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by LaGrange 8y ago
> Because Pinker's rebuttal was initially supposed to be an email to somebody else. ...you can't really be serious? It's published. With his knowledge. He could have edited it, or at least quickly tweeted "omg this wa
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> wrote in his article published in the Guardian newspaper: [mansplaining] ...I mean, Hinkel's a dude too and should perhaps avoid the term, but these are men spouting nonsense and telling off more expertised people, so it's no
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So I went and read the Pinker's "rebuttal." He just casually avoided the claim about the entire base of their infographic being bogus, then went on to calling mild centre-left socialdemocrats "far leftists". Why is
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...also, non-dairy milk products have a _very_ long history.
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> I like being around people who have a passion for software development. Cool, go to a meetup, not the place people go to because they like not starving.
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I think Flow's in more direct trouble, but I wouldn't announce victory for TypeScript just yet. With wasm around the corner, things may (or may not, shrug ) change significantly.
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Facebook (excuse me, bunch of FB employees from the Flow team) says no: https://github.com/facebook/flow/issues/7365#issuecomment-45... . Of course, that's exactly what I'd say if I was in charge of
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And yet, it boils down to the same issue, and the issue with interviews in general: they're highly subjective in ways that often end up exclusionary (and in specific, racist and sexist), with a significant amount of smoke and mirrors (
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> unattractive. You're hiring a software developer, not an actor portraying a generic love interest.
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> You are ignoring all the people that had a career and now are CEO of a Forbes 100. Oh no. They are ignoring 100 people. This is terrible and the whole premise is invalidated. > Everybody start somewhere and go somewhere. This is gen
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> There's an interesting downside about remote work that most articles don't talk about. Pay. Which is extra annoying, because working remotely means that at least two expenses may be pushed on you: office and hardware. If you&
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> If I'm being so disrespectful, why is my engagement high? Do people love to be disrespected? There is a large difference between what people "want" (at a given moment) and "like." It's very much possible —
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Maybe training, but definitely not keeping the position. And, to be frank, if they had any experience, I'd consider that a sign of negligence.
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> I assume Django is similar. I'd say more than Rails. Rails actually doesn't make too many choices about the application itself. Django does - it kinda expect the application to be CMS-y (which is super useful for a _lot_ of w
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> I think if you have only used git as your VCS and not something like perforce I think if you worked with Perforce, you're likely to get the wrong idea that people who dislike monorepos didn't work with Perforce. But the reali
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3) Google is committed to a monorepo to the point migrating away from it would be unpractical. Truth is, ending up with a monorepo is _really easy_. It usually starts with something that doesn't even _feel_ like more than one project:
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Doing a job incompetently.
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> All else being equal, native apps will always be better. I didn't write this wasn't true; I wrote this didn't matter. Edit: to expand on this a bit: sure, most of the throwaway Electron applications won't have much
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Almost nobody can afford that, not anymore. If your application can be written in Electron and provide 80% of your features, someone's going to do it and eat your business alive. Especially if they can figure out how to leverage networ
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> My intent was to challenge your statement that google are better package maintainers than Debian, specifically w.r.t. reproducibility of builds. Ah, I believe there's a misunderstanding coming from misreading of my statement: what
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> goals and motivations seem 100% in line with google, It's been a long time since I've believed in their idealism, yes, but I still think accusing Debian of being in the advertising and surveillance business is a bit harsh.
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Once you're dependent on their packaging process, why would they ever have to introduce whatever tracking or restriction they want "surreptitiously"? It'll be a part of their internal monitoring and diagnostics package.
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It's betting that Google are better package maintainers than Debian/CentOS/Ubuntu, especially when it comes to maintaining container images. From a purely technical, and financial, point of view, it's likely true. Of cou
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"Let Google do the patching" Also replace your shepherd dogs with wolves, wolves are bigger, faster, and will do it for free[*].
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> So tell me what other company right now is doing more to reduce oil consumption in transportation and even more important, is growing at the rate Tesla is growing. And that is even without the impact of Tesla on the vehicle market. Reg
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> You live in an utter delusional fantasy world if you believe that public transport and trains can replace cars. You live in an utter delusional fantasy world if you believe that's what I wrote, but we both know that you're co
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I'm not sure you understand what a narrative is. Furthermore, you should learn punctuation before trying to use an ellipsis for dramatic effect, especially if you're trying to insult their intellectual abilities.
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> Doesn’t hold up? What other company is there is making a bigger impact pushing us to electrify? Zurich public transport, every single train company. Claiming electric personal cars are a solution to anything is a joke. > And the “Ma
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He has demonstrated that he played KSP and read the funny parts of Ignition!, and therefore is at least as smart as an average person in IT, and therefore a genius.
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The entire Mars, gonna save the world shtick? It's a recruitment ploy. Most of his claims don't hold up to closer scrutiny, but it's aimed at young tech professionals who _really want_ for their job to make sense, so much, th

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