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by irq11 8y ago
Not to take a stance either way, but pretty much any org will find a way to justify the salaries of the people it employs. It’s neither informative nor surprising that a company that employs lots of engineers will have lots of engineering p
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by irq11 8y ago
Median 1 bedroom rent in Manhattan is $3300. $4700 a month for a short term lease isn’t bad at all.
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by irq11 8y ago
No, the heat moved is greater than the watts in. The machine itself has considerable parasitic losses, and a simple electric baseboard heater is more “efficient”, using the strict definition of the term. The difference is that most people
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by irq11 8y ago
All the more reason to put the button in the browser. Give people the option to easily turn off the crap, and you’ll find out how much it matters.
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by irq11 8y ago
You’re right on the second point: I think it’s somewhat silly to set an arbitrary size limit (an easy javascript off button would be fantastic, however.) Your first point misses the argument. It’s not that you should support everything wi
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by irq11 8y ago
Nobody said anything about “every case”, but I’m here to tell you that most webapps can be written without it. How do you think webapps were written before React came along? I do it every day, and there’s absolutely no reason that progres
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by irq11 8y ago
Webapps can be implemented just fine without Javascript; I’ve been doing it for years. React is a luxury, not a requirement, and progressive enhancement is a thing in all but the most demanding apps. The point is, I currently exist in a w
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by irq11 8y ago
You should be making your pages work without javascript. Progressive enhancement has been a best-practice for years. I routinely use the fast JS switcher extension to turn off javascript on any site that does any number of irritating things
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by irq11 8y ago
AlphaFold not only depended on a great deal of domain knowledge, it actually used one of the most famous physics-based methods. The only people who think that AlphaGo was made by a bunch of noob AI guys with a neural network are the peopl
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by irq11 8y ago
There are very few empty plots in the Mission. The few that exist are slated for development, or vacant for a reason. Try to find one, other than the gas station by 16th street BART (which I almost guarantee is what you’re talking about, an
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by irq11 8y ago
The MTA doesn’t do this because people actually depend on the subway at night. Getting around London after the underground is shut is incredibly inconvenient, and even they have been moving the most important trains to all-night service.
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by irq11 8y ago
I’ll grant you this: unless you’re actually playing music to sold-out stadiums, “Rock star” is an insipid, meaningless phrase. I’m not trying to debate the definition. Likewise, I’m not interested in the technical qualifications to be a “co
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by irq11 8y ago
That’s mostly just an indictment of the Javascript space, not a defense of lacking fundamental knowledge. I don’t routinely write sorting algorithms either, but I know what they are, how they differ, and how to implement them. And it’s usef
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by irq11 8y ago
Honestly, hearing that a core contributor to React doesn’t know much of anything about basic engineering topics is disheartening, not encouraging. Not memorizing the algorithm book is one thing, but being considered a “rockstar” when you do
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by irq11 8y ago
“Business-wise”, he’s taking a series of random, poorly reasoned actions, some of which happen to be good. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. The parent is saying that Trump is bad on most things, but good on one particular thing. Y
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by irq11 8y ago
Yes, one of the problems with Friedman and his adherents is that they take the most cynical view of any situation, and assume everyone thinks like they do. So real, complex problems get reduced to a joke about how everyone else is an assh
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by irq11 8y ago
Unfortunately, the legal obligations are almost reversed.
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by irq11 8y ago
Or he made contact prints and figured out which frames to print by using a loupe. ...ah, film.
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by irq11 8y ago
No they aren’t. I’m putting a baseline on hyperbole: at $1000 today, you’d be close to the bottom of the market for a 2 bedroom apartment in any desirable market in the US. The OP paid (in 2018 dollars) only twice the minimum, in a fairly
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by irq11 8y ago
I defy you to find a 2 bedroom apartment in a non-crappy neighborhood in any major American city for less than $1k. Even smaller cities won’t make that cut - it’s tough to find that in Columbus, let alone Denver or Dallas. You can always tr
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by irq11 8y ago
I’ll say it again: it’s absolutely irrational that we encourage flipping through our tax system. Short-term capital gains on housing should be taxed at 100%. Really tired of the HN thought-police censoring ideas by downvote. If you disagree
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by irq11 8y ago
“Supply and demand” has two sides. You can ameliorate demand distortions while also building. They’re not mutually exclusive. If someone wants to or needs to own for a short term, a sensible policy is to ensure that they don’t profit from
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by irq11 8y ago
When it comes to housing, HN is filled woth rigid ideologues who will tolerate no opinion that doesn’t exactly agree with that of the hive-mind (i.e. if prices are high, the only solution is to build more; demand distortions do not exist.)
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by irq11 8y ago
So it’s worse than having a policy that is neutral on flipping: our tax system actually encourages it. We shoud tax short term capital gains on property at 100 percent. Nobody should be able to profit by driving up the cost of housing.
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by irq11 8y ago
Per the article, the development project cost hundreds of millions of dollars. It wasn’t cheap to produce.
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by irq11 8y ago
They had a staff of skilled people who had been working on the project for years, most likely in an (expensive) laboratory that was purpose-built for the task of producing a transgenic virus destined for humans. It’s not cheap to produce at
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by irq11 8y ago
You’re focusing on the wrong thing. Even if you ignored the cost of regulation and development, the company who was producing this drug would need to spend millions of dollars a year on production just to keep a safe supply available. With
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by irq11 8y ago
Deploying a preliminary taxi service in one city in a place with no weather is not even close to “full self-driving”. When they’re driving around with no safety drivers in Manhattan in the winter, we can talk about solved problems.
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by irq11 8y ago
Gitlab is absolutely not higher than GitHub, unless you ignore all of the people who are running self-hosted Gitlab for free. GitHub makes most of its revenue from the self-hosted market. GitLab is burning this market to the ground.
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by irq11 8y ago
Also, their business model is “GitHub, but cheaper”. We now know what GitHub was worth, and it puts the lie to inflated valuations in this space. When $8Bn is a huge deal for your industry, it gets hard to sell higher valuations with a stra

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