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by akavi 7y ago
They're not present in the dominant statically typed languages (C/C++/C#/Java/Go) and not really a thing in dynamic languages generally, and so the vast majority of programmers never encounter the concept.
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by akavi 7y ago
I'm not sure I see any part of that quote even suggesting "50% of your coworkers... should be paid less because they're genetically inferior to you". And regardless of the correctness of firing him, him getting fired is
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by akavi 7y ago
Did the wealth of car companies go to labor? Or did the wealth go to the venture capitalists (or whatever the venture capital equivalents of the day were)? Because those are very different situations.
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by akavi 7y ago
On an age adjusted basis, pretty much every FAANG employee is a 1%-er, so I imagine quite a few.
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by akavi 7y ago
Make the back taxes due on sale then. Simple.
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by akavi 7y ago
I think the distinction is between statically typed and dynamically typed languages, which for other reasons lines up with compiled vs. interpreted. A lot of the benefit of statically typed languages are the tooling around them (IDE integra
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by akavi 7y ago
This might be helpful for you: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_s...
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by akavi 7y ago
> wages haven't increased while inflation has gone up ...That's not true, at all? Adjusted for inflation, wages have at worst been flat for certain sectors. The vast majority of people have seen inflation adjused wage inc
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by akavi 7y ago
What does lynx have to do with anything? No blind person I know browses the internet without JS, and every major screen reader supports it.
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by akavi 7y ago
"I'm not sure what you mean by X; did you mean X1 or X2?" is a perfectly reasonable thing to say during a conversion (modulo formality)
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by akavi 7y ago
Tangentially, what language right now most closely hits the mark of Rust + GC? I'm thinking Algol based syntax, expressive type system (sum types/generics/structurally typed structs), and optional mutability like Rust, but wi
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by akavi 7y ago
Post tax, that's ~5 k$/mo, which is (by choice) roughly my monthly spending as a single/no kids 28-year-old in NYC. It's not a bad lifestyle at all. I personally would feel uncomfortable spending that much if I wasn&#x27
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by akavi 7y ago
A couple of points 1) "Don’t forget though, you’ll have to pay taxes, because the value of your shares is likely greater than the price you paid to buy them." This is not true if, like most stock options, yours are ISOs and you do
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by akavi 7y ago
The ultimate goal of the user is to find a suitable partner. Whether you can achieve that goal better with sophisticated selection of who you show to whom isn't obvious to me either way. (Anecdotally, having used multiple apps, there i
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by akavi 7y ago
The algorithm used doesn't need to be any good at matching people for online dating to increase your chance of finding a suitable partner. A system which showed people to each other in a totally randomized way would still drastically i
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by akavi 7y ago
If Alphabet pays a low rate, then the benefit of a tax deduction's reduced, so I'm not sure I understand the "especially" here.
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by akavi 7y ago
It's a little odd that the link doesn't mention that average working hours has in fact gone down over time in the United States, from 1989 hours over a year in 1950 to 1,757 hours in 2017[0]. That's a decrease of roughly 12%.
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by akavi 7y ago
Not true of any of the four places I've worked, startup and FAANG. Directors (at FAANG) and CEOs (at startups) sat at the same kind of desk the rest of us did (though of course, spent the vast majority of time in meetings)
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by akavi 7y ago
The article uses phrases like "As a developer become more senior, they become more independent.", which indicates they view seniority as the independent variable.
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by akavi 7y ago
Why is time on the y-axis for all of these examples? Is that a (perverse) convention even outside of econ somewhere?
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by akavi 7y ago
The divorce rate hasn’t been 50% for all marriages in a long time, and that was always inflated by second, third, Nth marriages. The current divorce rate for first marriages where both partners have a bachelors is around 10%.
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by akavi 7y ago
In the USA, dividends on stock one has held for more than a year is taxed as long term capital gains. The tax advantage of buybacks is they allow the shareholder to choose when the taxes are incurred, not how they’re taxed.
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by akavi 7y ago
Go structs behave the same way. I wonder if one influenced the other.
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by akavi 7y ago
Except everything I can find says that Seattle real estate prices are in fact falling. [0] https://komonews.com/news/local/home-prices-dropping-in-the-... [1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business&
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by akavi 7y ago
I'm not sure I understand why people are so eager to conflate the term "10x engineer" with "an arrogant engineer who is only seemingly productive because of either obfuscation or generation of technical debt". It se
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by akavi 7y ago
Not all isomorphic representations are equally ergonomic. Exceptions require special additional syntax, Result is “just” another value.
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by akavi 7y ago
The lack of ADTs in mainstream languages is really quite baffling, given their obvious utility. Thankfully it looks like they’re trickling in via Typescript/Swift/Kotlin.
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by akavi 7y ago
If only there was a way to make a single function work with multiple different types. A way to "genericize" it, you might say. Alas, that's obviously completely impossible. Such a thing is beyond the capabilities of us mortal
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by akavi 7y ago
Yes, because Amazon would no longer exist.
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by akavi 7y ago
`map` is strictly less "powerful" than a "loop", so I'd argue that's misleading. Which I'd also argue is a good thing. Using the least powerful construct available both communicates to future readers of th

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