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by lopatin 9y ago
Anecdotally, this weekend I've seen 4 (non-technical) friends throw $500 - $5,000 into the three CoinBase coins this weekend, all individually. Before this weekend, they were merely familiar with Bitcoin but no interest in investment,
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by lopatin 9y ago
I currently love both Go and Lisp. They are the opposites of each other. And good for different things.
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by lopatin 9y ago
Is that still true? Now that exotic securities are looked down on, and the safe ones are established don't require Ph. D level research anymore? Follow up: You are right of course about Wall Street. NY, there's no better place for
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by lopatin 9y ago
Re "suck it up". I think you brought up two extremes: a stranger, and a loved one. But if my friend tells me to suck it up, I don't get offended, I'll just take it as an informed suggestion. And he'd usually be righ
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by lopatin 9y ago
Who hires physicists? Asking for a friend.
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by lopatin 9y ago
> We've conditioned ourselves to pay close attention to pain for obvious reasons ... Have we conditioned ourselves to acknowledge pain? It seems to me that we evolved the ability to have pain, which is, by definition, a sensation th
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by lopatin 9y ago
Thanks for the reply. So, if you're injured, it still hurts. But what changes is your response, mentally. You gain the ability to peacefully endure, even study, the pain because you're smarter than it? And this ability comes as a
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by lopatin 9y ago
I imagine you're a blast at birthday parties. > That's an odd age to celebrate. I (and many others) have had plenty of birthdays over several decades.
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by lopatin 9y ago
I think the data types look fine. If I'm using such a database, I don't think I want the CRDT data types to be abstracted away behind some general-purpose (SQL?) interface. Can that even be done? I'd rather just pay the small
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by lopatin 9y ago
> physical pain was also reframed from negative 'pain' to simply neutral sensation. What does it mean to reframe physical pain? How reframing changed your experience of physical pain?
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by lopatin 9y ago
And that's not all, I hear they're still letting make-up advertisers to exclude users by gender.
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by lopatin 9y ago
The Idris book is awesome. Also, Liquid Haskell is awesome, if Idris is too painful.
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by lopatin 9y ago
Yeah Go is weird in that its static type system doesn't to provide you with great static typing power but instead it's just there as a sort-of sanity checker. If there's logic, they say write it with data structures and fun
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by lopatin 9y ago
touché. Maybe OS X vs Ubuntu Desktop is a better comparison. (Can you tell I like Apple products?)
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by lopatin 9y ago
Still the gold standard as far as I'm concerned. It seems to be the only editor that focuses on my happiness by providing a flawless text editing experience. It feels like using a modern iPhone compared to a 2005 Android phone (and yes
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by lopatin 9y ago
Perhaps scope wasn't the right word. I think we agree. If Reason is to be considered a general purpose language, then Elm is DSL for web apps. In that domain, it tries to be all you need, which is what my context of scope was. Reason i
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by lopatin 9y ago
Nope I meant wider, with respect to what responsibilities they take on. Elm does more stuff. It's a language and framework/architecture for building apps. Reason is just a language, though with a more powerful type system, which p
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by lopatin 9y ago
I think ClojureScript's growth won't be impacted. Those folks do their own thing. There's a lot of innovative stuff in that community. Particularly fascinating watching the alternative approach to building good software by in
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by lopatin 9y ago
It's like LEGO's. The blocks are sturdy and the rules of how blocks fit together are simple. But building a mini Taj Mahal is still not easy. You do have to know basic physics & structural engineering, but if you do, the task
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by lopatin 9y ago
> You can use it as is but everyone is using webpack and babel, so you have to use it too. No you don't. You can absolutely use your own build system, or no build system, and still make use of open source components and libraries fr
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by lopatin 9y ago
I keep reiterating this point, but people keep calling React complex, it's not. React is raw simplicity. As far as I'm aware it's the most minimal API for creating sufficiently complex UIs. It's so minimal that it's
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by lopatin 9y ago
Rails is great, but where it really shines is server side apps, content sites, blogs, CMSs, etc .. If you know you're building purely a SPA, Rails isn't really the right tool for that.
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by lopatin 9y ago
You've somehow managed to put down the hard work of community leaders from your hind-sight high horse, and at the same time, disown responsibility for the choice of library/language your software was built on. Implying the fault i
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by lopatin 9y ago
I think he goes by Pete ;) Edit: While I'm here, might as well link to the Simple Made Easy talk by Rich Hickey. The other thing (aside from inventing Clojure) that gave him prophet-like status in the community. https://www.
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by lopatin 9y ago
I see, thanks for explaining. I totally get the frustration with the complexity of the web platform. I don't like running into heisenbugs either, and explaining rAFs to someone who is still trying to grasp the fundamentals of coding so
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by lopatin 9y ago
I think that ClojureScript fits this criteria as well. 1. The resulting file size is great, heavily optimized and tree-shaked with Goog Closure Compiler. It seems Bucklescript does even better in this regard! 2. It's there, easy to use
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by lopatin 9y ago
I think that the meaning of OP depends on context. In general, you're correct. But cel1ne can be reasonably be referred to as the OP in our convo, since our discussion really doesn't have anything to do with the content submitted
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by lopatin 9y ago
I usually find myself somewhere on your side of the argument, but I don't get it. Re: 1. Do you mean to say that browser adoption of new language features is slower now that the language spec is moving faster? If anything, ECMA is putt
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by lopatin 9y ago
You sound quite fatigued! Here's what I suggest: - Uninstall webpack for a month - Download the few libraries that you can't live without * Put them in a script tag - Disconnect from HN and Twitter. Better yet, the internet
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by lopatin 9y ago
> [Prettier] It’s basically like gofmt for JavaScript. Gotta mention jsfmt, which is actual gofmt for JavaScript. Awesome tool, hasn't been updated in a while though. RIP Rdio. https://github.com/rdio/jsfmt

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