jondubois

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by jondubois 6y ago
I partly blame some of the popular early Node.js and npm community members for our current situation. Since the early days, they'd been advocating for developers to publish tiny packages and npm had been actively endorsing and promotin
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by jondubois 7y ago
Not so. The reality is that his family banker will invest the money in an index fund like S&P500 for him and then he will see it compound a predictable 10% or so every year, becoming increasingly wealthy without ever having to lift a fi
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by jondubois 7y ago
I don't buy the genetic argument. Intelligence is worthless. In this society, a complete idiot with capital can achieve much more than a genius can achieve without capital.
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by jondubois 7y ago
Maybe you should break up that large system into more manageable chunks (e.g. microservices, engines, ...) and integration test those individually.
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by jondubois 7y ago
I've had several experiences where static typing forced my hand into making a software design decision which I later regretted. Many real-world entities don't have a fixed set of characteristics/properties; instead, they have
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by jondubois 7y ago
That's not my experience. Usually it only takes me a few minutes to fix a bug once it has been caught by an integration test.
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by jondubois 7y ago
Why next week? Why not use the integration tests as part of your debug cycle now? The kinds of integration tests that I write only take a few milliseconds to run so if they fail I can just make a code change (or add a new breakpoint or log)
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by jondubois 7y ago
>> I've noticed React is often conflated with the wider ecosystem it is a part of (Webpack, Redux, Babel) - perhaps this is the complexity you are referring to, but to be clear React can be used without any of these things. I dis
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by jondubois 7y ago
For OOP, I aim for: - Separation of concerns between classes/modules. The responsibilities of a class should be easy to explain to a non-developer. E.g. Ideally , every class/module abstraction should be an entity discovered in th
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by jondubois 7y ago
>> If OpenAI achieves AGI and you invested in it, you get infinite returns, because AGI will capture all economic value AGI would render ALL humans redundant... Investors too. "Evolution is cleverer than you are" - Orgel&#x2
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by jondubois 7y ago
I don't understand how a country can maintain a coherent system of law when there are so many homeless people and almost 1% of the entire population is in prison.
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by jondubois 7y ago
I've been maintaining my OSS project for almost 6 years. It's well used in the industry but nowhere near as popular as Redis. But I can relate to pretty much everything in the article even the thinking approach. It makes me think
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by jondubois 7y ago
I spent most of my childhood in suburban towns but most of my adulthood in big cities so I was shocked to discover that many city people seem to think that suburban towns are full of crazy people and violent criminals... But I still feel th
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by jondubois 7y ago
We should abolish local time too. There should be a single time for every country which is the number of milliseconds since either the beginning of human civilization, the beginning of earth or the universe.
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by jondubois 7y ago
That's the problem with corporations; it's not the manager's own money, they don't know where it comes from, who the shareholders are, what the real goal of the company is, what high quality work looks like, etc... So if
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by jondubois 7y ago
Corporations have been pushing hard on marketing their vendor-lock-in as-a-service solutions so you don't hear about simple free open source tools anymore; all developer channels are saturated with corporate marketing. So much so that
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by jondubois 7y ago
I've worked for both startups and corporations. Corporate jobs are soul-crushing because everything about the environment seems to hinder you from producing real value and from learning new useful things. Corporate jobs hurt your inner
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by jondubois 7y ago
Why is this article not being upvoted more? It's probably the most important piece that has ever been posted to HN; especially considering who the author is.
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by jondubois 7y ago
Both should be broken up. They are both equally dangerous. It's just that Facebook's standards have been degrading faster and so it's been more noticeable.
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by jondubois 7y ago
>> consumes a lot of computational power—up to 10 percent or more of the total time a CPU spends on an application. I stopped reading there. 10% is nothing. For such a useful feature as automatic garbage collection, for the vast major
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by jondubois 7y ago
>> bare walls with old ugly wallpaper With Lambda, it's more like no walls at all... The land just comes with a concrete foundation but you have to build the walls and roof yourself.
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by jondubois 7y ago
I still cannot believe that we live in a world were: - A website with a silly name like 'Facebook' is worth half a trillion dollars and is extremely profitable. - A website with a silly name like 'Twitter' which only let
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by jondubois 7y ago
Only about 10 years ago, the entire banking system was on the brink or collapse and had to be bailed out - This was followed by a decade of cutting interest rates and quantitative easing which served to pump free money into the economy; mos
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by jondubois 7y ago
If being the first in line to collect the proceeds of liquidation in case of bankruptcy is the only advantage of loaning vs investing, then it still doesn't seem like a very strong case to me. >> a business might not want to hand
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by jondubois 7y ago
If the financial system were a software system, it would be in dire need of a refactoring. Complexity makes systems brittle and exploitable. Also, most of the complexity adds no value. For example, do we still need debt? Wouldn't it be
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by jondubois 7y ago
You don't necessarily need to plan everything up front. You can identify critical decisions points within your project as you go along. Personally, I try to keep interfaces between modules as simple and restrictive as possible (as simp
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by jondubois 7y ago
For personal side projects, I spend at least 80% of my time thinking about the code that I'm going to write, 5% writing it and 15% reading it. The more experienced I become, the less time I spend writing code and the more time I spend
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by jondubois 7y ago
I enjoy the pure logical aspect of maths, but really dislike the notation/abstraction aspect. I think that if we could rewind time and humanity had to reinvent math from scratch, it would probably end up very different from what we hav
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by jondubois 7y ago
>> maybe you aren’t in the right social circles I think this may be the case. I don't have many friends but those that I do have are very close. The foundation of most friendships among the wealthy seems to be shared financial in
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by jondubois 7y ago
>> Observing that wealth has not made people happier, some economists have proposed that The fact that wealth and happiness are often mentioned together in articles and books is a very strong indicator that they are related. The probl

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