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A typo (now fixed).
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The crazy part is that this is absolutely a solved problem. I'm not sure if everyone misses this due to Linus-worship, holding him up as an example of how to run an OSS project (which... he isn't a good one), but most of the engin
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I was referring to that, with Scala, I like to avoid leaking the innards of a JSON serialization library in the code for an API client, instead returning domain objects. Whereas with, JS or Python, the initial approach is to sling around th
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Also, this is probably the single biggest difference for me when working with a static vs. dynamically typed language. With Static Typing, there's a "translate the dependency's types into the application's types" st
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I find dependencies to be a very good indicator for how my code should be modularized. That is, rather than pulling a boatload of dependencies into "the application", pull a couple dependencies into a module, and then depend on th
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Italy has some pretty crazy Jus Sanguinis citizenship laws, through which I'm eligible for Italian citizenship through my great-great-grandfather.
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This is Github open-sourcing an internal tool, which is something they have a long history of doing (Jekyll, Resque, Hubot). Most dev shops have a whole bunch of things like this -- assorted libraries and internal tools that are 80-90% of t
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"100% test coverage" doesn't imply "won't cause real-world things to break". That your tests run all the code doesn't mean that your tests cover all the actual cases. This identifies bugs and performance r
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It is worth noting that the particular bit of federal tyranny the constitution was designed to prevent was ensuring slavery never got abolished. It was the top priority for half the states ratifying it.
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And every city has plenty of public courts. Soccer in the US has always been more of an organized sport and less of a street/pickup sport. It's more "something you haul the suburban kids to" than "toss a couple obje
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The problem with basketball as a spectator sport is that the marginal importance of any particular small piece of the game is small, and predictable. There may be awesome feats of athleticism and skill, but they really don't count for
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Same thing happened to my grandfather as well -- late 70s, was put under to have a small bladder tumor removed, came out of the anesthesia delirious, and was in a nursing home for the rest of his life. Scary, and terrible.
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Original unsubsidized price in the US was $400 (after the price drop). Current unsubsidized price is $650 (and that's been the base unsubsidized price since 2011). That said, the AUD has gotten significantly weaker vs. the USD -- 5 yea
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Can anyone elucidate why having artificial barriers to employing certain types of people is beneficial? Beneficial to whom? The world (or humanity) as a whole? Not really. US Citizens presumably want employers in the US to employ
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The two main lessons that stuck with me from chess: "When you see a good move, look for a better one" were always the first words out of my coach's mouth, and that not looking at things from the other person's perspectiv
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What Eich believes is irrelevant. But he didn't just "believe something". He did something. Beliefs don't have consequences, but it's absolutely reasonable and possibly necessary to attempt to enforce consequences f
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There are a whole lot of issues I'm willing to accept "diversity of thought" on. But there's a line one crosses when they go from "I believe homosexuality is wrong, and therefore I will suppress any gay feelings I m
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Pretty much everything listed as "challenges" also applies to "recent grads from CS programs -- even top tier ones".
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But the cultural problem comes from somewhere. And if we're going to reward those who "succeed" with unimaginable riches, the penalties for failing at that scale need to be equally harsh. Alternatively, we realize this, and t
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This isn't going to get fixed as long as the individuals at the top still become multimillionaires/billionaires even if the companies in question go kaput. The penalties for doing this need to be: (1) Confiscation of individual we
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Voice recognition in 2015 is where touchscreens were 15 years ago. It sort-of works, the way Palms sort-of worked, but Palms never really took off the same way Siri hasn't really taken off. Current smartphones are just iterative improv
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From a "Computer Science" perspective: "Economies of scale" is another word for "sublinear growth". Software is, fundamentally, a graph. And the number of edges in a connected graph grows quadratically. Pretty
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It's absolutely covered by "revenue neutral". We tax things, but then distribute the tax revenue among the citizenry. The cost absolutely will get passed on, but that is accounted for in the end when you receive a check for ~
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That it's called a "p-value" is rather indicative of it's nebulous nature. For something that is used in a rather applied context, giving it a one-letter name that has zero context is a bit of a cop-out.
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That we're still looking at a decade from now to completion, given that the Burj Khalifa took 6 years from groundbreaking to opening, is a testament to how much of the work of the Sagrada Familia doesn't scale. The challenge isn&#
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My experience with their process is it is impartial to the point of being inhuman -- Like, Google is so thoroughly obsessed with "making the perfect decision" that they ignore the fact that candidates are actual human beings, not
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Much like there was a "hop escalation" in IPAs, there's definitely been a "sour escalation" in coffee. It's fallen off a bit in recent years, but around 2012, it was bad (I'm looking at you, Intelligentsia
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I think the term we're working with here is "having a runway" -- An independent dev with a pile of money in the bank is in a very different situation from one who needs short-term profitability.
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I'm not saying easy to reason about in the sense of "easy to learn because it isn't a change from how we used to do things", but rather, in that it allows one to easily answer: - What is the current state of things? - H
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As someone who has written several things with Flux and Flux-esque architecture, I see it as a step in the middle, rather than where things are ending. It's not a large step from Flux (Stores update themselves in response to actions) t

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