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UpCodes | San Francisco, CA and distributed | Software Engineers | Full-time | http://upcodes.ai Construction productivity has decreased over the last 50 years. According to The Economist,…

I totally agree. I think people have a lot of status quo bias though so will argue that 2 corporations controlling all apps on mobile devices is actually a good thing. If that had never come to be an…

I think most people understand commodity as things like: iron ore, sugar, rice, chemicals, raw materials. For example, take a Toyota Prius. Most people would not think of that as a commodity. It als…

I think the tech world's use of the word "commodity" is interesting. "becoming a commodity" really means "fail to establish a monopoly".

The biggest thing that's better about VSCode for me is being FOSS.

UpCodes | Software Engineers | San Francisco | Full-time | https://up.codes Construction productivity has decreased over the last 50 years. According to The Economist, one of the largest c…

Yes, especially when they show you about 15 sets of images in a row taking 2 minutes to complete, clearly going beyond demonstrating you're human.

I know very little about these formats, but is H.265 patent-encumbered? If so, maybe people don't like supporting it?

UpCodes | San Francisco, CA and distributed | Software Engineers | Full-time | upcodes.ai Construction productivity has decreased over the last 50 years. According to The Economist, one of the largest…

Yes, but given the trend of quantum computers, it's confusing using that word freely. Case in point, the whole reason I clicked through on this was becausei thought it might be some earlier quant…

I agree. It's also good to have more diversification of science and technology progress. That way if one country gets an anti-science leader, it makes less of a difference to overall human progre…

And also: https://www.pullrequest.com/

It's great seeing open-source web services, that seems quite rare.

I'm opposed to the dishonest copy used, not the concept of having a contact button conveniently located in the bottom right corner.

I run a website where we used to use one of these. People were constantly getting fooled by it. They would reply: "Oh awesome, yeah I have a question about using XYZ" and then the system wou…

> a fake chat window Exactly, I hate the bait-and-switch of chat windows. "Oh hey there, do you have any questions?" pops up after a couple minutes on the site, then you reply with a ques…

Agreed, it's so opaque. I feel like I've called a specialist asking what they think my copay will be given my insurance plan and they said they don't know, talk with my insurance firm.…

Seems reasonable to me that they can shoot down drones if they are a threat, at least in theory, hopefully it won't get abused.

True. Restricting which things an airline can charge for or not creates dead-weight loss. Personally, I like when airlines charge a reasonable amount for seat selection. I get really claustrophobic …

Can you explain a difference in more lay terms? The experiment that @ppeetteerr points out, is that not a baby mouse created? And that baby is from the genetic information of 2 mothers? You also men…

> He can afford the fines and does not care. Perhaps that's not a problem per se. If the fines are equal to or greater than the Pigouvian tax you would put on this naughty behavior, then movin…

Same here. We have 140k monthly active users. Just using unminified JavaScript and script tags to include other JS files. Most just because I wrote it and I'm a backend engineer.

I had a similar experience. I worked in a neuroimaging lab during grad school. I found a mistake in our code that basically meant we had being overestimating the p-value from MRI data. It potential…

In that analogy, perhaps it's more like having successfully read out every byte of a binary that was encoded onto a medium that is extremely to read off of. Having the source code... I'm not…

> Do women have fewer interpersonal conflicts with their peers than men? Perhaps not, but I believe women are more likely than men to resort to using words rather than physical violence during an i…

Agreed, you can tackle one problem at a time. And I think progress on one might spread over to the other also.

True, I was originally going to name it `gender_flipper`, but someone made the same point, so I called it `gender_bender`. This way, the name will still make sense if the ability to go from gendered p…