Smaug123

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by Smaug123 6y ago
Pretty sure this comment has wandered astray?
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by Smaug123 6y ago
It sounds like you haven't heard of that experiment on rats. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QsMJQSFj7WfoTMNgW/the-traged...
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by Smaug123 6y ago
I'd just like to make sure you've at least considered the hypothesis your words are strongly suggesting, namely that you specialise in producing tech debt and you quit whenever that debt crosses some critical threshold. If it&#x
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by Smaug123 6y ago
Sorry to ask this, but there's one common thread in your experiences which "always" follow this pattern: you were one of the engineers on them. Do you have any evidence that you're not the problem here?
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by Smaug123 6y ago
That's pretty similar to Tegmark's mathematical universe theory, by the way, if you hadn't heard of it.
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by Smaug123 6y ago
Well, an obvious answer is that you contribute to a terrible work environment. If this is anything more than an isolated one-off - say, if it's part of a pattern of behaviour - then woe betide you.
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by Smaug123 6y ago
Nope: some of the recipients sent back the money Citibank hadn't intended to pay.
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by Smaug123 6y ago
Which is very sad, because I think first-class support for `--dry-run` is a great way to architect a tool! Anything I write for which it's meaningful is divided into a "work out and represent in memory what I'm going to do&qu
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by Smaug123 6y ago
I dunno, there are some weird places where idiomatic F# allocates even when you avoid the usual suspects, but can be trivially rewritten not to allocate. (There are even bugs which cause allocation. Try iterating over an array of `unit -&gt
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by Smaug123 6y ago
"Hero-coding" is the kind of thing where you alone go into a fugue state for a week, and emerge on Sunday night, covered in blood and with your hair standing on end, holding a crystal redolent with eldritch power.
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by Smaug123 6y ago
I still don't see how your position is any worse when Spotify is paying you more.
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by Smaug123 6y ago
C# still doesn't have algebraic data types, though I believe they are slated for C# 10. Honestly (hot take) I consider a language to be unfit for purpose if it's incapable of representing dumb data without boilerplate!
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by Smaug123 6y ago
It's more because the website is set up to teach the principles , the reasoning , and the possibilities behind F#, and those are basically timeless.
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by Smaug123 6y ago
(I wrote this without realising that you specifically meant "syntax for functional programming". Sorry.) Syntax is fairly different but the concepts are broadly similar. Rust has many of the same nice things as F# does, like &quot
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by Smaug123 6y ago
Linux support for .NET in general, and F# in specific, is good. You don't need Mono at all as of .NET Core a couple of years ago (and the situation has only improved going into .NET 5).
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by Smaug123 6y ago
I can't help thinking that in that case this really is your fault. Remember, we're talking about SF tech salaries being given to employees who aren't in SF here; many people get by comfortably on far less. (Obviously there
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by Smaug123 6y ago
Certainly. But the alternative action that anybody can unilaterally take is…? My comment was in response to someone noting that Spotify could be constructing golden chains by paying people far above the market rates for where they live. The
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by Smaug123 6y ago
Isn't this an age-old story? Choosing whether or not to take a pay cut to get work you prefer? My initial reaction to "oh woe, my employer pays me so much that I don't want to leave!" is "… and this is a problem?&qu
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by Smaug123 6y ago
Could you discuss in a bit more detail what you might want from such a study? My first guess was simply that you want a newspaper to be fact-checked from beginning to end.
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by Smaug123 6y ago
I didn't read it as arguing against or for anything. Rather, I read it as "I really want <this>; extended to its logical conclusion, that would also suggest <this> which I don't want. Conundrum!" It even says
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by Smaug123 6y ago
Ah, but it's something entirely different when your parents come in, sit down on the bed, and explain to you in detail that your reasoning whose conclusion was "I am safe from monsters in my room" is unsound, before retiring
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by Smaug123 6y ago
Dear heavens, the situation is excruciating. I believe your argument to be fundamentally unsound, but I also believe it's extremely bad manners to discuss infohazards. It feels even worse than the normal "someone is Wrong On The I
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by Smaug123 6y ago
Well, it's not the right to be forgotten . It's the right not to have a major news outlet trumpet your name. There's still a conflict between "the NYT has the right to identify me" and "I have the right to say
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by Smaug123 6y ago
By the way, I thought "social morays" was absolutely brilliant and I will certainly be using it myself, but it's spelt "mores". It's a direct import from Latin.
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by Smaug123 6y ago
Well, for example, I got a twinge of nerves on reading the following "red flag": > Only focuses on a single group (e.g. women) to the exclusion of other forms of diversity That is, if you make the mistake of going in too much d
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by Smaug123 6y ago
Having seen only the two videos on the article's page, I actually thought they'd passed the valley. To me, they successfully looked artificial (though there were moments where they could have been real) but almost never creepy.
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by Smaug123 6y ago
I knew someone would say that. It's not about imperfections per se; more that I sometimes write stuff that I then reconsider and delete before it ever sees print. Admittedly nowadays I mostly self-censor that stuff before even starting
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by Smaug123 6y ago
Admittedly I work for a very opinionated team - we even have our own style guidelines ( https://github.com/G-Research/fsharp-formatting-conventions ) which are often in direct contradiction to Microsoft's, and my te
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by Smaug123 6y ago
I used to have my blog source on GitHub, but then it turned out I didn't want my half-finished works-in-progress public. To use a private repository would rather defeat the point; using a private repo and a public fork is inviting co
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by Smaug123 6y ago
Could you comment a bit more on how Rust let you model the domain better than F# did?

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