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by kaashif 4y ago
Transcendental means a number that is not a root of any polynomial with rational coefficients. The base you count in doesn't affect this definition, those are just different ways of writing down numbers, the numbers themselves don&#x27
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by kaashif 4y ago
In my experience, things work best when interrupters work with interrupters, and waiters work with waiters. That's not to say someone can't switch styles, but the unfortunate reality is that it's easier if people don't h
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by kaashif 4y ago
Matching communication styles with your coworkers is very important. I was once in a team with mostly non-interrupters and was unhappy (but didn't really realise it). I moved cities, countries (to a more interrupty place), and teams, a
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by kaashif 4y ago
> It's only going to take a minute or two for me to tell the whole story, but 15 seconds in it's been hijacked and the interrupter is off on their own tangent. The interrupters can only be fought on their terms. Fight fire with
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by kaashif 4y ago
Agreed. But maybe my reasoning is different to yours: it creeps me out when I can't tell what the type of something is. Macros fall under that category. Just give me something where values go in and values come out. Something goes in a
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by kaashif 4y ago
I think the sentences are slightly too long, lack punctuation, and are...monotone? I don't know, but I agree. Maybe I also need more sleep.
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To be fair, they didn't say Java, they said JVM. That allows Kotlin, Scala, whatever. Java is missing so much and has so many design errors (which are acknowledged as errors), I agree that it should be avoided. I think Rust is a better
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by kaashif 4y ago
Is it actually possible to breed enough pilot whales to completely reverse climate change? Presumably you have the research to back that up.
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by kaashif 4y ago
Without having actually done the research the White House is now funding, we can't just draw these conclusions and dismiss the ideas as impractical. Funding the research is good. Maybe there is a relatively cheap (can be funded by one
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by kaashif 4y ago
About method chains and Lisp: in Clojure you can write code very similar to that using threading macros: (-> (args) (skip 1) (next) (unwrap) (length)) I really do think that for long "Java-esque&quot
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by kaashif 4y ago
If the speech gets offensive enough, you can get people to say it shouldn't be protected. Is Fred Phelps holding a sign saying "Fags die, God laughs" at a military funeral protected speech? It was non-obvious enough that it w
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by kaashif 4y ago
The will of the voters is sometimes different depending on what you ask them. If you ask people if they support a constitutional right to free speech, they'll probably say yes. If you ask them if someone should have a right to say some
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I don't know, whenever anyone on any forum posts "I'm at FAANG and I hate it, I want to die", it's always Amazon. Everyone I know with other options ignores Amazon recruiters. I don't think this is a niche opi
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by kaashif 4y ago
Yeah, and I really like Rust. Rust has its mistakes but having RAII and immutability by default goes a very long way. But it's not terribly easy or even a good idea to switch from Java to Rust at a real company that has no time to rewr
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by kaashif 4y ago
Not really. In Java you can do all kinds of things with immutable wrappers, but the language doesn't help you and it doesn't come for free for your own types. In C++ you can write a class with some methods that mutate, and some co
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by kaashif 4y ago
> I've found that Eastern European developers generally believe they are the best (even when they aren't). A few years ago, I worked with a developer from Eastern Europe who told me he believed the developers in the European pa
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by kaashif 4y ago
I switched from being a C++ developer to Java a while back and the lack of const (i.e. immutability) annoys me. It annoys me even more than no-one seems to care about it much, and most think final is good enough - you can still mutate final
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by kaashif 4y ago
I've seen that argument (the one you're replying to) many times online and I never understand it. In the same breath people say that immigrants choosing to immigrate will have low wages and poor working conditions. Alright, but th
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by kaashif 4y ago
This is surprising to me because as a British person living in the US, who is familiar with British and American English, I've never once heard anyone use "and" to mean a decimal point. Literally never. The first time I'
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by kaashif 4y ago
Most actionable code review comments are criticism. People have to be able to avoid taking criticism of their code personally, and to write criticism in an inoffensive way. The whole team should be able to look at and learn from code review
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by kaashif 4y ago
> until they suddenly find themselves a minority in their own capital, as happened to the English When you say "the English" can you be more clear? Are you suggesting it's a problem if Scottish, Welsh, or Northern Irish pe
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It is something a lot of voters in the US agree with, which is where most commenters on HN are from. The US as a nation is incredibly new and imported millions of people to build its population from almost nothing. Communities being born an
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by kaashif 4y ago
The comment was that many Portuguese fail to benefit from the EU. You called this bullshit and write that many Portuguese have already left. Both can be true, and you admit as much: > Those who stayed behind, either stayed because they b
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> Nothing wrong with that, but I don't think the strong will to remain near one's roots SHOULD be all that "incredible" to you. Regardless of what I "should" think, if people are complaining about not being
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Using a word as subjective as "fair" allows for people to propose solutions you don't agree with, but that they think are fair. The author of the article says: > Digital nomads, retired foreigners, and millionaires searchi
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This article makes me realise how fortunate I am to be the children of immigrants. My parents are very family oriented and were somewhat upset when I left my home country (which isn't my parents' original home country) for greener
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Democratic control over things that affect everyone and benefit everyone is necessary to avoid e.g. free rider problems, pollution. Democratically restricting other people's rights, to the extent that people are not allowed to e.g. sub
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by kaashif 4y ago
I just wrote like a Perl script that generates my site. It's just printing stuff and converting markdown to HTML, right? Never breaks, never changes, does exactly what I need it to. Presumably there are reasons people want to use more
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by kaashif 4y ago
I don't know what _they_ think is wrong with it, but if you need docker-compose to run unit tests, they're not unit tests. Unit tests really shouldn't have external dependencies of the kind docker-compose helps to provide. Th
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The problem is that other countries are already subsidising their demand. If the UK doesn't follow suit, prices will quickly rise beyond consumers' abilities to pay. But if everyone uses this logic, prices will just keep spirallin

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