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by Kamq 4y ago
> and tried to make seem as if profit is the be-end-all That statement was paired with a teleological statement about the purpose of a company. When paired with the common usage of the word "company", the statement becomes taut
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by Kamq 4y ago
This reminds me of Eisenhower's old quote to his advisors: “Let's make our mistakes slowly" Which, ironically enough, if you make changes slowly, and have a good way to back them out when they go wrong, you can change much fa
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by Kamq 4y ago
Or that society formed long enough ago that oil has had a chance to form. The OP did say millions of years ago, which would be needed for this. We could put a bound on this. ~90% of oil deposits come from the Mesozoic or later. So the lates
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> You can have run a company for zero profit and it can still be a benefit to society, so no the "purpose of a company is to make profit" is not necessarily true. On one hand, fair. Technically correct. On the other hand basica
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> Haven’t you ever had the experience of knowing exactly what you want to say but struggling to find the word for it? How could that be if we’re just randomly selecting words like a souped-up Markov chain? All words in the normal cache h
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> might be more about the skill and pragmatism They're all plenty skilled, but I'll give you the pragmatism one. A certain style of dev seems to have a compulsion to violate Kernighan's Law. Eventually that abstraction hie
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I think that's called the MIT school of design. As opposed to the New Jersey school that produced C/Unix/etc. Generally used along with the term "worse is better": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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> Rust just says "This is an engineering project, not a philosophy paper, or science lab. It is not the time or place for experimentation, new ideas, and individual discretion, or for trusting each other or ourselves, we want reliab
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> It also wastes time in hiring Sure, but on the other side, if I have someone I want to hire, and the choice is give them an extra $XX thousand or let them pick their title, I'm going to pick the title. Or, hell, both. Both is an o
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by Kamq 4y ago
That's fair, I haven't experimented with everything the jetbrains suite supports. I've had good luck with javascript's, python's and go's language servers specifically. I'd think maybe C#'s would be r
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I'm more of a vim user that occasionally dabbles in emacs (mostly for lisp). But... everything. > Somebody who is used to some really handy refactoring, autocomplete, and auto formatting tools Those aren't really differentiator
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> so it's a nonstarter for the general users population. I agree. My point was that this point isn't important for a discussion on a niche site.
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Logging in as something other than root also stops you from doing something really stupid to your system without explicit confirmation (usually by running the command with sudo).
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Most users aren't on hacker news. You should not confuse general wording, which is directed to people who read this website (by the fact that it's y'know posted here instead of somewhere else), with advice for the average per
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> I love how you cannot imagine a world where the women is the high earned That doesn't necessarily imply they can't imagine a woman who earns decent money. It implies that the women earning high salaries aren't dating men
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A "masterfully crafted" response to a nigerian prince spammer would probably sound a lot like a person who can barely write, possibly with what sounds like the beginning of dementia setting in.
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> What's Django, then? Pretty rare compared to data work, at least among python projects I've worked on. > Python can only call C code. The fact that Rust itself (or Fortran, btw) has good C ABI is on Rust, not Python. Also,
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> Also, the standard should favor pure-Python packages, in order to untangle Python from it's legacy as a glue language for modules written in C(++). Never gonna happen. Python's explosion has been through data science and ml,
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> Given the US has more wealth per capita than most of the world as well, I think claiming we underfund our public library system is fairly obvious. This is only the case if you think the proper level of funding is a function of populati
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> The thrust of their point is that the time spent engaging isn’t worth it for the person debating Yes, and this is my main point of disagreement with them. My point is that there is plenty of value if you want there to be.
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> On the internet, it is usually very clear that you will accomplish nothing except maybe introduce receptive onlookers to a new idea, so the choice to minimize engagement is easy. I'm going to disagree here. I've learned quite
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Surely this would be the compiler's job to emit the right instructions. I mean, they can do things that make it easier or harder, but satisfying a language spec isn't what they do (unless you want to count an ISA as a language spe
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For the purposes of the first amendment, this isn't a death threat, it's the expression of an opinion. Even advocating for violence is constitutionally protected. A credible threat would, generally consist of specific actions that
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I always liked the version with no branching statements. In python it would be roughly: def fizz_str(n): return "FIZZ" def buzz_str(n): return "BUZZ" def fizz_buzz_str(n): return
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by Kamq 4y ago
Gotcha, I did interpret it that way. No big deal. Exact meaning is hard through text sometimes. You have a good day.
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> My username is void of meaning. That's exactly what a person whose username contained significant amounts of secret meaning would say...
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> seemingly very different society for thousand of years and society who did enforce them were more stable and successful Ahh, so a bias for values that were evolutionarily successful? I can kind of see the utility there. Would this hypo
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Some people resent having information from their computer sent to someone else without their consent (merely using the plugin does not count as proper consent). And based on demographics, that's probably going to be a much higher perce
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> by all traditional measures Is there a reason to assume the traditional measures are, in fact, the correct ones to be using?
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It's kinda close already. I've gotten several pdfs of books by cloning repos.

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