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A new numbers game named Sigma. It’s like a crossword plus Sudoku (kind of). Try it out? https://jm.cool/games/sigma
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Who's spending that much on their taxes? I'm not low income by any means and I've not paid a single dollar to HR Block who does my taxes every year.
My mom spends easily that much with her tax preparer who is an independent person who tries to dissuade usage of software like TurboTax. My sister spends about $100 to file, and they have simple W-2 stuff. I know several folks at my church who spend $50-$75 on TurboTax or something similar every year.
I just spent like $200 to file mine with TurboTax only because I have a very simple 1099-K/Schedule C since my wife sells things on Etsy. I know Schedule C can range from my simple setup to absolutely ridiculous, so I don't totally grudge it. But at the same time, there are a lot of small business owners where that's a big chunk of change for them.
Precisely why I built https://freetofile.com (it’s a simple static site with React for internationalization that automatically renders in Spanish, Chinese, Haitian Creole, or English depending on browser settings). It’s shocking and depressing how many low income people don’t know they don’t need to spend $100-200 to file their taxes.
I want to blanket my area (well the whole country really but baby steps…) in signs with the URL during tax season. I really do loathe the entire industry at this point due to their gross practices around free filing. Some offer “free” online filing but deceptively upsell until they squeeze some money out of the customer. So I want to make any little push back I can against these companies.
jeremymcanally commented on Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub github.blog/news-insights... · Posted by u/ben_hall
> GitHub is completely unrecognizable compared to how it was before being gamified and turned into social media.
Huh? The whole premise on which Github was founded was that it was "social coding". The phrase was even in the logo in the early days [0]. Social features like stars, following, and the activity feed have been there from very early on.
If anything, I feel like Github has become a lot more corporate and enterprisey since getting bought by Microsoft.
[0] https://github.blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/3e6c0720-b15a...
GitHub was founded to make managing permissions and sharing a git repo easier. It was a nightmare when git was first starting to get traction. Their original tagline was “git repo hosting - no longer a pain in the ass.”
The social stuff came later as they realized that a big part of the friction in software development (and the actual business opportunity) was the actual working together part. They really innovated here and created a culture of workflows that has permeated the way most of us work.
But then there were a few years where they really didn’t seem to do anything of note (I remember there was a five month stretch where they didn’t post a single product update). And then they got bought. After that I don’t really know what their intention has been, but I guess this change brings it more into focus.
The product works fine for our use cases (and the fact everyone has a GitHub account makes the management piece super easy even with wacky enterprise requirements), but I hope they don’t start jacking up prices to pay for AI that I really really don’t want.
I'm going to call it now: Swift on the backend is pointless for everyone but Apple, and trying to make it takeoff as a backend service language is as pointless as porting Xcode cross platform and trying to lure non-Apple devs into using it over say VSCode, any JetBrains IDE or Visual Studio.
The choices that already serve the market are just too numerous and the existing tooling is already far greater in features, functionality and capability than anything that Apple can provide. What's funny is that they actually have the money to dedicate resources to this space to compete with C#, Java, go or Rust, but they're not going to because it's just too far afield of their core business. Any backend service written in Swift is not going to be running on a Mac in the cloud, and probably won't be serving just iPhone/iPad clients exclusively, so why bother when we know Apple leadership will treat it as an afterthought.
If it does takeoff, I'm betting it will be because the open source community provides a solution, not Apple and even then it will be in a tiny niche. Indeed, this entire project is enabled by Vapor, an open source Swift project that I'm guessing the team only chose because Vapor as a project finally reached the requisite level of maturity for what they wanted. It's not like Apple went out on their own and built their own web framework in Swift, like Microsoft does with C# and ASP.NET. All of this makes me feel even more skeptical about Swift on the backend. Apple won't do anything specifically to give Swift a legup in the backend space, beyond the basics, like porting Swift to linux, but will avail themselves of open source stuff that other people built.
Apple certainly do have web frameworks they’ve written in Swift.
No, I don’t know why they aren’t publicly available (at least yet). But I do know they power a number of public facing services.
jeremymcanally commented on · Posted by u/sirolimus
Working for me?
jeremymcanally commented on Ruby's official documentation just got a new look docs.ruby-lang.org/en/mas... · Posted by u/thunderbong
There are a lot of odd choices here. Is there a mailing list thread or something where this was worked out? I couldn't seem to find one on a quick scan, but I don't know where these discussions happen these days.
I really don't want to assume incompetence or ignorance at all since I'm sure someone worked really hard on this. But I'm genuinely puzzled by a lot of what's going on.
Hi,Will there be internships opening for non-usa folks!
Unfortunately not currently, but I will definitely post around again if one opens up in the future!