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by ef4 12y ago
ember-cli is such a vast usability improvement that you would be hard-pressed to find a single developer who's tried it and would prefer not to use it. It's in-line with Ember's whole philosophy: anything that we can solve on
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by ef4 12y ago
Agreed, but that's actually a separate problem. There are so few CEOs relative to average workers that their aggregate pay isn't enough to explain why workers in the west aren't experiencing wage growth.
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by ef4 12y ago
> Bailing out banks and hoping they will spend it on industry just after they bankrupted themselves by gambling shows an unquestioning and total belief in the institutions of capital. On the contrary, it betrays deep distrust in the actu
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by ef4 12y ago
> Why is this not happening any more? It is happening. The average manufacturing wage in China is up 700% in fourteen years. It isn't happening in the US and Europe, but that's because the average worker here still makes absu
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by ef4 12y ago
Agreed, but this is all part of the core usability problem: it's too hard for users to reliably not lose their keys, and it's too hard to safely access them from all the places they're needed.
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by ef4 12y ago
I don't think a well-managed software company should keep everyone 100% allocated to their primary function. It's too brittle and it leaves too many potentially game-changing ideas unexplored. I would be happy to work at a company
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by ef4 12y ago
I have a hunch that one of the good ways for a CTO to still occasionally write some code that delivers significant value for the company is to take on the "little" projects that reduce friction in the internals of the company itse
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by ef4 12y ago
We'll only get new answers to old questions if we're incorporating new inputs or new capabilities. So I would only expect a breakthrough from philosophy if philosophy is integrating new results from computer science (or neuroscien
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by ef4 12y ago
Right up until it happened, most people didn't think of "Win Jeopardy" as a particular task at all. It was seen as a "broad range of tasks".
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by ef4 12y ago
Yes, I meant median salary of all people living in the area. Not of developers. For example, here in Boston median salary is $58,000. Developers can readily get $116,000, and I know many who have exceeded $174,000, at least when taking into
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by ef4 12y ago
If you're good enough at building things and selling yourself to successfully start a startup, you're also good enough to get a high-paying job. Easily 2x or 3x the median salary for your area. Do that, and then live a median life
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by ef4 12y ago
One of the most positive political changes we could hope to see in the 21st century would be more free movement of people across borders. Not just for tourism. For work. We're all better off if people can legitimately move to where the
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by ef4 12y ago
Nobody is contending that these workers had to go find apartments or pay for their own hotel rooms in San Francisco. If the company covered all their living expenses while they were here, the cost issue is a red herring.
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by ef4 12y ago
There's something that's almost religious or magical about the way people understand national borders. Pay the workers $1.21/hour while they're on one side of an imaginary line, it's fine. On the other side of the l
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by ef4 12y ago
Any business that's paying to fly an employee half way around the world is also paying for their meals and personal expenses while they're there.
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by ef4 12y ago
No. There are no shared secrets. This is real asymmetric crypto.
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by ef4 12y ago
> Now you're presented with a bunch of pointless-looking questions like your country code and your "organization". Seems pointless, right? Well now I have to live with this confidence-inspiring dialog, because I left off t
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by ef4 12y ago
That's a good question. If dropping was really implemented that way, every type would need to implement the Drop trait. Because otherwise there would be no way to free any memory at all. Instead, Rust knows how to free any object. Impl
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by ef4 12y ago
Yes, you are correct. What I was trying to explain is that the timing is deterministic and immediate. People are used to unpredictable GC and rightly don't want to trust it with thing like this.
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by ef4 12y ago
There is no garbage collection in rust. There is no possible "five second gap". Wherever you would have written "socket.close()", in rust you can just say "drop(socket)". The difference is, it takes advantage o
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by ef4 12y ago
A benefit of private GitHub repos is that you're still nicely integrated with your open source dependencies on GitHub. For example, if you file an issue in your private repo that mentions an issue in some other public repo, you'll
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by ef4 12y ago
> Clearly the missing data in the github workflow is so detrimental that it's not worth the extra developers it might attract. There is historical path dependence. Linux has changed workflows before, but each time it was controversi
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by ef4 12y ago
My biggest pet peeve in the world of data storage is that the most powerful ideas from relational data theory are still mostly locked up in books and papers, and most programmers who think they know what "relational" means aren&#x
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by ef4 12y ago
> There are workflows which gasp do not mesh well with github. If we're discussing open source collaboration, it is hugely beneficial to NOT have your own unique workflow and instead adopt one that a large community of people are al
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by ef4 12y ago
I use and really like http://wormly.com . Their monitoring includes SSL cert validity, among many other things.
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"What’s most interesting to me, however, is that so many more readers were willing to buy a font license (at $59–299) than to make a donation (at $5–10). Don’t get me wrong—I’m utterly grateful. But it’s counterintuitive
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by ef4 12y ago
Would you be offended if you found out that a hand-written note you received was actually written by someone's secretary? Because that's pretty standard stuff most people wouldn't consider an ethical breach.
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by ef4 12y ago
But Emacs ships with a built-in package manager, there is no setup, you literally just say "M-x list-packages".
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by ef4 12y ago
Uber is not a monopoly and the barriers to entry are lower than people think. Now that the idea is proven, there's nothing stopping more competitors from building local app driven services to compete with them. If you can organize thou
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by ef4 12y ago
I use their data to demo my medical software. I obviously can't show real patient names, so I import a whole bunch of realistic looking people from here instead.

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