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The irony with Google, er alphabet, a search company, is that the search feature are deeply flawed in their products.

If you have thousands of resources in GCP, for example, the search is not super helpful.

I think it’s intellectually stimulating that people are taking a systemic and scientific approach for a niche kind of restaurant

Funny enough, I’m a Vietnamese person from Portland and was doing this exact same analysis in Paris (highest density of overseas Vietnamese population) visiting a dozen places last month.

People visiting for a few days go with a “10 restaurants you have to try in Portland” which are just mediocre chic restaurants you can find in every other city. They don’t realized how underrated Asian food in Portland is. One, Google Maps and Yelp reviews are negative signals of for Asian food. Restaurants that highly rated above 4.5 are so for the “ambience” rather than the food. Two, the restaurants are dispersed rather than being concentrated around a Chinatown or Little Saigon.

> "we don't accept pull requests"

Any posts on the internet archives to understand the history ?

Here's some context from one perspective (mine) on the Docker side: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735247

(I don't know of any T-shirts saying "we don't accept pull requests". That sounds made up. We very much did accept pull requests... a great many of them).

> Gen Z buying iPods and people buying N64 games again

And Pokémon cards because this generation has less ability to afford big purchases like a house or having a child

I don’t think that has anything to do with not being able to buy a house or have a child. TCG cards are the perfect mixture of consumerism and gambling, and Gen Z has been submerged in both for the entirety of their lives

I have seen some rare Pokémon cards going for the price of a small car...

Git is the API.

Github/Gitlab would be a provider of the filesystem.

The problem is app developers like Google want to own your files.

Another reason to golf. It's not quite right, but it's a fun goal to fit an app within the first few TCP roundtrips.

https://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-i...

PinkBike (online mountain bike community) has a good tech blog post on increasing their slow start settings (2010)

https://www.pinkbike.com/u/radek/blog/pinkbike-speed.html

Impressive. A bit sad that out of 5 million visits, they have articles with 13 comments. Is all that traffic really organic?

PinkBike used to be the go-to place for uploading media for further embedding in off-site forums (SouthernDownhill, SingletrackWorld, RideMonkey, NSMTB, VitalMTB) - for example, race reports, sales (when forums had limited storage capacity for users), etc.

Your media was watermarked and made available in different resolutions (a unique feature at the time on a bike specific website!)

I would bet a large chunk of those 5M visitors were hotlinks as I don’t remember their forums being too busy —- but I do remember them being very fragmented with too many subforums.

Unfortunately Facebook Groups has killed off the almost tribal online MTB communities now :(

It actually felt weird that the site loaded so fast. I'm not used to that!

Do you view passenger drones as a competitor?

Photography and hobbyist drones are easy enough to control, and I would expect a manual passenger drone to follow that consumer model.