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by Zababa 5y ago
> If we use Clojure's philosophy of simple, Python is by no means a simple language, even without classes. There are a lot of special syntax like `with` `as` `elif` `for .. else` and concepts such as `nonlocal`, not even mention gen
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by Zababa 5y ago
Thank you for the explanation.
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by Zababa 5y ago
OOP is absolutely not a superset of imperative, that would mean that imperative code is OOP code too, which is false.
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by Zababa 5y ago
It is actually, and it is not the basis for almost everything. Functional code is usually declarative instead of being imperative. SQL is declarative, not imperative. The vast majority of the code written is imperative. It uses "if&quo
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by Zababa 5y ago
I don't understand what "moisture vaporators" in that article refers to.
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by Zababa 5y ago
> Object-oriented programming is the most successful programming paradigm in history. I don't think it is. The vast majority of code is imperative, with sometimes classes here and there, and these days with sometimes higher-order fu
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by Zababa 5y ago
I like it, but I would describe it as an encoding more than a font. I also think it's 1x5, not 1x8. In that case, it would be more than twice as efficient as the 4x3. In a way, it's a restricted ascii subset.
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by Zababa 5y ago
Minority is often not used in terms of numbers, but in terms of "privilege scale". In that view, women are less privileged than men, and thus get classified as a minority.
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by Zababa 5y ago
Systemic racism is one form of racism, but not the only one. Just because you don't experience systemic racism doesn't mean that you don't experience racism at all. I would say that only hiring non-white people would be preju
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by Zababa 5y ago
The "encoding" argument seems like the perfect use case for a strict type, ideally something that works like a sum type, or union types in TS. I think the difference is that in Python unions are unions of types, and not of values.
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by Zababa 5y ago
My view on this is that recommendation services are made to try to funnel people to the same thing. While they sell some kind of "hyper personalization", they're just another kind of classic marketing. Especially for Netflix.
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by Zababa 5y ago
I think the measure here is "information density on a physical surface". For example, someone commented on a 4x3 font for English: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30046035 . This allows you to put way more inf
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by Zababa 5y ago
> Three characters and can be translated (by reader) to almost any language without knowing target language letters and grammar. You have to understand what a heart symbol is, and know that "I" is an english pronoun and how it&
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by Zababa 5y ago
That's a good point, I forgot the important part: are people going to notice the difference? I think they would, for people around me, but this would be hard to extend to other places. The reason I think that is that where I live, in F
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by Zababa 5y ago
> This is the biggest deal IMHO. FaaS in CDN edge DCs are remarkably fast and affordable. If you can respond to an API call faster than a request can get through to a load balancer, you're providing quite a UX improvement regardless
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by Zababa 5y ago
I'd go even further: I get a lot more enjoyment in going deep in things. Reading a book or watching a movie multiple times, discussing it with friends, family, people online, showing it/gifting it to people, learning about how it
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by Zababa 5y ago
This isn't a guess. This is something that applies to most people I know. That means that this "myth" is true around me. I've cut steak open a lot, and I can see easily that more juices flow out when I use a dull knife c
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by Zababa 5y ago
> Myth #6b: "If you cut it open to check doneness, it will lose all its juices." > The Reality: Again, the amount of juice lost by a single slit-and-peek is completely inconsequential in comparison to the whole piece of meat
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by Zababa 5y ago
The surprising part is that they were added in a PR, the original documentation didn't have them: https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/commit/741de7f92745d9549...
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by Zababa 5y ago
I have a rant about "object emojis" and "feelings emojis". The short version is: using emojis to express emotion is great, using them to talk about objects sucks. This documentation is using them to talk about objects, w
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by Zababa 5y ago
Thanks, it's way easier to read now. The flow feedback is very personal, feel free to ignore it. After rewatching the article, I like how unique it is.
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by Zababa 5y ago
The white and orange/brown are hard to read for me. Both have less than 1.5 contrast in the chrome dev tools. To continue on the nitpicks, I think there's a typo, the procedural macros have "drive" instead of "deriv
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by Zababa 5y ago
Bootstrapping is not a statement about difficulty, bootstrapping is a statement about where the money comes from. That's it.
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by Zababa 5y ago
You're assuming that the only categories that exist are "bootstrapped" and "took VC money". That isn't the case. Raising money from friend, or taking a loan from a bank would be neither boostrapped nor VC-funde
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by Zababa 5y ago
$120k is an big amount of money, especially for people that don't have FAANG salaries. That could be an appartment where I live. A small one, but an appartment. It's also 3 years of earnings for me, or it would be if I didn't
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by Zababa 5y ago
> Bonus points if you avoid swimming in random bodies of water to not get contaminated water with brain-eating amoeba traveling up your nose. Also, be very careful with the water that you use in a neti pot.
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by Zababa 5y ago
That was a typo. Please define functional programming, as every source I've seen define it as precisely that, programming with functions.
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by Zababa 5y ago
Good points about JS being a target and that currently evolving. Lots of people these days code without any knowledge of assembly, maybe one day JS will be like that too. On the other hand, if your risk profile is more conservative (like ma
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by Zababa 5y ago
Yeah, that's the important part for me. The "fun" part about the sandwich app is nice, but the part that differentiate it from other content is stuff like: > The free VMs themselves are just a bit of memory and some idling
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by Zababa 5y ago
There's a metric know an "Disability-adjusted life year", or DALY, that tries to quantify this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted_life_year . And your point about social alcohol is well ta

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