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by lhorie 4y ago
But that sentence isn't arguing for the notion of some "absolute good art". If I had to criticize it, it would be to say it doesn't go far enough by still accepting the concept of good vs bad art, whereas I think interes
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by lhorie 4y ago
IMHO this boils down to purity vs side effects. Given a black box function, it's a lot easier to reason about what it did if it behaves in a pure manner returning some data structure that represents some form of state, than passing som
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by lhorie 4y ago
I tend to think of embeds as being very similar to the open source contribution model: you want some sort of BDFL entity that drives the overall direction of the platform, but also some sense of community/collaboration where individual
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by lhorie 4y ago
To be fair, if someone stays a junior for enough time that their hypothetical alternate universe self is able to increase comp by 7x, the problem isn't merely a matter of job hopping vs not job hopping. In fact, it seems most of these
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by lhorie 4y ago
Personally, as a consumer who could care less about who produced which game, the original Secret of Monkey Island - with all its pixel art glory - was a relatively hard game, like many of the games of the era, and was comparatively less enj
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by lhorie 4y ago
The big difference between large companies and small companies is that large companies prize specialization. The way to thrive at a big company isn't to be the person that sets up the entire stack for the company, it's by finding
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by lhorie 4y ago
IME, people list jQuery in their resumes all the time, typically as part of some previous job many eons ago. But I have read hundreds of resumes and just don't see people advertising jQuery as a primary skillset anymore, so to me sug
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by lhorie 4y ago
IMHO this analogy doesn't really click, on multiple levels. Any old timer who uses jQuery surely is also aware of querySelectorAll and friends. There's even an entire website dedicated to catering to exactly that transition[0]. I
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by lhorie 4y ago
Even with location-based pay adjustments, big tech has had a growing presence in Canada, and it's becoming more and more realistic to land roles in the upper range of the trimodal comp distribution curve. Location based adjustments for
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by lhorie 4y ago
> Canada's immigration is very clear, you hit certain criteria and you qualify As someone who has gone through both the US green card and a canadian permanent residence processes, I have to agree. The Canadian process is way easier
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by lhorie 4y ago
Paper equity for late stage startups can be traded for cash in secondary markets like EquityZen
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by lhorie 4y ago
The thing with countering averages with anecdotes is that neither really paints a holistic picture of the demand pyramid. Back of napkin calculations say around 4% of US developers work at the FAANGMULAs, meaning that some 29 out 30 dev ear
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by lhorie 4y ago
My recollection was that Prototype.js got a big boost in popularity early on on the back of its inspiration from Ruby on Rails (in the sense that abusing prototype pollution to make DOM elements have useful methods was novel and cool). Dojo
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by lhorie 4y ago
I wasn't aware of anyone using GWT outside of Google. Prototype.js + Scriptaculous was what really started the JS craze IMHO, followed by jQuery. Then came the increasingly more complex MooTools and YUI and Ext.js and friends, though n
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by lhorie 4y ago
Check out https://www.ladle.dev/
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by lhorie 4y ago
Ah, good point, our internal search tool only indexes internal code, so that makes sense, thanks!
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by lhorie 4y ago
One question and one comment. Question: You list Uber (my employer) as a user in your homepage, but searching internally, the only search result for mergify is a mergify.yml in some random debian module for lua, so it doesn't seem like
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by lhorie 4y ago
The technology you're looking for goes by many names, "submit queue", "merge queue", "merge train", etc. In a nutshell, the idea is to keep track of currently running jobs, then any time a new commit enter
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by lhorie 5y ago
Generally speaking, if you approach qwik.js from a 10,000 mile view like you'd normally approach other frameworks, you're going to miss the trees for the forest. One of the axioms where this framework is coming from is the idea of
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by lhorie 5y ago
Haven't dug too deep, but my understanding is that this doesn't bind event handlers just in time, but instead sets up event delegation from a tiny blocking bootstrapping script, to attach a top-level event handler that catches all
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by lhorie 5y ago
I've seen more smashed windshields in 5 years living in San Francisco than in 18 years living in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Last month, I went to the Fisherman's Wharf area to pick up some lunch, and my wife was waiting in the car near th
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by lhorie 5y ago
Yeah, as a rule of thumb for rationality, if you only have two buckets, you haven't thought about the topic critically enough. For books, there's a fairly simple explanation for a mental divide: elitism. Maybe you correlate abilit
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by lhorie 5y ago
I mean, the whole premise of gig economy is you need to do your homework because you're an independent contractor. A lot of drivers on YouTube will tell you that you have work smart, do your own math, etc. Obviously the Kalanick incide
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by lhorie 5y ago
It's gross income, so no. For my acquaintance it was still better net income than the job he had been laid off from (we're talking a difference of more than 2x), the trade-off is that the income boost comes from opting into puttin
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by lhorie 5y ago
> Coke vs Pepsi are different. Same basic category (cola soft drink) but they taste different There was a study that actually concluded most people can't tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi. And there are similar examples acr
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by lhorie 5y ago
One source is just an acquaintance of mine. A couple of others are people on youtube. Mind you, the caveat is these people worked 50+ hours per week. If you want something that looks less anecdotal, google "uber salary". Glassdoor
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by lhorie 5y ago
But it's not like people are necessarily worse off by choosing to drive for Uber. The thing is that for a lot of drivers, Uber is complementary income on top of a primary, inflexible income source. AFAIK, there's nothing else othe
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by lhorie 5y ago
> It’s like buying salt at the supermarket. It’s all the same You can say the same about Coca-cola or McDonalds though. They have a ton of competition and are most certainly not dead. I don't really buy the argument that competition
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by lhorie 5y ago
Interesting. I hadn't read the Propublica article (frankly the parallax BS was annoying as hell) and I was going by the 4.1% figure for Michael Bloomberg in the linked article, which for all intents and purposes is close enough of a ta
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by lhorie 5y ago
Reading the article, it says that the figures are looking at actual income, not changes in asset prices. It says the low figures come from a) lower tax rates from realized capital gain and b) deductions through charitable donations. Capital

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