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by mac01021 6y ago
Do you use many 3rd party libraries? How do you learn to use them? The one thing stopping me from using Haskell for real work is that nothing in the library ecosystem seems to have a users manual.
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by mac01021 6y ago
Twitter and the like were never a good medium to communicate with the people. Seldom can you say anything serious in 140 characters.
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by mac01021 6y ago
About 10-15 years ago my sister's highschool classmate tried to fund a startup to build mechanisms that would store energy by towing buoys down to the bottom of the ocean. I can't find it on the web now, though. It's an inte
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by mac01021 6y ago
> for me more light earlier has almost no value, but light at the end of the work day is worth a lot. I agree with this, but why wouldn't we stay on standard time and just all switch to starting school and work an hour earlier? It w
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by mac01021 6y ago
Tangentially, how many jobs do you normally need to apply for at once to have multiple offers on the table at once? I once applied to 7-10 jobs in the same week. Of the 4-5 that decided to interview me, the interview processes didn't
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by mac01021 6y ago
Suppose I provide you with a black-box function foo that takes an int. You can write the program x = read_int_from_terminal(); y = foo(x); println(x + ": " + y); And you can be confident that invoking foo has no eff
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by mac01021 6y ago
I'm not sure Clojure is _simpler_. I think Haskell may have more regularity and less variety in language constructs. I won't dispute that it is more alien to most programmers, though, and that laziness and monadic IO require a bu
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by mac01021 6y ago
It was probably actually _more_ common to share data model code between a client and server before the web, because the clients wouldn't have been JS running in a browser but more likely would have been written in the same language as
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by mac01021 6y ago
That sounds a lot like a conversation to me.
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by mac01021 6y ago
No one ever explains why despotism, justly and competently executed, is in principle bad. Because the benevolent despot is not the one people find undesirable.
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by mac01021 6y ago
Not a great headline in terms of parseability.
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by mac01021 6y ago
What do you mean by "smart"?
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by mac01021 6y ago
Googling "dependency cutting" does not find me any informative pages about this. Is there another term? Or do you have a link to a page where I can read about this?
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by mac01021 6y ago
I don't think you're completely wrong but, taken to the extreme and applied to all products and companies, your policy would lead to a world where the field of computing would be full of sentences like "Are you using the Jobs
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by mac01021 6y ago
It's hard to judge based on two months of use. With GMail I got no spam in my inbox ever (but still lots of junk email from merchants and political campaigns). With FastMail, I'm getting maybe 1 spam per week that doesn't get
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by mac01021 6y ago
I switched to Fastmail 2 months ago. It's been painless so far.
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by mac01021 6y ago
Is it possible for you, without sharing personal details that you would rather not share, to give a more concrete and detailed account of the value that your therapist has provided to you? I've also always regarded myself as introspect
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by mac01021 6y ago
Not even the reason that I'm playing a long game and want to play a tiny part in steering society at large away from such hiring practices? If enough people decline offers, giving this reason, it's bound to make an impact eventua
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by mac01021 6y ago
You've overlooked the case where I want to live like a Jakartan in San Francisco, eating rice for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and renting 50 square meters of living space. Take the minimum, over all cultures, of what would be taken a
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by mac01021 6y ago
What does "agreed as a species" mean? I was not consulted. Any time I talk about how society should act to stop anthropogenic climate change, I am not pretending to think the things I'm professing that I think.
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by mac01021 6y ago
When there is an externality, of course the federal government can get involved. But does the majority of federal regulation really happen in domains where there would be inevitable externalities without it?
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by mac01021 6y ago
Climate change is just one thing, though. National defense and military activity may be another. But do you really think it is not the case that most forms of regulation and resource distribution cannot be administered effectively, with so
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by mac01021 6y ago
I don't have any visibility into the VC world. But I wonder if they've moved at all in the direction PG was recommending since 2008.
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by mac01021 6y ago
They're doing an AMA right now (11:00am New York time, 2020-10-04) https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/jnwg7i/haskell_fou...
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by mac01021 6y ago
Median household wealth in the US is less than $100k, so 5x would be half a million. So I guess the question is, do you feel bad about the family farm that turns out to be worth 1 or 2 million? ("No" is a legitimate answer, but pr
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by mac01021 6y ago
All of the content of Dr. Rosling's talk is correct (and that is a very nice talk - thank you for the link). But the title "Don't Panic" is the thing I'm most likely to disagree with. I don't panic about the e
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by mac01021 6y ago
This link no longer points to an article with that title.
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by mac01021 6y ago
What was Professor Weber's beef with Einstein?
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by mac01021 6y ago
So you want "midnight" to refer to "approximately one hour from the middle of the night".
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by mac01021 6y ago
When my kid was 1 year old, she was on a sleeping schedule where I would wake her up just in time for me to get her to daycare before heading to my 9am daily standup, and then falling asleep at night at whatever time she would be sleepy as

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