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by dack 7y ago
get them dreaming about what they could build if they have the skill!
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by dack 7y ago
9 months is 3 quarters, so it seems more like they are charging 1.2 quarters if you drop out after 5 weeks.
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by dack 7y ago
It seemed like the author was just refuting the idea that particular groups "have it good", and using the classic "has it best" group as an example. So I think they'd agree that wealth sometimes creates new unique p
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by dack 8y ago
i think i agree with you, but want to make one additional point. I think haskell is actually fine at writing code without abstraction, it's just that people don't choose haskell to go down that path, and so aren't satisfied w
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by dack 8y ago
My take is it's because there are some really great benefits to implementing things more precisely (which usually means "more general" in this sense), and Haskell is more amenable to it than most. There are many cases where i
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by dack 8y ago
I agree with you in that I still think the right thing to do is build. I also think it's really easy to say "sorry, you fucked up when you spent all your money on a house" if it's someone else. These aren't all &quo
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by dack 8y ago
I can understand this point of view, and I don't own a house so I'm not really "defending" anything here. I'd love for housing to be cheaper and for more people to build in SF. However, think about how you'd fe
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by dack 9y ago
agreed! I don't think there's any particular application outside cryptocurrency that I would strongly defend as "needing" a blockchain - then again, I'm not the most imaginative person, so I think others will eventu
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by dack 9y ago
yeah proof of work is turning out to be a pretty unsustainable idea - i'm not sure if proof of stake truly can be considered the victor yet but it seems like a huge step in the right direction. (Completely agreed that there hasn't
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by dack 9y ago
Okay, I don't want to come down too hard on this article, but I think it's nearsighted. Sure, it's true that _today's_ blockchains have many downsides the article brings up, but it's written as if those won't c
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by dack 9y ago
I don't think they are shying away from it - it's pretty clear in the about page. Seems like a totally reasonable way to get some revenue for the site.
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by dack 10y ago
It lets you model sequential operation and side effects in a pure functional language. You can usually write your code "manually" without monads, and see what it's like. For example, the State monad is basically a function th
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by dack 10y ago
I like the idea, but imo we need to treat inbound email differently than a task list. I think inbound email should have a rich set of filtering/grouping/bulk archiving tools to sift through the junk quickly, and then a seamless wa
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by dack 10y ago
You want more abstract examples? Or more abstract patterns?
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by dack 10y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by parallel class hierarchies. I use a factory if I have a class that needs to be able to make an instance of some other class, but shouldn't know about how to construct it (i.e. it doesn't need to
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by dack 10y ago
because you still couldn't search across pages
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by dack 10y ago
> If your views are substantially outside the mainstream there is no point in voting. There's still a big reason to vote: pick the candidate with the least amount of problems that has a chance of winning. But I do agree that voting
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by dack 10y ago
In the situation the parent described, I find it hard to construe it as benefiting the company over the individual (other than naturally making the company more attractive to work for). We did this when I was at Guidewire and it was amazing
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by dack 10y ago
I'm not sure about that - designers have to build a UX that works in the real world, and sometimes there are really complicated processes that need to be exposed in a nice way. I imagine this has similar tradeoffs as programming (i.e.
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Against Solutionism (2014)(youtube.com)
3 points by dack 10y ago|0 comments
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by dack 10y ago
I don't think it's derivative. He mentions the onion architecture, which is an older concept. I really liked the way Gary presented the idea, but he wasn't the originator.
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by dack 10y ago
Not on the team, but know someone who is, and I think it's mostly the latter. I'm sure there are lots of challenges on the project still to keep someone busy, but they're not completely unaware of how it's perceived thes
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by dack 10y ago
I could be wrong, but I think he might mean that people should take care not to add too many dependencies to their project - if it's too easy, then it might result in unnecessary dependencies and brittle code. However, I'm not sur
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by dack 10y ago
Not the parent, but for one, doing a CF update is all-or-nothing. Either you roll the whole thing out, or you roll the whole thing back. If you have a lot of servers, and things are going down, you want to just STOP. But you can't. Als
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by dack 10y ago
It doesn't exactly fit Google - there are definitely several products that are a Google thing, but many other aspects that diverge. I think not naming them has multiple benefits. 1) Less likely to get sued, 2) They want to be able to d
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by dack 10y ago
Maybe it should have been titled "why some experts think teaching is easy, and why they're wrong". As in, an expert might naively feel like they can teach a subject well simply because they know it well. However, the article
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by dack 10y ago
This is really great! However, I think this speaks to the need for a better API in general for this sort of stuff. At the moment it's "all or nothing" in that you can decide to let everything be configured, or nothing be conf
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by dack 10y ago
I just thought this was relevant in light of the recent discussion about how to protect yourself in the event your google account is shut down. Sandstorm has an email client as well - and you can 100% control your data.
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Sandstorm – An open source operating system for personal and private clouds(sandstorm.io)
434 points by dack 10y ago|164 comments
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by dack 10y ago
I don't think this is a big deal. You're posting a message _on their site_. It's reasonable for them to inspect the url.

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