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by 9rx 11mo ago
I'm more shocked about and curious as to why anyone would take time out of their day to press a button that does nothing other than to serve as a poor man's "read receipt" to indicate to the trolls that you read their me
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> "Values" is (one way) how strangers bootstrap trust, "value" is how colleagues (dare I say "compadres") maintain it. 1. That would imply that if you and I bootstrap trust and then disappear from each oth
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> It annoys me a little when people here talk about how worthless management is. In primary function, a good manager is invisible, so it is understandable that it is seen as being worthless. But in secondary function only a bad manager
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Most seem to agree that NeXTSTEP/macOS/iOS wouldn't have succeeded without Objective-C. So much of the functionality that made it stand out was predicated on Objective-C's somewhat unique programming model. Of course, i
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by 9rx 11mo ago
You wrap errors primarily to avoid the implementation detail leak. Even where errors have stack traces, you still need to do that, as was already described earlier. What debugging advantage comes with that is merely an aded bonus (A really
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Already in the original comment. Already in other replies as well. How, exactly, does one end up not ready anything in the thread before replying?
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Do you think people were flocking to cities to flee the "insanely lucrative" jobs they already had? The non-farmers were already accounted for. Did you, uh, forget to read the thread?
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Back then, the landlord who had the "big house" wasn't called a farmer, but often a "Lord" or "Master". Feudalism in North America, in the 1900s? Your geography and timelines are way off.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Also hard to ignore the survivorship bias there. It's not ignored. It is already encoded into the original comment. No need to repeat what is already said.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Those are usually large plantations There are no plantations around here. This was cattle and grain country in that time. Farmers got rich because all of sudden their manual labour capacity was multiplied by machines. The story is qu
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> are you referring to subsistence farming? It says early 1900s, so no. It does largely refer to farming, but farming was insanely lucrative during that time. Look at the farms that have the houses of that era standing on them and you&
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by 9rx 11mo ago
It is always curious when a comment on the internet is anthropomorphized. Where is the logic found in that?
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> I'm just saying stack traces with exceptions provide a lot of useful debugging info. The Go team actually did a study on exactly that; including stack traces with errors. Like you, they initially thought it would be useful (henc
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> The error type in go is literally just a string No, like I said before, it's literally an interface. Hell, your next line even proves it. If it were a string, it would be defined as: type error string But as you've
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by 9rx 11mo ago
If said DBMS is relational, with relations. If said DBMS is tablational, like SQL, then you would have to approximate them using tables and constraints. If said DBMS is of an another paradigm, like a document database, there may be no way t
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> everything should be represent as a relation > always use a table .. when its a choice Everything should be represented as relations (sets of tuples) but you should always use tables (multisets of tuples) when possible? That see
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by 9rx 11mo ago
The social contract is broken, but I'm not sure you've correctly identified the cause. The reality is that a lot of people have truly become useless blobs. Look at Apple's 54 billion dollar cash holdings just sitting there wa
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Of their "value" is something that contradicts yours, you have an obstacle, not a team working towards a goal. The goal is to ensure that for the value someone else can offer you, you have something of equal value to offer
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> That makes even less sense becasue go errors provide even less info other then a chain of messages. That doesn't make sense. Go errors provide exactly whatever information is relevant to the error. The error type is an interface
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by 9rx 11mo ago
It's enough information if you are happy to have a fragile API, but why would you purposefully make life difficult not only for yourself, but the developers who have their code break every time you decide to change something that shoul
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by 9rx 11mo ago
But no context, so in the real world you need to write: try: f = open('foo.txt', 'w') except Exception as e: raise NecessaryContext("important information") from e Else your callers
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Serfdom.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Its type system is actually really powerful which is what matters when it comes to avoiding bugs It is really powerful as compared to Javascript. It is even really powerful as compared to most other languages people normally use. But
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by 9rx 11mo ago
JSONScript
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Europe-Canada-Mexico Agreement?
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> Because in practice, isn't this a bit like "Kleenex" Maybe. That's what the challenge intends to find out.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
Well, it's not up to Oracle. It is up to the US government (USPTO). Which you could make a strong case for also not being a democracy and rather a lawnmower... But I digress.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
If you change any attribute about these places at random then the migration patterns are likely to change, but that's a silly way to look at it. The comparison is around what is, not what could be in some other magical universe.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
You may personally prefer New York, but the data shows much greater population growth in Saskatchewan.
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by 9rx 11mo ago
> This may be a monopoly overpricing situation rather than an actual shortage. An actual shortage is characterized by prices being prevented from rising. It is already understood that "shortage" is being used colloquially her

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