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by hibikir 3y ago
What we see is another layer of cleanup of older media, where large amounts are culled from the next generation's minds, but some will still remain. The culling first gets rid of chaff, and eventually just leaves the very best example
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Pattern matching is what makes sum types ergonomic enough to be used. Many a Java design doesn't use said interface-based sum types because it's so cumbersome to use them. But whena language has pattern matching, then suddenly des
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It's explained if you look at the proposals: They wanted to avoid any and all risks of backwards compatibility with any existing templating tool in the Java ecosystem. Every sensible syntax was covered by one of those, so the core lang
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Doing science and publishing papers is extremely different than pottery, and that has nothing to do with a difference in status between the two. When doing any form of art, the most important thing is to practice. If you make 20 vases, the
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Spain is full of professional taxi drivers (not on Uber) driving Teslas. People that had been driving before, for years, and do it full time. They drive Teslas because they are big enough for a taxi, and they really end up ahead. And take i
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There's also the maintenance costs that aren't tires, and go far faster in a taxi. Oil changes, tire changes and rotations, brake pads and belts. You can find taxi drivers explaining their costs out there. This summer in Spain, ma
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But it kind of is a great moral problem: A whole lot of infrastructure in the US is way overbuilt, with maintenance sent forward decades. The cost of the infrastructure isn't really handled by the people that built it, or those that us
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I was also a Miata owner: An NB Madzaspeed. A lot of fun to drive, and it's nimbleness saved me from a couple of crazy accidents. Unfortunately the car has one major weakness: It doesn't matter if the car is very agile if you are
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This is also why the most hilarious anti-feature of Jira, supposedly a tool to manage agile teams, is how every ticket has one person assigned to it. If you do sufficient pairing, the person assigned to a ticket is completely useless. Also
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Google has been fighting against SEO basically from the beginning. For many years, you could see the difference with other search engines that had worse tech. In general, google used to do very well against SEO bots, for well over a decade.
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The best I can say of scrum is that it's designed to get some amount of output from an otherwise extremely dysfunctional team. If your teams were achieving nothing, it provides a modicum of accountability. So there's places where
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To add to this, the Missouri yearly tax is already higher than gas taxes for most vehicles, and it's legislated to go up 20% a year every year until 2026. Taxes high enough that the economic gains for electric are basically zero.
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What makes new technology exciting, whether it's a web framework, a phone, a car, or the internet, is all the things people can do with it that were impossible, or just very expensive, before. In many parts of tech, we've had quit
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It's not unlike how more than 80% of workers would love a raise. It's all posturing until it's actually done. Realistically though, PTO comes out of salary, just like healthcare. For the businessman, it's a matter of tot
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More and better trains are great... when they are connecting very dense areas that have a lot of traffic. Madrid's subway is great, and so is rail to nearby towns, and high speed rail to Seville, Valencia and the like. But the value of
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But we absolutely don't keep making cars, or trucks, safer for pedestrians: We are actively putting people in vehicles with worse visibility, because said human drivers feel safer when they are driving in a larger, taller heavier vehic
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Most of the year, I live in a midwestern suburb: 1/3rd of an acre lots as far as the eye can see. I go on a walk every day, but it's rare that I ever actually see a human being during said walk: Everyone is cooped up in their hous
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People always think of these companies as if all they were doing was simple credit card processing, delegating a lot to a bank. If that was the case, then yes, they are commodities with no moat. Reality is far more complicated. It's no
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But they do get influence from the pharma companies, and might end up getting kickbacks for it. See the whole Auvi-Q situation, which discounts price to patient to zero, but charges far more than it's sensible to the insurance company:
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I have worked at over a dozen companies where they were using Java. I have yet to see one where null checks and error handling thanks to said null checks doesn't occupy a significant percentage of the application. Maybe I am unlucky, o
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The idea is that you deconstruct when a method returns a sum type: An interface with a defined set of implementers that doesn't change. A very common pattern in, say, Haskell or Scala. In Scala you'd also get a warning if you forg
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It's still more complicated than that, as ultimately a non trivial number of people end up making more from investments than labor, just from savings and time. Basically every 45 year old developer in the US that tried to save at all i
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I have had to make that Clustered RabbitMQ to Kafka move myself, as the failure modes from RabbitMQ we're very scary. The most scary thing in the entire infrastructure in that financial institution levels of scary. It's not that i
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Argentina is probably the best available use case for cryptocurrencies: There's a reasonably well educated population, living in a relatively safe country with decent productive infrastructure, yet facing massive problems due to moneta
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An obvious improvement is to just be OK when another serious regulator approved the drug too. If, say Europe or Australia calls it safe and effective, and the market is small, then approve with their study.
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Can you? A defined benefit plan is ultimately involving someone taking a risk. One either makes the risk very small, and therefore being a very expensive benefit from the very beginning, or be aggressive, and risk being an underfunded benef
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Being a very good speaker, or leader, isn't really about convincing everyone, but convincing a certain group of people consistently. This being HN I don't want to get all that political, but I am sure you can think of a few recent
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If you have malicious senior developers that foist work on people that would never be approved when the full team is there, your problem is not using one methodology or another: your problem is in hiring and firing. It's one thing to h
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And yet, most residential construction is basically the same, whether it's going to be built in Palo Alto, upstate NY, Kansas, south Florida or Portland. Most of those don't have anything that even resembles strong earthquake risk
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As it happens, a non-trivial amount of Downtown St Louis is now failing commercial real estate: It's not just the AT&T building, which could be had for cheaper than many Seattle single family homes, or the two hotels in receivershi

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