it were in a locked room that you needed to know about in order to reserve a seat.

I visited a friend at CMU and there were large X-window capable workstations everywhere. I was a tad jealous.

I do wish things had conspired so that I was a little later in the evolution of web development rather than the very beginning -- there's a big difference between 1992 and 1998.

I can't find the video I wanted to. It was a breakdown of some big guy who didn't know how to fight go up against someone much smaller but knew some boxing. The little guy backs up, moving laterally away from the big guy's primary hand. After the big guy throws a punch and gets himself off balance, the little guy knocks him out with one good punch to the jaw. Lights out.

For what's essentially a list of text.

Meta should have enough resources to hire a couple iOS and Android devs to make a native experience. The hard parts are all on the backend.

Where is home/your mother in Ireland, if you don't mind my asking? Dublin is probably a different beast in some ways, but when I was on a train from Cork to Dublin, I had expected to read the whole way, but this elderly woman sat across from me and we had a wonderful conversation for the whole trip.

I have an iPhone 4 I keep around to play one essential word game that helps me fall asleep.

The sun is brutal here at 6500+ feet, and I would use this every day if it were available since there aren't many bike paths with protection from the sun.

The non-PEBKAC problem was that I was using Turbo Pascal 2.0 (1.0?) that couldn't identify I'd screwed up a method's parameter definition.

The good thing is there's value delivered quickly essential to growing the company, but amounts to a lot tech debt and human scaling problems a few years later.

  A City on Mars investigates whether the dream of new worlds won’t create nightmares, both for settlers and the people they leave behind. In the process, the Weinersmiths answer every question about space you’ve ever wondered about, and many you’ve never considered.