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by lbarrow 9y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "doesn't end up like the cookie law"? I'm an American and don't have much awareness of this other than I've noticed that sites in the EU like the Guardian tend to have anno
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Another perspective on promises(blog.drewolson.org)
1 points by lbarrow 10y ago|0 comments
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Mistakes people make when hiring(lionelbarrow.com)
2 points by lbarrow 10y ago|0 comments
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Services. Because we're all mediocre(lionelbarrow.com)
1 points by lbarrow 10y ago|0 comments
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I'm a good engineer but I suck at building stuff(lionelbarrow.com)
238 points by lbarrow 10y ago|123 comments
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by lbarrow 11y ago
That's a totally reasonable question. I typed my initial response on my phone and was going for brevity. People live in society together. Broadly speaking, political decisions are decisions about what the rules for how we should go abo
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by lbarrow 11y ago
There's no such thing as "not becoming political". Hosting an event is a political act; so is selling tickets to the event or paying people to help you run it. These acts might be _normal_ but they're still _political_.
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by lbarrow 11y ago
That sounds awful :\
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Inheritance is terrible in the same way C is terrible(lionelbarrow.com)
9 points by lbarrow 11y ago|2 comments
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by lbarrow 11y ago
Do you really think software architects shouldn't write code? It's very very important that someone designing the system in the large understand how it actually works day to day, and writing code is an effective way to do that.
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Extensible Design with Elixir Protocols(blog.drewolson.org)
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by lbarrow 11y ago
It's hard to evaluate whether or not those examples make sense without some pseudocode showing how the classes are used.
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by lbarrow 11y ago
Weaker might have been the wrong word; it's more just different than anything else. Go struct embedding doesn't do much more than forward a method call to an inner struct: >There's an important way in which embedding diffe
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by lbarrow 11y ago
Inheritance isn't necessarily part of OO. Go has radically weaker inheritance mechanisms than classic OO languages, for example.
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by lbarrow 11y ago
I concede the example is a bit of a straw man. But I'd challenge you to provide a similarly concise problem and solution where 1) inheritance is useful and 2) there isn't a better solution that doesn't use inheritance.
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by lbarrow 11y ago
Right, I'm definitely not the first person to make this argument. But I still see people making these mistakes; that's why I wrote the article.
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by lbarrow 11y ago
That's a fair point. Scala definitely seems to have had to compromise the quality of the language features it offers in order to achieve Java interop.
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by lbarrow 11y ago
Traits are great, but Scala still has subclassing. I'll update the article to make it more clear -- thanks for pointing that out.
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Inheritance Is Terrible(lionelbarrow.com)
73 points by lbarrow 11y ago|94 comments
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by lbarrow 11y ago
I've been using Dropwizard extensively at work for the last 8 months without touching XML.
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by lbarrow 11y ago
Great post, I really enjoyed it. Norvig has a knack for modeling these domains in simple, powerful ways.
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by lbarrow 11y ago
These aren't unit tests, they're generative tests. They're used for different things. Unit tests make assertions about how a program responds to a specific input. Generative tests make assertions about invariants in a program
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by lbarrow 11y ago
C, C++ and Java generally don't break backwards compatibility in new language versions (or at least not as much as other languages), so upgrading to the next version is usually easier.
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by lbarrow 11y ago
You don't have to wonder. It says at the bottom of the article that Lyft is not profitable: Though currently unprofitable, Lyft's ride economics appear to be going in the right direction.
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Technical interview advice for new and aspiring engineers(lionelbarrow.com)
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by lbarrow 11y ago
Yea but the hypervisor has to know how much physical memory to give the unikernel.
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by lbarrow 11y ago
Exactly. In my mind that's the best thing about these projects: the technical benefits are so amazing they might actually encourage people to look beyond the Linux-and-company systems stack. (Although, to be fair, most people run a Lin
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by lbarrow 11y ago
Probably needs a [2013] tag. Previous discussion was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6234736
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by lbarrow 11y ago
No Venmo?
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by lbarrow 12y ago
The theory that raising children in a multilingual environment impaired development was common in the 70s, but since then an overwhelming amount of evidence has debunked it. The commonly held view now is that raising a child in a multilingu

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