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by akavi 10y ago
Why wouldn't an "English style" (roman alphabet) style alphabet work? Romaji works just fine, albeit with the addition of a macron diacritic. Though if it really was the primary writing system, a way to notate tone accent mi
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by akavi 10y ago
Those seem the same to me, but the parent's is pithier. What's the difference in your eyes?
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by akavi 10y ago
Yes, but even how much you pay for rent can be controlled, if you choose to. You can easily find a room in an apartment for less than 1000 $/mo anywhere in the bay. It won't be a nice room if you choose to live in, say SoMa, but
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by akavi 10y ago
To add to what everyone else has said: There's no dividing line between "accent", "dialect", and "language" any more than there's a dividing line between "pebble", "stone" and &quo
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by akavi 10y ago
My intuition is that for the typical person, it hurts more than it helps. But life is unfair, and there probably are some people legitimately can put in 130 hours of net-positive work for extended periods of time. And presumably, these pe
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by akavi 10y ago
> in the 90's..the growth was finite, but there is no limit to Facebook, Google and Amazon. "This time, it's different."
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by akavi 10y ago
In a previous job, I spent many, many hours over the course of many, many months working on a shift scheduling UI. Moment.js played an enormous role in getting through that period of my life with my sanity (mostly) intact. Thank you, Mr.
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by akavi 10y ago
I suspect people like LordCarbonFiber (and myself) mean SF. Which technically isn't "SV", per se, but since the discussion is about cost of living, the same argument applies. I, at least, agree with you when it comes to SV pr
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by akavi 10y ago
There's a couple of different scoring rules that would be interesting, I think. Another one might be: What's the ratio between the area of the country and the smallest rectangle which bounds the country. This would "punish&qu
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by akavi 10y ago
Are there dogs at the antarctic research stations?
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by akavi 10y ago
The question is what the opportunity cost of your investment is. How much money have you invested and how much time have you spent on the rental property? What would your returns have been had you invested that money and the money gained fr
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by akavi 10y ago
> Do you want to be the n.1 restaurant? Depends on what you mean by "n.1". The "n.1" restaurant in terms of monetary value is McDonalds. They do market (heavily). They don't pay for the best cook (not anywhere ne
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by akavi 10y ago
What's the advantage of list comprehension over lambdas (assuming the lambda syntax is decently lightweight)? I feel like I come down hard on the side of lambdas, but I've never really spent enough time in a language with list com
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by akavi 10y ago
"Please use variable names that are more descriptive the larger the scope of their use is." When the scope is limited to a single line lambda, "first letter of the thing it is" is plenty descriptive enough, especially
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by akavi 10y ago
> Built a Haskell team at a startup, now work on a Haskell team in finance. Hiring has NEVER been a problem. Mind sharing names?
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by akavi 10y ago
> Generally I do not think it's true that large companies pay better than small ones - if anything the opposite. Anecdotal data point: I recently made the switch from startup to Megacorp, and my base salary remained the same, but my
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by akavi 10y ago
50 $/mo for 20 interviews seems pretty cheap to me? Estimating an engineering employee costs 100 $/hr, then 2.5 $/interview is way less than you're spending on the person conducting the interview. And 600 $/year is
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by akavi 10y ago
Is it discounting talent that results in success? Or is it success results in discounting talent? Or a third (overlapping) possibility: Maybe believing in hard work results in "success", but only for a fraction of people. Is the e
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by akavi 10y ago
Is that still true? I recently joined a company whose primary audience is education, and our numbers say that less than 1% of our customers use browsers that don't support flexbox. Are public middle schools farther along the tech curve
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by akavi 10y ago
These are valid issues, but one that has a better, actually scalable solution: CSS preprocessors. You can name your magic numbers/RGB values. You can move your shared behaviour into mixins. You can stop using float for god's sak
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by akavi 10y ago
I disagree. If you're stuck using vanilla CSS, that's probably the best you can do. But if you have a preprocessor that allows mixins (and god, you really should), I find life is made infinitely better if you have very specific
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by akavi 10y ago
Nope, type classes use dynamic dispatch (I might be wrong, but I think higher kinded types are impossible with pure static dispatch.).
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by akavi 10y ago
Why not "auction" them? Ie, allocate them to the positions companies are willing to pay the most for in descending order. You'd have to require that the company keep that salary in place for some number of years to prevent ab
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by akavi 10y ago
Fortunately for these interns, if this does "piss off" their managers at Yelp, they'll have many opportunities available at companies that are a little less punitive.
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by akavi 10y ago
> We recognized her skill and experience and cut to the chase So, to clarify, you're advocating that programmers be hired based on resume, references, and a conversation about prior projects? I'm not sure I agree with this. It
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by akavi 10y ago
The ability to programmatically generate methods/classes can be really powerful and, as far as I can tell, impossible with Typescript (and most statically typed languages). Back in my Backbone + CoffeeScript days, I reimplemented Rails
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by akavi 11y ago
SQL also gets a bad reputation from programmers that have a SET based approach to data too, because it's horribly uncomposable. When I try and solve a problem with SQL, it's generally trivial to produce a solution in relational al
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by akavi 11y ago
> practically it will render som unpleasant surprises. You take for granted that Dropbox hasn't considered these issues. Why?
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by akavi 11y ago
It might, but it also might be more typing/visual noise for little benefit.
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by akavi 11y ago
Private state, no? class Bar def foo(baz :: Baz) ... end end def foo(bar :: Bar, baz :: Baz) ... end could be in this hypothetical language that the former would be allowed to access privat

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