Dr_tldr

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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
...and that's why it's a bad idea to separate QA from your dev team. In the long run, everyone would've been happier if his role on the dev team had been to automate the tests and then continue to work on more interesting thi
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Third party vendors doing sketchy stuff with shipping does not profit Amazon enough for this to be part of their overall business plan. 350k is definitely only a warning shot, but in this case, the interests of the FAA, Amazon, and public s
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
It really depends on so many different factors. The javascript ecosystem is at least 100x the size of clojure's, but as a consequence, the average quality of what's available is much lower. If the pre-existing libraries and servic
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Do you debug your code with a microscope and soldering iron? Layers of abstraction are useful, especially when we don't fully understand how the hardware works.
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
> To build it outside of clojure ecosystem, you would need to first build all the pieces of the clojure ecosystem That's simply untrue, and even the author's conclusions contradict your point. You can already do all of these th
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
So you were part of the group of schools that refused to agree to a transparency initiative ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11872261 ) but you think self-publishing your own methodology with zero breakdown of what your
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
For a totally new project, especially with React and React Native, it's not trivial to get things right, but it's not that hard either. Technically it's not "one app", but if you build them in parallel and you know
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
100% agree, it's usually not the fault of the engineers. But in a better system, they wouldn't face political pressure to tell people that indefinite growth without inconvenience or long term investment is possible.
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Two second grammar lesson: who is the implied SUBJECT in the phrase "laughing out loud"? Whereas if someone (not me, though) were to say "People named Mark always leave terrible comments because they have severe learning disa
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
The implication that people who have more knowledge about a local area have more right to publicly maintained resources than those who don't is even more troubling. Maintaining unequal access to public resources is a form of corruption
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Of course you have the right to say you don't find it funny and don't think it's an appropriate way to introduce code, but put some subjective terms like "I feel" rather than "it is." One acknowledges pers
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
I'm not so sure about the "faster to write" since my IDE and linting will already take care of that. The java-style boilerplate is a huge turnoff for me, and the validation seems to produce false negatives so often as to actu
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Yes, but what about mutating objects/primitives in a way that causes all validations to pass but still be passing the wrong data? It seems like using type checking as a reason to write fewer tests actually just creates nastier bugs in
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Q: What is a concrete advantage of Typescript? A: C's type system is very useful for data validation. Please read at least one sentence before writing a response next time.
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
But doesn't Typescript compile to JS, thus there's actually no type-checking at runtime? Certainly type checking can prove that it's the right type, but in my experience knowing that it's the right type but the wrong dat
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
It seems like people are trying to use types as a substitute for tests and a way to protect themselves from unintended mutations. But if you write tests already and use immutable data structures, what benefits does TS bring to people whose
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
It's placing blame for a general problem on the decisions and values of certain people and societies. In terms of logical structure, taking an anecdote and universalizing it without a falsifiable explanatory mechanism is indistinguisha
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
> “Do I need to go down and get the certificate that says I’m CEO of the company to get you to stop challenging me on this?” In my experience at Amazon, there's a lot of free discussion and invitations for criticism of management id
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
> But outside these few cases we don't know. One factor is reporting. Do poor kids in India suffer fewer allergies or are they simply dwarfed by the other problems -- or just not reported? This is a great point that gets overlooked:
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
But beyond being a humblebrag, it's also bordering on a just-world view of the universe that's basically superstition. Without reference to a larger dataset, the inference "I"m never sick because I played in the woods an
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
I like WeWork quite a bit and they have a few locations in Seattle, but they also seemed way overstaffed. Other than putting sliced cucumbers in the water and answering the rare phone call, it's not clear why they would ever need more
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Yes, always take the private chat logs of a socially awkward guy in his early twenties trying to sound flippant/cool in front of his friend as a complete and eternal expression of someone's innermost character. How substantive, ho
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Oh good, an anecdote. Those are always indicative of larger data sets, and definitely not meaningless and heavily biased. It's pretty irrating to support stigmatizing/banning a drug that millions of people use and get therapeutic
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Failing to fully investigate allegations of human slavery while part of a large and underfunded bureaucracy !== being a human slaver, in terms of "level of fundamentally problematic cultural values."
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
I imagine you in a grocery store somewhere, railing against free samples. "You never should've given me a piece of sausage if you were going to start charging for them."
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
So what do we do with the waste that takes 10,000+ years to become safe, given that the average corporation has a lifespan of less than a hundred years?
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
I can confirm that's not and could never be a HIPAA violation. The information that Doctor X once ordered a blood test for John or Jane Doe with Result Z is totally fine. There's no non-HIPAA violating metadata that could make tha
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
But isn't there a little bit of circular reasoning there? The median is the best statistic because it's the most common, and it's the most common statistic because it's the best. I'm not advocating for any other sin
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Anytime someone talks about the need for tort reform and capping non-economic medical malpractice damages, this is what they're advocating for. The idea that a "cap on damages" number could be found to cover lifetime expenses
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
The good news is that with V8 and ES2015, we now have a formalized, (fairly) fast, and tolerably buggy implementation of Half of Common Lisp. Oh yeah, and it runs natively on devices owned by literally billions of people.

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