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by gemstones 3y ago
There are things which come with being the richest country and a really populous one - you're targeted by all kinds of scammers who view you as the best target. Similar to how startups try to serve the U.S. market since it's 300
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by gemstones 3y ago
Libraries, not the core runtime.
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by gemstones 3y ago
If you add the JS and TS values together, it would immediately overtake Java for the #2 spot.
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by gemstones 3y ago
The buyers are foreign to Canada (investors), so the effects don’t affect the Canadian economy as directly as you might expect.
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by gemstones 3y ago
Right on the money. There’s a reason PHP shows so high on this list, and e-commerce is always mentioned. Analyses only have access to public sites, and PHP’s niche of blogs and e-commerce have lots of publicly crawl-able pages. The majori
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by gemstones 3y ago
Is everyone on a team of one in C++ land? I kind of want to learn a bit of C++ but to be honest, I’m a bit scared off by the fact that it’s only workable if you stick to a specific style. If I learn C++, will I be completely lost the mome
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by gemstones 3y ago
It’s funny you mention it as a charisma roll, because it’s not really a roll, is it? High charisma is high when it’s with your interviewer, when it’s with your peers, when it’s with your business stakeholders. High charisma is useful in g
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by gemstones 3y ago
As one of the creators of bcrypt back in 1997, I find it somewhat surprising that, 25 years later, we still rely heavily on passwords. I’m curious to hear from someone who agrees - why would this be surprising? Knowing a password
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by gemstones 3y ago
Personal preferences differ, but I would find this code so much cleaner if it was a goto.
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by gemstones 3y ago
Elon’s product thinking really shines here, huh? /s He thinks LinkedIn is cringe (fair) but has a position where he can ignore lots of professional norms. LinkedIn is cringe because people are deliberately trying to respect profession
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by gemstones 3y ago
Nope! My parents were secular parents avoiding a struggling inner-city public school system, hoping to have their children take advanced mathematics courses. Same with the rest of the group. So I heard the same refrain from you that I hea
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by gemstones 3y ago
As someone who was surrounded by some pretty bad kids during High School I am very comfortable with my children not getting that experience. Hey, that’s what all the other homeschool moms whose children don’t speak to them say too
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by gemstones 3y ago
I heard this “but we have homeschool play groups! It’s different!” in the 2000s from every single one of the parents for whom homeschool was a disaster. It’s funny hearing it fresh here.
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by gemstones 3y ago
And the juvie outcome is so common that it makes up the most likely outcome from having a bad school experience? I think homeschooling may still be statistically worse
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by gemstones 3y ago
Do the tears eventually end without permanently destroying the child/parent relationship? If so, you might actually be describing something better!
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by gemstones 3y ago
12/13 of the circle of homeschooling families that made up our socialization group in the 90s/00s have gone no contact with their parents now. Congrats on your success, it’s not the norm.
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by gemstones 3y ago
I feel the exact same also homeschooled. It’s also interesting being in this thread with homeschooling parents - I remember hearing about how “homeschool groups provide the same level of socialization” back then, and it wasn’t any more tru
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by gemstones 3y ago
As a homeschooled kid: Be warned that I heard “homeschooling has changed since we were in school” in the early 2000s, from multiple parents who are now estranged from their adult children. It hasn’t really changed that much - it’s just some
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by gemstones 3y ago
I was homeschooled and the anecdotal evidence is overwhelming. Try finding adults who were homeschooled who speak fondly of the experience.
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by gemstones 3y ago
This is why you should switch up criteria you give bonuses by on a bi-annual basis. People who game your system only get 6 months of time to enjoy it. You’re left with people who can game every metric or people who are just so good they l
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by gemstones 3y ago
Plumbers don't get to decide how the pipes were laid out in the houses they come and work in, either - technically those are unknowns that could throw off a job. Doesn't mean it would be professional of them to insinuate that the
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by gemstones 3y ago
Eh, for the majority of cases, software engineering is more like plumbing than like R&D. There are exceptions, like building a new DB, or similar. But if the tools you need to solve the problem are postgres + Django + react, there sho
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by gemstones 3y ago
The opposite is “set vague deadlines and don’t check in on their progress.” You’ll be accountable for team deadlines regardless - would you rather be allowed to sail over a deadline you didn’t know existed and be reprimanded for it by highe
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by gemstones 3y ago
Do you think that the frontend crowd similarly thinks that you build dead simple 5 page websites with a Rube Goldberg setup of back-end frameworks? I certainly do.
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by gemstones 3y ago
Does anyone know if this is launched? This group has been working on developer tooling in stealth for 10 years, and are meant to launch their product today.
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Red Planet Labs 100x(redplanetlabs.com)
5 points by gemstones 3y ago|2 comments
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by gemstones 3y ago
At the rate of 50% support every 20 years, I guess we can expect that ipv6 will be a suitable default in… 2043? Kidding, but also kinda not. We should make ipv7 which is just ipv6 but the extra bytes go in an expanded header, like the auth
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by gemstones 3y ago
I wonder if the credible threat of losing, say, $250 million might encourage people to ensure the defendant doesn’t engage in witness tampering!
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by gemstones 3y ago
This was immediately what I thought of, too.
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by gemstones 3y ago
And yet the adoption shows that plenty of people see reasons not to use plain Web Components.

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