kenmicklas

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by kenmicklas 8y ago
Have you been to Cuba? That was not my experience there at all.
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by kenmicklas 8y ago
> Cuba and Vietnam have the same system in operation. Ask anyone in the exile communities in the United States. There's a huge selection bias in asking emigrants or exiles or refugees or whatever you prefer to call them. If you are
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by kenmicklas 8y ago
You mean cause everyone thinks they're the good guys right? Cause the US is definitely not the good guys.
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by kenmicklas 8y ago
X is much larger than Wayland in the same way that OpenGL is much larger than Vulkan. The older protocols tried to encode way too much framework-like application implementation details which turned out to be a mistake. And in both cases, th
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by kenmicklas 8y ago
> That's obviously not a great situation. Yet we, as in American companies, vastly incentivize such systems by shipping trillions of dollars worth of production to China. So we pride ourselves on more humane standards, yet send tril
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by kenmicklas 8y ago
Huh? I'm pointing out that the phrase used by OP doesn't really make much sense. I'm not like a dank profunctor whiz or something but I think I know what co/contravariance are...
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by kenmicklas 8y ago
What does "co/contravariant representations" even mean? It sounds from this and your other comments on this thread that you are preaching from a relative point of ignorance about type systems. This kind of anti-progress attit
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by kenmicklas 8y ago
> somebody who is too poor to live in NYC now Wait so NYC should only be for the rich? This is exactly the problem the author is complaining about...
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by kenmicklas 8y ago
> car maintenance, car fuel, carl detailing and regular cleaning, house maintenance (yard, inspections, upgrades, insurance, etc.) or rent These are all expenses that have nothing do with being a contractor vs an employee. Only some of b
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by kenmicklas 8y ago
I don't disagree in the sentiment but I think it is ahistorical to say that MLK was shot for speaking against capitalism.
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by kenmicklas 8y ago
I can only pray that posts like this one will slowly raise class consciousness in the HN crowd.
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by kenmicklas 8y ago
Yeah I used to work there. Not sure about the higher levels but the incentives in the L3-L5 range were very messed up.
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by kenmicklas 8y ago
The things you mentioned are mostly true, however the technical culture is very reactionary and the promo process rewards worse engineers on average in my experience. Most of the better engineers I knew there ended up leaving after a while.
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by kenmicklas 8y ago
Haskell on web, Android, iOS, desktop (and shared code with the server of course) with https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex-platform It's pretty hard to beat the productivity of one codebase for every platform wit