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by akavi 11y ago
Does all of that have to be implemented every time you want to sort by a new predicate? If so, that seems like quite a lot of boilerplate, no?
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by akavi 11y ago
What does the implementation of `byName` look like? I'm not sure I understand what its return type would be.
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by akavi 11y ago
Yes, that's so much worse. At least to my eyes. It's a death by a thousand cuts. That's 3 dense lines that you need every time you map across a collection. Which obscures whatever else is happening in the rest of the method&#
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by akavi 11y ago
What would "lexicographic" comparison of two arrays mean? As in, what's the canonical string conversion, and how should commas be treated in the ordering? (eg, does `[1,2]` come before or after `[12]` ?) Admittedly, "lex
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by akavi 11y ago
> The problem is that lower-status people usually don;t have the knowledge or don't care. Or, just maybe, don't have the money or the free time.
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by akavi 11y ago
A, uh, personal eccentricity of mine is to treat dollars like any other unit written after the amount and optionally taking SI prefixes (At least in any writing I can get away with it). It's doubly nice because it plays well with rates
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by akavi 11y ago
Blame the person who chose to translate "petition principii" so terribly. No one in isolation would interpret the Modern English phrase "begs the question" as meaning "assumes the desired conclusion as a premise&quo
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by akavi 11y ago
When interviewing at Google, I also skipped the phone interview and went straight onsite because of where my degree was from. Or at least, that's what the recruiter said. Google claims to have a lot of data backing up its hiring deci
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by akavi 11y ago
> he ... had confronted (and tased) several people in that park Do you have a cite for that? Cursory googling doesn't seem to pull it up.
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by akavi 11y ago
I never realized this, but I do this too. I think the mentality comes from using your bank's website/mint/etc to track your spending. Anything done with a card becomes a specific line item staring you in the face; cash, howev
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by akavi 11y ago
That looks like DNA lounge, which definitely does not have go-go dancers by default. If so, it's pretty likely the Microsoft event organizers specifically requested/hired them.
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by akavi 11y ago
Am I really that much of an outlier in loving coffeescript? I know a lot of people don't like the extra translation effort to debugging, and some aren't fond of significant whitespace, but I'm surprised that that's enoug
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by akavi 11y ago
That's definitely not what most people mean when they refer to the "soul". And using "soul" to mean that is both confusing and unhelpful.
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by akavi 11y ago
Nothing wrong with celebrating it! But "(I am|He is|She is|They are) made it out of poverty because of hard work and a can-do attitude." is frequently used as an argument that, conversely, those who fail to make it out of poverty
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by akavi 11y ago
The key "insight" that helped me intuit this is that "HH" can self overlap, while "HT" can't.
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by akavi 11y ago
I don't think the graded vesting was the surprising thing to the parent comment, it's that it's five years instead of four. All the tech companies I've seen use 1 year cliff/4 year total vesting. Ie, 25% after the f
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by akavi 11y ago
That's true. A lot of people aren't getting thrown six figure entry level salaries and perhaps won't be able to find one, modulo geography, skill, personal preferences, etc. And it looks like we're seeing the market soft
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by akavi 11y ago
> BBC seems to know what these creatures are called Yes, they're called both "orcas" and "killer whales", with the latter being more common. And on that note, do people really parse "killer whales" as &
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by akavi 11y ago
Twitter? Foursquare? Linkedin? (Also my old company, PagerDuty. Wee bit lower profile than the other three, admittedly.)
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by akavi 11y ago
What I got out of this: regex precedence rules are really unintuitive to me.
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by akavi 11y ago
I'd also make the visa attach to the person, not the company. (Ie, the person can change jobs, taking the visa with them, so long as they keep the auction-winning salary level or higher.) As for: > A special pool for startups would
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by akavi 11y ago
The framing does make a difference, as it sets the perception of which gender is being "wronged". I think the GP is arguing that one could replace "care for family members... is more often foisted upon women" with "
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by akavi 11y ago
Just because a famous author said it doesn't make it true. Specialization is for people living in societies. Modern civilization would never have come into existence and cannot continue to exist without specialization.
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by akavi 11y ago
I will happily bet as much money as you want that this won't come to pass. If for no other reason than no decentralized communication service has ever been as convenient as a centralized one. And convenience is King for communication.
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by akavi 11y ago
SF/NYC. Liberal arts college degrees from well-regarded universities, public and private. Minimal previous careers (none were more than two years out of college), but all non-technical. The jobs are at various smallish, startup-ish web
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by akavi 11y ago
Four of them are more than two years on. The last just started, so we'll see. I think you underestimate the number of people for whom it clicks. Programming does seem to require a certain amount of general intelligence, but the notion
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by akavi 11y ago
I personally know five people who landed salaries of 100 k$/yr or more after three months of programming training. That's five people whom I'm on close enough terms with to overcome the salary discussion taboo. So I imagine
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by akavi 11y ago
> since compilers will check for exhaustiveness. That's not really required for pattern matching. Certainly makes it more useful, and most implementations have it, however.
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by akavi 11y ago
It really is some of the best content on youtube. To further convince anyone reading this: He has videos on making huts, axes, drills, baskets, and more, all completely from scratch and all with (to my taste, at least) extremely good, no wa
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by akavi 11y ago
"Beholden"? How so? It's not about making connections so that people will give you a job as a favor . It's about making connections so that you have social proof of your competence, plus to take advantage of the fact th

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