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by hawkice 7y ago
I mean, I strongly encourage all people who, when presented with the option of getting a very good deal on an expensive and valuable thing, to take it. In equilibrium, you'd expect someone's programming skillset not to massively d
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by hawkice 7y ago
> That’s not really true. There are companies with a few employees in expensive locations and many in low income regions. If you switched everyone to the same salary you’d bankrupt the company. I certain don’t assume to know what Gitlab’
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by hawkice 7y ago
Isn't that what Uber and Lyft do? I don't own a car and that's how I use them. I'm not precious about being the driver.
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by hawkice 7y ago
For most people, owning 100% of a company making $1M/year would be preferable to owning 10% of a company making $1B. It's not just that money has decreasing marginal value. It's about what life you want to live. The ten perce
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by hawkice 7y ago
Only if they abused it. If it's a government CA, and they use it only to trap pedophiles and ISIL, I don't see them doing anything.
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by hawkice 7y ago
Because deliberately obtuse hn comments do not benefit anyone: line buffers are copied on fork and flushed on exit, so you get two 'choo's. If you add a \n it goes down to just one because it flushes on newline.
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by hawkice 7y ago
There is reason to think the fatality rate in other Chinese cities is ten times lower than Wuhan. This is not an issue of generically being poor, it's that the authoritarian government knows where their bread gets buttered, and it&#x27
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by hawkice 7y ago
I would take the other side of the bet about how well China is handling this. They are doing... intensely poorly. The rapid spread is in part due to the fact the Chinese government doesn't care at all about central China, and Wuhan onl
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by hawkice 7y ago
It's more fun if you do things after you fork. Forking immediately before the process terminates is a noop for almost all use cases.
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by hawkice 7y ago
What's the fun part?
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by hawkice 7y ago
Nah there's some credit card security thing in the EU they talk about in the Stripe API. No comprehension of what it is, but I'm not talking about GDPR or anything, just weird credit cards.
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by hawkice 7y ago
Wow, Stripe is the best developer experience? When I integrated a few months ago their documentation was so confusing I ended up giving up and not using it at all, relying on using a library for laborious guess and check, and watching the J
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by hawkice 7y ago
I resigned from a software development job after being asked to write this dual receipt system for an AdTech company. Works for a lot more than tax avoidance in an industry where standard terms are revenue share agreements.
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by hawkice 7y ago
There is a difference between pay so poor no one is willing to take the job and pay good enough to get top talent. Clearing the first hurdle doesn't say anything about the second.
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by hawkice 7y ago
Those fast compiles, fast speed, plus the feature list (standard generics and hot code reloading) make this look insanely cool! What's the secret sauce? The translation from C and compile being 25x faster than just compiling C seems ne
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by hawkice 7y ago
Just CSS stuff, things seeming to run off the right side of the screen.
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by hawkice 7y ago
Some of those recordings are bonkers haha. 得 in particular seemed... Worthy of a double check. And 二（or 儿？) Had a surprising cadence to it. Swell idea though. Mobile support is a bit rough but not unusable.
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by hawkice 7y ago
The conclusion to draw is that, if a language has s-expression syntax, it is considered a lisp.
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by hawkice 7y ago
Haskell, notoriously. I believe it pioneered the ergonomics of the alternatives used elsewhere.
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by hawkice 7y ago
Canada counts as the US for several national security purposes. There's a lot of cooperation to prevent this type of loophole.
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by hawkice 7y ago
I think we all occasionally write code we like, but I also write code I don't like, but only the most vague idea on how to improve.
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by hawkice 7y ago
In less than two years, you delayed several months and then connected with someone a thousand miles away and had two children? They must be twins. Literally, chronologically, must be.
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by hawkice 7y ago
Or its warming but the warming isn't so terrible to outweigh the other advances.
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by hawkice 7y ago
You're very optimistic, thinking it's an era and not a deeply human and permanent aspect of society.
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by hawkice 7y ago
I mean, they claim you can't just have a database admin. Let's be clear, you can just have a database admin. (For nearly all values of "you")
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by hawkice 7y ago
He's talking about the recommended use of things like React or Elm. React will probably have the basic info that ties it to GraphQL the closest, given the creators.
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by hawkice 7y ago
You're not wrong, but I think starting with structuring data to be reasonably performant is always the best first step. You can always make it deferred later if you want or need. This way you don't hammer your DB and leave weird s
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by hawkice 7y ago
I'm not sure that "Why?" is always going to be a physics question, but certainly even after we understand the smallest building blocks, we will need specific models of arbitrarily complex systems where the basic rules are com
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by hawkice 7y ago
I mean, I like trees. You can sleep under a tree. It's useful, and funges against industrial uses e.g. housing. It's definitely an inferior good, I prefer structures made from wood. But like, trees are themselves useful.
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by hawkice 7y ago
Brace yourself: you aren't splitting hairs, you're nitpicking.

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