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by curun1r 9y ago
> See how that's so much cleaner? No, I don't. I look at the former snippet and I can easily tell each and every function invocation that can cause SomeError. In your theoretical style, I have no idea whether foo, foobar, xfoo,
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by curun1r 9y ago
We won't need nearly as many charging stations as we need gas stations because electric cars can be charged at home.
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by curun1r 9y ago
When new car sales move to electric from gasoline, you'll start to see gas stations go out of business...slowly at first but accelerating as the percentage of gas powered vehicles declines. You'll still have your car and be allowe
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by curun1r 9y ago
False. That feature allows a more efficient implementation, but (T, error) (or an equivalent struct) can be reasoned about in much the same way as Result<T>. You don't need a tagged union when you can use the nil-ness of one of t
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by curun1r 9y ago
> not generics as others seem to obsess about One reason people obsess about generics is specifically because of error handling. With generics, you could implement Result and Option types, which make error handling significantly more san
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by curun1r 9y ago
I think the implication is that the 'white' part is irrelevant to the sexual harassment she faced and just serves to muddy the waters. Would the treatment she experienced have been any more or less wrong had it been at the hands o
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by curun1r 9y ago
Not biology, but I've had great success hiring mechanical engineers to write code. I'm not sure what it is--perhaps some mindset they learn in school--but I've yet to meet one that didn't develop into an excellent softwa
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by curun1r 9y ago
He also doesn't mention BeanShell, which there's no excuse for forgetting, considering it was a direct competitor for Groovy, or JRuby/Jython/Rhino, which could be excused for excluding since they're ports of other
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by curun1r 9y ago
> get yourself a set of Bose Quiet Comfort 35s That's only if you like to listen to music while you work. If you just want quiet, get yourself a pair of the earmuffs that the airport ground crews wear out on the tarmac. I had a cowo
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by curun1r 9y ago
I actually mostly like Hibernate, except for the very few times where I hate it with the burning fire of a thousand suns. But that's to be expected when a tool tries to go too far towards the magic end of the spectrum. But why I don&#x
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by curun1r 9y ago
No one has mentioned it, so I'll say that one of the things that I found most pleasant about Thailand was the religious aspect of it. I'm more of an atheist, but spending time in a primarily Buddhist country has a very different f
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by curun1r 9y ago
I won't speak for others, but I discarded the idea of ever using Ceylon when I learned that Gavin King was involved with it. I won't go into why--a simple Google search will easily allow people to make up their own minds--but suff
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by curun1r 9y ago
> but I can't find the link right now :( Are you thinking of this: http://www.denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm
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by curun1r 9y ago
> How is this shit legal? From the article... > One recurring feature of the Trump Presidency has been an acute collective sensation, shared by a substantial portion of the electorate, of helpless witness. Dismayed Americans wait, lik
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by curun1r 9y ago
> Pain science is a very well-researched field that gets plenty of funding and is worked on by some of the best scientists and doctors in the world who have no corrupt agenda. Perhaps, but there is a fundamental problem with a purely sci
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by curun1r 9y ago
I'm not saying that everyone should meditate. I'm only bringing it up because I think it sheds a light on the true nature of pain and why simply removing it with chemicals at all costs is a very dangerous thing to be doing. We nee
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by curun1r 9y ago
> Think how many times taking an ibuprofen/acetaminophen just made it possible for you to go on with your day... I used to think like that. But since starting meditation practice, I've come to experience pain very differently f
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by curun1r 9y ago
When I managed a team, I tried to encourage my team members to take walks during the day. I've always found they help me get to a more reflective mindset as well as the movement and sunlight getting me back to a state where I can focus
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by curun1r 9y ago
Perhaps income and sales taxes could go down...California has some of the highest rates in the nation for both. But it would be a good idea to not have it net to zero considering Prop 13 originally resulted in deep cuts to public education
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by curun1r 9y ago
Keep going up the chain of causality. Property Owners are so NIMBY because there's an economic incentive to behave that way. This is only the case because Prop 13 caps their property taxes. If California had property taxes that, like o
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by curun1r 9y ago
It's also kinda funny that the author calls out Damore for motivated reasoning and then...goes on to write paragraph after paragraph of motivated reasoning. It's basically impossible to discuss this subject without it being motiva
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by curun1r 9y ago
My list: 1) Re-orgs upon re-orgs believing they'll fix underlying problems 2) Related to 1), lack of accountability when it comes to decision making, like when no one is accountable for the previous, failed re-org when deciding to re-o
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by curun1r 9y ago
There are good reasons to want to work at a startup. The biggest is that you'll be allowed to get in over your head more so than you will at a more established company and putting yourself in sink-or-swim situations is the fastest way
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by curun1r 9y ago
He should call out his mistake, yes. But apologize? Expecting that from him seems beyond the pale. Language isn't like contracts where any mistake by the author gets to be interpreted however the reader chooses. Instead, we're sup
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by curun1r 9y ago
They might also realize just how important the combination of electric and self-driving is in terms of $/mi. Both lower the cost substantially, but together things start to get really cheap. When you add in the cost of a driver, intern
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by curun1r 9y ago
As others have mentioned, it's too slow for what the author was trying to achieve. He had a section where he ruled out cgo for performance reasons, so if that's too slow, spawning a child process will be much slower. That may not
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by curun1r 9y ago
> He does, however, clearly state that Google's hiring standards had 'lowered the bar' for women and minorities. He basically said the opposite, but people have been so interested in triggering off the 'lowered the ba
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by curun1r 9y ago
Said more eloquently than I could ever hope to... "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence
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by curun1r 9y ago
I know the prevailing sentiment around here is anti-age-discrimination, but the flip side is also bad. We've seen in a few European countries what happens when the unemployment figures for young people are an order of magnitude higher
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by curun1r 9y ago
One thing that's becoming increasingly clear to me is that lumping everything under a single "diversity" label is becoming counterproductive. There are many types of diversity that we should be striving for and most have thei

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