notpachet

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   by notpachet 5y ago

   I left Shopify late last year, so I don't know what the current internal stance is, nor do I speak for the company in any capacity. But before I left, the strategy was to begin making inroads into typedness by attacking the most import
2. 542.▲
   by notpachet 5y ago

   > Young have the advantage that they usually drastically undervalue themselves and thus provide an unbeatable proposition. They're usually more energetic, positive and optimistic, which is more pleasant to be around and thus makes t
3. 543.▲
   by notpachet 5y ago

   Came to make a similar comment. I think my main gripe with the Hole Hawg analogy is that it's one tool, not a bevy of tools. Unix is more like if you went and looked into the workshop of a Hole Hawg owner, catalogued all the other tool
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   by notpachet 5y ago

   Strongly agreed. I think there is a kind of x/y situation¹ going on with regard to Ruby type annotations. Are we trying to make it easier for developers to scan the code and understand what's going on? If so, then type signatures
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   by notpachet 5y ago

   I've actually found that a lot of I/O bottlenecks are often Ruby related, for the fact that Ruby doesn't give you a lot of great options in terms of doing that I/O in a non-blocking way. If your Ruby program has to do