PaulStatezny

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by PaulStatezny 9y ago
I really dislike this kind of hand-wavy dismissal of ideas/opinions as “programmer-hipster”. It seems to assume the person in question has no intelligent reason behind their thoughts/opinions. And it dismisses the opinion instead
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by PaulStatezny 9y ago
I think the point was that all these clicks from HN are probably misleading the analytics provider. (Assuming the site is integrated with an analytics provider that uses that query parameter to determine the referrer.)
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by PaulStatezny 9y ago
Elm! (Currently.) I might have said Haskell, except I have very little hands on experience with Haskell. Elm is such a joy. Here are some reasons! 1. In the end, all your code is either functions or data! 2. There are only a few core concep
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by PaulStatezny 9y ago
> When you take in account non-linearity of utility curves, lotteries make sense, for example, since for most people the utility of $1 is far less than 1 millionth of the utility of a million dollars. Can you expand on that? My intuition
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by PaulStatezny 9y ago
Perhaps my description of our CTO/situation left out too much detail. (I was trying to be succinct.) > It does not speak highly of your CTO Our CTO is the kind to speak highly about. Strong technical/software engineering skills
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by PaulStatezny 9y ago
We use(d) Elm at the company I work at. (A start-up.) Elm is great. All of the positive rumors about it are true. The issue we've had with Elm isn't typically discussed in these conversations: My CTO doesn't seem to see the v
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by PaulStatezny 9y ago
Is this sarcasm? If not, can you elaborate why? I’m genuinely curious.
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by PaulStatezny 9y ago
I can speak from experience. TL/DR: Lessons from teaching a friend to code. I have a friend who was looking for a career change. I've spent somewhere between 75 and 150 hours helping him learn to code. (Web development.) Here&#x27