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by bedobi 3y ago
> So basically creating a strawman toy model of actual complex economy and solving it Uh, no. Read up on what economists did to empirically study and fix the kidney market and how many lives that has saved. (before you start typing, no,
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Yes, economics is science, and the people who don't understand that and love to point out how economists are never right in their predictions about the economy fundamentally have no idea what the field is even about. Economics is not a
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This study basically describes 99% of people here, lol. Because you know how to write code, you're suddenly an expert not only at that but also at economics, medicine, international relations etc etc. Every field is ready for you to di
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Applause nitpicking the nitpickers, love it
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what? chimps destroy humans at remembering sequences of numbers
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both you and the comment I'm replying to are hilariously hackernews pedantic consider all the sounds humans can produce now ask yourself 1) amongst them, if p and d are close (there is no world in which the answer to that is "no&q
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what? linguists would universally consider d and p extremely similar, they're near identical plosives
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by bedobi 3y ago
don't mean to nitpick but not sure where you're getting Japanese from, in Japanese mama is Okaasan or Haha and Otousan or Chichi for dada. (I don't know the evolution of either of the words, it may be that they were closer to
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by bedobi 3y ago
Location: Miami, FL Remote: YES Willing to relocate: NO Technologies: strong in Kotlin, Functional Programming and peripheral tech like AWS and more Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xKLSoiRCl
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Harder to find than it should be due to YouTube enshittification of their search but https://youtu.be/ohdysfFWO4w?si=iEz-HcFabRFc1kID
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I always struggled (and still struggle) with math. A couple of years ago, randomly browsing YouTube, I came across this home made video asking how they figured out the distance to the moon before modern technology. The host starts out smal
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I mean if your opinion is "somewhere up the call stack, you're handling that exception" and "if you don't, the framework will 500" means you're not pretending nothing can go wrong, then we will never agree
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> In a language without exceptions, anywhere you call something that can return an error, you have to explicitly do something with it, even if you're just returning it early (which you usually are) No? You just have to indicate it m
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> I don't want to manually handle every single error case I get this all the time from people who are used to exceptions, and it's based on a lack of understanding. If you get an Either<Error, User> from the db, you don&#
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Don't agree with a single thing, especially not with the characterization that functional error handling is some kind of attempt at reinventing exceptions. But yeah, it's clear my and your camp will never agree lol. Fortunately fo
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Exception based error handling is so bad and unsafe that adopting functional error handling with Either, Try etc as implemented by functional addon libraries for many languages, while not yet common, in time it will become the new default e
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by bedobi 3y ago
hard agree on nullable types just make everything non null and use option/maybe to indicate absence wayyyy simpler
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by bedobi 3y ago
Not sure what you're getting at? Even in Haskell you can easily pass data around as untyped maps of maps if you want. But usually you don't. But maybe you're talking more about when generics and obsession with not duplicating
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by bedobi 3y ago
This!!! I've struggled with impostor syndrome A LOT but coming here and seeing a lot of supposedly well paid, successful, highly educated people say the things they sometimes do... I don't mean to say I'm smarter, I'm ju
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by bedobi 3y ago
This is a good idea and an important first mover (at least when it comes to European capitals) which will legitimize doing the same in other places around the world.
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I mean, the right has its own form of political correctness (it's not OK to say climate change is real, that non-heterosexuals have rights etc etc)
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Facebook has money because it's Facebook. That doesn't mean how the company is run is good, efficient or worthy of emulating. Everyone I know who's worked there says it's not well run. There are constant articles like th
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by bedobi 3y ago
I had a fundamentally similar but not THAT ridiculous experience looking for roles from around beginning of Feb to late April. 10+ years of experience on the backend, of both legacy and cutting edge tools, including 5+ years at a huge US pu
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I don't mean to be uncharitable but it seems like most exception advocates here don't really understand the case us functional error handling advocates are making. We don't advocate handling errors at every level. They'r
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> Any proper course or tutorial will tell you to catch specific exceptions any real world library or application will catch Exception e, catch checked exceptions and turn them into unchecked ones etc etc
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> That bug should have been caught by tests, code reviews and good communication This is such an unproductive cop out response. The problem could be completely solved by functional error handling, which leverages the compiler to force yo
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by bedobi 3y ago
I don't mean to be uncharitable but it seems like most exception advocates here don't really understand the case us functional error handling advocates are making. We don't advocate handling errors at every level. They'r
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by bedobi 3y ago
This is the most common reply I see whenever anyone proposes a safer, better way of coding, and it's not a good one. "Just get better" like oh ok except that in the real world people are gonna people and even the best program
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by bedobi 3y ago
> Sometimes top level code needs to do this come on, it's not as if anyone disagrees with that, but that's extremely, extremely rare, overwhelmingly, callers are just dealing things like with UserNotFoundException, NullPointerE

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