Readit News2arrs2ells commented on The National Design Studio is a scam chrbutler.com/the-nationa... · Posted by u/delaugust
AirBnb has one dark pattern that I'm aware of, that I absolutely despise: the search listings don't display the actual price, but instead the price minus the fees (so not what you'll actually pay). Thankfully some jurisdictions made this illegal (e.g. if you use the Australian AirBnb website you'll get the actual prices), but it's a horrible pattern presumably designed to get people to commit to initiating a booking and thus less likely to not proceed when they see the final total.
I have zero faith that anyone who was okay with that should be in charge of anything for the public good.
This has changed - at least for me, in the US, Airbnb shows all-in pricing.
2arrs2ells commented on How to start a school with your friends prigoose.substack.com/p/h... · Posted by u/geverett
I'm guessing it's at least partially too high risk from a students perspective.
Much of the point of an established university is credentials, a new one cannot give the same recognition.
This means that to attract new students, and build a reputation, you have to have some other draw; either some world renowned experts, or cheap (even free or scholarships) tuition. Probably both.
And if you want your graduates to be outstanding, then you need to offer the best incoming candidates a reason to choose your school, because the truth is the school has less impact than the individual.
You’re spot on. Bootstrapping a reputation is really hard (and expensive), and the very painful accreditation process makes it much harder (need students to get accredited, can’t offer degree to students without accreditation).
Two good colleges who’ve overcome the challenges recently are Olin (engineering school in Boston) and Minerva (globally distributed college).
I love the innovation Apple has brought with their investment in ARM. That said, I can't imagine buying a computer in the 21st century that can't be opened and upgraded, especially with a price premium attached. I just don't get it.
I am in no way trying to be combative, but I'd love to hear a counterpoint that makes sense for these machines.
I bought an M2 iMac for my parents. It’ll last at least five years for them - likely closer to 10. At that point, I’m happy to recycle or donate it and get them a new iMac - likely with some major updates (form factor? Display? Etc?) that wouldn’t get with a RAM / CPU upgrade.
Spending ~$150-$300/year for them to have an easy to use & fast computer feels very worth it for me.
All that said - I would love for the machine to be upgradeable as well! Just explaining why it’s not a dealbreaker.
2arrs2ells commented on Launch HN: Roame (YC S23) – Flight search engine for your credit card points · Posted by u/zman0225
Congrats on the launch! Curious how you fit into the landscape of award travel tolls like point.me and seats.aero. What are you doing differently & who’s your target user?
2arrs2ells commented on Why is it so hard to build an airport? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/gmays
The cool solution I've seen to this problem is to have some process for identifying the class of people who are affected by [locally burdensome thing] and then allowing the proponents (a business, the government, etc.) to negotiate some settlement with that affected class directly, with a majority vote used to accept the settlement.
For example, everyone near the airport could get some property tax relief or share of an annual payment that would go away if the airport went away.
This way a small minority of vocal opponents cannot effectively oppose something that would be good for everyone, but if something is irredeemably terrible and unfair locally affected people can block it.
This is Coase's Theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem
I would love to use their API but I can never get anyone to respond to me. It's like they have no real interest in being a developer platform. Has anyone gotten their vague application approved?
Have heard similar things from friends, who were then able to get access via AWS
2arrs2ells commented on Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later mtlynch.io/aardvarkd/... · Posted by u/mtlynch
Maybe this is lost to time now, but YC started in Boston. They used to do the summers in Boston, and winter batches in SF. But then PG didn't want some other copycat accelerator to call themselves "the YC of SF", so they just moved to SF. Perhaps around 2009/2010 or so.
Anyway, if you want to know what the Boston YC looked like, that's where PG is being interviewed. Since Reddit is there, it's the first batch, which should be 2005.
PG is making chili because it's the way he feeds a whole bunch of people at once. YC kept it up throughout the years, and chili is one of the things to remain from the early days, last I heard. Dunno if they're still doing that.
The chili & other crockpot recipes were still going strong in S12 ("crockpots scale linearly with number of startups") - but pg was no longer cooking.
Batch dinners are catered these days and have been for a while.
This is when the report comes in that your login form update from six months ago does not work on mobile Opera if you disable JavaScript. The fix isn’t obvious and will require research, potentially many hours or even days of testing and since it is a login form you will need the QA team to test it after you find another developer on your team to do a code review for you.
What exactly would you do in this case? Pull resources from a major project that has the full attention of the C suite to accommodate some tin foil Luddite a few weeks sooner or classify this as lower priority?
I'd document that mobile Opera with Javascript disabled is an unsupported config, and ask a team to make a help center doc asking mobile Opera users to enable JS.