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by adamlett 10y ago
political correctness does not always equate to behaving respectfully Could you provide an example of when it doesn't?
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by adamlett 10y ago
Whenever you feel the urge to use, or see others using the term political correctness , try mentally substituting it with behaving respectfully . The exercise can be enlightening.
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A small dive into, and rejection of, Elm(medium.com)
101 points by adamlett 10y ago|51 comments
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by adamlett 10y ago
If you are the kind of person who uses the word scale when they really mean grow , then macOS Server is not for you. Most small businesses never have to worry about the problems that come from outgrowing their IT infrastructure.
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by adamlett 10y ago
A Macintosh computer. Sold by the same company that makes macOS Server.
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by adamlett 10y ago
If you want to rack mount, or if you have a sysadmin on staff, it is not for you. Think small office server somewhere with no IT department.
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by adamlett 10y ago
Not quite. It's not that there must be a law for everything , it's that there are laws for many things , and often for good reasons. It's not that we always need to regulate new things because new means risky. It's
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by adamlett 10y ago
Actually Apple is organized in such a way that it is not very good at executing at more than a handful of products at a time. Almost all companies comparable to Apple in size, are organized into product divisions, each with their own balanc
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by adamlett 10y ago
There are no such things as «natural rights».
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by adamlett 10y ago
You do realize that we are not talking about three specific persons, right? I will grant you that at any given time there are people who are unemployed even when there is demand for labor, because for some reason or other they do not fit th
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by adamlett 10y ago
Yes, in scenario 2 one person is without a job and one job is without a person. You'll never guess what happens next!
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by adamlett 10y ago
It's also worth mentioning that a side effect of efficiency wages is more unemployment. Paying more results in a better class of applicant, meaning that people who would normally use WalMart as the bottom rung of their career ladder a
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Relations as First-Class Citizen (2013)(try-alf.org)
2 points by adamlett 10y ago|0 comments
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by adamlett 10y ago
People and goods will find the most efficient, available way to move around. Regulation can sometimes make more efficient ways available where the market cannot.
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by adamlett 10y ago
I love this quote from the article: "The fact that millions of drivers productively drive cars without wearing a seatbelt isn’t a good argument for cars with no seat belt. Similarly, the fact that millions of JavaScript developers prod
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by adamlett 10y ago
You think the most successful company in the world needs to take a risk because you personally find them boring?
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by adamlett 10y ago
The shift to Intel was a move of necessity, a huge risk, and ultimately a major pain for Apple's customers not talk about third party developers. Apple took a huge hit to their goodwill. That was predictable, but they went ahead and di
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by adamlett 10y ago
If there is not already a cable you can buy with lightning at one end and whatever is needed to connect to your audio equipment at the other end, surely it is only a matter of time before there is.
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by adamlett 10y ago
Why? Sometimes they break, by wear or by accident. Other times I find that I made a mistake in buying them because they are uncomfortable or badly designed (chord too long, clicker placed so low I can't use it if I'm wearing a c
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by adamlett 10y ago
I use the headphone jack fairly often, but I'm fine with them removing it. I seem to buy new semi-expensive headphones every other year, and if my next purchase must be a pair of wireless ones, so be it. I don't get all the angst
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by adamlett 10y ago
The problem is that Elon Musk has a history of not keeping his promises. Sure, we got the Model S, but late, and a lot more expensive than promised. With the Model 3, he is promising even more. It's relatively easy to build an expensiv
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by adamlett 10y ago
The reason Hungarian Notation is considered bad practice is that it encodes in a variable name what is already, or at least ought to be, encoded in the variable’s type. CSS is not really a programming language, and it doesn't really ha
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by adamlett 10y ago
Yes. But they don't let you create a type whose inhabitants are rectangles. I have no idea you mean by that. The link you provided did not help. Immutability isn't enough. I'm sceptical about that. I am going to need an e
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by adamlett 10y ago
The rectangle-square problem arises because there's no such thing as a type of rectangles in Go to begin with. You are aware that Go and a lot of other languages allow the programmer to create new types, right? Rectangles are mathem
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by adamlett 10y ago
I see that I have been mistaken in my claim that there is no objective definition of what type safety means. I read the Wikipedia article after reading your previous comment, because I think I finally understood what you meant. I was convin
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by adamlett 10y ago
So, if I understand you correctly, your definition of a type unsafe language is one in which the type checker claims to be able to verify some statement about the program, but is actually not reliable? Is that what you mean by fullfilling
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by adamlett 10y ago
Not really. […] You seem to have missed the last part where I wrote "for appropriate values of such things ". I didn't claim that all type systems have the exact limitations of Go, but merely that all type systems have lim
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by adamlett 10y ago
The problem with Go is that the type system is too dumb to actually enforce such things First of all, if there is one problem that is the problem with Go, I doubt that many Go programmers would agree that what you describe is it. Second
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by adamlett 10y ago
That's true for all programming languages. That's literally how all bugs get created. Are you claiming that there exists some language where bugs cannot happen because it is "type safe"?
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by adamlett 10y ago
I play poker, and if there is one thing poker has taught me, it's that success is almost always a mix of skill and luck. In the short term luck dominates skill. In the long term it's the other way around. The kicker is that bad lu

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