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by elamje 7y ago
If you are a Rails developer, this Turbolinks presentation makes a strong case to be used for mobile apps. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SWEts0rlezA It seems like there is a strong productivity gain from using rails here si
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The Fed gets a lot of hate, and heck, even economists get a lot of hate, but a good place to start learning about macroeconomics is by understanding what the Fed is doing and why they are doing it. The Age of Turbulence and the Courage to A
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That sounds impressive, if not unbelievable, they have 2 employees listed on their LinkedIn, and only 3 listed on their website. Maybe they are using offshore developers for a lot of the heavy lifting, but I honestly don’t see how they coul
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I remember some of my best memories were being in a GT program at my middle school where about 30 kids in my grade took the same core classes together every year for all 3 years. I didn’t appreciate it then, but in hind sight being separate
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Using Blazor Server in production right now. Like another commenter said, there is also a client side web assembly target as well. The Server framework is great, but has its issues which I mention elsewhere in the thread.
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I think very highly of elixir and Jose. After 3 months of using .NET Blazor in production, I can say that LiveView and Blazor have some trade offs that people don’t talk about. For those that don’t know what they are, they basically keep a
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I don’t have the same issue with focus, etc. but I’m a couple years into my software career and have noticed a drastic shift in my cognitive abilities. Not negative per say, but it’s clear that being focused and working on a logic puzzle al
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+1 for Clojure making me love programming! You likely are burned out from corporate code because of the huge compile times, complex processes, and generally a ton a of typing. This will mostly go away with Clojure. What you will be left wit
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Mine is https://www.towardssoftware.com It has a few good pieces about transitioning from corporate dev to freelance/consulting, as well as Clojure. I’ve heard other people have read it to learn more about Clojure, and to h
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Based on the negative comments here, I get the feeling that many people feel like it is fraud to put forth an innovative idea without a paper to back it up. It makes me think of Nassim Taleb who has really added some valuable mental models
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The Coronation, an Essay by Charles Eisenstein(charleseisenstein.org)
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Mostest Important caveat from the link: This is not an official St. Louis Fed calculation. The post is titled “back-of-the-envelop estimate of unemployment”, the data sources are from two blog posts, and it was written by a researcher on th
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I think most people forget that the American oil industry is one of the largest in the world, i.e. it employs a ton of middle and upper class labor. For that reason, it makes this a political issue. For instance, just one aspect of oil that
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Sure, it’s likely a mixture of cash, short term treasuries, i.e. TBills and a few other things. None are volatile, and short term investments generally exist to protect against inflation, with an easy eject button if you need to convert to
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The year is 2050, Khan Academy has raised 2 billion in funding, restructured as a for-profit corporation, and has vendor lock-in with nearly every school and child in the world. Khan academy charges a minimum of $800/yr/student. T
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Working on a project with a C# DSL really makes you appreciate the magic of Lisp.
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I spend a fair amount of time in C# and don’t think about performance a lot unless it’s obvious, O(N^2) type of stuff. I’m always trying to level up so I would appreciate some tips. What tooling are you referring to that will make C# really
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The Fed has now removed bank reserve requirements(mobile.twitter.com)
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I am in the middle of a passion project for this exactly! Online time capsules. It’s in beta, but you can feel free to message me! j3elam@gmail.com I’m really curious to hear from people like you, since its pretty hard to find customers loo
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Stress testing the system. Imagine if this viral of a disease had a 25% mortality rate on all age brackets. It would be pandemonium. Businesses get more robust, start having a larger margin of safety. It reminds me of how banks got delevera
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The Age of Turbulence, and The Courage to Act
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There is a lot of popular sentiment that misses the mark of the Fed, largely due to most Americans not taking time to study and understand it, but just seeing this large entity that has first-order effects that seem to only benefit banks an
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Wrote a thread about a different perspective of the Fed. I want to gently suggest that your concept of what the Fed is, is not correct. It’s complex, and a very unique government/private entity, but it certainly is explicitly not suppo
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Remember that the dates referred to in this article are literally one week ago, so it’s not reasonable to treat this like a past event. It’s very much ongoing and the market will likely remain volatile.
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Ask HN: Would data engineering use the JVM if Docker existed in 2000?
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I think it has a balanced chance of being overestimated or underestimated. The psychology side of me recognizes the human tendency to end up in an echo chamber(twitter, HN, etc), but the other side of me wonders if this time is really diffe
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I understand your point, but I think VC backed companies are likely in a more hyper growth mindset than banks and conservative industries were when they were making these systems in the 80’s. As much flak as I’ll get for saying this, why Py
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I really enjoy music that gets me in the zone. Some key ingredients for good focus music: - Minimal lyrics - Deep pitched electronic hums and sounds in the background - Full length albums that have natural transitions Here is a playlist I u
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Embracing Functional C#(hmemcpy.com)
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