brlewis

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by brlewis 8y ago
You gained more reputation by owning your mistake than you lost by making it.
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by brlewis 8y ago
If those were the reasons for LISP's lack of popularity, then LISP would have been more popular than Python or PHP. What happened is that 1980s hardware was not ready for languages slower than C. C became the dominant language, and C-s
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by brlewis 8y ago
> Is there a link where they say they spent 38% of their development time on this? No there is not. The comment you're replying to has no factual basis for this claim. Nor is there a basis in the article for 'what these Javascr
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by brlewis 8y ago
That 38% -- what strictness level of TS would have prevented those bugs? This question is at the center of the debate surrounding the benefit:cost ratio of using TS. Side note: The article title says TypeScript specifically. The HN title sa
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by brlewis 8y ago
Deflation involves lowering existing titles, which can lead to a lot of awkwardness even when done company-wide. As a result it's a lot easier to inflate than deflate. Thus the natural workplace dynamic you mention.
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by brlewis 8y ago
> burdening them to “sell” their vision on some architecture, recruiting policy, whatever. Fair warning, if I ever interview you for a position of senior or higher, I will be evaluating your ability to sell your ideas to other engineers.
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by brlewis 8y ago
I haven't kept up with sci fi for a long time so I had to google Culture Series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture_(series)#Books_in_... Sounds like the utopian culture of the protagonists is surrounded by
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by brlewis 8y ago
Try getting a publisher to accept a book about a future world that's somewhat cleaner and more convenient than today. I can't wait for the movie version.
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by brlewis 8y ago
I couldn't find where any law enshrined businesses appropriating tips. I googled server wage and just found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipped_wage If there's something enshrined in law beyond a lower minim
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by brlewis 8y ago
Server wage: Workers and customers know up front that base pay is lower. Customers expect that their tips will go to the worker in addition to base pay. This: Base pay starts low, and is reduced by the tip amount, contrary to the expectatio
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by brlewis 8y ago
You don't really mean "exactly what's happening". You mean "approximately what's happening, averaged across everyone's tips." Which is still not true, because people know the restaurant situation up f
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by brlewis 8y ago
This is not up-front lower pay with the expectation of tips. This is low pay where tips effectively go to the company, not the worker. I would not be OK with it if I tipped at a restaurant and the restaurant reduced the staff's pay by
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by brlewis 8y ago
Right, FriendFeed had Like before Facebook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_button#FriendFeed
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by brlewis 8y ago
Cite please. Was that ever really a law anywhere other than Victoria, Australia?
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by brlewis 8y ago
For bulbs that are really cheap, people won't keep their receipts and warranty information. I think it will be hard for bulbs to differentiate by warranty.
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by brlewis 8y ago
The pgcrypto module ships with pg but you have to enable it. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/pgcrypto.html#id-1.11.7.3...
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by brlewis 8y ago
It makes me sad too, and I use Instagram and don't like Snapchat. Instagram has focused way too much on competing with Snapchat with "stories". I wish it would stop pushing this feature so hard; it gets in the way of the main
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by brlewis 8y ago
Yes, some code requires ratcheting down strictness even from the defaults.
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by brlewis 8y ago
One problem with the math for the ROI calculation is that catching a bug with a test is counted the same as catching a bug while you're typing the buggy code. Type checking lets you catch bugs sooner, thus more cheaply. Another problem
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by brlewis 8y ago
I'm on a Mac running High Sierra at the moment.
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by brlewis 8y ago
But if you’re in the position of deciding whether or not to use it, you should have a realistic understanding of both the benefits and the costs. Will it have a positive or negative impact? I strongly disagree. You can start using typescr
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by brlewis 8y ago
script -r script -p
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by brlewis 8y ago
Prior art still invalidates patents AFAIK. Unless there's some recent Fed Circuit decision that changes that.
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by brlewis 8y ago
Working well for me: https://www.npmjs.com/package/tsc-watch
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by brlewis 8y ago
Also twitter whenever the app is supposed to act on behalf of a user. (OAuth 2 is simpler, and is available for accessing public data not on behalf of a user.) https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/auth
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by brlewis 8y ago
Using the latest Firefox on High Sierra, the print dialog for me doesn't include a preview where I can see what changes when I change options. But then, I get the same print dialog from Firefox's hamburger menu, so maybe there&#x2
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by brlewis 8y ago
Did you try extensions and not like them? https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&q=firefox+t...
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by brlewis 8y ago
Chrome shows me a preview of what's going to be printed and lets me fit to page or scale. Firefox gives a print dialog that doesn't even have a preview button.
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by brlewis 8y ago
>Chromecast support was one thing keeping me from dropping Chrome entirely For me it's that and the printing UX. I use a printer almost every week and often open Chrome just for that purpose.
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by brlewis 8y ago
"Canalys says Apple Watch sales for the holiday quarter alone were 8 million, and nearly half of those were the new Apple Watch Series 3 — which we’ve already pegged as a game-changer."

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