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by jowiar 9y ago
The challenge is that football is inching from "where long-term injury can occur" to "where long term injury does occur". That is, from "If a play goes poorly, you may tear ligaments and break bones, which may have
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by jowiar 9y ago
I think you have their original style promise a bit off -- They were effectively marketing as "not your father's Dockers". Their cuts were well on the slim side -- maybe not Armani slim, but they fit a whole lot slimmer than
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by jowiar 9y ago
For a year or so I've kicked around the idea of building a dev or data science environment based around iPad backed by cloud computation. That said, I'm pretty sure there's a new sort of "code" based around the iPad
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by jowiar 9y ago
If the net effect of political discourse on HN is negative, it's a pretty good sign that the community needs to grow the fuck up. If we're unable to examine our role in the world -- what is happening and how our work fits in -- an
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by jowiar 9y ago
The most (only?) reliable way to get a raise in this industry is to change jobs (or make noise about doing so). Most young companies don't provide a path forward for employees, which is somewhat understandable, b/c most young comp
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by jowiar 9y ago
Not everything that creates a negative environment is a fireable offense, and the folks who the burden of that behavior falls on don't generally want to get folks fired unnecessarily. Creating a discussion of "Hey, can we not do t
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by jowiar 9y ago
It changes my approach to a problem, in that, with dynamic typing, I tend to think of problems as manipulating data, while with static typing I am modeling a domain, deseriazing data to it, and serializing the result. The end result usually
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by jowiar 9y ago
In Scala, "does it compile/typecheck" will generally catch typos in code that isn't frequently executed, and raise warnings for unhandled cases. For Ruby, you pretty much need to execute the code to have any inkling if i
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by jowiar 9y ago
One of the pressures for 100% coverage is working in a non-typesafe language. The gospel of coverage largely evolved in the Ruby community, where I often see test suites that look like a handrolled typechecker.
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by jowiar 9y ago
The big argument I'd make against this is that, before the App Store, most people didn't buy software at all. They used their web browser, maybe their office suite, and that was it.
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by jowiar 9y ago
The problem with your proposal is that if you slash the inheritance tax, you don't need a trust to pass the wealth down across generations. The whole point of a trust is to avoid multiple halvings. By lowering the inheritance tax to 10
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by jowiar 9y ago
It seems useful if you have an SVG that has been produced in a vector graphics editor that you want in a JSX format to make pieces interactive using React.
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by jowiar 9y ago
At least in the US, as the company is footing the bill for employee health insurance, the company has incentive to fund assorted employee wellness programs.
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by jowiar 9y ago
I've found CSAs to be ridiculously cheap -- Somewhere on the order of $20-$25/week for a big box of produce that is almost always more than I can figure out how to use during said week.
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by jowiar 9y ago
Thisx1000. B&O, B&W, Sonus Faber, PSB... I'd run out and buy any of them with a W1 Bluetooth chip in a heartbeat.
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by jowiar 9y ago
One metaphor I've been kicking around lately is that a long-term sustainable software team needs a mix of "gas" (folks whose instincts are to churn ahead -- "move fast and break things", if you will) and "brake
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by jowiar 9y ago
Pretty much any American airline that provides "better" service generally does something along the lines of having a very limited coverage map and a more-or-less a uniform fleet. Most problems with air travel are "last mile&q
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by jowiar 9y ago
My gut feeling is that refundable tickets are less of a cause of empty seats than missed connections.
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by jowiar 9y ago
The challenge is whether you are fundamentally buying a seat on a particular plane, or transit from point A to point B. Almost all simple solutions re: air travel break down once connections get involved.
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by jowiar 9y ago
This problem is even worse in DC. "Local" policy is effectively a multilateral treaty negotiation. ~5 counties, 2 states, the District, and Congress.
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by jowiar 9y ago
It fundamentally shifts the debate from "this is a human right" to "this is charity".
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by jowiar 10y ago
One thing that's super important in this is to know your market value. Regardless of whether you like your job or not, it's absolutely worth dipping a couple toes into the water every year or so, just to get a feel for what your s
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by jowiar 10y ago
Rail is particularly effective for navigation of a linear space where large numbers of people cover arbitrary segments of the distance. On a larger scale, think Italy, Japan, or the US East Coast. On a smaller scale, think avenues in NYC. O
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by jowiar 10y ago
Interesting sidenote -- after reading the keyboard.io adventures-in-manufacturing emails, what really jumps out at me are the extent to which Apple's true brilliance these days is on the manufacturing/supply chain end of things.
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by jowiar 10y ago
Should it be something you learn? Sure. Should it be the first thing you learn in the stack, or something that blocks you from shipping? Shrug. Some people feel the need to depth-first-search their stack as part of the learning process. But
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by jowiar 10y ago
The (poor) choice of title here is the difference between "Here are some things that would make my life easier" and "I'm an entitled prick".
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by jowiar 10y ago
One of the big wins is being REPL/workbook-focused, rather than REPL/workbook as an afterthought. When I'm building software, I tend to like things to have very tight interfaces -- box everything up into components, understan
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by jowiar 10y ago
The single most important change I've made in how I learn new tools/frameworks/whatnot is Github code searches -- I spend far more time there than on StackOverflow. Maybe this is more important in Scala land, where there are
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by jowiar 10y ago
The challenge with style guides as an approach to "nice code" is they often focus on the code equivalent of writing a grammatically correct line of code -- things that can be often caught with a linter. Where I see things fail a l
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by jowiar 10y ago
When you say "ignorance and arrogance", my gut suggestion is to pull the plug now. But one important note regarding ignorance: Is the incentive structure at your workplace such that programmers have the freedom to learn on company

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