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by muglug 6y ago
There's a tremendous political value to Amazon employing 800,000 people across the country. That doesn't diminish much if a few thousand of them unionise.
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by muglug 6y ago
> I see people leaving JetBrains every day I see people leaving iOS every day for Android, but this people are balanced out by users going the other way. The same is true, I believe, for JetBrains and VS Code.
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by muglug 6y ago
I grew up playing the violin, and also drawing a lot. They had very different models for learning: with the violin you’d spend weeks or months in solitude on a piece, each week trying to improve some particular passage, and then you perform
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by muglug 6y ago
TL;DR the author of this article still thinks Stallman needs to resign, and that the FSF made the wrong decision in re-appointing him.
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by muglug 6y ago
> Also, even if the program is significantly loss making, it should be easy enough to shift to profitability; just scale down offering new contracts to people without large existing readerships. Yeah Substack's server costs are prob
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by muglug 6y ago
How are you defining success? Is Substack actually profitable, or do its VC-financed authors just receive more clicks than Medium’s?
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by muglug 6y ago
I don’t understand how they thought publishing could work out for them, economically. Every other similar publication has a two-pronged approach to monetising — advertising and subscription revenue — and AFAIK they didn’t have any advertisi
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by muglug 6y ago
The demo given at the bottom helps you understand what this is getting at (it's desktop-only): https://awesomephant.github.io/continuous-typography/
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by muglug 6y ago
I'm always happy to receive knowledge! That last sentence was meant as an exhortation to authors of similar static analysis tools: "Please implement this so I don't feel it’s a spurious addition". Many of those authors a
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by muglug 6y ago
Thanks, that's a great collection. The Zheng & Zhang paper is particularly interesting, given it tackles taint analysis and succeeds where Psalm (which also has a taint analysis mode) fails: https://psalm.dev/r&#x2F
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by muglug 6y ago
There's normally some sort of budget for paying down technical debt – presumably there was more pressing technical debt.
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by muglug 6y ago
I'm very sure that I'm not the first person to have stumbled across this idea, and I'm sure that lots of much smarter people have written at length about the theory, but I'm not aware of that theory having been applied t
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by muglug 6y ago
> You might be aware already, but the examples aren't the same Yeah, because both TS and PHP have the same treatment of `!expr` I use the two interchangeably when demonstrating functionality, but the exactly comparable example is he
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by muglug 6y ago
TypeScript doesn't perform this conditional analysis: This is a false-positive: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/GYVwdgxgLglg9mABMO... > since it also allows for user-defined assertions and guards Psal
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by muglug 6y ago
Author here: I'm not aware this analysis in typechecking systems outside of Typed Racket and Psalm – if you point me to them I'll happily update the article! I've also discussed the article with the authors of the linked pape
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Avoiding type inference false-positives with flow-sensitive conditional analysis(psalm.dev)
36 points by muglug 6y ago|18 comments
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by muglug 6y ago
The ability to quickly flag posts that attract partisan back-and-forth helps a lot. That doesn’t work out quite as well for a newspaper, where virtually every story can relate in some fashion to politics.
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by muglug 6y ago
Yeah, it works at NYT scale. They have a massive paying subscriber base, and they can afford to operate both automatic and manual moderation systems. But it’s not scalable downwards.
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by muglug 6y ago
They’re not swimming in money because a thousand small independent newsrooms across the country, working independently, were no match for the massive VC-backed attention-stealing ad-revenue-sucking social networks coming out of Silicon Vall
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by muglug 6y ago
The Reagan assassination attempt wasn’t for any political reason, but because a crazy person wanted to impress Jodie Foster.
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by muglug 6y ago
A lot of those freedom-lovers from the land of the free tried to prevent a democratic election from being ratified.
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by muglug 6y ago
Those countries have massively more stringent rules around gun ownership, and much lower gun ownership rates. Not at all comparable.
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by muglug 6y ago
“A fairer fight”? It would have been a bloodbath.
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by muglug 6y ago
The IT Crowd's comedy became dated incredibly quickly, just like Father Ted's. Comedies that came later ditched the laugh track. They had to work harder to get viewers at home to laugh, but ultimately a bunch of them (starting wit
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by muglug 6y ago
Here's another anecdote about how female engineers are sometimes used to "balance" their team: https://twitter.com/SeaRyanC/status/1367191778386829312
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by muglug 6y ago
This reminds me of a recent tweet: https://twitter.com/searyanc/status/1349890653132505088?s=21 > Obnoxious: come up with a set of style preferences, write some post-hoc justification, and then name it in a way
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by muglug 6y ago
Oh yeah, I don’t see that Victorian house going anywhere either. It’s very easy to make a CMS with a more elegant & higher-quality codebase, but it’s very hard to create a CMS with better features, and impossible at this point to create
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by muglug 6y ago
This is not rejuvenation, just as adding a new coat of paint to an early-Victorian mansion doesn’t make it any younger. If adding GraphQL helps make WordPress more palatable to clients then knock yourself out.
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Atlas: Our journey from a Python monolith to a managed platform(dropbox.tech)
4 points by muglug 6y ago|0 comments
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by muglug 6y ago
Yeah, but very few sites need to be SPAs. SPAs come with a tremendous amount of extra requirements that, over time, can mire projects in cruft.

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