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by jbjohns 7y ago
>I'm not arguing for pure functional systems (which I can see going very poorly with relational databases). Why? The very best "OO" interactions I have with a database are via Linq which is a monad [1]. What it actually
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by jbjohns 7y ago
I would expect the majority of the mods are actually advertising accounts of some form or another. The more popular the sub the more likely the mods are not acting in good faith.
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by jbjohns 7y ago
This strikes me as a pretty bizarre statement. The more checks I can put into the compiler, the less tests I have to write. Tests are also code and come with development and maintenance costs. Since a software project's costs correl
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by jbjohns 7y ago
>Large tech companies are paying ridiculous salaries and generally speaking we’re in a period of early-stage capital glut. The salaries are not ridiculous at all. It's the rate the market has decided those workers are worth. If a
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by jbjohns 7y ago
Has this post been shadow banned or something? I can't see it anywhere now. EDIT: I actually do see it in new, I guess I just didn't realise how hacker news shows articles. My mistake.
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by jbjohns 7y ago
When it comes to Damore I think it's important to understand that he thought he was writing to an internal group and could easily have been a bit looser with his language expecting to "bounce off ideas". The real problem h
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by jbjohns 7y ago
This has nothing to do with REST (I realize it says RESTful but I wish that term would die as RESTful has nothing to do with REST either). It seems to re-invent OData as well. I don’t know how it has gone so wrong with REST as it seems pret
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by jbjohns 7y ago
Managers always say this, but usually it doesn't work out. And anyway, a job is not a marriage. It's good to experience different environments and moving around is the best way to get promotions/raises.
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by jbjohns 9y ago
But in Haskell your "do, see reaction" loop is the compiler. Most of the interesting bit of it is incrementally defining types and functions for your program and verifying that it's still legal. That way, when the compile
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by jbjohns 11y ago
What are you talking about? There was no "South Vietnam"... There was Vietnam and there were places the invading forces were occupying.
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by jbjohns 13y ago
If you can't even afford $100 a year you probably can afford anything you would need to develop for the platform (e.g. a mac).
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by jbjohns 13y ago
It has nothing to do with Bayesian, we're talking logic here. An astrological sign would not fall under logic, but rather the domain of science where it can be demonstrated to have no predictive power. A human can decide to stop lyin
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by jbjohns 13y ago
No, because the people who administer them know that they're pretty much worthless for establishing guilt/innocence so if they don't get the damaging report they want they'll just throw it out.
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by jbjohns 13y ago
> Not so. If someone has lied in the past Fine. It makes no conclusive statement about their current argument. You still have to check it if you want to know if it's true or not. > The takeaway is that you should not lie, bec
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by jbjohns 13y ago
> You'll be paying those personnel costs either way. Obviously, but be honest about it. Don't tell me I can get a stake for $9 when I still have to pay taxes plus ~20% on top of the total to pay your employees. I also hate t
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by jbjohns 13y ago
A job is not a marriage. If you start having problems respond by looking for another job. A job that gives you lots of stress or makes you feel bad is not good for your health or well being. And I would normally advise against trying to
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by jbjohns 13y ago
If you're so fearful of your job you should quit right away. It's not healthy to live like that.
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by jbjohns 13y ago
Careful, you don't want to give them an ideas!
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by jbjohns 13y ago
What an ignorant statement. Europe doesn't have this ridiculous tipping culture (parts do tip, but usually $1-$2 max) and yet we fill those positions. Surprisingly enough, if you pay someone a living wage for doing a job they tend to
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by jbjohns 13y ago
All a tip is is employers tricking you, their customer, into paying their personnel costs (often upwards of 4/5ths of it!) directly. You don't "incentivise" someone to work hard by paying them the money they're act
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by jbjohns 13y ago
As if their only choices are between working in my country's economy or starving to death. The issue is, those people "on the other side of the fence" can have dramatically lower costs of living. A completely free labour mar
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by jbjohns 13y ago
Of course. There is always the driver to actually work. In places that lack a safety net you have to take some "flipping burgers" job which you still can't really report on your resume so you end up with no time plus th
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by jbjohns 13y ago
Interestingly you just quoted the very definition of ad hominem. What someone tends to say makes no statement about their current argument. You can choose to dismiss them out of hand because they tend to lie, but to claim that what they a
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by jbjohns 13y ago
No, I think the issue is that software developers have reached a limit of how low a salary they are willing to work for, and not enough of them have a limit that is low enough for what companies are willing to pay so rather than cave in, th
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by jbjohns 13y ago
> Unrestricted labour movement will mean you get paid average if you are average. There are quite a lot of assumptions in this statement. You assume an efficient market (something that does not and probably cannot exist at scale, if at
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by jbjohns 13y ago
2 seems unlikely. If education is free, why not learn what ever you want? If educate is insanely expensive then unless your family is rich, you have to try and make sure what ever you study can recoup those costs.
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by jbjohns 13y ago
It depends. Countries with actual safety nets often provide enough unemployment money that one isn't forced to take some ridiculous "just be employed" job while looking for their next real job.
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by jbjohns 13y ago
Ads can't really be that "somebody". If everything is paid for by ads, what exactly are those ads advertising?
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by jbjohns 13y ago
The kind of free trade you're talking about is better for buyers but as I'm an employee and not an employer, I'm more concerned about the sellers market. Complete, unrestricted labour movement means all wages average out
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by jbjohns 13y ago
When it comes to security, your default position should always be one of extreme scepticism. Believing "what has been given to us" is what got us in this mess to begin with.

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