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by lhorie 5y ago
> Tags: javascript framework satire xeact To be blunt, it looks like a rehash of a tired trope. The "let's vanilla instead" snark has been a thing[0] since forever. There's really nothing new or interesting here. `g`
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by lhorie 5y ago
Oh to clarify, I know who "started it" (the themes are fairly easily distinguishable, usually falling in one of two buckets: bullying/nagging/disrespect for boundaries or "calvin-ball"-like disagreements; and
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by lhorie 5y ago
Kasparov addresses that literally in the first two paragraphs: > The search is on for new words for old ideas. “Cancel culture” and “woke” have become overused and abused, part of a struggle to define one’s political opponents in the har
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by lhorie 5y ago
I think it's interesting phenomenon on its own that Kasparov is taking a fairly centrist stance here through a careful choice of words (cancelling books getting tends to be done by one side and cancelling professors is often done by th
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by lhorie 5y ago
> who is it not OK to destroy for ideological reasons and who is fair game IMHO, that's the problem right there. Once you get into this "you did it, so can I" game, you've set into motion the wheels of destruction. Th
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Yeah, I have some questions too. Even at a rate of 150k/yr, while today that seems within the reach of many north american senior level devs, 7 years ago that was tippity top percentile pay, so it's not exactly something that anyo
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I mean, you need to consider that you have 3 options, not 2: 1 is appealing products, 2 is better comp for more of the same but 3 is keeping status quo. From a purely pragmatic position, you should take the highest paying offer, because if
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by lhorie 5y ago
These days, FANG/MULA have dedicated recruitment teams actively reaching out to people too. Depending on the candidate's qualifications, the first round is sometimes dropped (this is sometimes called a "red carpet experience&
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Really depends on the qualifications of the candidate. Cold calling on linkedin is very prevalent these days. Even FANG does skip to the second phase of an interview loop, but only in cases where the candidate has an outstanding resume and
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> I don't see however why being able to think algorithmically should be more important than knowing how to glue libraries together There's a pretty wide scale in terms of what exactly that means. On one end, there's the st
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> Potentially unpopular opinion on HN, but I don’t see this as unreasonable 16 hours interview loops are very much not standard practice in the industry. And frankly 100M funding isn't nearly as strong bragging point as companies se
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by lhorie 5y ago
Been in a very similar situation. They found me (probably by crawling Github/LinkedIn), reached out to me saying they had a role that was similar to the stuff I was doing in open source (which was true), but the interview process was t
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by lhorie 5y ago
Oh wow, that's crazy. Thanks for sharing that.
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To be fair, I just found out about this literally from the link at the top of this page, a couple of hours ago. Not exactly enough time to become an expert in supply chain logistics in a province I don't even live in. I'm reading
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by lhorie 5y ago
Oh, the atmospheric river did hit California, and pretty hard in some places. Last month was the wettest October on record here in San Francisco. The area around Dixie (where there was a big fire earlier this year) saw landslides. According
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Sorry, "boonies" might have been a bit of a callous choice of words. Reading more about it, it sounds like the folks at Abbotsford, Hope and surrounding areas are having a pretty lousy time right now.
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Yeah, the evacuation order in Abbotsford[0] seems like the real news to me. [0] https://www.abbotsford.ca/alerts/evacuation-order-and-alerts...
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I wouldn't worry about shipments into town. Suez was out for like a week and the world managed more or less just fine. LA port is backlogged to the wazoo but nobody is starving because of it. My understanding is that the Vancouver si
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Keep in mind that Vancouver is a port city, and the road closures did not affect roads to the US so for the vast majority of the people in the city, the impact is likely minimum. I'd be more worried about disruptions for municipalities
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For just a bit of context/anecdata, I'm talking to my brother who lives in Vancouver and he wasn't even aware this was a problem. The road closure[0] on hwy 1 near Abbotsford/Chilliwack is a good one hour drive away from
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by lhorie 5y ago
Shameless plug: along the same lines, but for rapid web UI prototyping cases where you don't want to waste time with setting up a server, I built a tiny tool called REM[0] a few years ago. It never actually stores data on the server (i
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https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-ci tells you everything you need to know about where inflated download numbers comes from.
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I mean, there is a certain amount of buy-in into cargo culting. She could've used something like mithril.js and that would've worked with a script tag only setup without having to worry about template language compilers or anythin
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Exactly. I find that using art of all things to make an argument about good taste is particularly ironic, given that historically, art has always been a vehicle for shaking the status quo. I mean, look at Andy Warhol or Banksy or Robert Rau
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Specifically in relation to this theory of ruliads and Hossenfelder's take, one "pop" mathematical concept that comes to mind is Godel's incompleteness theorem. It may indeed be mathematically feasible that some holy gra
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Better-ness IMHO is a function of expectations. Playing Dream Theater as ambient music in your restaurant is arguably in "bad taste", despite the art itself being technically on virtuoso level, and often being considered "goo
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These days, the story is a bit more complicated. Not all Mexican coke is made with sugar anymore[0] > In 2013, a Mexican Coca-Cola bottler announced it would stop using cane sugar in favor of glucose-fructose syrup. It later clarified th
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The way I've done this in the past is by registering a company in my home country and billing through that. For the company procuring your services, it's no different than paying for a service like AWS. The company you registered
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IMHO, syntax is the easiest part. Semantics are the tricky part. One very clear example of this is how Svelte and React deal with async stuff. The Svelte approach follows the handlebar approach of having semantics be represented by DSL cons
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Yeah, that's actually a pretty good point. Personally, I don't really pay that much attention to profitability of individual verticals because I hold similar opinions on cost attribution, but then again, I'm no accounting exp

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