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by jbreckmckye 8y ago
> Who's to say that 10% of the maximum for a minor violation isn't proportionate? A large body of case law, well-defined guidelines for evaluating harms and mapping them to fines, and the EU's general fear of stymieing eco
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
I suppose I was thinking in terms of the OP's timeline - 1980-2000. I imagine the practice of writing Scheme code has changed a lot. Not to mention the number of teams migrating to Clojure.
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
*how many languages would have given you [the luxury of programming effectively] for twenty years? C++ doesn't qualify, to my mind, because the language has had many iterations and also because, as the post's author points out, wr
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
Using any language for twenty years straight is going to make you complacent - but goodness, how many languages would have given you that luxury?
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
Or "curated".
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
Annoyingly, it was edited from something much more timid and factual.
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A non-profit that figured out how to massively cut suicide rates in Sri Lanka(80000hours.org)
136 points by jbreckmckye 9y ago|58 comments
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
It's more than that. Optimizely fear that poorly delivering tests reflect badly on their other products.
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
> A/B testing is not a tool, it's mental model seeking learnings and improvements No, it's a validation phase most businesses use to sign off product decisions that are already made. They invest thousands in a new feature,
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
As I've been saying for several years, most website A/B testing in the wild is statistically illiterate, expensive nonsense. Optimizely is right to cull their MVT product.
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
Surely, it should be Realistic_Typist_?
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Show HN: Trkl.js – ES5 observables and computeds in under 450 bytes(github.com)
1 points by jbreckmckye 9y ago|0 comments
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
Sounds like a candidate for serverless.
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The State of JavaScript in 2018(breck-mckye.com)
4 points by jbreckmckye 9y ago|0 comments
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
The point is: large businesses have reputations. They are knowable and generally accountable. They can also protect themselves legally. Semi-anonymous writers posting blogs are none of those.
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
But then why haven't "Spotify for Journalism" projects ever worked? How does a business go from $2 per paper to 0.2c per article? Why are so many artists so unhappy with their meagre Spotify royalties? I think this falls unde
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
> people and businesses did it for years The people were hobbyists and the businesses had other projects. Relying on "interested members of the public" for news is how people like Alex Jones get started.
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
> The ad-based web economy had produced the current publishing dystopia in the first place and prevents the development of a sane business model. Ah, the 'better business model' argument! A curious specimen, men often speak its
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
> An ecommerce, a newspaper or a blog should have no reason to execute client side code to render. The main reason is advertising, which is ultimately how this web content is paid for. But there could be alternatives. We could create sta
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
This is a difficult one. It's easy to point to codebases that indeed have been maintained for many years - but that doesn't mean they were designed well. Look at a project like SVGEdit. It's by far and away the most popular o
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
Because I intend to stay employable.
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
What would it mean for us if Mars were without water or life?
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
> There's many examples of things that govt's fail badly at There are also countless examples of privatisation disasters. Source: am British.
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
That is not signalling. Signalling is making a political statement for a social benefit. There is no particular indication of that here.
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
I have never read _The Four_, but stopped by to make a quick complaint: can we please retire the verb "signalling" in political discourse? As far as I can tell all "political signalling" means is "I cannot believe w
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
There is a big problem with the commercialisation of React. More and more companies are using learning resources as marketing material. And now one popular JS developer has started beginning his GitHub readmes with advertisements for a paid
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
I'm actually writing about this right now. I've worked with a lot of teams that have kicked off big, production-grade applications with boilerplates like Create-React-App. Your intuition is right: they get to prod having no idea h
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
Sheep-based facial login, anyone?
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
I'll grant that Java / C# might be more lucrative, but I'm doubtful about the others. The main draw to JS is that if you learn it and use it regularly, you can trade as a full-stack developer.
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by jbreckmckye 9y ago
Golden handcuffs? This is an industry that rewards specialisation. There's not many jobs for Ruby-turned-Haskell developers.

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