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by ksenzee 11y ago
No, I'm simply saying that pregnancy is a less reliable guide than you might assume if you have a fixed idea of what it means to be a pregnant woman.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Here is an oversimplified model to illustrate my basic point: A dependency introduces some constant amount of risk (d) that does not vary with the size of the dependency. Every line of code you write yourself also introduces a much smaller
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by ksenzee 11y ago
It depends on the pregnancy and on the birth. Some women jump right up and get back into the swing of things. Most of us need recovery time. There is no safe assumption. Speaking of assumptions, there is no reason to assume a CEO mother wou
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by ksenzee 11y ago
As someone who has personally been pregnant (several times!) let me assure you that when you see a pregnant woman, you have no idea whatsoever whether she is feeling - well - ill - overwhelmed - confident - anything else because every pregn
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by ksenzee 11y ago
That is the mother's concern. It is not remotely the concern of anyone she is doing business with.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
You're talking about the purely technical aspects of package management that keep your build from breaking. My point is that there's a lot more to it than that. Lockfiles do not keep software from requiring maintenance. Introducin
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I agree that a sizable proportion of HN users care about this stuff. It seems to be the people who check the site less often. Usually the downvotes come right away, and the long tail of upvotes comes later. And yes, it is incredibly annoyin
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by ksenzee 11y ago
You can't escape problems by bundling specific library versions. You just get a different set of problems. When you require a specific version of a library, you're making your code incompatible with anything that requires a higher
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by ksenzee 11y ago
There's more to dependency hell than "oops, the package disappeared." Try updating one of those dependencies because of a security fix, and finding that it now depends on Gizmo 7.0 when one of your other dependencies requires
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by ksenzee 11y ago
> every line of code I write myself is a commitment That's true. However: Every dependency you add to your project is also a commitment. When you add a dependency, you're committing to deal with the fallout if the library you
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Interesting. Looks like a combination of PillPack/ScriptDash plus a doctor on staff to handle the prescriptions. The most annoying part of getting birth control is jumping through the hoop of getting a doctor to prescribe it, so this i
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Largest doesn't mean highest quality. JavaScript may well be the most widely used programming language there is. However, this survey is too unrepresentative to give us any evidence one way or the other.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language among people who answered this survey . It is astounding to me that people assume the SO survey is representative of all software developers, when in reality it's not even repr
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by ksenzee 11y ago
The fact that this comment was downvoted with no reply is an excellent example of the unfriendliness I'm describing.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I certainly hope not. To me the entire value of Hacker News is being educated about things I don't understand, by people who know exactly what they're talking about.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
It's only worth it to see what people mean when they talk about it. It's not particularly yummy in and of itself.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
The worst posts certainly get downvoted and flagged. The problem is the posts that sound reasonable but aren't. It gets tiring and somewhat depressing trying to educate people about the same things over and over again.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I'm one of the only women I know who posts here. I'm afraid it's not a particularly friendly community for women, and it does get old seeing the same stupid flamewars about gender and women in the industry and feminism et cet
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I wonder how reliable that is. It would be in HR's interest to have everyone believe that self-reported salary information is untrue and can't be counted on.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I can make tasty bread without a bread machine, too, but there's a place for bread machines. Experts appreciate the convenience of not having to be right there on the spot to take anything off the stove (or out of the oven) and novices
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Hm? Stitch Fix is selling clothes, not software. This is just their engineering blog.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
The original premise here was that humanity would "leverag[e] our entire world economy to [a] single goal." You'd need a very significant chunk of humanity to agree in order to change the entire world economy. That's the
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Most people can picture things in our head. The name for the inability to do that is aphantasia: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34039054
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I seldom care whether something that works for me personally is a placebo or not. If I can harness the power of my brain with a sugar pill, excellent. The placebo effect is powerful, and was the basis of a lot of medicine before the 20th
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by ksenzee 11y ago
What attitude are you referring to? My conviction that humanity is unable to agree on what is in its best interest?
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by ksenzee 11y ago
We can't even agree on carbon. There's no way we can agree on something like that. People are too busy surviving individually to worry about survival of the species.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
If you're using Symfony anyway you might as well look into Drupal 8 if it's a content-heavy site. You get a lot of what you would otherwise build for free, and anything else you can do with Symfony.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
His opponent's level of reckless mania is not pertinent here. (Or should that be maniacal recklessness?) Also, there's nothing partisan about Trump-bashing. People from all over the political spectrum have been making common cause
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by ksenzee 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Corporation#SuperTarget
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by ksenzee 11y ago
> Who isn't a porn viewer? Believe it or not, there are people who never watch porn. The industry's sleaziness turns some people off, and some people just aren't into it.

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