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by jshen 5y ago
You’re implying that houses in highly desirable areas are purely speculative “assets” akin to beanie babies . That is absolutely absurd.
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by jshen 5y ago
I don’t think this is the case at all. Specialization provides tremendous value, and making things in bulk is far more environmentally friendly than everyone making things individually.
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To Type, or Not to Type(arxiv.org)
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by jshen 5y ago
Carbon footprint, and convincing people that a JPEG is an asset that will go up.
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by jshen 5y ago
I’m not fully sure I understand your question, particularly the part about scale. By scale do you mean a large organization (I.e. thousands of developers with highly heterogeneous tech stacks), or by scale do you mean a high volume of traff
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by jshen 5y ago
Unlike you, I’ve answered your question many times. You are only looking at the benefit for a narrow use case without accounting for its holistic costs. We have a difference of opinion about those costs, and there is no hard science that ca
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by jshen 5y ago
This shows a profound lack of understanding of software development at scale. Also, as I've said many times in the thread above, I'm not talking about this specific implementation of generics.
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by jshen 5y ago
C has entered the chat
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by jshen 5y ago
We must be talking past each other, and maybe we don't disagree all that much. I'm not talking about generics in this form, and I think the Go team did a good job in their approach and implementation. However, you can read in this
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by jshen 5y ago
You’ve missed the point. There are trade-offs that you are ignoring. There is no hard science that proves either of our opinions are right. I believe diversity is the better path in the face of such uncertainty, I don’t understand why you a
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by jshen 5y ago
I've been coding for decades. I've written large scale systems in functional languages. I was a believer, but after many years of experience, I didn't find it to add a whole lot of value. I didn't find that there were fe
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by jshen 5y ago
As I've said, this isn't about generics specifically. There are a whole lot of us who find Go code bases far easier to read and understand that most other languages. We believe there is a value to the language's simplicity, a
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by jshen 5y ago
So you want to diminish the diversity in programming languages because it’s an inconvenience to you personally. I respect the honesty.
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by jshen 5y ago
I’m not talking about generics specifically. I’ve been coding for decades. Go is by far the easiest language I’ve used when it comes to jumping into an arbitrary code base and making sense of it. Again I ask, why insist that go become the s
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by jshen 5y ago
Yes, it’s a trade-off. In an organization with thousands of developers the right trade-off is likely different than an org with 20. What I don’t understand is why people insist on making Go like every other language that already does what t
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by jshen 5y ago
Yes, which is ironic because python is the language with a lot of magic syntax compared to Ruby. Ruby gives you blocks which you can do a lot of powerful things with, while python creates a magic syntax for many of those use cases (with, de
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by jshen 5y ago
Depends on the demand for your skills, not generic inflation.
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by jshen 5y ago
It’s more than that. High paid people in very demanding jobs also turn to it and drinking so they can “turn off” work for a bit.
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by jshen 5y ago
Examples?
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by jshen 5y ago
The video didn’t explain how it works :(
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by jshen 5y ago
I’ve had the same experience with Swift, Kotlin, and typescript. No clear difference in quantity of bugs or speed of development.
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by jshen 5y ago
I’ve worked on many large rails apps at scale and large Java apps at scale. There has been no significant difference in the big count between them despite Java having static types.
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by jshen 5y ago
Part of the problem is that Google started heavily favoring the age of a domain about a decade or so ago. If you spin up a new site, with high quality content, you simply won’t show up in Google for a long time. Also, the amount of good con
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by jshen 5y ago
"It is obvious that serving ads creates misaligned incentives for search engines..." I don’t think this is the problem. The problem is the need for public companies to grow exponentially. If you take away the need to constantly gr
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by jshen 5y ago
Huh? web sockets and SSE are part of the browser standards. When you build an ios or android app you aren't typically building against a browser. Do people typically build completely different solutions for ios and android compared to
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by jshen 5y ago
Question for those of you who build features on web using things like SSE or web sockets, how do you build those features in native mobile apps?
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by jshen 5y ago
Thanks for clarifying.
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by jshen 5y ago
It’s clear you took the time to comment, but didn’t take the time to click the link and commented purely on the HN title which is different than the articles title and point.
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by jshen 5y ago
Better yet, what does 2.square() imply.
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by jshen 5y ago
Immutability is independent of whether something is a method call vs a function call.

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