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by lhorie 5y ago
Hmm, fair point. I couldn't think of another popular construct in JS that is a proper functor. Do you have any better suggestions?
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by lhorie 5y ago
Buy a portable japanese ofuro tub and heater. You can get a reasonable setup for less than $1000 and they are specifically designed to fit in small spaces (like box showers)
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by lhorie 5y ago
Let me give it a shot. Monads as in category theory are a bit more abstract than this explanation, but for the purposes of programming you can think like this: A functor has a `map` mechanism, which takes a value A and a function B, and ret
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by lhorie 5y ago
No, I don't think so. You don't need to be strictly in an infra-oriented position to do infra oriented work. The most common example is the proverbial senior developer setting stack standards for their more junior team (despite be
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by lhorie 5y ago
My understanding of the article is that product-first doesn't equal frontend, but rather that frontend-vs-backend and product-vs-infra are two different ways to categorize engineers, and that looking at roles from the latter's len
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by lhorie 5y ago
It's not beside the point, though. It's a crucial aspect of FP! Perhaps I'm getting a different reading from the article than you, but as someone who's gone in and out of this rabbit hole, I found that the author was mak
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by lhorie 5y ago
You see, there's a bit of irony here in characterizing jargon as gatekeeping, because in the author's attempt to distill it, some pretty critical stuff got lost in translation. I share the sentiment that FP jargon can be impenetra
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by lhorie 5y ago
Regulations about breaks don't really cover this situation. The gist, as I understand, is that Amazon requires workers to meet very specific productivity metrics such that the employment becomes a trade-off between efficiency and emplo
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by lhorie 5y ago
That's a bit of a malicious characterization. Prop 22 was about trade-offs: more drivers each taking a smaller piece of the pie vs less drivers each taking more. The caveat is that this trade-off has different levels of impact on consu
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by lhorie 5y ago
IIRC nailing down stdlib and its documentation was a big one
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by lhorie 5y ago
I mean, they're still working on getting data on efficacy/safety on children, it's not like they have years of data to point to. I can kinda understand why some people might be wary, even when faced with extremely rare odds o
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by lhorie 5y ago
The article has some data, but IMHO it's a bit too sparse to support the title's hypothesis. It says "33% of survey respondents say they participate in sustainability activities “daily” and 27% report weekly sustainability pr
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by lhorie 5y ago
Saying "written in Rust" as a proxy for performance is a bit like saying "X in Y kb" in JS-land for the same reason. It says nothing about actual performance. One needs to show benchmarks if they want to have a convincin
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by lhorie 5y ago
The thing, though, is that "nativity" can get fuzzy depending on a variety of circumstances. I think a lot of new bilingual parents assume that all bilingual parents are like them: strong speakers of a native tongue who had kids s
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by lhorie 5y ago
I totally get the better-for-the-kids argument, but I think there's some nuance people gloss over. My dad's Portuguese is fluent but still has quirks to this day. Obviously picking it up from school works. But my paternal grandma
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by lhorie 5y ago
Yes, she frequents chinese online forums and writes todo lists in Chinese
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by lhorie 5y ago
I have a weird language history, so let me chime in. I was born in Brazil to Japanese parents. My first language as a young child was japanese. As I entered school, portuguese became the predominant language in my life and both my parents d
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by lhorie 5y ago
If my wife is any indication, reading does work to retain language (she speaks Mandarin, reads Mandarin novels, and has no problem w/ the language ever after more than a decade living in North America). Conversely, I had a japanese fri
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by lhorie 5y ago
I've heard of a theory that says "A's hire A's but B's hire C's". The gist is that cream-of-the-crop interviewers actively look for open-ended-ness and the possibility that the interviewee may be better at
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by lhorie 5y ago
IIRC some of the HTTP/2 or 3 server-side stack (I forget which) in Cloudflare is implemented in Rust. Parts of Firefox are implemented in Rust. Swc is a JS bundler written in Rust. I agree it's not a super in-demand skill as far a
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by lhorie 5y ago
> the author posts often. Oh hey, that's me :) I'm a big believer in the idea of mastering fundamentals, and even explicitly mention in the mithril.js framework comparison page[0] that you can build production quality stuff wit
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by lhorie 5y ago
> A company can't allow for nepotism or favoritism, so it requires a public posting for any open position It's not even just a feel-goody policy by dysfunctional HR depts. The US DoL literally requires a company to advertise a
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by lhorie 5y ago
Here's a food analogy: everyone wants to buy the best looking apples, but then farmers are more incentivized to breed for looks than nutritious value, even though nutritious value is the superior metric. Similarly, if everyone seeks to
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by lhorie 5y ago
Wasn't there a thread here just yesterday about how 6% of some class of AI outperformed a human, but then it turned out that 0% outperformed two humans? That's also literally the lesson Uber learned the hard way when a SDV ran o
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by lhorie 5y ago
"A lot" is a modifier you can put in the front of whatever factor supports a given narrative. A lot of people got turned away by overwhelmed hospital staff. A lot of people live in China. A lot of people died in India (which has p
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by lhorie 5y ago
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the irony of saying that the measures against covid "don't justify the costs" when the article literally says more people have died (either directly from covid or indirectly) during the
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by lhorie 5y ago
TL;DR: they estimate 3.3x more deaths than official covid death reports (15.2 million excess deaths vs 4.5 million reported covid deaths)
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by lhorie 5y ago
In next week's episode of Legal Zoo: lawyer creates a bunch of greek t-shirts and then hits t-shirt company with a discrimination lawsuit.
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by lhorie 5y ago
I'm actually curious about how the math is supposed to work out in the long term. When I first started renting in Toronto, I was paying something to the tune of $400/mo in rent. I had calculated that at a >$700/mo burn rat
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by lhorie 5y ago
Having more data isn't always better. For example, there are certain medical diagnosis protocols that basically involve going down a predetermined list of rote checks precisely because studies show that getting extra information ends u

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