MaybiusStrip

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by MaybiusStrip 9y ago
You do realize that insurance companies have to charge people more money than they spend in order to be profitable, right? Exorbitant drug costs is just another one of the factors that price poor people out of insurance, which is actually a
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by MaybiusStrip 9y ago
Regulating the price of medication isn't a slippery slope to outlawing MacBook pros. What a preposterous thing to say. The law is whatever society decides it should be. There is nothing inherently rational about it. You'd have to
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by MaybiusStrip 9y ago
This is my nightmare. Implicit division of duties are natural, but they should definitely be combated. Otherwise, things fall apart when people go on vacation, or worse, leave the team. The way to do that is to have a communal backlog of wo
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by MaybiusStrip 9y ago
That's just not my experience at all. But clearly, it's been yours. Perhaps there are two very different sides to this field, in which case my advice is to keep looking if you find yourself on the wrong one. From where I stand, so
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by MaybiusStrip 9y ago
This is like reading advice from an alternate reality. Almost all the VPs, senior managers, principals, etc. that I've encountered in my career are poorly-dressed nerds, not ring-wearing, macho douchebags. If you are a politician in so
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by MaybiusStrip 10y ago
I don't know what system you're defending, but capitalism has nothing to do with getting wealth proportional to your individual hard work. There are plenty of Kid Bs who have much more money and income than Kid As because of they
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by MaybiusStrip 11y ago
A tech screen is a just that. It's not meant to accurately reflect the problems you work on, it's meant to see whether you can actually write code, whether you can explain your reasoning, and just generally how you react to a prob
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by MaybiusStrip 11y ago
Some of the good advice in this blog post is taken too far, like the advice about intentionally writing shitty code in order to learn from your mistakes. Coding is like any other skill. You learn from your mistakes only if you're tryin
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by MaybiusStrip 11y ago
I like how Robert C. Martin puts it: before you write a comment, ask yourself whether you can write the code in a way that makes the comment unnecessary. If you cannot, then it is better to leave the comment than none at all.
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by MaybiusStrip 11y ago
Not to diminish Dean Karnazes' feat, but you might be interested to find out someone recently did 50 Ironman races in 50 days ( http://www.runnersworld.com/general-interest/50-ironmans-in-... ). An Ironman includes
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by MaybiusStrip 12y ago
I think you should rephrase that to "you shouldn't solely rely on aa" rather than excluding it entirely. Maybe this just struck a personal chord, because AA helped save me from life-threatening alcoholism, but this seems like
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by MaybiusStrip 12y ago
I still don't understand why everyone recommends different folders at the project root for controllers, directives, services, etc... You end up with closely related code being far apart. It's a thoughtless way of dividing up your
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by MaybiusStrip 12y ago
Programming language wars over languages that have significant differences are often silly, the whole coffeescript vs JS debate is just ludicrous.
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by MaybiusStrip 12y ago
The whole point of the article was that clustering is not unusual when it comes to random events. It's actually rarer for random events to be evenly distributed. There's nothing really begging to be explained here, especially not
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by MaybiusStrip 12y ago
I think it depends how tightly your business logic and your view are bound and how well your business logic is abstracted. I use Angular at work and 90% of the bugs we get can be caught by a unit test. On a rare occasion something will be m
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by MaybiusStrip 13y ago
Isn't it a better idea to manage your dev & prod environments using the same configuration management tools so that it's easier to synchronize them? Bowery doesn't seem to have great support for production environments.
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by MaybiusStrip 13y ago
Eh... I was one of the many developers that had the same idea to write a bookmarklet/extension implementation of Spritz. I completed something functional (a few hours of coding for any JS dev) and then discovered that there were at lea
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by MaybiusStrip 13y ago
Sweet fiddle, but putting the emphasis on the center letter puts it way too far to the right for any long word. Compared to the example on the Spritz website it's quite awkward. My eye constantly wants to shift left, while I can comfor
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by MaybiusStrip 13y ago
What do you mean by "ready"? Because for me, ready means being able to run a relatively stable production system, which plenty of teams who use node are able to do. You listed some downsides, but none of them are actually breaking
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by MaybiusStrip 13y ago
Kubuntu -- Just works for me and I much prefer the KDE desktop. Have it set up on 3 completely different machines and it works great on all of them. I highly recommend everybody who uses Ubuntu and is looking for something different to at l
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by MaybiusStrip 13y ago
Shouldn't anybody browsing HN understand the difference between dynamic and static typing? Who is even upvoting this?
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by MaybiusStrip 13y ago
Do you have any data or evidence backing this up? Because it's completely out of sync with my personal experience. I've found that if you want to work as a software engineer with people who don't make those types of judgments
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by MaybiusStrip 13y ago
You're completely missing the point. Something has to be popular before you download it to "be cool and fit in with your friends."
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by MaybiusStrip 13y ago
Similar, but even less forgiving.
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by MaybiusStrip 13y ago
Mundane blog post about balancing code quality with business requirements with a click-bait title. Save your time.
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by MaybiusStrip 13y ago
Twitter became the de-facto source of real-time news because there was no good alternative. Replacing a reputable institution like the NYT is a completely different game. It's not even a good comparison. The NYT is a daily newspaper. T
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by MaybiusStrip 13y ago
96 tablets cheaper than a TI-83.
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by MaybiusStrip 13y ago
About a million dollars were stolen from a tiny Australian bank run by some teenager, and 4 million from a small Chinese exchange. There are much safer places to store your coins. Meanwhile, individuals have taken profits upwards of those
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by MaybiusStrip 13y ago
No, you'd have to be out of touch to think anybody does that.
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by MaybiusStrip 13y ago
I've written my fair share of coffeescript and right now I'm working on a large node/angular project and I'm glad we stuck with Javascript. I definitely miss some of coffeescript's features and having cute, ruby&#x2

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