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811.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
The author comes across as an insufferable know-it-all.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
> The same job with Google pays 2-3 times less than in the US.. Is that the case? (a) How does Google justify that internally? (b) Doesn't it cause a huge amount of ill-feeling internally? (c) If that is so why are there people else
813.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
I’m not convinced the author knows what they’re talking about. The answer to the question they posed is basically “ACID”, so unclear what all the verbiage is. Also unclear why they expect all readers to have an architecture featuring multip
814.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Complaining irrelevantly about "mandatory vaccinations" in your opening paragraph is a good way to get readers to assume you're an idiot.
815.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
+1 to lemonade shandies if you're feeling like limiting alcohol intake for an evening. They're actually a good way to enjoy aggressively hoppy IPAs if you find those a bit tough to drink neat.
816.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Definitely agree that the habitat destruction we have inflicted upon the animals we share the planet with is sad. The article is about a specific disease though that birds in the eastern US have started suffering from this spring/summe
817.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Not sure what you mean. What alternative action to putting up a banner do you propose for the huge numbers of companies that are apparently using cookies in a way that requires a banner? All the companies putting up banners today are clearl
818.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
in addition to the cookie banner vandalism committed by the EU, another problem that needs solving is legal agreements: it is not acceptable to run a society in a way that involves frequently requiring the public to sign documents they obvi
819.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Two explanations for green color in terrestrial animals that come to mind are (1) camouflage and (2) sexual selection for bright external colors. Many mammals are nocturnal, which renders both of those inapplicable. But, one might think tha
820.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
I was referring to a PR which literally changed a single letter :) Not a meaningful piece of proof-reading work.
821.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Sorry, you missed my point. I'm talking about people who tour around GitHub making PRs comprising a single letter typo charge in order to bolster their contribution statistics. For example the last one I got was changing Github to GitH
822.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
When people make trivial typo PRs on my open source projects I say thanks very much, close their PR, and make the change in a commit under my name. This way, if their interest is in improving the project then it worked. And if their interes
823.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Thanks, yes I guess it was a consequence of something about the network I was on.
824.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
No. The python type-checking experience is OK but nowhere near as good as Typescript, let alone a real statically-typed language such as Rust or Java.
825.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
That's why he said "better". Have you used both A. python with type hints and B. Typescript, or a statically typed language such as Rust/Java ? I'm guessing not.
826.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
I guess I just mean that my open source projects will never have a "code of conduct". Clearly in the political climate that has obtained in recent years among educated sectors of western societies a lot of this stuff has been exag
827.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
The page is completely broken for me with most links failing due to certificate errors: Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CERT_INVALID 4b99d2cfb81c64aed531.css:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CERT_INVALID cdn.utopia.app/_next
828.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
I find Rust crate code to be quite difficult to read sometimes because it contains a lot of comments and executable examples destined to be incorporated into auto-published (and auto-executed) documentation. That's a fine thing of cour
829.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
> When taxpayers fund research, the fruits of the research should be available for all. How is this statement consistent with academics starting start-ups?
830.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Given that the authors in question are French, they are unlikely to be sympathetic to arguments predicated on the idea that the only language that matters is English. In fact it’s hard to think of a nationality less sympathetic to that idea
831.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
They said “almost”.
832.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
> This has been particularly evident in volunteer-based open source communities, where the need to formalize governance through codes of conduct has met with frequent resistance among people who resent the imposition of rules on a sphere
833.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Did you mean Wiener?
834.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
In English. You forgot to point out that you comment was from a rabidly anglocentric point of view. There are, in fact, lots of other languages. Furthermore we like one- and two-syllable names for our programming languages. Being a quantita
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I'm in this situation and yesterday I replaced all the d3 SVG generation (d3.append, select, data, join, etc) with Vue template syntax (using v-for). So now I'm only using d3 for the x and y axis functions. The code is now much si
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Here's what's really going on, and what I think the observable team should have said: d3 was born ~10 years ago, before the rise of vue and react. Today, the community is split into two groups that we shall call "data viz&quo
837.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Seeing how many blog posts this person published advocating different techniques along this journey, my main take away is that people should invest advice from blog posts extremely critically, if at all.
838.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
Interesting, but not true. You clearly don't work in science: the main thing is getting publications. Mostly people don't pay that much attention to them, so if there are errors, (a) probably no one will notice and (b) you can alw
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
> On the other hand, developer productivity in notebook environments is so high that iterating your way to correct code may be faster than trying to plan it all out in the beginning. That's not a fair comparison though is it? Those
840.
by da39a3ee 5y ago
> When I started tinkering with JS, I thought of it as slow; but web developers are far more obsessive about speed than any other high-level, dynamically typed language I’ve seen. Given that, isn't it odd that JS still encourages ma

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