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by ferdowsi 5y ago
The opposite end of OOP is the functional purist world where "color = blue when hovering over button" becomes 10 levels of boilerplate indirection in order to update global state and receive changes using actions/reducers&#x2
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
The blog post is misconstruing things; WebAuthn is not totally backwards compatible with U2F. Specifically, WebAuthn doesn't support the U2F trusted facets functionality, which allowed for a U2F credential to be used on a cross-origin
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
GoFundMe is a facilitator for fundraising efforts. If someone wanted to start a far-right crowdfunding site they could without involving digital gold.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
FB has been making their API increasingly useless for a decade now. They don't want you building integrations, they want you in their walled garden using their tools.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
> If you don't want to discuss "taste" questions, then just don't, it doesn't matter what option you pick. If it is an important question, then you should debate it. I'm personally glad to see Python develop
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
A typical journey into a Product Manager position would be a lateral move in your current company, under the guidance of a mentor that can support you as you start working as a PM. Certifications are not nearly as important as getting a yea
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
They coast on enterprise lock-in while pretending they are innovative by shoveling money into non-useful blockchain projects.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Hah I was also thinking how neatly these categories fit into the worst examples of language evangelism. Some are definitely at this stage! > Examples here are (again) the cryptocurrency scene which has been pretty good at othering critic
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Not really, "invisible" is a fair way to describe complexity that developers never interact with. Especially when most other popular languages forces developers to deal with irritating async/await bookkeeping when it comes co
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Well, golang.org does specifically call this out at the top: > Built-in concurrency and a robust standard library I think that the joy of Go's async-first design really makes sense most to people who have experienced the awful pains
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
This is the short-term panic-selling mentality my older relatives engaged in after 2008, and now they can't retire.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
That doesn't say that Kotick will be gone, it says that he'll be reporting up to Microsoft.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I really like the Go-like simplicity of these libraries, without the cursed architecture astronomy from the 2000s. In general it's interesting times for Java. With all of language improvements from Kotlin/Scala, and upcoming Go-li
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
iPhone internals are difficult to repair, but they make up for it with reliability. If OLPC had hit that target they could have been successful but it was basically not achievable for a mid-2000s laptop.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
It's interesting to think about OLPC as a precursor to many of the hype-driven internet phenomena that promise utopian gains. It's easy to see similarities in blockchain-mania, the evangelism machines around certain technologies a
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
My previous organization has been totally emptied out during the Great Quittening. All of us left for various reasons, including mismanagement, and the eminent impossibility of pay raises that kept up with the hot market + inflation. I was
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Every large organization I've been in performs a squash merge with the PR description as merge commit summary, because intermediary commits are always noise like "fix tests" and "didn't actually fix, do it now"
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High degree of overlap between r/poor and crypto subreddits(subredditstats.com)
116 points by ferdowsi 5y ago|95 comments
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Why Go doesn't do this by default: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10014#issuecomment-91436... > It seems fine to me for the spec not to guarantee anything about struct field order in memory. The
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I don't see why you couldn't do the same in a Slack command-line program as well? Not hard to find simple examples of that. https://github.com/csabapalfi/slackcat
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php?year=2006 Interesting to see how IRC peaked around 2005. The current most popular network, Libera, has a fraction of the users that Quakenet did 17 years ago.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Agreed. The world is moving past static text content as a medium, which is what RSS/IRC are built for. I want more rich video/media oriented content like what the New York Times is producing, which takes advantage of user interact
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
I'm loving reading through all of the sickening puff pieces that business/tech journalists put out about her and Theranos. It's funny to think back to 2015 and the hagiographical void still left in tech journo hearts after St
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
> The QUERY method provides a solution that spans the gap between the use of GET and POST. As with POST, the input to the query operation is passed along within the payload of the request rather than as part of the request URI. Unlike PO
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How Playing the Long Game Made Elizabeth Holmes a Billionaire (2015)(inc.com)
3 points by ferdowsi 5y ago|1 comments
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Sound financial advice would be having an emergency fund of several months of expenses. You're doing it wrong.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
The adulation for the "big names" in Theranos's board of directors is absolutely cringey to read in retrospect. No wonder Holmes managed to fool the world, it's too easy to be mesmerized by undeserved clout.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
The author seems depressed and is displacing their frustrations onto a programming language. A programming language isn't going to bring you real joy, that can only come from within.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Indeed, literal thousands of years of ingrained social privilege and brutal repression of under-castes would tend to have produced nice social benefits for Brahmins. It's stupid, silly, old and outdated.
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by ferdowsi 5y ago
Apollo GraphQL (which just raised a $130M Series D) pivoted from Meteor, a company built around supporting the frontend framework MeteorJS. https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/01/17/apollo-graph...

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