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by musingsole 4y ago
But I only enjoy 20% of the work...so there must be a way to make that the only part I have to do and still get a promotion!
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by musingsole 4y ago
In a stringly-typed world, you still end up with a purpose-tuned model of what an email is, how it's used, and what error cases are -- these just aren't implemented as qualities on a type. There's a dozen approaches for it, m
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by musingsole 4y ago
It's a very related problem. I agree: All models are wrong; some are useful. A string is a wrong model for an email address. But it's a pretty useful one. A custom type sitting lonely in an isolated codebase IS ALSO A WRONG MODEL.
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by musingsole 4y ago
>A string value is not a great type to convey a user's email address or their country of origin. I can argue whatever type you use in place of a string will similarly be "not a great type". This can be argued in perpetuity
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by musingsole 4y ago
Programmers will have immediate answers for you -- stated confidently as if to imply there is a spec somewhere when in fact no spec exists and the programmer you're talking to is peddling their own bullshit as gold.
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by musingsole 4y ago
I'm convinced if you read Uncle Bob carefully and follow all his suggestions... you'll have completely incapacitated whatever organization you infiltrated.
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by musingsole 4y ago
> I don’t see what is so hard to understand here. We already have the legal clarity , they just needs to be implemented diligently. Then read between the lines and recognize the public in general has moved away from recognition/acce
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by musingsole 4y ago
Eh, I think you picked the wrong side of that comparison. JavaScript looks like C by virtue of age and influence. It's common to remark on a language being "C-like"; not so much that a language is "JavaScript-like".
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by musingsole 4y ago
While the analogy of Tesla to Apple is apt, it's ignoring the amount of industry entrenchment Tesla had to overcome to get to the point where the analogy makes sense. There's reason to suspect that Tesla's EV systems from top
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by musingsole 4y ago
That's awesome! I find it funny I've never thought to graph a Twitter conversation before...but I suppose that would require thinking about Twitter. Which I avoid.
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by musingsole 4y ago
They also seem to have subtly shifted each time I revisit citation styling rules
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by musingsole 4y ago
Wow, thank you!!
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by musingsole 4y ago
> You and I might see that as a laughable claim Being disbarred is a very real threat to any lawyer putting a roof over their heads. Which is most lawyers.
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by musingsole 4y ago
> not shrug and treat it like a broken stair. When all but 2 of the stairs are broken in a flight -- discussing the particularities of this break or that isn't very meaningful or productive. Perhaps the 2 functional stairs are worth
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by musingsole 4y ago
Isn't approval voting just a signified form of Ranked Choice Voting -- one without prioritization? So the strength of RCV would then be more built in tie-breaking.
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by musingsole 4y ago
I'd like to agree. When I was a student, I mostly argued the same myself. However the sheer size of student populations and the complexity of college life have grown exponentially, and they aren't slowing down. With that in mind,
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by musingsole 4y ago
That's frankly not enough. That's plenty for a student who is on the cusp of slipping behind -- who's been trained on the culture of college since grade school. And it's no help at all to the student who is mostly bewild
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by musingsole 4y ago
> Let’s all do whatever the student believe At this point, I'll trust student sentiment over a professor's insistence any day of the week. Professors throw out the word "office hours" like it's self-explanatory.
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by musingsole 4y ago
> Typically, professors announce office hours during which they will be available to answer questions, so this is not an issue. Saying something once or even a couple times that is at odds with the listener's inherent behavior doesn
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by musingsole 4y ago
Despite your emphasis, I don't find that anything has been "obvious" or "proven" about these pieces. The fact of the ongoing lawsuit implies it's not definitive for the authorities involved either. If you see
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by musingsole 4y ago
> software delivery absolutely is a system A system/organization with a sufficient number of members will create emergent behaviors that no individual leader (or engineering leader) can account for. That's the domain of culture
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by musingsole 4y ago
> With all the data Google and Facebook have on everyone I think the size of Google or Facebook's data may well be half the problem. Search may not be generalizable. Maybe the algorithms TikTok uses for video suggestion end up in a
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by musingsole 4y ago
Raspberry Pi hobbyists are great in the IoT world. Almost an immediate hire if you can demonstrate an image recognition app.
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by musingsole 4y ago
> managers, perhaps many execs, are mostly liabilities Reminds me of adages about parenting and children as well as government and the economy: more can be done to screw it up/make it worse than can be done to control let alone impr
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by musingsole 4y ago
> We just have to consider every decision's second-order effects. I read that as "we just have to stop behaving in the characteristic way we're predetermined to forever behave in" The "corruption" related to
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by musingsole 4y ago
You can build arbitrary conditions (the example given is `file_exists`) that can run whatever code and only need to return True or False. If you can write the condition in English, it would seem to me you can build a custom Rocketry conditi
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by musingsole 4y ago
> No one is talking about the dangers of Khan Academy or Duolingo. Isn't this why the author's food analogy is more communicative than the popular cigarette analogy?
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by musingsole 4y ago
> It's just that you used to have CO2 in the air and now it's a house. I disagree on your accounting (largely because the house is torn down one day and further a CNC throws wood dust everywhere and this project requires one fr
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by musingsole 4y ago
> It's not the perfect process, by any means, but wood as a building material is infinitely more sustainable than concrete, gypsum and stone. Cool, show me the part where any of that means this company has a right to claim carbon ne
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by musingsole 4y ago
> The carbon sequestered by the trees is now in the building materials You're ignoring material waste. This process doesn't consume 100% of the tree; only a portion of the tree's carbon is sequestered into the building. Th

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