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by alxmng 4y ago
One of my measures of a good programmer, is the ability to grok, debug, and extend code written by someone else, regardless of its perceived quality.
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by alxmng 4y ago
It seems to me the larger issue is most people don’t want to learn, or don’t have the environment conducive to learning. It’s already possible to learn in a self-directed way without a teacher. I didn’t even go to high school, all my higher
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by alxmng 4y ago
Should be /^[^@]+@[^@]+$/ at least, because you need something before and after @
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Battery-swapping EVs are all the rage in Taiwan. Will it work abroad?(restofworld.org)
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by alxmng 4y ago
You can’t be wrong if you don’t ever believe you’re right :) Maybe.
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by alxmng 4y ago
You’re right. That’s what NixOS is, a Linux distro where all software is managed by Nix, so the users environment is fully compartmentalized, declarative, and reproducible.
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by alxmng 4y ago
Right, but that doesn't change the return. It would only change the amount of money being invested in VC or IPOs versus bonds. And the total money chasing stocks isn't evenly distributed amongst stocks, so less money in the stock
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by alxmng 4y ago
> That means all of those hypothetical companies are worth 40% less, but it still costs about the same to build them. I don't follow. The gains are realized when the company is acquired or goes public. If bond yields are 0%, the VC
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by alxmng 4y ago
Right, but if interest rates are high they can still go public at a large valuation...
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by alxmng 4y ago
I suspect you're overestimating the impact of bond rates on VC or IPOs. What does the data say? IPOs have declined during a period of low rates, and at first glance there doesn't appear to be any clear correlation between inflatio
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by alxmng 4y ago
Sure, maybe the IPO shares sell for lower with higher rates, which may mean a lower total return for the VC. But to what degree? So the VC get $9 billion instead of $10. It seems to me the only thing that would affect is future fund allocat
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by alxmng 4y ago
Why would bond rates make or break A16Z? A lower interest rate on bonds may mean LPs allocate more money to VC funds, but the bulk of A16Z’s fund is surely not people who will all pull out their money and put it into bonds if rates go up a
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by alxmng 4y ago
You can use ES6 imports for JS and CSS directly in the browser, by including es-module-shims[1]. No need for a package manager, transpiler, or build step. <script type="module"> import Pkg from ' https://site.
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by alxmng 4y ago
That's what an iframe is? I guess there could be a partial element that works like <partial href="header.html" /> but if it's referencing HTML, what about JavaScript or CSS it includes? That's exactly wha
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by alxmng 4y ago
An aggregator. HN’s RSS already includes a comment link in <comments> element, but many aggregators don’t display this.
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by alxmng 4y ago
https://sumi.news shows separate links for comments and the article.
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by alxmng 4y ago
I run many different web apps off a single VPS, a Linode with Debian. Deployment is pushing to a git repo on the server, which has a hook that simply kills the server. Supervisord ensures apps are restarted automatically. Caddy proxies ever
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by alxmng 4y ago
So, a spreadsheet?
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by alxmng 4y ago
US military budget is 700 billion annually.
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by alxmng 4y ago
Look for companies that use Rails, Phoenix, or Laravel.
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by alxmng 4y ago
I’d say the biggest drawback is performance. Ruby is slow and resource hungry, Rails leans heavily on reflection. Starting a large Rails app can take 10+ seconds (even with bootsnap). Large test suites can become time consuming to run. Heav
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by alxmng 4y ago
It’s 2023 and I still think nothing beats Rails (even with all its flaws).
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by alxmng 4y ago
I disagree. I think nushell does both quite well. But it requires eschewing backwards-compatibility and interoperability with sh/bash
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by alxmng 4y ago
Good points. Ideally, I prefer a workflow where features are branches and merged in, with fast forwarding disabled and rebasing used to keep feature branches updated. History is preserved, a linear history exists as merge commits, and merge
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by alxmng 4y ago
You can list only merge commits to get a linear log, without destroying history.
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by alxmng 4y ago
But do you watch YouTube or use screens around him? That's my problem with the advice to limit screen time. Why should I be telling my child not to do something that everyone around him is doing?
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by alxmng 4y ago
What age are you talking about?
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by alxmng 4y ago
Why even need sources like NYT? Just generate the headlines and articles using ChatGPT perfectly tailored to what you want to hear :)
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by alxmng 4y ago
Having done this in the past, what I would do is build on Squarespace, Webflow, Shopify, or another platform and run the monthly billing through you (and double the price to make money on monthly hosting). If you ever decide you don't
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by alxmng 4y ago
Agreed. I turn off all notifications and route mentions/replies to email, creating a chronological inbox I can work through.

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