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by misja111 9mo ago
> according to TechCrunch, this language has been included in the privacy policy since Aug. 2024, and wasn’t changed in response to the Trump administration’s latest escalation of immigration enforcement, and is “primarily there to compl
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by misja111 9mo ago
Correct, this has very little to do with Rust. But it wouldn't have made the front page without it.
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by misja111 9mo ago
True, but that doesn't mean that you should stop trying getting close to it.
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by misja111 9mo ago
2 reasons: - in a corporate environment, your code is going to be read by many other people than just you. Your team mates, the guy after you left etc. - also, by making your code more readable, you're making your own life easier as we
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by misja111 9mo ago
@creata: yes I agree. In case of APL, if your readers are mathematicians, I guess it could well be the language of choice. And yes like I already said, self explanatory code is not always possible but more often than not it is. It just take
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by misja111 9mo ago
> A decent APL program, like in any other programming language, would need good comments, but here comments are frequently desirable at the level of subexpressions. I guess that might be true for APL, for other programming languages that
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by misja111 9mo ago
> The virtues of APL that strike the programmer most sharply are its terseness — complicated acts can be described briefly, its flexibility — there are a large number of ways to state even moderately complicated tasks (the language provi
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by misja111 9mo ago
I don't follow this part, can somebody maybe explain? > Yet on Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated prediction market, traders have wagered vast sums on longshot contracts with historical returns as low as 43 cents on the dollar. On prediction
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by misja111 9mo ago
I read the article but failed to grasp what exactly the disaster is that America would be walking into. Is the reliability of Polymarket predictions overhyped? Sure. Is there manipulation of Polymarket odds by some people? Most likely there
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by misja111 9mo ago
> And the most successful people I know basically did exactly that. Well that depends heavily on how you define successful. Successful in life? I would tend to disagree, unless you believe that career is the only thing that counts. But e
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by misja111 9mo ago
> Senior developers: Fewer juniors means more grunt work landing on your plate I'm not sure I agree with that. Right now as a senior my task involves reviewing code from juniors; replace juniors with AI and it means reviewing code f
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by misja111 9mo ago
No I agree with you, there are area's where AI is helping amazingly. Every now and then it helps me with some issue as well, which would have cost me hours earlier and now it's done in minutes. E.g. some framework that I'm no
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by misja111 9mo ago
A while ago someone posted a claim like that on LinkedIn again. And of course there was the usual herd of LinkedIn sheep who were full of compliments and wows about the claim he was making: a 10x speedup of his daily work. The difference w
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by misja111 9mo ago
This mentioning of 'Wall Street' with investors if typical for the kind of populist argument that is used to argue that banning investors from buying houses is a good thing. What would this 'Wall Street' even mean? Would
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by misja111 9mo ago
> it's holding prices steady at some point without the concurrent pressure to sell Earlier you were arguing that investors were acting as marketmakers and now you say this. Marketmakers make their profit from the difference between
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by misja111 9mo ago
This works great when you're on the receiving end of e-mails/ messages. However it is a pain to deal with when you are on the sending side and your issue is urgent.
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by misja111 9mo ago
It was definitely also a fault of initial OOP in Java. Java's interfaces became a bit more flexible later on.
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by misja111 9mo ago
I see the author fighting really hard against a paradigm that was already well known to be suboptimal 20 years ago .. "Favor composition over inheritance" is a phrase that became common knowledge in e.g. the Java world half way du
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by misja111 9mo ago
Your post is absolutely golden and it doesn't apply only at Google. I can't remember seeing so many deeply true statements together in one post. I'm sure many here will start to contest some of them but with enough experienc
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by misja111 10mo ago
Talent? Not if it was someone who was adding unnecessary complexity to the codebase.
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by misja111 10mo ago
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. It's worse than that. It might not be you who has to debug it, but someone else. Maybe after you left the company alr
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by misja111 10mo ago
Data does back up this assertion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933580 The correlation seems to point to usage ground water that is contaminated with pesticides. So people living close to the golf courses have high
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by misja111 10mo ago
There is so much evidence of this connection piling up .. E.g.: Proximity to golf courses where pesticides are used -> Parkinson: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43933580 Farmers using pesticides have 60% higher Par
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by misja111 10mo ago
> I've had Claude Code write an entire unit/integration test suite in a few hours (300+ tests) for a fairly complex internal tool. And what do you have then? 300 tests that test the behavior that's exposed by the implemen
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by misja111 10mo ago
Very nice. But posts about Rust and Zig won't make the frontpage anymore of course in 10 years from now, they will be soooo old fashioned.
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by misja111 11mo ago
Not true. Long before Hitler rose to power, the militant section of his movement, the SA, was already physically attacking political opponents. That started in the early 20's. When he finally became head of the government, in 1933, tha
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by misja111 11mo ago
I'm not saying that none of the Silicon Valley oligarchs have some fascist sympathies. But this book is generalizing over all of Silicon Valley.
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by misja111 11mo ago
Well this is exactly what I mean with inflation of the term fascism. Surely there are lots of things wrong in US society, and surely some of them can be seen as part of a fascist society. But really this is nothing compared to self declared
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by misja111 11mo ago
Wow I've only stayed in about 100 but have seen several. There are several variations: - bathrooms with glass walls but with (glass) door - bathrooms with walls but without door - bathrooms with partially open walls, sometimes even wi
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by misja111 11mo ago
The writing style of the article reeks of AI. It seems to tell a lot at first but at closer inspection tells almost nothing.

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