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by Swizec 2y ago
I read this comment. That said I have also found myself writing less, but not because I think it’s less worthwhile than it was 15 years ago when I started, it’s that the internet feels like it has become less deep. Probably not because the
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by Swizec 2y ago
Surely that depends what your hiring them for? The nice thing about the website load question is that it touches every part of the stack. You could talk for an hour about rendering on screen at the OS level, or network protocols, or server
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I agree. I would add that it’s best if those 3 years were spent growing a product rather than bouncing around the company (or companies) doing whatever comes.
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There is 1 aspect of YOE that literally is tied to actual years and cannot be rushed. I will die on this hill. You are not a senior, if you haven’t stuck around on a project/product for 3 years to experience the lifecycle of your own
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by Swizec 2y ago
Is a reference to this famous incident of a mars lander slamming into mars due to mismatched units. https://everydayastronaut.com/mars-climate-orbiter/
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No idea but at least he knows where to find the doctors who are overprescribing and knows how to talk to them right?
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This looks bad of course, but isn’t he also someone who knows about how this stuff works and has lots of relevant experience building messaging strategies to achieve a goal? Sounds like the guy you’d want handling the opioid epidemic.
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If you can tldr your memo or message, maybe you should write a shorter memo or message. People are busy. Nobody got time for waffle. Get to the point or get out of the way.
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> _most_ of the federal budget goes to SS and medicare / medicaid Okay but social security isn’t the government’s money, it’s ours. The program is profitable afaik (gets more than it pays out). Govt is just holding/managing the
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As a non-american paying american taxes: I would like more of my money to go into welfare and social transfers to make the country more liveable to all, and less into million dollar bombs thrown at thousand dollar homes. Or, like, at least
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> I see an argument that "the world they live in" affects children's ability to wait, and that culture is an important aspect of the world that kids live in Followup studies on the marshmallow test also showed that how wel
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> it just that work done during that time was _not necessary to immediate survival_ It depends how you define “work”. Is doing laundry work? It certainly isn’t fun or leisure. What about cooking? Cleaning? Dealing with administrativia? F
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> They think that React is itself what browsers render My kingdom for native JSX in the browser. That would be awesome . Something similar to how we have WebGL and Canvas, but for pure JavaScript UI without the extra step of DOM reconc
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> reveals just how formulaic and predictable the response and banter is designed to be Accurate. Interviews have to be formulaic and predictable. That's how you combat bias in the system. Kahneman's book on Noise (in decision
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Musk proposes ignoring all regulation(huffpost.com)
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Where I've found `?` super helpful in JS/TS and now miss it the most in Python is dealing with nested data structures. ``` if (foo.bar?.baz?.[5]?.bazinga?.value) ``` Is so much nicer than ``` if foo.bar and foo.bar.baz and foo.bar
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> I think the moment that clicked for me was when I heard young people in my family circle (25 and below), _in_Europe_ claiming that Trump "will likely be good for the economy". Same. I am on a plane from visiting family in Eur
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> if you explicitly model time as a dimension it can instead be seen as a sequence of transitions from immutable state to immutable state, an accumulation of events over time, which fits the log abstraction perfectly I worked with a feat
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> certain types of non-native english always have a feel to them which reflects the mismatch between two languages This. My partner always speaks frenglish (french english) after talking to her parents. You have to know a little French t
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> but in another century, there will be no modern buildings still standing You sure? Many modern buildings are already 100 years old and in active use. Empire State Building, for example, was built in 1930. Chrysler Building is from 1928
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Great answer. Thanks! I think the power of fat clients comes when you have different consumers of the same APIs/logic. Like a browser app or two, maybe backend services, a few task queues, etc. Then having a clean separation between cl
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> Let’s assume that making a JS change costs twice as much time a Ruby change, which I think is being generous to JS I don’t grok this part. Based on my experience with RoR and JS/TS, making changes in TS-land is much easier and qui
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> The issue is game-theoretic. There’s value in having money, absolutely, but most people end up having to chase it and never get any We are on HN. The typical person here can achieve freedom for themselves and their family. And we sho
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> So, there is no compact that will create the feeling of safety and fulfillment that this article wishes for. Just money. Money is the best freedom buyer. Don't trust anyone who says "Money doesn't buy happiness". Th
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> The actual meaning of democracy is the "power of the people". Nowhere that implies a western-like electoral system. Correct. “we” used to do it simply by killing the leaders that were disliked. Elections are a bit friendlier
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> I think anyone who says democracy is good and the will of the people should be respected is implicitly saying that is not true. Implicitly saying voters are individual agents and not a mob. Both are true. We are individual agents and
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What does team size have to do with this? Small teams can (and should) absolutely build modularized software ... You simply cannot build a [working/maintainable] large piece of software if everything is connected to everything and any
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> 5. Therefore all new development should be ~~microservices~~ modules written from scratch and interacting via cleanly defined APIs. We figured this out for humans almost 20 years ago. Some really good empirical research. It's the
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> The flammability of your average US suburb has to rank somewhere near 1944 Tokyo. Funfact: in large parts of Central Europe (ex austrohungary), wooden homes were banned after a series of large fires in the 1800’s. Brick was considered
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> A theoretical “AI dev” will be able to gather these requirements through conversation no problem Maybe! So far what I’ve seen are AI devs that are too afraid to say ”No you’re wrong this will never work” and can’t ask those awkward q

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