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by ejlangev 9y ago
I worked with Rails for a number of years and generally agree with the ideas in this post about finding callbacks to be confusing. Our guideline was to only use ActiveRecord models for direct validation and attribute manipulation and never
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by ejlangev 9y ago
This just in: People who have some experience doing things in general tend to be better at doing those things. In my experience of working at startups they are generally too focused on "disruption" and tend to throw the baby out w
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by ejlangev 9y ago
A lot of this issue seems to be people operating in bad faith. Airbnb wants the narrative to be that most of their business is regular people renting out a spare room to make some extra money. Certainly that's a component of their bu
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by ejlangev 9y ago
Social credit imposed by corporate rather than state power isn't any less of a bad idea. Perhaps there are reasons why every decision a person has ever made shouldn't follow them forever such that they need to show it to their fu
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by ejlangev 9y ago
Seems like you've re-invented the concept of frameworks here.
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by ejlangev 9y ago
Color me extremely skeptical of this. Uber can't seem to get taxis right and now they're going to dominate an entirely separate business with established competitors? And the evidence for this is that they launched a credit card
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by ejlangev 9y ago
Rousseau's work is very interesting to read even if it's a bit hyperbolic at times. He was quite ahead of his time on a lot of issues given he was writing in 1750. Regardless of whether you agree with his overall premise I think
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by ejlangev 9y ago
This article (in addition to being somewhat dystopian) is also fairly dumb even for something trying to predict future technologies which is a very low bar. Not sure who they think is going to replace all the world's showers with ultra
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by ejlangev 9y ago
I think that's a valid point but certainly not for kindergartners. Learning about business is potentially useful but needs to be balanced against the fact that most people don't want to be entrepreneurs and that you need to not l
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by ejlangev 9y ago
> In her own family, she said, “there are no lines” between work and life or home and office. This line also stuck out. Seems horribly dystopian to me and yet is presented without comment. Sad that these people are considered "tho
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by ejlangev 9y ago
> “In my book, there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses,” Rebekah Neumann said in an interview. That's really one of the saddest things I've read from the tech community in a
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by ejlangev 9y ago
My university didn't have classes on ethics in technology as a requirement for a computer science degree. In retrospect after working in the startup world for a few years I wish they had. People need to be given the tools to evaluate
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by ejlangev 9y ago
Glad they did something to create consequences for that kind of behavior. Does sort of feel like it was slipping in quality anyway and maybe should have been canceled regardless. Last season was just too ridiculous.
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by ejlangev 9y ago
There's still a lie by omission with the Yemen story though. You don't hear news outlets saying the truth which is that the Saudis are bombing Yemen with U.S weapons that we sold them knowing full well what they would be used to
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by ejlangev 9y ago
+1 it's a great piece of software that delivers tremendous value to users and continues to add amazing features every year. Cheers and thank you to all the maintainers and contributors.
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by ejlangev 9y ago
This article is very poorly argued. While there are some questionable things happening among some Fintech firms they're still far too small to harm the overall economy and could simply go out of business without too large an impact.
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Trie implementation for es6 iterables(github.com)
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by ejlangev 9y ago
Seems like their long track record of shady and irresponsible behavior continues to catch up to them. I hope authorities throw the book at them to discourage other people from behaving this way. Sad!
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by ejlangev 9y ago
Good tips in here. I've found that other than not knowing how, the next biggest reason people don't write good code is that they consider doing so to be too costly. It's simple to justify that viewpoint if you just define a
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by ejlangev 9y ago
27 million russians died because of the Nazis. I'd be surprised if they tolerated that sort of content very well only a short while later. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Total_...
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by ejlangev 9y ago
Yeah I definitely think there are some good ideas behind it I just think the focus is a bit too individualistic. Overall I liked it.
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by ejlangev 9y ago
He handled the situation poorly IMO. Didn't consider the consequences of what he was saying true or not and didn't present it in an appropriate way for how sensitive the issue was. Ultimately that's a self defeating way to
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by ejlangev 9y ago
He doesn't have a monopoly on truth, that sort of presupposes that he was completely right and handled the situation perfectly. Perhaps he'll feel differently when the dust settles as another commenter suggested.
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by ejlangev 9y ago
> it surely made more effort than the many internet discussions, which we don't find fault with. I wouldn't say he made significantly more effort, and people certainly (and correctly IMO) find fault with them. > Fault as in
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by ejlangev 9y ago
> "When I first circulated the document about a month ago to our diversity groups and individuals at Google, there was no outcry or charge of misogyny." Kind of meaningless though, could be he only sent it to people who agreed
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by ejlangev 9y ago
Seems the author's intentions are good but it's such an odd way to frame it. He outlines that many companies are explicitly designing products in such a way as to exploit ("hack") people's brains at great detriment
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by ejlangev 9y ago
> you have a technology boner that is lasting longer than 4 hours and you should see a doctor. 10/10
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by ejlangev 9y ago
Imagine thinking that "high-speed self-driving cars, electric airplanes, and maybe even Hyperloops" are viable solutions for transit problems of today when none of them exist in any real viable form and have major obstacles to ove
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by ejlangev 9y ago
Yeah totally agree, raised too much money and won't be able to live up to the hype. Probably could have been bootstrapped into a modest company instead.
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by ejlangev 9y ago
Good luck living up to that $600 million valuation with sponsored gifs before running out of money. Seems they raised 55 on 300 in February 2016 and then 72 on 600 in October 2016. Seems like a lot of money to be burning for a gif search

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