Shacklz

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by Shacklz 7y ago
Thanks so much for calling this out, including the coarse language used, because in my opinion, it's really warranted. We could do so many good things with technology, instead we use it more and more for bullshit to maximize profits in
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This is an interesting point - and yes, of course I've heard it. But time zones sort of just don't matter here, as there is only one. I think the vast majority of people here hear about the concept of time zones the first time in
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by Shacklz 7y ago
I've had a Polish friend once who insisted that she's from Central Europe - a term that is basically unknown where I'm from (Switzerland), everything east of Germany/Austria is considered "Eastern Europe". I gu
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> [..] and even how they dress. While there are many points in your post that I agree with, we really should stop worrying about how people dress. If it's a developer sitting behind a computer screen all day long with zero customer
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by Shacklz 7y ago
> Working for the CIA is like being a sysadmin. The world only knows you exist when you fuck up. While there's some truth to that, this way of thinking entirely ignores the opportunity cost that all those agencies have. With those i
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by Shacklz 7y ago
We wrote a bunch of utility methods around io-ts at work with custom error reporting/handling, otherwise it can indeed feel a bit too fp-/boilerplate-heavy for your every day frontend development, especially in combination with ot
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by Shacklz 7y ago
Pattern matching is definitely something I also miss. For input validation and Optional/Either types, io-ts/fp-ts ( https://github.com/gcanti/io-ts ) fulfill my needs perfectly, especially io-ts is something I
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by Shacklz 7y ago
> The idea that automating these jobs is a good thing demonstrates how out of touch you are. That's such a ridiculous statement for someone on HN. If we were to believe such a thing, why would you want to advance at all, if not for
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by Shacklz 7y ago
> Also, he in fact had a logo newly registrated for his businss which was resembling an old trademark of lego. So they decide to piss him off over such a triviality? That's a terrible decision; if the guy's an enthusiast with a
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by Shacklz 7y ago
Since you mentioned typescript first, here's a library that is basically an implementation of the ideas OP tries to convey: https://github.com/gcanti/io-ts Can't recommend using this library enough; being abl
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by Shacklz 7y ago
Swiss here: Our health insurance providers might be privatized, but they're strongly regulated and every Swiss citizen must have healthcare. They do function, but not because of their free market incentives (my opinion), but because of
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by Shacklz 7y ago
Totally agree with the sentiment of your statement, but RSA is probably a terrible choice, especially if you want to get it done in 20 lines of code. This article explains it pretty well: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019&#x
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by Shacklz 7y ago
Not the only one - there are probably dozens of us :) I use Firefox for this purpose, not in private mode - I just let FF delete everything whenever I close it. It's not "100% stateless", as I still allow cookies and such whi
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by Shacklz 7y ago
> We get frustrated because the features that we would find easiest to work with are not necessarily the features the product should have. "Product should have" implies a direction in which you want to optimize. Best user exper
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by Shacklz 8y ago
While I can understand to some extent that Electron receives a lot of heat, people really should stop arguing that "Slack bad -> Electron bad". I can run Discord and vscode on my machine just fine, with plenty of editor tabs&#x
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by Shacklz 8y ago
"Trust me" isn't exactly a convincing argument... I agree with your second sentiment (although I wouldn't generalize to "scumbags"), but there are a lot of people out there doing jobs that are extremely unpleas
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by Shacklz 8y ago
For those interested, he held a Talk at Google about this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zt3kGW1NM I thought it rather interesting that he was able to hold this kind of talk at Google - after all, his audience the
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by Shacklz 8y ago
> I have dealt with terrible APIs that were outside of my control. When I worked at Timeout.com, we had to pull in data from Ticketmaster and also Booking.com. These APIs were inconsistent, and they would change over time. They also left
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by Shacklz 8y ago
> You’re giving me flashbacks to stored procs that directly invoke java methods A legacy application I once worked at used this extensively, and good grief it gave me nightmares. How anyone ever thought this is a good idea to use is beyo
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by Shacklz 8y ago
At least for Switzerland it's also mandatory to be part of a "Krankenkasse" (health insurer); you cannot be uninsured.
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by Shacklz 8y ago
> so that they can loot it from inside. That's one way to view it, another point of view would be that all those people whose jobs we're automating away still get to work somewhere doing something.
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> It's like a grocery store employee sidling up while you wait in line at the checkout, and politely asking you to put away your phone so you can examine the impulse-buy items on the racks around the checkout. That is a thing somewh
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by Shacklz 8y ago
As much as I like the NYT for its journalism, they cannot even stop from advertising their subscription service even though I'm already a subscriber...
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> Clearly the developer(s) didn't have a clear idea of how to design software and abstract it into pieces that are independent and reusable. Is this not often the case because you have people that are not actual developers involved
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by Shacklz 8y ago
While I agree to your general sentiment, there are countries where apprenticeship systems work fairly well - Switzerland (full disclosure, I'm Swiss) is in my opinion one of those examples. At the age of around 14, you can choose to ei