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by jsbg 2y ago
The author sounds like even though they have read extensively about various "best" practices, they did not really gain an understanding of the tradeoffs involved with each one. > “Don’t Repeat Yourself” (DRY) is basically good
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by jsbg 2y ago
yes, that is what deflation is
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by jsbg 2y ago
> it doesn’t matter which came first imo it does matter and is the difference between cringe (sometimes intentional) and not
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by jsbg 2y ago
by that logic people would not buy TVs or memory cards
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by jsbg 2y ago
> Jokes aside, how do you end up having more than 500 excess people than what you need? If you bet on growth/new features but your current and future customer base are going out of business or downsizing and you have to switch to mo
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by jsbg 2y ago
maybe your parents aren't old enough to remember how much of the population could expect to die in wars before nuclear weapons (i.e. mutually assured destruction) existed
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by jsbg 2y ago
Seeing $499 VHS players in 1989 really puts in perspective all the keynesian deflation fear mongering.
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by jsbg 2y ago
Printing money is not the same thing as creating value.
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by jsbg 2y ago
It's the other way around. Money is finite and the curiosity we want to satisfy is infinite.
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by jsbg 2y ago
it might be profitable but they figure they can make it more profitable; there has been a lot of inflation in the last few years and every other video subscription service has been hiking up their pricing recently
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by jsbg 2y ago
This is excellent advice that unfortunately seems to get lost in a lot of Haskell teachings. I learned Haskell in school but until I had to use it professionally I would have never been able to wrap my head around effect systems. I still th
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by jsbg 2y ago
In the US, trademarks have to be enforced to remain valid. https://www.justia.com/intellectual-property/trademarks/enfo... "a failure to enforce a trademark by monitoring the mark for misuses will result in a
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by jsbg 2y ago
Why don't we send tardigrades and other extremophiles into space to colonize possible life-sustaining planets and moons?
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by jsbg 2y ago
A government is by definition a monopoly. No company can become large enough to be like a government unless it has government backing. E.g. Walmart was feared to be becoming a monopoly by running smaller shops out of business and yet Amazon
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by jsbg 2y ago
> The point of a free market in practice is to ensure that sale values are correlated with, and reasonably close to, production costs. No, the point of a free market is to let the price system do its thing, and prices have nothing to do
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by jsbg 2y ago
> other things whose value is not representable in our modern value system What things? Are they more important than child mortality?
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by jsbg 2y ago
I would like to hear about what makes them bullshitters. I've had and seen really good results in terms of high productivity and low bug count on teams that followed the SOLID principles described in Robert Martin's Clean Architec
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by jsbg 2y ago
> There is no single canonical suite of best practices. There kind of is, though. Most software engineering books argue for the same things, from the Mythical Man Month to Clean Architecture. > Different languages have their opinions
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by jsbg 2y ago
Thanks. This is the first instance of a respected software engineer arguing in favor of this style that I have read (contrast with Dave Thomas, Kent Beck, Bob Martin, etc.)!
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by jsbg 2y ago
> // 1. Every 'if' statement has a matching 'else' (exception: simple error > // checks for a client API call) > // 2. Things that may seem obvious are co
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by jsbg 2y ago
They're presumably referring to people e.g. taking selfies with bison.
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by jsbg 2y ago
> The FDA, like other regulatory agencies, exists for a reason: to help prevent people from being ripped off, or worse, by snake oil salesmen. This is obviously false given the existing supplements business. The idea that we have a way t
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by jsbg 2y ago
Exactly. In school I couldn't understand the Heine-Borel theorem and a professor actually got annoyed at me asking about it even though it was just one time. When ChatGPT was first released one of the first things I did was ask it to e
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by jsbg 2y ago
Mathematics and Its History ( https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4419-6053-5 ) is a really fun book for someone who already knows some university-level math and is just curious. You may also enjoy Proofs f
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by jsbg 3y ago
why are the results of a study with a limited reach preferable to the results of an actual universal real world event?
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by jsbg 3y ago
a chai latte doesn't contain coffee; a chai latte with an espresso shot added to it is referred to as a dirty chai
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by jsbg 3y ago
I don't think that will stop scammers!
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by jsbg 3y ago
did you read the article? the law would be broad enough to require privacy-invading age verification systems for search engines
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by jsbg 3y ago
the "blogger" is a well-known professor of law specializing in telecommunications issues
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by jsbg 3y ago
Basic economics say that given a certain price, you get a certain demand. And if the price rises, then demand goes down. Consumers don't blindly pay more for things when their prices go up.

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