Pretty much! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23632044
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Chrome is arguably a monopoly if you segment desktop web traffic, but iOS Safari is such a large percentage that Safari can't be ignored.
People will disagree with email - but I challenge you to go look at email threads you're on and see what % of the emails are @gmail.com - not to mention G Suite addresses you don't know are Gmail. Outside of enterprise, there's no alternative.
Not bad either that Android and Chrome are duopolies at this point.
Bottle (sendbottles.com) | Remote | Vue.js Frontend Engineer, Vue/React Native Engineer
We are helping local producers get their veggies and products into more homes. Currently seeking a frontend engineer to help implement a new Vue-based messenger, dashboard, and checkout experience. Also seeking a Vue/React Native engineer to take our Vue app and make it available on iOS and Android. (We currently have a native iOS app, but are working to replace it with a Vue Native app). The frontend Vue app connects to a Rails app on the backend, but we're specifically seeking frontend engineers here.
Email will@ company domain and I'll get in touch.
this is a particularly confounding problem, and i haven't figured out a way to combat it.
it's so bad, that i'll often learn something new when scrolling twitter or clicking through wikipedia, and then immediately assume that 1) i'm the last person to the party, everybody else already knows, and 2) forget what it was like not-knowing this fact mere seconds before.
the crazy thing to me is none of my friends have heard of them.
Richard Dawkin's answer[^1] to "What scientific idea is ready for retirement" significantly shifted my view of the world.
But I conveniently ignored areas where I have failed to put in the work and push through.
It may be okay to not have “grit.” I no longer believe I have any more or less grit than the average person.
I’m not sure what this realization necessarily means nor do I fault anyone else for this. It just is what it is!
Specifically in my life, I've pushed through adversity when I cared more about trying than I did about the outcome.
It's hard to quantify, but I've only recently enjoyed running. For years, I tried to run consistently and always gave up. Then, I moved to Sun Valley for a ski season. As the snow melted, I started running outside each morning. I looked forward to the cold air, the quiet mountains, the snow-capped scenery. Nothing changed in how I understood the importance of exercise. I just enjoyed getting outside more.
Reflecting on areas where I've been told I "showed grit," they've really been areas where I naturally was interested - regardless of the outcome.
The best way to prepare for the job market though is to build things and publish them.
I do wish I could go back and pay more attention in the CS classes I did take.
I bought a book on PHP the fall of my sophomore year of college. I'd built websites and sorta knew how to create <div> tags and CSS basics, but I'd never dealt with programming logic before.
Best decision of my life.
I grew up in Birmingham, AL and graduated high school in 2009. Our school didn't offer CS. Nobody's parents were computer programmers. Everybody's parents worked in medicine or law or banking or cooking or something along those lines. Nobody I knew - except for another kid named Robert - knew that programming computers was even a thing that kids like us could do. Robert and I would make stop-motion videos with Legos as kids, played with cameras and video editing and special effects.
I think Robert is the only other person in my graduating class of 348 people (348 quite smart people - we had 29 National Merit Finalists our graduating year!) who have learned about programming thus far. I think my high school finally started offering CS last year.
For me, I was trying to build an SMS group messaging app (this was before GroupMe or WhatsApp or anything else like that). I couldn't find anybody to build it. The summer of my sophomore year of college, GroupMe had been built and sold to MSFT for $100 million. I decided, "Why can't I learn to program? Then I won't have to find somebody else to make my next idea." I fell in love with programming!
The spring of my sophomore year, I also enrolled in CS 101 (I ended up minoring in CS, although reading books and doing online tutorials was far more helpful). The professor, who wrote compilers for IBM for over two decades, said at the start of the class, "You are in the right place. When I showed up at college, I'd never seen a computer before. I went on to have a thrilling 25-year career." Since I imagined everybody else had been programming in their basement since they were 8yo, I was relieved.
It's never too late to start something. I wrote this article about collecting sand when I was a kid (which relates to this very topic). It made it to the front page here on HN which I thought was neat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22131552
One consequence of Uber is more cars on the road.
If only one consequence of Airbnb could be YIMBY...
But also you probably get more joy in not having to commute / being at home vs. me living with only my partner.
Georgism at work.
Places with lower building regulations and higher property taxes would likely fare better with UBI than places with locked housing supply and extreme building regulation, such as San Francisco.
If it was possible to build more housing, then I'd expect more housing to get built with UBI and rents to not go crazy. Otherwise, we're just pumping more steam into a turbine...
Note: I live in a 1br apartment. That might also be part of my struggle.
Bottle (https://sendbottles.com): helping local businesses sell stuff on a recurring basis via text.
We're a fully remote, bootstrapped, growing business. Our entire product today is serviced with Rails. We have new designs (HTML/CSS already built) and are looking to implement them in a new web frontend app using React.
Ideally, we'd find a React developer with some at-least-cursory Rails knowledge who could help us build out our frontend app in React (our team will handle any backend work).
Email me - will@ our company's domain.
Disagree with the conclusion (that climate change isn't worth worrying about)
But models aren't science