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by handrous 5y ago
Seconded. Happily running it in a Docker container on an old Linux box. Set-up took minutes and it's been working, through occasional upgrades, for something like two years now without a hiccup. I mostly use the Roku and Web clients. I
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by handrous 5y ago
Oh no, it's not dying—there's a ton of PHP work out there—it's just that most of the PHP dev market is very stagnant, wage-wise, outside a handful of companies, in a way that most languages in wide use are not. There's
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by handrous 5y ago
This is featured in the Doctor Strange movie, in fact. IIRC the good doctor is presented with a patient whose case is so difficult that he's one of the only people in the world with a chance at successfully performing the procedure the
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> Have you wrangled with JSON using Go? Absolutely dreadful. Yes. Of course it's dreadful. It's JSON. It's way better in Go than Ruby or Javascript, though.
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by handrous 5y ago
It's not, because "bugs you write" includes bugs that don't make it to production. I doubt there's a programmer who's worked in a language without static types who's not familiar with the "write, run,
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I'd add - Actually using any of the distinguishing features of prototypical inheritance is nearly always a bad idea, which makes the use of that model in the first place very questionable. One of the cornerstones of the language is
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by handrous 5y ago
PHP is the more recent one. Folks who worked in PHP but got out at the right time look at all the low-paying PHP jobs (and there are lots of them!) and see mostly-PHP-experience job candidates dismissed out of hand for higher-paying jobs th
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by handrous 5y ago
Eh, it's standard public Web forum writing. It's a terrible style and grates on me when I read it, but one I find advisable to employ at times nonetheless. Things might have gone fine without that part, but when I re-read the post
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by handrous 5y ago
Sure, yeah. My point is mainly that expenses for early retirement in the US have the potential to vary a lot compared to... well, basically any other OECD state, really, mostly due to healthcare. This makes the lower bound for a reasonabl
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If someone feels that one side had a harder path to begin with due to context outside the presentation/debate itself, that can happen. To veer dangerously close to Godwinning, but I think for good reason, consider how much better a h
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by handrous 5y ago
My assumption is that a couple (say) would be running with pretty thin margins, even assuming no mortgage interest or rent and modest living, on $40,000 a year and a fairly low CoL area, so losing another $7k (that's per person, right,
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by handrous 5y ago
> Whether it's broken or not is up to you, but that's what freedom means. You are not the arbiter of this, however much you insist on it, and all four relevant definitions in Webster's 1913—a great source if you're lo
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by handrous 5y ago
If your definition calls the pauper in a society with no rules whatsoever freer than the billionaire in a society with exactly one government-enforced rule, which prohibits unsolicited sales calls after 6:00 PM on Sundays, then it's a
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by handrous 5y ago
The subsidies don't help with copays, deductibles, and co-insurance, right? Those can run into the five figures even on a "silver" plan, in a bad year. If someone on the plan gets cancer, congrats, now every year is a bad yea
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by handrous 5y ago
A couple years of serious illness for you or anyone you're responsible for (spouse, children) will still ruin your retirement plans, if you try to retire early on $40,000/yr in income. A "Silver" exchange plan, even if t
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by handrous 5y ago
> 1) Your degree of freedom is strictly a relationship between you and those who are able to legitimately use violence against you. Legitimate here meaning you have no means of recourse besides violence of your own. I strongly disagree w
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by handrous 5y ago
I'm not even saying it's irrational, due to priority #2. We love to find someone to blame, then hammer them hard . Best is if we ruin someone's entire life over whatever we've found that we can blame them for.
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> Can you retire on $40k a year? Maybe in Europe. No, in the US. Not even close. Even with a paid-off house. Certainly not before "retirement age". Health care is the reason.
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by handrous 5y ago
Moderation is hard because designing communities around effective moderation is at odds with the growth and monetization goals of the major social media companies. The problem's tractable, just not while operating something that looks
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by handrous 5y ago
Their business model depends on operating in a way that's nearly impossible to effectively moderate, and abusive (see all the stories about what Facebook moderators have to see) to try. The only way to fix the problem is to... not oper
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by handrous 5y ago
> Helps two fold, with lawsuits against the bus company I think the most succinct way to describe the US to an outsider, in a way that will help them understand or explain most of the behaviors that may seem odd, is that everyone's
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by handrous 5y ago
US busses are full of cameras. School busses, public transit busses. Basically all busses. I wouldn't be surprised if most charter busses have them, even.
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Every country is a real Omelas situation—I don't think we're meant to read it and go "man, sucks to have to make that choice," but, "oh, it's an allegory for the society I actually live in". The entire
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by handrous 5y ago
Won't happen until grabbing everyone's data isn't a top priority for tech companies. They don't want you to be able to do stuff that they can't observe. IOW we're stuck with a decaying protocol ecosystem—for me
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by handrous 5y ago
Receive a $1m windfall at age 35 in 1990: "Hot damn, I'll never work again!" Receive a $1m windfall at age 35 in 2021: "Hot damn, I'll actually be able to retire at 65!"
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by handrous 5y ago
I think that's on purpose, on HN. IIRC the stated reason is that it encourages you to focus on the content of posts rather than who wrote it, though IMO it's net-harmful and is part of why certain types of trolling and shit-postin
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by handrous 5y ago
Somehow I'd missed that one. I agree with its general point, but the "this is what SQL would look like as YAML" joke actually looks almost exactly like how I write SQL. Maybe I've been doing it wrong all these years....
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by handrous 5y ago
> The English curriculum was geared towards reading literature and summarizing the morals and themes rather than learning the rules of English language. English class is usually a bunch of things. There's a reason they've moved
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by handrous 5y ago
> - French conjugation of verbs is a whole world of its own > - Nouns are non-gendered in English, and gendered in most European languages. Yes, a ship is a she, and referring to people or animals you use he/she etc. but in Polis
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by handrous 5y ago
There's a web framework performance comparison project out there that makes HN from time to time, and IIRC the findings have been you basically can't reliably beat PHP performance at serving dynamic web sites without resorting t

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