jsmith0295

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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Well if someone wanted to shut him up without having to prove he committed any kind of crime, this would be the way to do it... If there were any substantial evidence, I would say otherwise, but at this point that doesn't seem to be th
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Wish I could upvote this twice. The trend of using electron for desktop apps seems to waste a lot of battery and RAM. Between Atom and Slack I was losing between 3 and 5 GB of RAM. Ended up going back to Sublime and it rarely exceeds 300MB.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
This is actually an argument which is pretty core to Austrian economics. They're dismissive of most traditional aggregate models basically because they think they aren't accurate enough to qualify as scientific. Generally Austrian
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Atlas Shrugged Just kidding. I did give a friend The Go Programming Language by Donovan & Kernighan, though
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
It does in the sense that they tend to live in different communities with different cultures.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Well what I meant to say is that both JS and Elixir/Erlang aren't very efficient at using CPU resources. Elixir/Erlang does a better job at compensating for this by being able to run many operations in parallel and across dif
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Well it does, but it still doesn't do it efficiently. That was the only point I was making. But in general, yes, Elixir/Erlang will handle CPU bound tasks better than node whenever they can be effectively parallelized.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Its only faster at IO. Once you start adding CPU bound work to the equation, Phoenix's performance will begin to drop. It's similar to Node in that regard.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
I think I just don't come across situations where I find myself needing generics in the software that I typically write. I can imagine it would suck in those situations. There is a workaround for it, though. Basically you write a templ
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
It's not really a matter of less or more in my opinion. Java has more type checking, but it doesn't give you much more safety than Go, and it's a lot more cumbersome. In general I find Go's type system to be better than
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
I was referring more to the "joke" part of this. Just because a type system offers slightly more safety doesn't make it better. I'm primarily a Java developer, and I would prefer Go's type system over Java's th
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Maybe if by "people who know about types languages" you mean "Haskell snobs"
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
I think it really depends on what kind of software you're writing. At my startup (around 30 engineers) most of what we do is web based, and our backends are mostly written with Java and Spring Boot now. Go is simpler, more productive,
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
But how many people actually think the potential is unlimited? Clearly there is a limit, but its likely far enough away from our current position that it doesn't particularly matter.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Except that the technology itself can be used to create technology. That's the whole point. If we were talking about raw human creativity, we already surpassed that capability a long time ago. And it seems likely that we can get the te
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Even if you did this you would still need to pay yourself a salary or dividends, either of which would then be taxed as income. So there's some wiggle room to avoid paying tax on business expenses, and I'm sure that would be abuse
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Even if that were the case you could tax gains from selling their stock as income. If they were hoarding cash the value of that cash would increase their stock price.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
You'd have to come up with a reasonable way to tax the gains of foreign investors, but otherwise I think it makes sense to just get rid of both capital gains and corporate income taxes and just roll everything into the personal income
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Probably not. Assuming your goal was to leave the tax level about the same, you'd just have it all coming out as income tax on an individual rather than taxing it twice.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
>(companies with access to top lawyers pay less, small companies pay more) I think this is one reason why the system doesn't get reformed in general. The tax system's complexity gives a competitive advantage to large corporatio
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Exactly like that. I should've looked up how to do this.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Or scroll to a specific location in a large page.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
it is on HN
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
My personal experience has been that there's more of a correlation with alcohol, and that there's somewhat of a negative feedback loop. Considerably less so with marijuana.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Well at least I'm not the only one.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
I think those two things are different despite them both being coercive. Most civilizations have always frowned on the equivalent of holding a gun to someone's head, but not the idea that you need to work to survive. But let's sup
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Going back to school for what? I'm doubtful that simply choosing a different major would make a huge difference. It sounds like what you're looking for is more of a feeling of control over the work you're doing, and there&#x2
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
You aren't forced to. You could always choose to be in poverty instead, if you don't care to do produce any wealth.
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
being willing to try new things != trying things because they're new
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by jsmith0295 10y ago
Assuming you had money left over to save, yes, you would be. You would be banking 3-4x as much money, if income and expenses remained proportional

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