james-mcelwain

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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
People are leaving California because of the housing crisis, which is undoubtedly a huge issue, but is an indicator of massive demand to live in California, not that people are fleeing the state due to fiscal mismanagement
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
Their "list" is basically just a list of states with debt, that completely ignores their ability to issue new debt and generate revenue (i.e. that people actually want to live in California and not Kansas), while ignoring the fact
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
Pension is being used as a term of art here not how anyone uses it in standard parlance.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
Mercatus is a Koch funded think tank -- hardly unbiased and a poor source here.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
You're being willfully obtuse here. No one in the US would call their 401k a pension.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
Is Nim a viable alternative to Rust? Didn't it just release 1.0? Their production users list[1] doesn't look very impressive. The size of ecosystem matters a lot. [1] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki&
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
I really don't think my initial comment was that hostile, but I can see why it could be read that way. I appreciate what you're trying to say here, and should probably work on framing things positively to avoid this kind of conten
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
Right, my point was just that there's no such thing as a "mostly works" consensus algorithm. By definition these algorithms are intended for systems that can't tolerate failure. If you feel confident you've built a
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
I feel like setting up the tests to validate that your Raft implementation is actually correct would take at least a weekend by itself.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
Not that I disagree with you, but 2-6 basically come down to "it lacks a Lisp-like REPL." I do think that the REPL workflow is way underappreciated and missing in Intellij. What I like about it is that it still focuses on working
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
> See for example the abortions... are nonetheless lives lost due to the disaster. Unless you have some additional evidence of euthanizing newborns or otherwise near-term pregnancies, abortions do not count as lives lost to the disaster
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
I'm taking issue with the use of the word "dramatically" not the claim that it could improve patient outcomes.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
It's not like we're going around incubating healthy people -- you have to be pretty sick to get put on a ventilator. Even if the treatment turns out to be a net negative, most of these patients didn't have very good odds in t
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
This is also what I do, but it seems so antagonistic and deceptive. I want my relationship with my PM to be productive and collaborative.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
I don't know if something is wrong with me, but I simply cannot "decompose" a single feature into 500 different sub-task Jiras. I understand why it would be super cool if software worked like that, but I have to iterate on fe
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
Was curious so looked this up -- the North American market is bigger than the EU by ~50 million people.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
This is my experience especially with ORMs. It's really hard to optimize when your "top query time" list is just a list of your most frequently called methods, where there's no single obvious pathological case, but lots
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
This might be the correct advice in many scenarios but is essentially playing with fire. A company that wants revenge could easily bankrupt you with even the smallest contractual leg to stand on. Your 200k base comp isn't going to look
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
"Jamstack" has to be the worst name for an architecture ever. "Javascript", "APIs", and "markup"... uhhh you mean like what the entire web already runs on?
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
There's nothing wrong with Java generics. Reified generics are a design choice. As someone who uses a lot of non-Java JVM languages, I'm thankful interop is easier.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
How does the size of the business change the material facts here? You shouldn't be able to take profit when you're sitting on top of a 0% interest government loan intended to keep you solvent.
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by james-mcelwain 6y ago
It's important to remember that there are still a lot of front-end folks who aren't interested in application engineering, but still might find these frameworks useful. For those kinds of people, static typing is a harder sell. Fo
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
Look at the YouTube channel they linked.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
This kind of Sinophobia is so unwarranted -- China has done the best to control this disease outside of maybe S. Korea.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
> but I haven't seen it downplayed on the Federal level at all We truly must be living in different universes.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
> i've done medical billing systems too and it is, indeed, crazy but what's make you think the gov. would be any better? Well, first of all, because there's no medical billing in M4A. It's free at point of service, s
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
There's a huge, gigantic difference between not having a military at all and spending 1 trillion a year to be an imperialist superpower. It's almost like... there's a middle ground.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
This only works if the assumption is that it would be equally safe for pilots to operate a new plane without training. I'm not willing to fly under that assumption.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
No, it's a way of saying that Java != the JVM. The JVM's GC is not "awful" precisely because so many Java frameworks are awful.
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by james-mcelwain 7y ago
> the JVM's awful GC This just makes it seem like you are trolling. JVM devs have done more to advance state of art in this area than any other language. The problem is that most JVM apps just produce too much garbage, not necessari

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