Dr_tldr

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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
The argument that React will be heavier than your own implementation is clearly true. The argument that it'll take less time to develop, document, and test your own implementation than to take advantage of the React ecosystem is clearl
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
yes, clearly swimming seamlessly between what you think should exist and what actually exists and then only distinguishing between the two when you're called out is both clear communication and rhetorically effective. Especially on the
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Rigorous? Citation needed, since a great deal of evidence points to the opposite--that these are politically motivated kangaroo courts with decisions being made by a single individual with no appeals process and no oversight.
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Your comment is highly technical, critical, but still very fair. This is why I love HN.
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Ask anyone sufficiently conservative/radical feminist which groups of people they think are "probably rapists", and you get the same results as baseless discrimination but through a different explanation. People tend to think
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
What if gay and transgendered people "creep you the fuck out", or orthodox jews, or people in wheelchairs? Once you start making the case for expulsion and the application of a sliding scale of guilt due entirely to other people&#
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
This is equivalent to an article arguing that 50 mb/s internet isn't fast enough and every community should be offered 100 mb/s internet, even if doing so causes large net losses to the providers. They don't produce any
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
My god, how could anyone be expected to overcome poverty and inequality without same-day prime delivery? Sure there's still two-day prime delivery that the majority of Amazon Prime members of all races have, but clearly that's no
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Unix isn't for end users, it's for developers to build on top of to give things to end users. Linux on desktop already happened years and years ago if you work for a tech company, and that's probably about as far as it needs
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
I want to disagree with you more here, but Polymer really does suck. I would be interested in a detailed explanation of why websockets are a "dumb hack." Duplex streams much more closely map to what web apps actually need to do th
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
Your takeaway of computers going from niche industry to the single largest driver of global economic activity is that the bad stuff won? What an incredibly myopic conclusion. The recent cross-communication between JavaScript, Elm, and Cloju
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
If you know C++/Perl/PHP but don't know ES6, websockets, Node, etc, would you not say that your opinion about the web being a bad environment for rich applications might be in some way colored by your personal economic intere
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by Dr_tldr 10y ago
But in this case, they specifically said that the researchers were unable to escalate. How does he know? Either the researchers violated the rules by trying and failing, or they didn't try and he's simply lying to make himself loo
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
You can read the story from a few months back to find that Facebook apparently has an unstated but non-repudiated policy of threatening to involve the FBI and actually doing reputational damage to researchers who they feel cross a (poorly d
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
They didn't do pure CSS parallax? I guess in this case it's for the best, but generally that's Doing It Wrong.
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
I may change my tune six months from now, but part of the problem I see is that new people getting into React are told to not learn redux to "keep things simple." While it's a little bit of a pain to set up, redux (+ redux-t
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
This is one of the most delightful things I've seen come out of the tech satire world. It's not snarky or mean, it's not painting a target on anyone, it's just really meaningful and well done. I'll definitely send t
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
Trying to prove the impossibility of something that is never going to go away as a requirement isn't very useful. An alternative would be to describe potential break-points and conditionals in the planning process. For instance, if a t
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
There's a difference between a role-model and a self-promoter. The role-model hacks away at lots of projects, has an active github, and develops lots of experience until they're at the top of their field. The self-promoter writes
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
I found the initial example of a problem with context and this to be incredibly contrived. If you have people who hate you dropping bind into your code and misusing a function only meant to be used with constructor calls, why wouldn't
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
If you feel the value of your life/health is essentially comparable in gravity and scale to buying an apple at a farmer's market, your opinions on healthcare regulation are unlikely to be relevant to very many people.
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
You don't think there might be a certain information asymmetry between you and a medical care provider? And if there's not, why are you going to doctor at all?
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
A further problem of assessing value is that the analysis is taking the job postings as an accurate reflection of who actually ends up getting the role. Pretty much every developer who doesn't get their first job through an internship
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
None of your fundamental topics except for graph theory and a tiny bit of distributed systems stuff will ever come up for 90% of developers. If you happen to be in that 10%, then yeah, maybe some higher education on those topics is necessar
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
Again, only in the United States. The word "kikel" is the yiddish word for "circle", and illiterate Jewish immigrants coming to the US didn't want to write an X by their name because they inferred they were being as
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
Your comment is a perfect example of the kind of incomplete and normative reasoning about names that causes systems to fail. The problem isn't that you're not careful, the problem is that your fundamental assumptions are based on
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
But most people would pick the will of the majority making some bad decisions than the absolute dictatorship that would be needed to enforce a highly subjective list of human rights.
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
This sounds more like a mechanical turk than actual automation. A restaurant without waiters is usually called a cafeteria or a deli, not "pure magic." This article is credulous and obfuscating to the point of dishonesty, even if
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
Your selective and inaccurate editing of the host comment is dishonest,and the emotionally charged adjectives you use make it sound like you're more interested in virtue signaling than having a discussion. The mistake you're maki
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by Dr_tldr 11y ago
There's absolutely nothing to back up the claim that programmer wages rose when more men took on that job. The basic reasoning in the article is to produce the appearance of a conspiracy so structural and so vast that it doesn't m

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