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by amackera 5y ago
This take seems to be predicated on the idea that VCs are out there funding teams just because of the technical complexity of their codebase? This just doesn't seem like the reality to me. If it can be done better for cheaper, VCs will
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by amackera 5y ago
I think it's just regular old click bait.
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by amackera 5y ago
Then you are exposing yourself to a potential prion transmission vector, though it's probably an incredibly low risk.
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by amackera 5y ago
I guarantee that those 20 eng roles represent 100s of actual positions. You need to staff up talent acquisition before you staff up talent. Also they'll probably be growing their sales team also.
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by amackera 5y ago
HR's job is to protect the company from the employees (that includes execs).
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by amackera 5y ago
How can something be both state-of-the-art and battle tested? I thought battle tested meant something more like "tried and true" (AKA not new). Cool product though!
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by amackera 5y ago
If it's widely popular and sells a lot, it's not a bad idea. It's just not for you?
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by amackera 5y ago
If you mail Don Knuth about the error you found in TAOCP, he'll send you a check for $1 -- he used to do that, anyway. People tend not to cash the cheque, but keep it.
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by amackera 5y ago
I also recommend the book "Grokking Simplicity" by Eric Normand for a longer exploration of functional software design (not Clojure-specific). The linked blog post uses Clojure examples, but this approach to software design is uni
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by amackera 5y ago
I guess this article isn't for me, since I have no problem with working hard. I enjoy it, and derive meaning from doing good work. In "Man's Search for Meaning", Viktor Frankl identifies three areas of focus to find mean
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by amackera 5y ago
Who on HN is upvoting this kind of garbage article? > CNN continues to lose trust for its biased news against whoever did not vote for Biden, and its promotion of an extremist hate-culture against "the other" 84 million Americ
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by amackera 5y ago
I admire and respect John Carmack for his role in the history of computing (and his ongoing contributions), but I don't see how making 3D video games was really helping humanity more than this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by amackera 5y ago
It's important to note that she defrauded investors long after it became clear that the "bells and whistles" she was selling were just smoke and mirrors. Theranos isn't a typical case of founder hype like you describe. I
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by amackera 5y ago
They sailed home to Greenland, presumably, and wrote about their adventures in sagas. Unfortunately the indigenous peoples of Newfoundland (the Beothuk) were forced into starvation by the encroachment of European fishermen, so we don't
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by amackera 5y ago
Why's that? Edit: ooooh the typo
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by amackera 5y ago
I'm sorry, what? Why wouldn't you want a Lock Screen? That's a basic security measure, without a lock screen Windows would be a non-starter for any secure enterprise.
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by amackera 5y ago
Sad story (though of course there's always more than one side to any story!) I hope folks are clueing into this by now, but flashy policies like "unlimited vacation" or "unlimited sick days" _are_ a scam. They sell
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by amackera 5y ago
The work is funded by a Clojure community group (and a Clojure-using company), and Tonsky has written a bunch of awesome other Clojure (see DataScript[1]). So it seems as though the decision to use Clojure was not made for technical reasons
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by amackera 5y ago
"All models are wrong, but some are useful." [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
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by amackera 5y ago
Thanks!
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by amackera 5y ago
Source?
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by amackera 5y ago
Classic meme in the Clojure world is "hammock driven development" popularized by Rich Hickey himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc Love this!
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by amackera 5y ago
Bitcoin seems highly resistant to centralized control; I suspect attempts to outlaw it would be easily thwarted.
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by amackera 5y ago
Reduced purchasing power that's disruptive to your way of life (read: starving to death) is the obvious reason why everybody cares about inflation. The real reason we have actual policy to attempt to control inflation is that high
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by amackera 5y ago
Buddy they do that in America too
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by amackera 5y ago
It seems like the mortality rate is far higher than 0.1% according to the actual data (not anecdotes): https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality Obviously this data is only for confirmed cases, so there may be far mor
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by amackera 5y ago
I love this, a lot: > Conclusions: Parachute use did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when jumping from aircraft in the first randomized evaluation of this intervention. However, the trial was only able to enroll participants o
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by amackera 5y ago
Sounds like a man woefully unaware of his own privilege, and dangerously unaware of the systemic challenges faced by minorities. In my opinion, this is not a thoughtful article.
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by amackera 5y ago
I would think writing modular (decoupled) code would make it easier to remove and re-write, no? I don't see any conflict between those two bits of advice. Readability has a long tradition in programming too, including but not limited t
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by amackera 5y ago
I think this makes sense. Double-edged swords make for powerful tools. I like to think you can make a DSL for any situation, but it's not like I've actually done that in practice hah.

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