zachrose

Get them to yearn for the sea and they’ll Google around trying to figure out why Nokogiri won’t compile on their own

Download the Charles app on your iPhone, turn it on, use the app you’re interested in, then look at Charles to see what network calls the app made while you were using it.

SMS 2FA isn’t secure, but what about a small retail/delivery business that uses SMS as the only means of authentication?

Payment is not done over SMS but separately through cash or Venmo, so it seems like the worst that could happen is a delivery gets nefariously ordered for someone who didn’t want it.

To think that one day Etsy was one of those businesses, and now they have $1.63B to spend on the new thing

The Nicholson Baker piece published several months ago made a compelling but not watertight case to me, a non-expert.

I’ve also heard that if you’re good enough at poker you can grind away and make minimum wage at casinos in Vegas.

What competition is being hampered by this law?

You might get a lot out of the documentary Helvetica by Gary Hustwit

Are that any that can serve the same index.html file to any request with an Accept: text/html header?

Marshall McLuhan said something along the lines of the development of linear perspective in the Renaissance ushering in a world that had at last a single point of view. I’ll give Rudnick some rope.

I agree, but also find joy in the larger “burger experience” (toppings, bun, fries, soda, presentation, etc). I hope I’m not the only one.

> But the decision to avoid actually writing javascript at all costs

Who's JavaScript is it anyway? ES7? ES6? Internet Explorer 11's? How do you isolate things for the sake of unit tests and then bring them together into a performant build?

But it seems like there's a lot more that goes into making a palette specifically for user interfaces: https://design.gs.com/news/color

It seems to me that the aerodynamic picture of an F1 car would also have to account for all the air getting sucked into the engine and blown out the exhaust, no?

AAMP?

Still though you’re right, those industries still don’t have has much clout as medical insurance

No entrenched industries except for alcohol, private prisons, medical cannabis and big pharma.

Because CEO recruiting is insanely irrational.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691120393/se...

A lot of this was really cleared up for me by Evan Czaplicki's documentation for the Elm time library: https://github.com/elm/time

Would it still be unethical if your client was supportive of the larger strategy?

If your client were unaware of the strategy, would it be unethical to tell them?

Except that ISO-8601 doesn’t include anything as useful as a political time zone, just an offset from UTC. That’d be good if UTC offset was useful for anything, but instead it just adds to the confusion.

Why doesn’t one do this?

Because it exposes their individual clients to greater risk?

Took me a second to realize he said this before the election. Whew.

Hmm. Something like, "humanity serves humans, not the other way around." If there are no humans around to enjoy the fruits of humanity, I don't assume that something is lost or wasted.

The problem I have with the "eggs in a basket" line of thinking is that it raises extreme moral hazard to say we don't have to care about everyone as long as a few people are saved. Losing a basket of billions of eggs to save a dozen is cold comfort.

(Yes, I realize magnetic pole reversal isn't the same as nuclear holocaust, but I still don't feel my scepticism is misplaced.)

I never understand this sentiment. I get that "we" is "the human species" but in practice it just means "some people." A magnetic pole reversal would be nobody's fault, but knowing that some humans survived off-planet wouldn't make me feel better about it.

What was this company? That sounds amazing.

Active military suicides are also more common than combat deaths.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/01/14/169364733...

I recently finished the audiobooks for The Years of Lyndon Johnson. It was 14 months of on-and-off routine listening.

The thing about these books is not only that they're about a famous person, but that they also are about a person that left a huge paper trail, was extremely social, and died young, leaving lots of people who remembered Johnson and were eventually willing to tell the unflattering stories of his youth. In this way it would stand alone as an incredible literary or investigative portrait of a person. The fact that it covers the central political developments of the United States in the 20th Century is just icing on the cake.

I appreciate that the author was specific about “if you count addition as 1 operation.” Without saying this, it’s not obvious that the notation is such a simplified abstraction over operations and their costs, with all the limitations that come with that simplification.

> They're already involved in legal cannabis industry in the USA anyway.

How so?