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Re:That coworker who never stops refactoring on Thursday August 13, 2020 @08:24AM (#24142619)
Lol get over yourself
Database inconsistency for one thing. This works for frontend web services but how do you reconcile the writes between the two servers?
This is nuts. If we broke mobile safari for our app we'd lose 50% of our traffic
Re:April Is Canceled on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @06:53PM (#22754343)
I know I'm lucky to still have a job at a company that seems to be doing just fine despite the pandemic but I kind of wish I could have a month of time completely to myself
Revisit this in a week or two
Re:Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup on Saturday December 07, 2019 @10:16AM (#21730671)
Babbel does grammar, yes, as well as explanations of exceptions and idioms, and the sentences and dialogues are culturally relevant to the language
Re:Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup on Saturday December 07, 2019 @01:14AM (#21728803)
Babbel offers much higher quality language courses (but has no free tier)
Re:Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies on Saturday April 23, 2011 @08:58PM (#2478011)
And in fact, in used book "arbitrage", the seller always has a very, very good excuse, which is that s/he "sold the book already" to someone in s/her imaginary brick-and-mortar store.