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by lhorie 5y ago
Literally doing nothing (as in, not buying anything) could have an impact if enough people stopped spending discretionary income on physical things. Problem, of course, is nobody thinks they're part of the problem.
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by lhorie 5y ago
Religious types often say the same of the non-religious. Here's other analogies to illustrate the reductio ad absurdum: plenty of people prove school not to be working (by getting failing grades, passing by cheating, etc), plenty of pe
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by lhorie 5y ago
> We aren't the ones creating an imagined reality. One problem I see with this line of thinking is that it's often faux intellectualism, in the sense of not even attempting to define what a deity is in the first place, instead
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by lhorie 5y ago
> I believe OP is pointing out that secular groups (at least those within view of OP's demographics) mostly fail to have explicitly defined value systems. I read it like that as well. I've seen this idea illustrated this way: a
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by lhorie 5y ago
Yes, Cardi B is a female singer who is popular these days (as in, she's on the radio). WAP the song name is an abbreviation that refers to female genitalia. That people associate "Wapp" with a sexually suggestive pop song nam
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by lhorie 5y ago
Buildkite
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by lhorie 5y ago
> detailed domain mastery in contrast is difficult, time consuming, and highly contextualized In its defense, it's also extremely intellectually gratifying
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by lhorie 5y ago
Nice article, very relatable to my experiences. Having been on both sides of these types of discussions, I have a few thoughts: Advice isn't always unconditionally uncontingent. An infra person saying that something should probably b
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by lhorie 5y ago
This seems like an emotional manipulation piece. It quotes various people saying various things, but there's literally nothing that indicates that any accusations of foul play are actually factually true. Most damning: "Rettig sai
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by lhorie 5y ago
I assume you're freelancing? An order of magnitude faster delivery is not a huge priority to many such clients. Most of them don't have deadlines that are date sensitive (i.e. they don't have TV/radio ad campaigns lined
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by lhorie 5y ago
It's not an either/or thing though, right? IMHO, it seems plausible for the FBI to get a private key from a cooperating exchange?
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by lhorie 5y ago
> So your initial page load would be slow because of all the HTML and JS, but afterwards it should be faster compared to having server side rendered pages TFA is arguing that a user on a bad connection won't even make it to a proper
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by lhorie 5y ago
Honest question. How's Tether imploding different from e.g. a public company suddenly shutting down and its stock price going to zero? I imagine the two scenarios being similar in the sense that anyone holding tether would eat a big lo
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by lhorie 5y ago
Yeah, what's really compelling to me is how much effort zig puts on "plumbing" work as opposed to tacking more and more language features. It speaks volumes that zig can provide toolchain-level benefits to other low level lan
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by lhorie 5y ago
No, Duolingo is not for all ages, the Duolingo Kids app is the product designed for kids. It's similar to Youtube in that regard. An "Everyone" rating on play store doesn't mean an app meets regulations related to user a
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by lhorie 5y ago
I think there are two answers: the bad answer is that people think of interviews as school finals, with all the same connotations about potential for cheating, cramming, memorization-without-retention, etc. The good answer (IMHO) is that th
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by lhorie 5y ago
Yes, as a software person, I understand that. I brought this up because we were veering into "client asked" territory, and that where we see clashes between seemingly innocent real world asks and technology rabbit holes.
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by lhorie 5y ago
If we're going to nitpick, those are actually all valid values for `arr[i]`... (though, to be fair, they don't exactly do what one might necessarily expect)
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by lhorie 5y ago
I mean it in the opposite sense, actually (that XMLHttpRequest - or more precisely, Microsoft's original version of it - was a leap forward, whereas fetch/axios/friends are, for the most part, merely a convenience over now es
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by lhorie 5y ago
IIRC Google actually experimented with the idea of an even stricter mode in V8 at some point but dropped it when it didn't materialize the perf gains they were hoping for. From a spec perspective, ES6 modules were a good milestone to &
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by lhorie 5y ago
ramda and date-fns are full of little such functions... The fact that util packs like these and lodash exist is a sign that Javascript's stdlib lacks mechanisms to deal with various common patterns. FWIW, I consider `at` to be similar
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by lhorie 5y ago
Unfortunately, dates can be deceptively messy. Formatting as 2021-01-02 instead of 2021/01/02 may not seem like a big deal, until you try to parse them back. Then this happens: const a = new Date("2021/01/02&q
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by lhorie 5y ago
> to enhance meals Can you clarify what you mean here? I was under the impression european habits of alcohol pairing takes much more space under this umbrella than, say, whether an american associates junk foods (pizza, wings) with beer.
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by lhorie 5y ago
Right, that's because Intl isn't a formatting API, it's an internationalization one. There are expectations in the UK about which order month and day are supposed to appear in a date string, and they differ from the order ado
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by lhorie 5y ago
Something to be aware is that there is a subtle difference between supporting the APIs and supporting appropriate data sets. Specifically, the table lists Node 12 as supporting Intl, but critically, Node 12 defaults to being built with the
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by lhorie 5y ago
I do both. The problem with asking only about experience is - as surprising as it may seem - people are often not prepared for this question. This often means they just talk about a highly specific mundane technical task they're curren
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by lhorie 5y ago
A small pet peeve of mine is when someone criticizes the interview process without having been on both sides, and assumes that they know what the acceptance criteria is. This article is a good example of that: > They want to get a sense
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by lhorie 5y ago
> The problem is if the sites aren't delivering any additional benefit to the user in return for that bandwidth. While this isn't directly tied to bandwidth metrics per se, there's also something to be said about usefulnes
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by lhorie 5y ago
> Human capital is the underlying factor Yeah, I think this is what the article was trying to get at, verbose and roundabout as it may have been. My main criticism would be against the idea that there is some consciously coordinated &quo
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by lhorie 5y ago
Idyllic yes, but my point was that it took a good scrubbing to get to that point

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