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by fjp 7y ago
I don't have any particular love for dynamic typing, but I really can't find a language I like developing in more than Python. I use type hints wherever I can so I (and others) know what the hell is going on, but I have yet to fin
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by fjp 7y ago
This is happening everywhere with all kinds of government services. "Slash budgets" and by firing full time employees and cutting investment, piecemeal it out to the lowest-bid contractor, the quality of service deteriorates, not
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by fjp 7y ago
It looks like it's just not very good at scraping my mail for purchases (which would be surprising) or it's just not showing me all of them. I have a junk Gmail account that I sign up for everything with - retail store loyalty p
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by fjp 7y ago
Our test pipeline fails any Python service trying to deploy if the black style check fails. I was initially grumpy about my org adopting black because I preferred single quotes, but the level of standardization is a huge win in my book. I n
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by fjp 7y ago
Honestly not sure since I don't know which APIs + secret sauce they put into Song Radio. I personally found Song Radio a little lacking - I never usually liked the most of the related songs, it didn't allow me to reshuffle the rec
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by fjp 7y ago
There was even a post on HN recently by a small artist talking about how the Discover algorithms brought listeners to his music that probably never would have found him otherwise. I'm a big fan of the recommendation algorithms, so I se
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by fjp 7y ago
> Everyone is left to implement them over and over. This is a good summary the state of developing anything Golang
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by fjp 7y ago
Agreed - For example in SQLAlchemy, you have: 1) Super high level - my_record_object.filter(whatever) 2) Common query api: my_table_object.select.where(whatever).limit(whatever) etc etc 3) Straight up SQL execution: db_engine_object.connect
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by fjp 7y ago
While you are correct, I do believe that these feel-good campaigns distract from the corporate polluters that cause the vast vast majority of these problems. If you get people fighting over straws which are some exceedingly small amount of
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by fjp 7y ago
Horrible things about cabs in Chicago (I literally haven't taken a single one since I started using Uber so idk if some of these got any better) - Drivers always claimed the credit card reader wasn't working and tried to force pay
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by fjp 7y ago
We use this where I work. I'm not the one managing it but I've never had a single issue as a user.
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by fjp 7y ago
You don't have to back anything up to iCloud. You can keep on your locked device and backup elsewhere. My point was that iMessage is an easy way to have your default mode of messaging be E2E encrypted
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by fjp 7y ago
which is why you use iMessage whenever possible
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by fjp 7y ago
You mean economy of scale or transaction costs such as the government being able to negotiate drug prices when everyone is on Medicare (or some other version of nationalized healthcare) so that drug companies can't raise insulin and ep
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by fjp 7y ago
Which telecom providers are they using under the hood?
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by fjp 7y ago
Yep - and "how our engineers communicate" is far from a narrow business problem
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by fjp 7y ago
The property and equipment depreciation rates are codified in US tax law.
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by fjp 7y ago
I enjoyed Golang in VSCode so much that I started using Python in it for a few weeks. My favorite things about VSCode are the speed (compared to Pycharm), the custom keybindings, and the integrated terminal that I can snap back and forth to
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by fjp 7y ago
I once passed a whiteboard interview just calling random made-up operations on generic java arrays, like Array.flatten(). I was relatively new to programming and had been practicing in Java but didn't know how to execute a lot of map&#
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by fjp 7y ago
Libraries: aiohttp: web framework aiopg: async postgres driver with SQLAlchemy support asyncssh: async ssh library with SFTP capability I generally work on CRUD microservices to automate some steps of a business workflow - activating/r
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by fjp 7y ago
Going to keep praying for type/performance optimizations in Python so we can all get past the "python is slow" thing. Async python is an absolute joy to develop with.
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by fjp 7y ago
I'm in the same boat as you. I wish my company had issued me the model without the touchbar, as I very much would prefer physical function and esc keys but other than that I love the machine and have never had issues. The one thing I w
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by fjp 7y ago
What are AirBnb's unique scaling issues other than just being a web app with tons of usage? Uber has navigation, route optimization, queuing, etc. Facebook has to propagate activity our to massive and complex social network graphs. I&#
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by fjp 7y ago
It's little UI things like this that keep me on Mac OSX. Everything just works, doesn't crash or freak out, and always looks great. I still get my bash shell and unix experience and tooling easily as well so there is very little c
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by fjp 7y ago
I can't understand how people don't realize that putting some of our massive, massive wealth towards building a better society would not benefit them. Can you imagine how many more inventions and advancements there would be if eve
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by fjp 8y ago
People HN act like they are entitled to a product they like existing and being supported forever.
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by fjp 8y ago
It also went directly into corporate balance sheets instead of to the average person. People that own tons of stock won BIG. People that own small-medium amounts of stock (think retirement accounts) did okay. People who didn't own stoc
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by fjp 8y ago
I think as a corollary we must invest heavily in public education (and I don't mean just throwing more money at it) I went to shitty schools in shitty places but my parents always were tough on education and basically forced me to be &
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by fjp 8y ago
You're not taking into account when the larger company simply won't allow you to to work on X because you're not the right team, title or level. You may never get to manage a cloud VM. You will probably never get to help de
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by fjp 8y ago
GP saying that it should be offered by the university because then if the university fails to produce a population of students that can make money in the job market, they will suffer. It's an alignment of incentives much like how some

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