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by cwp 5y ago
Rust has a static garbage collector.
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by cwp 5y ago
Next we'll see articles talking about how we've overestimated the centrality of New York for "money jobs".
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by cwp 5y ago
Yes, it was. I took a 15% cut. It's still a financial win, given the lower cost of living, lower taxes, and cheaper real estate. I'm finally able to buy a house.
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by cwp 5y ago
Yup. I moved to SF because that's where the good jobs were. Now I can leave and keep my good job. Huzzah!
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by cwp 6y ago
Well, they are also working on helping the black-footed ferret recover and they started on that project before doing mammoths, so maybe cut them some slack?
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by cwp 6y ago
Sloths are a tough one. No preserved DNA, and no closely related surviving species.
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by cwp 6y ago
We did manage to wipe them out once.
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by cwp 6y ago
Sigh. It was a work of fiction .
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by cwp 6y ago
It's the precautionary principle that's irrational. The status quo isn't inherently desirable. It's not true that "know one knows what would happen." We don't know everything that would happen, but we do
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by cwp 6y ago
The case I'm thinking of is informal. The pharmacist keeps a blister pack of pills behind the counter and will tear off as many as you want and sell them individually. The unit price is probably higher, but not exorbitant. It's pr
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by cwp 6y ago
I noticed this after spending time in developing countries. They are set up much better for being poor. Trivial example: you can go into a pharmacy and buy two aspirin. Some people can't afford 100 at a time, and don't need that m
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by cwp 6y ago
That's true, but the transport layer has ossified, and the application layer is the only place we can still innovate. RIP SCTP.
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by cwp 6y ago
Yes! Revive and Restore (mentioned in the article) has also done some preliminary work on reviving mammoths, and the plan is to use Asian elephants as surrogate mothers. This would be pretty different from the ferret project, as the mammoth
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by cwp 6y ago
Resumable exceptions - ie, exceptions that don't unwind the stack when they are thrown - do let you examine the problem in situ.
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by cwp 6y ago
Yeah, good point. The reason NPM can have packages like left-pad is that it works so well. It's easy to publish a package, it's easy to find one, it's easy to install and use a package. So sure, why NOT make a package for one
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by cwp 6y ago
It's not your imagination. Python tooling is awful. If I may be forgiven a bit of preaching, I'll point out that the fundamental problem with the Python ecosystem is that package definitions are executable python code. This means
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by cwp 6y ago
What a great headline. Almost British.
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by cwp 6y ago
Ignorant? Not at all. These cities DO make it hard to build new housing. There's no question about that. It's an ongoing political issue, and all the reasons listed have been used to attack or defend that policy.
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by cwp 6y ago
This sounds more like a wishlist of features that elite Apple developers want, than what Apple is likely to do.
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by cwp 6y ago
Dunno about research, but I've worked in a few SV startups that organized development with Jira and had high autonomy for engineers. Some of the features of those teams: 1. Most tickets are opened by engineers themselves, and don'
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by cwp 6y ago
My company does this too, for the same reason. (Not using Stripe though.)
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by cwp 6y ago
I would distinguish between growth-at-all-costs and a scalable business. Both are startups, but VCs only invest in the former. Jetbrains is a good example of the latter.
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by cwp 6y ago
Not that important, at least in the SV-centred tech world. I have a journalism degree, and I don't think it's ever been a problem. I've also been a hiring manager, and on hiring committees and never really paid much attention
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by cwp 6y ago
Interesting. That's not a vaccine anymore that's a strain of SARS-CoV-2 that's never produces symptoms, but is still similar enough to the original to prime the immune system. Presumably it would out compete the original in a
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by cwp 6y ago
Ok, this is fascinating. Even beyond escaping my own echo chamber, it's really neat to escape other echo chambers. Let's escape the woke bubble: 1. How to Be an Antiracist 2. White Fagility 3. Between the World and Me
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by cwp 6y ago
Hmm. No, just my ISP's DNS resolver. I guess they don't support EDNS either...
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by cwp 6y ago
Can't resolve that domain name.
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by cwp 6y ago
My point was not that nobody ever does unnecessary work. That does happen, obviously, and we can certainly object to it. In the case of rewriting an application feature for feature in another language, that may or may not be a good idea. Ma
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by cwp 6y ago
I really hate that expression. Nobody EVER reinvents the wheel. We all know about wheels, and how they work and why they are useful. But we invent new types of wheels all the time. Maybe we put teeth on it and invent the cog. Maybe we inven
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by cwp 6y ago
OTOH, telling an entire industry to reorganize to accommodate your internal processes is also a fools errand. Just imagine the dilemma this puts on the growth team: "Hmm, spend 1000x effort to land this one customer or fix an obscure b

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