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by curun1r 8y ago
OTOH, a lot of companies used to go public that had no business doing so. We went through a period where a lot of normal folks lost big portions of their retirement savings betting on public companies that really shouldn't have been in
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Having spent more than a decade working and hiring in the Java world, I'm inclined to agree. Having spent much of the past year writing Rust and interacting with that community, I'm inclined to disagree. My overall feeling is that
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One thing that helped me work around left-recursive restrictions is to stop thinking in terms of full expressions and to start thinking in terms of expressions that begin with terminals and then the suffixes that follow. This means that ins
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> people are paying you to find good engineers No, they're paying them to find engineers that will pass the interview process. It's a subtle, but important distinction since prejudices that exist among engineers will naturally
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It's not at all that simple [0]. In particular, it's not at all clear what occasional means, since GDPR doesn't define it clearly and a simple dictionary definition would mean that something as simple as an Apache log would n
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The part of GDPR that I find unreasonable is the requirement to appoint an EU representative. It makes small companies with no presence in the EU Hire someone in the EU if they want to comply, which could be necessary if they sell to compan
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Umm...3 out of the 4 pre-2008 companies (Apple excepted) you listed are just as much middle-men as the post-2008 companies...they're middle men between consumers (a.k.a the product) and advertisers (a.k.a the customer). The "cool
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It's funny that this suggestion seems so radical considering that a somewhat related discipline, debate, requires participants to argue both pro and con throughout the course of a competition. I remember realizing that by arguing both
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> Many new startup ideas are mobile-first since that is where their user base is The main reason it's smart to go mobile first is the transition from mobile to desktop is significantly easier than going from desktop to mobile. It&#x
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It's tempting to take this point of view, especially when it's your own ancestors that transgressed. But it's also important to realize when, generations later, the victims of those transgressions are still feeling their impa
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That is both a) cool and b) proof of what we were dicussing...that web assembly provides a means for embedding into these scripting languages that vanilla Rust does not.
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It's still reasonable to prevent the journalistic equivalent of parallel construction. Publishing is only half the equation...the other half is knowing what to go looking for. You can't expect companies to only protect themselves
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I think you're missing his point, and I say this as someone who's deployed native Node modules using Rust/Neon in our production environment and advocate that approach whole-heartedly. Writing my own Node modules in Rust work
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I can't speak for you, but I know that for me, inability to sleep is always the product of some unresolved worry or other preoccupation. Dealing with that (in my case, that means spending time meditating) solves the problem of waking u
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> until most of your functions are working when you right them Heh...irony alert. You're advocating focusing on just getting it right the first time and you didn't get write right. But seriously, the people you're respon
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Breeding under the replacement rate does not imply population shrinkage. It's a better strategy for a rich nation state to have lower birth rates and poach the best and brightest from other countries. That increases the wealth of nativ
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There's a form of survivorship bias at play there..."Linus responds sensibly" doesn't normally get posted to HN or anywhere beyond the actual forum where he responded, for that matter.
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The other thing that gets missed in debates about vegetarianism is that it's not necessarily a binary thing. Just because you don't eat meat in some of your meals doesn't make you a vegetarian. There's a continuum betwee
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Yeah...rather than validating paths, the better use case is probably normalizing them so that you don't need platform-specific configuration files. Being able to write: static-files = path/to/static/files And have it wor
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The fire department does have some ambulances, but they still respond to non-fires with fire engines as well. Prior to the unification of services, non-fire medical emergencies were serviced by ambulances and EMTs were not required to be fi
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I've got nothing but praise and admiration for the actual firefighters in SFFD. They do shit for out city that no one else wants to do and should rightfully have the same kind of admiration that FDNY gets. But for the people running th
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by curun1r 8y ago
LOL at SFFD giving any shits about costs. This is the same department that power grabbed emergency medical response away from dedicated paramedics in ambulances. Responding in full ladder trucks to take care of drunk homeless people...yeah,
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This is why a test suite is so important. There's no better source of why that a developer who is new to the codebase can turn to. Documentation is likely out of date and pestering the original developer with questions takes both devel
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With hype always comes a throng of people who aren't capable of doing the necessary analytical thinking to solve their problem and who think they can substitute a magical pattern for designing their application instead of truly underst
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This used to to be the trick to use with the 10 CDs for a penny offers to get out of buying the remaining required full price CDs. After you got the promo-priced CDs, you could send in a change of address form with an address where shipping
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Just because not all Buddhists live up to it doesn't make it not a Buddhist practice nor a "no true scotsman" fallacy. The fact that it's part of Buddhist teachings and many Buddhists do live it does make what I said c
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In general, I agree with you, but there are degrees of morality. I hope most would agree that someone who's tastes include hunting endangered animals should not be accommodated. Likewise, if you were to go fishing in someone's koi
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I thought they did away with the €500 bill because of its popularity with criminals and its relative non-use by normal people...
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Then if we could pass a law mandating that prices be displayed inclusive of sales tax, that'd be great. One of my favorite parts about going to Europe is being able to add up prices in my head and have it match up exactly with the fina
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Just as medical tourism is a thing, are we going to see privacy tourism emerge as an option? Tour operators can start offering packages... "The sights of Paris and a personal information purge from the 100 largest US collectors"

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