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by curun1r 8y ago
This is so true. And we're inundated with images and stories of "better" people who we'd rather be friends with thanks to social media and celebrity idolitry which makes us not want to settle for the healthier, more real
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by curun1r 8y ago
> Rust is the exception here in that Cargo is a very nice piece of kit Also Rustup, which is pretty key to Cargo remaining flexible going forward. There's a huge advantage to having the build/dependency management piece being h
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by curun1r 9y ago
I'm in a similar situation, except that mine is from the initial 2012 retina batch. I hate so many of the changes Apple has made to the MBP line in the latest incarnation, so I'm currently leaning towards getting one of older batc
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by curun1r 9y ago
I hope you didn't jump straight to quitting. There may have been a legitimate need to launch something that quickly. When I get requests like that, I usually explain the immutable rule of software development... deadline, quality, scop
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by curun1r 9y ago
> I'd argue that lack of static typing makes a language tougher to learn rather than more approachable I think it's a bit of a wolf in sheep's clothing. It makes it harder to master, but less intimidating when you're
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by curun1r 9y ago
It's certainly been my experience that there are a lot of JS developers who aren't like you, though I have met a few who are. But JS has traditionally been one of the most accessible languages. Before transpilers became common, vi
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by curun1r 9y ago
It's probably more of a "know your audience" decision. Anyone who's used an ML-derived language will understand the motivation for pattern matching. But a large percentage of JS developers don't really have much bac
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by curun1r 9y ago
This is an important perspective to take. Getting laid off, for someone unfamiliar or unprepared, can be very scary. But I can honestly say that every time I've been laid off (4 times thus far...mostly back in the .com days when smalle
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by curun1r 9y ago
It's probably good to notice that, in this case, Congress did change the law. They set up the review system in question in 2011. The issue is that, in order to avoid the kind of 200-year-old principles complaint of the post you're
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by curun1r 9y ago
Those are two things that can happen, but a more generalized version of that is an increased drive for exceptionalism. Men will take more risks to succeed at all costs because the safe route means failure. That can be mean war, where many m
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by curun1r 9y ago
> An inefficient way is better than no way at all Really, why? IMHO, there's a pretty compelling argument to be made that Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies have had a significantly net-negative impact on the world, from facilit
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by curun1r 9y ago
I completely agree with some of what you said. But the point is that we should stop trying to make biometric security issues more accessible by making false equivalencies with well-understood authentication methods like username/passwo
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by curun1r 9y ago
And it's been wrong every time. Biometric data is a form of identity, as is the combination of username and password. Different forms of identity have different security trade-offs and removing nuance by comparing it to a single comp
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by curun1r 9y ago
FWIW, it took me ~9 mo to go from reasonable swimmer with a 90 second static breath hold to achieving my personal best depth. I think my point was that freediving skill is often attributed to natural aptitude because we go beyond what docto
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by curun1r 9y ago
> No, no bends. Unless you have been diving scuba earlier the same day. As you don't breathe deep down, only bring air from the surface in your longs, it won't happen. Freedivers can have nitrogen absorption issues if they make
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by curun1r 9y ago
I know they did. If they had just stuck to the part about genetic tests, that'd be fine. It's the flowery language about how they're adapted to depths that would kill normal human beings that I was objecting to. They should h
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by curun1r 9y ago
No, plunging 200 ft underwater isn't a physiological marvel. Learning to hold your breath for up to 8 minutes is not some mysterious ability, it just takes training. And anyone who can hold their breath for that long can go down to 60m
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by curun1r 9y ago
I've been hesitant to use Google for services like this after hearing about incidents where Google disabled everything associated with a Google account after detecting some violation of their ToS. I'd hate to lose my domain name b
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by curun1r 9y ago
Perhaps long term, that would be an issue. But short term and even medium term, I don't see Netflix, Prime Video and YouTube Red as competition. Their real competition is cable/satellite and as long as Netflix helps round out a co
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by curun1r 9y ago
> Because it's unthinkable that movies with male main characters could actually just be better than movies with female main characters Or, more realistically, it's not unthinkable that movies with a male lead could be better r
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by curun1r 9y ago
> That's the entire business model. Umm...that's comically wrong. The fortune-500 company I worked for paid more than $40k/yr to license their data and update it monthly. Given the description of how Apple is using it, the
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by curun1r 9y ago
I think you've missed my point. The D&B requirement is a natural consequence of the fact that Apple has decided to require that publishers be an established business. My point wasn't to defend Apple's decision in that mat
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by curun1r 9y ago
I think you've discovered his point. The advantage that you describe makes the developer's job easier, not the user's. If you're an iOS user, where the monetary incentive is there for developers to invest the time to b
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by curun1r 9y ago
D&B isn't some "random" company. If you've ever been faced with a project that requires you to have a reasonably complete set of information on most businesses in the country, you quickly learn about D&B. Almost
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by curun1r 9y ago
The important distinction between the Goenka retreats and other dogmatic religious organizations is the instructions to only accept what you find palatable...you're free to pick and choose what you find valuable and what you can valida
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by curun1r 9y ago
It's worth noting that they're also against it getting too complex too. There's a sweet spot where most people feel comfortable using software to complete and file their returns but is also not too simple to need software. Al
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by curun1r 9y ago
If you want to cut down on lines, this is equivalent: let val = do_result().map_err(|e| Box::new(err(e.into())))?;
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by curun1r 9y ago
Up until now, the people displaced from the jobs automated away have always been intelligent enough to offer utility beyond what automation can provide. But there's a tipping point when automation/machine intelligence exceeds huma
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by curun1r 9y ago
The thing about lawyers is that they're often able to create work for themselves. They can lobby for laws that create opportunity if automation affects them too much. They can create class actions out of nothing and recruit their clien
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by curun1r 9y ago
There this: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/mar/26/prop-13s-impact-schools...

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