lhorie

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by lhorie 5y ago
This. As others mentioned, the whole point of an effort towards OpenBanking is that services like Plaid literally store your username/password in their system and impersonate you to do whatever they do. Any software dev worth their sal
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by lhorie 5y ago
> Teams end up spending half of their time or more solving problems that could have been accomplished quickly with some off the shelf React libraries with numerous tutorials online. I dunno, having seen both sides, there are pros and con
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by lhorie 5y ago
> everyone asks why don't we just thing that looks like a national identity system Aren't passports national/federal identity systems?
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by lhorie 5y ago
In my experience, it's not an either-or thing. I started my project to scratch an itch and only released it because I thought it could be useful to others. It originally didn't occur to me at all that my side project might influen
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by lhorie 5y ago
The attribution clause only applies to the licensed code, not derivatives. In practice, all this means is that you can use an unmodified copy of Imba (which contains its own license/attribution language) without issues. What's not
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by lhorie 5y ago
Just adding a bit of perspective. I work in a unicorn company based in California Bay Area that has dev teams in Europe (Netherlands, Lithuania), India and Brazil (probably other locations as well). IME, this is how it works: we pay higher
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by lhorie 5y ago
Another problem with many salary related articles/discussions is statistical oversimplification. For example, downthread I linked to a page listing the Canadian software dev salary at ~67k CAD, but I know for a fact that there are comp
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by lhorie 5y ago
Looking at [0] and [1], it looks like Canada is ahead on average, but not by much. But also note that software development salaries can be bimodal (or even trimodal) depending on where you are[2] [0] https://www.daxx.com/blo
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by lhorie 5y ago
It was on the higher side of the bell curve (in Toronto, Canada, if you're curious)
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by lhorie 5y ago
Nothing you should worry about. MIT is a very permissive license.
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by lhorie 5y ago
Anecdata, but after I released Mithril.js, I started getting contacted by recruiters from Bay Area companies. I now make 4 times as much as I did when I first started working on it. I know of other folks that got poached by high tech compan
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by lhorie 5y ago
I've noticed that some projects being complimented for having good docs come from CTOs (esbuild is another example). I'm hoping that by pointing out this little correlation, people might feel more inclined to spend more time on wr
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by lhorie 5y ago
That's not really a complaint about languages so much as it a complaint about marketing though, is it? I don't go learning every language to mastery level, but I try to at least keep track of whereabouts they lie in the spectrum s
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by lhorie 5y ago
I have to echo somebee about that benchmark suite. It's fairly well known in the framework-bulding community that this is not a very good benchmark (just ask Boris Kaul of Ivy.js, Ryan Carniato of Solid.js, Leon Sorokin of domvm, etc e
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by lhorie 5y ago
Personally I think it's not so much about separation of concerns/technologies per se, it's that this debate boils down to a different debate under the hood: the one about folder-by-type vs folder-by-feature[0]. The gist is th
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by lhorie 5y ago
(Disclaimer: I'm the author of Mithril.js) I looked at this a few years ago and IIRC, it refers to a very specific optimization for recycling DOM nodes in very specific cases. Recycling basically just means reusing pre-existing DOM sub
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by lhorie 5y ago
It's not even just California either. The Ogallala aquifer that underlies the Midwest corn belt is also running low. That's 90% of national corn production and affects basically everything that uses corn starch or HFCS. Unsustaina
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by lhorie 5y ago
One thing to be aware of though is all these numbers are in the 0.x% range per country, making it easy to draw "eh we're not so bad" type of conclusions. But consider visualizing it like this: if the entire amount of ocean po
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by lhorie 5y ago
> If you believe some god to have created all things then how can there be free will, that would denote something from the outside, some source of entropy not under the control of the creator. If it is under control of the creator the it
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by lhorie 5y ago
Your question seems to be framed from a christian/abrahamic perspective, and is about God's omni-benevolence property. Unfortunately, I've yet to find a sufficiently simple/satisfactory explanation for that question. In
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by lhorie 5y ago
> I have never been able to get my head around the religious paradox of God has a plan and free will. I think this can actually be explained in a fairly straightforward way via science: the laws of physics dictate precisely how reality o
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by lhorie 5y ago
The police begs to differ. Negotiation is an effective tactic used by competent police forces against hostage takers. Also, fundamentalists are people, not pre-programmed robots. Many ISIS fighters, for example, are young adults whose very
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by lhorie 5y ago
I find it amusing to compare how we treat fundamentalists vs how we treat children. They both can be extremely stubborn and say the darnest things, but with one group, people think ridicule is going to yield good results, even though with t
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by lhorie 5y ago
At this point, people are literally dying in heatwaves and houses are burning in forest fires. People are also dying in floods/landslides. But then deniers casually dismiss these as things that have happened in the past. Sometimes I fe
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by lhorie 5y ago
For the curious, here's a graph showing average temperatures year-over-year from various datasets[0]. Spoilers: yes, it's been going up. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_temperature_recor...
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by lhorie 5y ago
FTA: > the combined land and ocean-surface temperature was 1.67 degrees F (0.93 of a degree C) above the 20th-century average of 60.4 degrees F (15.8 degrees C), making it the hottest July since records began 142 years ago. It was 0.02 o
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by lhorie 5y ago
The mantra I follow is "strong opinions held weakly" (meaning, strive to be as well-informed as I can, but be willing to change my mind to even the polar opposite of my current view in light of new evidence) IMHO, the key is in re
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by lhorie 5y ago
Yeah, I'm one of those, though I'm not sure my belief system qualifies as spirituality. The gist in these cases is realizing that atheism is not the opposite of christianity (in the sense that there ought to be a conflict between
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by lhorie 5y ago
I mean, it's partly its fault, sure. To see what happens if you completely let corporations dictate your diet, look no further than Super Size Me. But also, that's kinda abdicating responsibility a bit, don't you think? My in
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by lhorie 5y ago
I'm not opposed to the idea, but there are some counterpoints that suggest it may not be as effective as you think. Look at gasoline tax. California has the highest tax in the country, yet it's also the largest consumer. I think o

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