james-mcelwain

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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
The legislation to block this was defeated by a single vote -- notably, Bernie Sanders was absent and could have voted to defeat this.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
No, you should almost certainly be using openjdk, which oracle jdk is based off, unless you have a compelling reason an alternative implementation is better.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
The nice thing about Kotlin is that you can just bind to the existing Java GraphQL libs. Clojure is similar in this respect. Sure it means you have to also be familiar with Java and the Java ecosystem, but it's actually great to intera
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
That's a really good point. Accessibility is super important and a shame that many devs (including myself) forget about it.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
Because Node.js isn't appropriate for a lot of back-end applications, or for legacy back-end applications that already exist.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
That dream is already here if you use Clojure, and it's great! Web assembly makes me very bullish on this kind of setup. Maybe we won't even be targeting the DOM in the future?
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
I think the advice is sound, but Kotlin and Graphql are pretty mainstream. This sounds like a local market problem.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
> Well, yeah, it's reasonable to expect investors to appropriately researching something before buying, and be cognizant of the risk that it could crash. Is it? Isn't this the entire reason risk management departments exist?
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
Really? I found it slow enough to basically not be able to use any of my regular build systems (Maven, NPM, Cargo, etc.).
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
The subsidies only make it a less-worse bad idea. Particularly when you take into account things like predatory car leases many drivers take out. Like, I think there are interesting broader questions here about regulation and the social sa
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
When it comes to Uber, it's more difficult for me to consider because I'm less sure of the social utility provided by the application, particularly when we take the massive unsustainable subsidies out of the picture. I think the e
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
> I have no idea what you're driving at. No one chooses to be born, no one chooses the cell structure that requires consumption. There are thousands of choices we don't make to live in society. "Your argument is that someo
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
> hard facts of social reality that "coerce" them to work, but then regulating Uber in particular seems unwarranted, because why is Uber singled out I'd agree that this is a more effective path than attempting to regulate
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
I never claimed that Uber or Lyft coerced them to work, so I'm not sure where we disagree.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
You're going to have to do more work to justify dismissing an argument out of hand than simply calling it emotional. > 100% of people do willfully? You've personally interviewed every gig worker? Do you really think every singl
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
> emotional, irrational non-argument Please avoid calling arguments emotional / irrational just because you disagree. The parent argument is that people are forced into bad situations by contingencies that aren't facts of natur
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
Some of us just have big hands. :3
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
I've often been tempted to show my less-technical manager our commit log, but have always avoided it because I can't see any way it wouldn't turn into some stupid game about commits and lines of code changed.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
Isn't this the same rhetorical move that communists/socialists get accused of all the time? How can you claim that the most ideologically capitalist country on the planet isn't actually capitalist?
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
> If you'd like to share an explanation of how the spread of ideas leading to the revolutions of Europe could have happened without an innovation that had the same effect as the printing press ded, I'd be genuinely intrigued to
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
I think that framing ("necessary but not sufficient") is a much more productive way that I wish free speech advocates would use more. My opposition to censorship derives from the fact that it tends to require an unjustified hierar
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
This either trivially true, in the sense that the Western canon builds on itself, or patently absurd, in the sense that you attempt to frame the 1918 revolution as being a mere effect of the invention of the printing press 500 years earlier
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
I mean, a teleological view of history and ethics is just so absurd that it disturbs me that professed "rational" scientifically minded people believe it. There's no basis for believing just because things "tend" to
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
> That's precisely what you want if you care about not harming society at large, especially in the longer run. Please, explain: how do queer ideas harm society, in the longer run?
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
Past results do not guarantee future performance.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
I mean, like many things, this just comes down to axioms that ground your meta-ethics. I don't find moral Platonism very convincing. There's no natural inclination of humans towards justice or injustice, beyond the limits of our o
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
I'm not sure the criticism is just "hypothetical." My roommate just received an antibody test and was told by the provider that the error bars are so wide on positive results that it's basically only useful to confirm th
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
I'm not suggesting that we should stop reviewing dependencies. I'm pushing back against the idea that internally structuring a large repo or project via independent modules necessarily explodes the burden to review. It may be the
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
Why is number of packages and not package size the relevant metric here? Especially when all the packages live in the same repository, there's practically no more overhead to review each package qua package, versus just a bunch of dire
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
A minority of the global population is still a huge number. You're much more optimistic than me about Western democracy's ability to cope with 100s of millions of climate refugees without things falling apart.

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