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The author makes some decent points about localStorage generally, but I think really misses the point on what makes Wordle so successful and endearing. It was built as a side project for a very small audience and just happened to have massive, organic growth. If Josh Wardle had thought about all of these described use cases in advance, there's a much higher chance that it never would have gotten off the ground as a side project. Additionally, the massive growth would have presented much harder (or at least much more expensive) scaling challenges, whereas with it being entirely client-side it is much easier and cheaper to scale to millions of users.

There are definitely downsides to Ohio - namely, political- and weather-related. However, Columbus is a pretty big tech city with a lot of startups, VC money flowing, and a student pipeline from OSU.

I think you're still confusing revenue and profits. This guide is a good overview of the difference: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/122214/what-differe...

Wouldn't this just mean that they are putting their employees lives in danger more than the average restaurant? It's got to be hard to choose between following a suggested evacuation and losing your job.

How do you know when Micro Snitch spies on you? I couldn't find the source code anywhere.

I took a Coursera course titled Learning How to Learn[0] and found it really helpful as an intro class to this "field". It was also very practical.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

I found myself developing various rules in my head with negatives versus division, etc. to solve these quicker without having to do most of the math. Interesting game, thanks for sharing!