elevenoh

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   by elevenoh 6y ago

   i think of null as conveying: "this value was intentionally set to 'null' in contrast to undefined: 'this value is undefined (e.g. was never [correctly] set)' Though this doesn't apply to dealing with unsanitiz
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   by elevenoh 6y ago

   yessir, the key is declared
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   by elevenoh 6y ago

   >Right? Wrong! Nobody cares! Until they're obviously affected by the implications (e.g. of depencies & privacy) :)
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   by elevenoh 6y ago

   Is there an underlying pattern here: Canada's most 'socialist' big city is also its most corrupt?
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   by elevenoh 6y ago

   Anyone else here do a semi intermittent fast, e.g. only eating something like cocoa/dark chocolate throughout the day + having 1 meal/day? Seems to get some portion of the benefits.
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   by elevenoh 6y ago

   Any thought pattern can be compressed, transferred & applied I'd say.
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   by elevenoh 6y ago

   > After 20 years doing this job I can confirm that building software is really hard. I’m not sure how you really give people experience with that. My courses at uni did little to prepare me for building software. I'm kind of amazed
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   CBRE Tech-30 2020 – Vancouver #1 of any North American city for tech job growth(cbre.us)

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   by elevenoh 6y ago

   >My life can begin to go back to normal potentially months before it otherwise would. Howso? Socialization is a multi-party dynamic. Folks might not care/believe you if you state 'I'm vaccinated' until it's widel
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    Yet still far more sunshine hours than most western european countries :)
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    >but to me by far the biggest problems have to do with the entire architecture data engineers are dependent on software engineers. and the software engineering is the more difficult part IME.
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    Agree.. It looks to me like 95%+ of those commenting on this in tech circles haven't actually read the NY Post article.
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    What source is this tweet storm making a mockery of? Could you link to it? Have you seen some of the emails yourself? The emails I've seen look authentic & reveal major corruption. e.g. https://nypost.com/2020/
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    Dart is weak for functional programming / functional way of thinking. Right there, dart lang loses me as a potential user.
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    Seattle / Portland / Vancouver do have notably better air quality
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    Are rationalists less likely to enter the pool of candidates endeavouring for wide-publicly-visible 'success' due to them noting the low probability of success reality - (and the discomforting fact that this arguably arises out of
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    >Rationalists tend to be irrational people who need help. wot..
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    Wonder if this (Chinese citizen push for democracy, individual liberties, care for the environment etc.) will come to unfold as a kind of 'dam break' wave of rapid change over a slow-moving change where nodes of conformity are squ
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    >Interactions (any observed results) are side effects of deterministic properties That's my understanding as well. I'm trying find utility in the 1st comment, but I don't see the direction of causality - e.g. emergence of
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    >The problem with psychedelics is they only make you "more" of what you are. I've personally seen redirection, or orienting toward one's best self, more often than simply 'amplification of who you already are&#x2
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    > Personally I'm withholding judgement until after battery day. Insiders know what's up with battery day. I think it's more likely a 'sell the news' moment than not.
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    >We're better off with policy that limits how wealth can be leveraged into political power >>Has there ever been a case in history where a society has successfully limited the political impact with those of disproportionately
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    >If you followed his MS days closely, like many in this community, I doubt you'd change your mind about him As in, he was a good fella on the net?
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    Exactly. 'Can you please not confidently project what is at best hindsight-bias? This isn't a palto alto meetup aka signalling-fest'
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    >but it’s basically been free money for the last several months. What does that even mean... lol Rise != 'free money'.
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    I'm hoping we don't continue to see yc turn into 'the old guard'. YC folks, startups & the people yc startup school attracts that I've personally spoken to in the past few years are more imitator-types. YC folks
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    >Then I saw his recent tweets and especially the essay about wealth tax, I was a bit disappointed. Why? He points out [the non obvious to many fact] that wealth tax kills compounding. And this is something to seriously consider.
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    Anything in particular that's non-obvious & sticks out to you?
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    Woah, didn't know that, that's low. Would it be feasible for an SEO spammer to covertly include such backlinks in an npm package update?
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    by elevenoh 6y ago

    Hope Canada similarly updates their definition !