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by javcasas 3y ago
Well, oligarchy is the eventual result of liberalism. Even though we may have started equal, some people, through luck or questionable methods, have attained a position of power, possibly by being owners of a company that has a monopolistic
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by javcasas 3y ago
Can you explain the difference? Googling it is quite hard, as it mostly throws me biased views.
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by javcasas 3y ago
Do you know why the USA is the richest country in the world while being full of homeless, or has the strongest army in the world while having the shittiest healthcare of all developed countries? Because liberalism, I/E shrink the state
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by javcasas 3y ago
https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#in For floats it truncates towards zero. positive_round(-1.2) is 0. Also, what is the value of positive_round("1")? I hope it is an exception, otherwise i
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by javcasas 3y ago
Be careful how you measure that. Extreme poverty was defined as less than a dollar per day. Are you measuring progress or inflation?
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by javcasas 3y ago
Because victim blaming, that's why.
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by javcasas 3y ago
You know what happens when your library spins a goroutine and that goroutine crashes? Your program crases, and you don't have the chance of putting any recovery on it. Your library with buggy goroutines take down the whole program, and
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by javcasas 3y ago
But, but, what do I do with the EnumerateAll@injectables plugin that I bought for Jetbrains? Do I have to not write all these @s??? What is that key in the keyboard if not for @singleton@injectable@module@component??
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by javcasas 3y ago
The thing about jsx is that I don't have to learn the special syntax and rules that govern the @foreach construct. jsx map accepts a js function which should return a jsx element. Can I use...? If it works in js, yes.
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by javcasas 3y ago
I got fired from the office on a Friday evening when more than half the company already logged off. What is the wonderful closure you get? Anyway, welcome to the corporate world. It pretends to be personal, but it's business.
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by javcasas 3y ago
Meaning insertion sort does not suffer from the problems that made us construct quicksort because we optimized the insertion a lot (at a tradeoff that we will not specify).
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by javcasas 3y ago
That is such a pedantic discussion. Soon, we will be requiring multi-year studies to confirm that, because there is ice on the freezers that still run after the rolling blackouts, we are still on an ice age. Meanwhile, emitting another 37GT
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by javcasas 3y ago
> Apple's iOS and macOS have very similar dark patterns, but they go unmentioned So you agree pitchforks should be out both for Apple and Microsoft. Count me in.
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by javcasas 3y ago
Just go with react bro... Now seriously, React has been working fine for 10 years. If you need to chase something different every 6 months, I'm inclined to say you are doing something wrong.
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by javcasas 3y ago
> Whereas, if Microsoft just looks at you wrong, pitchforks are out. Not to nitpick, but Microsoft looking wrong at you is more like the Eye of Sauron looking wrong at you. Just pointing to the gigantic amount of dark patterns on Microso
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by javcasas 3y ago
A browser full of dark patterns is not an excellent browser.
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by javcasas 3y ago
"9 meses de invierno y 3 de infierno" (9 months of winter and 3 of hell) - an old saying from my old city in Mainland Spain. -5C in winter, 40C in summer. Also thunderstorms, golf-ball sized hailstorms, prolongued droughs and quit
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by javcasas 3y ago
Let's wait for his next argument. My bet goes along "it's brown people, they don't matter/they deserve it".
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by javcasas 3y ago
That may start changing sooner than you think. Search Google for "wet bulb temperature" and then check how parts in the India and China are so near it, and then consider than +1.5 on average, the sea wau less, the land way more.
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by javcasas 3y ago
No matter how fancy your compression, that code with comments stripped will compress to less bytes than the same code with comments.
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by javcasas 3y ago
"helper" classes are a symptom of an object-obsessed programming language, a language where functions can't live in a module, they must always exist in a class. Especially if it doesn't make sense for a class to hold the
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by javcasas 3y ago
No, because this is an ad disguised as an article. You are now supposed to leave your job and apply to work there, and then, when you are hired and spend a bit of time working there, you get the Haskell course. Source: I worked there.
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by javcasas 3y ago
Come on Justin, you used to write spicier articles when I worked at stackbuilders. What happened?
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by javcasas 3y ago
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by javcasas 3y ago
Ok, in your opinion, what would it look like the right stuff as provided in a programming language? Microservices are a good solution for scaling a company into multiple sub-sections, I/E a solution for an org chart problem. If your or
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by javcasas 3y ago
> Profit doesnt matter anymore. It is all speculation against the dream of future profits once a tech company <fill stuff here>. Oh, this time is soooo different to the dotcom crash, where it was speculation on companies, where pro
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by javcasas 3y ago
So because we have bad programmers that don't use the stuff provided by the programming language, we are going to throw away the baby with the bath water. And, somehow, this is going to fix the fact that this happened because we have b
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by javcasas 3y ago
Money is not everything. But when you don't have it, everyone is so nasty at you. You are not allowed to have food, or shelter, or health, all those things cost money. It shouldn't be a surprise that, as a result, many people prio
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by javcasas 3y ago
Of course, ¿what did you expect? (yeah, yeah, knee-jerk reaction, but the trend on Windows becoming user-hostile can be seen at this point from the other side of the Milky Way)
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by javcasas 3y ago
I (engineer) wrote a job description for a job, pretty much cutting all the bullshit. Got quite a few good applicants, ended up hiring a random guy without a degree that is now making himself a well known name in the Flutter community. Cut-

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