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by michaniskin 6y ago
That's a terrible analogy because thousands of newly minted programmers come out of abbreviated code bootcamp type programs all the time, and go right to work. Anyway, the army actually does this. Even the special forces 18D medic trai
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by michaniskin 6y ago
The type of work required to monitor covid patients can be done by semi-skilled workers for the most part. The army does this, it works.
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by michaniskin 6y ago
Nursing is not that complex. The bulk of the work can be offloaded on semi-skilled labor with on the job training. This is what the army does, it works fine. This is not rocket science here.
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by michaniskin 6y ago
We don't have the power to toss anyone anywhere. They have the freedom to work or not work, or to change jobs, or any number of alternatives to working somewhere where they don't want to work. If a lot of workers quit then the wag
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by michaniskin 6y ago
Pay them more money. Simple.
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by michaniskin 6y ago
So prices will go up. That's how we get other people to voluntarily do things for us. I don't see a problem there.
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by michaniskin 6y ago
Sure, there are pros and cons to going to work. That's why it's called work. Every job has them.
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by michaniskin 6y ago
It's just a job. Nobody is being forced to go to work. If you don't like your job, or if you can't do your job, you can quit and get another job. This is America. As long as people are griping and complaining instead of quitt
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by michaniskin 6y ago
> when more kids are dying to malaria every single day or for multitude of other problems. Not in America. > US rallies for some causes where it seems to suit US interests. Yes, we act in support of national interests, like every coun
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by michaniskin 6y ago
And your arguments rest on the assumption that politicians and voters are rational, surely? My bet is on individuals to act in their own best interest. Likewise, politicians have every incentive to act in ways that benefit themselves and th
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by michaniskin 6y ago
Nobody is arguing that the population of the US was illiterate when the FDA was established. The argument is that it might have made sense at a time when the US population was illiterate, but now that everyone has access to a world of knowl
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by michaniskin 6y ago
Now of course the public would be better served if the UL could focus on their business without being subjected to the whims of politicians. But the fact that private companies other than the UL can at least compete for the job ensures that
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by michaniskin 6y ago
> How could there not be a monopoly on public safety? Easily. Simply allow the private sector to provide the services currently under the exclusive domain of the FDA, for example. > Trusting private corporations or companies with publ
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by michaniskin 6y ago
I think it's totally fair to blame the FDA, as it's a monopoly. No entrepreneur is allowed to compete with them and they have no obligation to the consumer -- their only obligations are to politicians. So naturally the costs are s
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by michaniskin 6y ago
Drugs are not somehow different from any other type of product. All products have some level of risk to the consumer, and may or may not do what they're advertised to do. The Car & Truck Administration (CTA) approval process
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by michaniskin 6y ago
A minimum wage is nothing more than a mechanism higher skilled workers use to command higher wages at the expense of lower skilled workers.
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by michaniskin 6y ago
Don’t worry, the American spirit of liberty and free market capitalism is alive and well. It’s just that most Americans are busy getting things done instead of planning everyone’s lives for them on twitter or HN.
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by michaniskin 7y ago
It’s a privilege to have the power to force a driver to perform work for you at a price the driver would otherwise refuse.
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by michaniskin 11y ago
Tasks in Boot cache their own products, so while the watcher task fires the rest of the pipeline whenever a source file of any kind changes, each task is smart enough to use its own cached compiled files. This is because only the tasks them
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by michaniskin 12y ago
So are there still things that "simply will not work as macros"? If so it would be interesting to see examples.
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by michaniskin 12y ago
They're trivially implementable without feature expressions, as we demonstrated with our 20 lines of code.
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by michaniskin 12y ago
The example demonstrates how you can define a macro that runs its code in Clojure but can emit code to both Clojure and ClojureScript. How would you do this with feature expressions?
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by michaniskin 12y ago
I think the `case-host` macro is what you're looking for: https://github.com/feature-macros/clojurescript/blob/feature...
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by michaniskin 12y ago
The Feature Macros proposal is only adding macros and vars to Clojure---the reader isn't modified at all. Since all of the things you mentioned are reader macros (as you pointed out), Feature Macros never even see them, so they won&#x2
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by michaniskin 12y ago
Actually I should mention that perhaps the wording in the passage you quoted is misleading. We don't send the actual file contents around in memory as function arguments, but the fileset object itself _is_ passed in memory as an argume
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by michaniskin 12y ago
Well, there are two things there: the unbounded potential size of files and the ability to coexist in the current JVM ecosystem without rewriting every bit of code that looks for things on the class path. I think that generally the files yo
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by michaniskin 12y ago
Not yet, the hoplon task hasn't been ported yet. But very soon, I promise :)
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by michaniskin 12y ago
I don't see why not. There is a javac task included with the built-in tasks that ship with boot itself, but boot is designed for ease of extension so you can write tasks to implement your particular workflow. You can even write tasks t
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by michaniskin 12y ago
Haha, yes! Now we're cookin'! The "simple, but naive way" you describe above is pretty much the way boot does things. I'd say you could look at the boot cljs task to see this but setting up the environment for the C
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by michaniskin 12y ago
Your point about repeatability is valid. As a policy matter we would never advocate building a project without codifying the process as zero-arg tasks in the build.boot file. You can see this in our own projects (eg. https://gith

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