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"I remember being involved with RFQs with Sabre and competitors to enable a flexible date search of ± 3 days the quotes coming back for sometime like 9 months of development for a crazy amount like $2M." news.ycombinator.com/item?id=327937
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I feel like airline systems would be fascinating to try to rearchitect using modern tech. Complex, interesting, realtime problems – both from a distributed systems as well as a human-computer interaction perspective – and the existing systems really aren't up to scratch ✈️
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Go feels so refreshingly simple every time I come back to it after an extended period with other languages.
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Comic strips seem like an under-appreciated and under-used communication medium. They can be so effective at explaining complex situations in a fun way, even about quite dry subjects. ✏️
Eg, I remember the one introducing Google Chrome fondly. google.com/googlebooks/ch
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Legislate that pay should rise in line with inflation.
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AirPods should notify you when the *case* is running low 🪫 So often I take the headphones out for a call, only to find them nearly empty because the case has been flat
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If I could only have one kind of test, I would 💯% just have end-to-end tests that can run continuously against any environment, checking that the things actual customers want to do work. The feedback loop is longer than unit tests, but the ROI very high.
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There are some rough edges, but man, generics make programming in Go so much more pleasant. 😌
Nice to see the language adapting while being thoughtful about keeping things relatively simple.
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The wait(list) is over! ✨
We are moving out of closed beta and are now open to customers across the US! 🎉
Apply for a Monzo account today! 📲
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Articles like this remind me how fascinating the intersection of engineering + art can be 🎨
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Not sure if this is a controversial opinion or not: unit tests should make up a minority segment of your overall automated test suite
I'd absolutely take a project with integration and no unit tests over one with unit tests but no integration tests
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If your meeting is long enough to need a midway bathroom break, your meeting is too long.
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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” – Helen Keller
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Humanity has been making printers for going on 600 years. Yet I still can't get a printer that works reliably. 🙄
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It’s remarkable how much more progress I’ve made in a few months’ (consistent) self-directed French learning than I made in 5 years at high school. Modern tools like Duolingo, Lingvist, and the podcasts and YouTube videos folks put out for free are an incredible combination. 🇫🇷
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Let's not ruin favicons too 👎
GIF
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Fell totally in love with Mexico this summer 🇲🇽
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An AI pair programmer in your editor.
Powered by OpenAI Codex, a new AI system which can convert from natural language to code with increasing reliability.
Codex will be coming to our API later this summer. Will make it possible to build a new class of applications. twitter.com/github/status/
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From research we’ve done with passengers this is incredibly useful, especially for those with social anxiety, or even if you’re just exhausted after a long day at work ☺️without this, most drivers tend to gauge passenger communication preferences at the start of a ride anyway
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I’m leaning more “dystopian” than “useful” on this Uber feature.
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Just discovered you can assign custom keyboard shortcuts for any Mac app through the system settings. So cool.
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I hope I'll never again take for granted: eating in restaurants, BBQs, going to the countryside/seaside, going to a shop, hanging out with friends, seeing others hang out with their friends. The world is quite a wonderful place.
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what if you could retire at a college campus designed for retirees? there'd be on-site housing, services, cafes and restaurants. courses like silversmithing, philosophy and machine learning would be tweaked to optimize for enjoyment (over attainment) and taught mostly by retirees
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In a few weeks I’ll be leaving Monzo, and after spending a summer in (I hope) Mexico, I’ll be joining something new and very exciting in the autumn.
More on what that new role is closer to then, but for now thank you and stay awesome. ✌️
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It’s been a privilege to be part of building these last 6 years. The people there have made me a better professional and a better human, and together we created something that often seemed, in the most exciting way possible, crazy. 🚀
But it’s time for something new.
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Any recommendation for a good tax advisor who understands UK *and* US tax things?
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I've just discovered Lao Gan Ma chilli crisp and I'm not sure I'll be able to eat a meal without it for some time. 🌶
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What tools are commonly used to produce, store, and (later) analyze very high-frequency telemetry data? I'm thinking tens if not hundreds of data-points per second per series, so this is likely a file format + tooling around it rather than an online system. 📊
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A lawyer using Zoom had to let a judge know that he wasn’t a cat after inadvertently activating a face filter
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As a
user of amazon Prime cancelling my subscription
I want to
navigate through multiple screens where call-to-actions change position
so that
I can accidentally continue my subscription
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Every time I use Python I'm amazed how its packaging story remains such an unmitigated disaster after all these years.
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not just cookie warnings but now detailed cookie preferences with literally hundreds of choices 😐😐 make it stop
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It’s a shame YouTube seems to make so little of its unique position in music. Lean into the fact they have so many great sets (not just tracks), improve the absolutely horrendous UX of YouTube Music app, etc.
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I feel like we could all use more good news at the moment, and I think this is fantastic. I’m so happy for New Zealand 🥝
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