mikebenfield

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by mikebenfield 4y ago
I don't have infinite time available. I can't read every article posted on HackerNews and carefully consider all its points. Knowing this author's affiliation is a big clue to me that this might not be a key source I want to
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Well, there’s two different angles here. I also might really enjoy working in AR/VR, but I’m almost certain that heading this way is a catastrophically bad business decision for Meta and will likely lead to worse outcomes for most of i
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
I have no data to back this up, but if I had to bet I’d guess that the large majority of Meta employees - along with shareholders - are also strongly opposed to the company’s new focus.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Yeah… so are you implying that the solutions proposed by the other post - like punitively taxing second homes - are more universal solutions to the housing crisis than building more housing?
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
I don’t understand this perspective. Are you really confident those measures will increase supply? I’m not. I find it really hard to predict what the outcome of any of those measures would be. How about this one: 4. Stop artificially restri
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
But it actually kind of has ended this nonsense in the go community, and to a lesser extent in the rust community.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
> The vast majority of people aren't going to use more than basic algebra and geometry Most high school students take nothing past algebra and geometry, so what specifically are you complaining about? As far as I can tell, most adul
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
I am not a huge fan of PG and I seriously doubt that had anything to do with your downvotes.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
So you are under the belief that the written output of one man born in 1564 was of greater quantity than all “good” writing prior to his time? Are you sure you thought this through?
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Have you considered there may be a reason why so many large tech companies are so eager to move away from C++?
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
I disagree entirely. Ideally there should be one valid way to format your code, and robust tools to make that formatting happen automatically. Allowing alternatives yields zero benefit and causes pointless debates and diffs.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
I estimate that I receive maybe one unanticipated non-spam call per year.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
> The worst case is that I say I can't afford you. There are many possible bad cases. Possibly much worse than this is that the candidate lowballs themselves. Another bad case is that they price themselves out when they might have b
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
The candidate has just as much if not more ambiguity and uncertainty as the employer, so why is the burden on the candidate? It's very possible for a candidate to be thinking something like "I'm currently making $200K. I thin
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
I don't entirely disagree with you about old vs new Trek. But I think it's important to avoid the idea that Roddenberry was "trying to achieve" some grand vision. What Roddenberry was "trying to achieve" was to
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Maybe so. And... you approve of this? Or what? What exactly is your message here?
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Although I recognize that theoretically there are features in an IDE that could be useful, every time I've tried to use one I find it intrusive and slow and frustrating and confusing. I inevitably close it in a rage within 15 minutes b
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
There are better ways to build discipline than spending a huge chunk of ages 5-18 doing otherwise pointless busy work.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
I think you misunderstood your parent post’s point.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
The kinds of things people are talking about - fiddling with autotools or PYTHONPATH - are not “fundamental concepts” or “the why” behind anything. It’s just tedious, boring nonsense. There are plenty of intellectually curious people who wo
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Almost everyone would give lip service, at the right time and place, to values like charity and compassion for the homeless. But there are many, many people who would never for a second even consider the welfare of homeless people as a fact
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
NIMBY absolutists exist, and in fact are pretty common. There really are people who will oppose any new construction at all, even at the cost of destroying the livability of their city. But do what you describe as “YIMBY absolutists” actual
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Really strange perspective. Sure it’d be nice if everyone understood those things. But to think they’re absolutely necessary for any application level programming is… odd.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Clearly “pile of lies” was meant to be a humorous way to put it. Also I’ve heard that “first bug” story many times and never had the impression it wasn’t meant both seriously and literally. It’s amazing that someone could find this innocuou
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
I think this is basically mixing up cause and effect. Cursive has been dropped from the curriculum because no one writes in cursive anymore.
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
So if I defame someone in this comment, you believe Y Combinator should be held liable?
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Very hard to relate to this perspective. Recursion is extremely useful. It definitely has practical utility, and even in many cases where one shouldn't use recursion in actual code (perhaps because it would risk blowing the stack), it&
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
Most Americans have few or zero regular international contacts. The US is geographically huge and there are only two other nations within relatively reach. Personally I have one person in my contacts who's not in the US. This is someon
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
That’s really surprising to me to read; surely figuring out a better convention for returning a struct would never have been a challenge, right?
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by mikebenfield 4y ago
I agree that Myers Briggs is pretty wishy washy, but "You answered these questions in these particular ways, so we can conclude these facts about your personality" is a completely different galaxy from "You were born in this

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