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by cheriot 6y ago
The real question is: how much of standard libraries and broader ecosystem use them? Scala has null values, but broad usage of Option and Either so I can often write code as if null didn't exist.
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by cheriot 6y ago
If they could show strong growth continuing they'd have made more money with an IPO than an acquisition. At least that's what the comment is suggesting.
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by cheriot 6y ago
Seems like the challenge is that software is rarely and end goal in itself. Either it's for end users and needs design, marketing, etc or it's for businesses and needs sales people, account management, etc. I'd love to see so
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by cheriot 6y ago
Amazon's move earlier this year might be an early sign. They split their expansion across 6(?) different cities. I doubt society is moving away from offices or cities in the near future, but it's a whole lot easier to have teams o
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by cheriot 6y ago
tldr; Jeremy Howard says python will always be calling out to something else that's faster and more parallel. Writing fast python has too much cognitive overhead. He hopes Julia catches on because it's Julia all the way down.
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by cheriot 6y ago
Our careers are longer games than a single job. We're not robots and relationships in the industry that are not purely self-interested are important. "Friend" is always going to change with the context, but it's worth ha
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by cheriot 6y ago
It's a problem that comes with economic success and SF got there first. That doesn't mean other cities aren't on the same trajectory. And the fact that it's a 19th century city not designed for cars makes a big differenc
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by cheriot 6y ago
For example, advocates of this law warned that Portland would become more like SF: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/01/737798440/oregon-legislature-...
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by cheriot 6y ago
3/4 of residential land in SF is zoned for single family. We're not to the point where we need to talk about geography or the superfund sites. When we actually use our land wisely, then it will be easy to build more around train s
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by cheriot 6y ago
High housing costs make people financially vulnerable. Then all it takes is illness or an unexpected bill to miss rent and get evicted. High housing costs mean housing vouchers cover fewer people with its budget. > They usually have some
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by cheriot 6y ago
SF "protects" its single family neighborhoods by herding all the heroin, hookers, and new housing into a few containment zone neighborhoods. The police department has completed 40 of the 272 reforms it promised to the Department o
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by cheriot 6y ago
> costs are much higher Much of this is caused by the high cost of housing. Everyone needs to be paid enough to live here or enough to be worth commuting long distances. > availability of labor and land are extremely constrained That&
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by cheriot 6y ago
> So why do companies use a tool that works for a few PMs and business leaders when dozens or hundreds of engineers hate it? In fact, Jira is so infinitely configurable it reflects the org chart and culture of the company using it. Most
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by cheriot 6y ago
Are you really going to pretend that no progress has been made here? A lot of brands monitor their supply chains because they're worried about consumer reaction to unethical behavior.
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by cheriot 6y ago
Do you think politicians will legislate permanent change without that outrage? If people saw sweatshops on TV and said, “well, they’re just trying to maximize profit” it will guarantee nothing changes. > Some brands including Adidas, Bos
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by cheriot 6y ago
I specifically cited an industry that was forced to change by customer behavior (boycotts). Regardless of the change required here, it starts by driving awareness and making this behavior socially unacceptable. There won't be any polit
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by cheriot 6y ago
That starts with making their behavior socially unacceptable. It was customer boycotts that drove ethics in clothing manufacturing. We should not let Intuit off the hook because capitalism means pursuit of profits. Our society has to have h
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by cheriot 6y ago
> I am amazed how often people blame this on the tax prep industry Should I not blame clothing companies for contracting out to sweat shops? We should absolutely blame companies that are acting against the country's interests. Not a
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by cheriot 6y ago
I've no doubt that there are people taking programming opinions way to far and it sucks that PHP devs have to deal with that. OTOH, there are now mainstream languages with null in the type system, union types, pattern matching, etc...
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by cheriot 6y ago
Lots of CC bonuses have a minimum spend specifically to filter richer customers. The problem is not that the company is trying to make money, it's that this market has become an oligopoly with too much pricing power. With the prevalenc
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by cheriot 6y ago
Ones and zeros affect human lives. Maybe a prohibition on paying off ransomware is needed, but it's not sufficient and I don't think it's the low hanging fruit. John Dillinger once made headlines because he was better armed t
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by cheriot 6y ago
It's insurance that negotiates and pays ransom. How is that not comparable?
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by cheriot 6y ago
That's seriously out of touch with the data. Play around with the animation tool at the bottom of this article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/27/upshot/make-y... The article it wa
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by cheriot 6y ago
That looks perfect. Thanks!
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by cheriot 6y ago
A project I want to build some day is a tool that pulls highlights from kindle / play books and turns them into a morning email to help recall. If you steal the idea I'll be your first customer :)
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by cheriot 6y ago
> I think that given the well-known bias of NYT People saying it doesn't make it true. The only argument you've made is quibbling about the order in which the facts are introduced. I see 7 subheadings in the story. The details
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by cheriot 6y ago
That drives home the cambrian explosion happening in the k8s world.
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by cheriot 7y ago
That's some really interesting detail. Thanks. Really weird how the growth section tracks a "Running Total" so that flat (at best) monthly rentals generate an up and to the right line.
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by cheriot 7y ago
> There is a global average infection rate. Of course it's just an average, but is representative of the growth of global cases Flattening the curve in NYC and Lombardy does not change the trajectory of Brazil and every other develo
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by cheriot 7y ago
The places that are growing are too early in the curve to move that needle. The developing world got it first because people travel more, but the virus has reached poor countries and they won't have as many options.

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