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by paulhodge 5y ago
Small nitpick but this is a pet peeve of mine :) . The stock market is not zero sum. It grows over time, and there are many situations where people all succeed together. GME specifically is now hanging out at $100 compared to a very flat $5
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by paulhodge 5y ago
speaking of stablecoins, I remember reading a few years ago that Tether (USDT) was surely a huge bubble waiting to pop because they couldn't possibly have enough liquid USD to cover their issued coins. Whatever happened to that story,
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by paulhodge 5y ago
If there's multiple ways to do the same thing that's usually a BAD thing in terms of language design. Especially if some approaches are just newbie traps that experts learn to avoid, or if deciding the best method is a really subt
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by paulhodge 5y ago
Sure but the real genius of Wordle is the simple things they did to promote virality.. 1) Everyone in the world gets the same puzzle every day 2) The "share to Twitter" message just shows the green/yellow squares, so it share
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by paulhodge 5y ago
The many suggestions about what NPM should do differently are universally all really unsatisfying, rearrange-the-deck-chairs-on-the-Titanic level solutions. At the end of the day, if you're running code that you didn't write or ve
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by paulhodge 5y ago
On the other side of the spectrum, if no one was installing 'latest', then no one would be testing latest, and we wouldn't catch these bugs until later. We would just all get surprised after 2 weeks (or whatever arbitrary d
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by paulhodge 5y ago
> should use the version of colors that svgo asked for Another thing about setting exact dependencies is reducing duplication. Libraries are encouraged to use loose ranges, because if everyone pins exact versions for every dependency, th
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by paulhodge 5y ago
is it? I thought the article was about optimizing the communication of CPU -> GPU. It definitely uses a lot of network-theory language so it reads like a foreign language to me (in a good way).
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by paulhodge 5y ago
yeah, the 10xer sort of exists, it just depends what we're measuring. If we're talking about code monkeys, devs who just take in requirements and churn out code, then no, there are no 10x code monkeys. At best the senior devs are
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by paulhodge 5y ago
Funny how similar this is to https://fig.io/ . Even the landing pages are hard to tell apart!
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by paulhodge 5y ago
I think everyone realizes that introducing curation means that sometimes the curators will get it wrong. I still think having some curation is better than none. Before people get mad that Facebook is trying to control the truth, don't
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by paulhodge 6y ago
It's 2020 not 1995. There are already lots of good, production-ready SQL alternatives out there. There's full-fledged businesses that have zero lines of SQL.
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by paulhodge 6y ago
After spending way too much time debugging issues with frontend tooling, I am all on board for this glorious monotool future. We’ve definitely gotten some progress out of the massively micropackage approach that Webpack/Babel/etc
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by paulhodge 6y ago
We're a big eCommerce and we're still supporting IE11. We're close to dropping it but it still shows up at about 4% to 5% of our users. And it's not that hard to support IE11, just need the right Webpack configs and po
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by paulhodge 6y ago
Yeah, with so much trading volume, it doesn't seem hard to blend in with the crowd. Whenever there's a big Musk tweet, there's already tons of news-based traders that immediately react and earn huge profits. You could set up
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by paulhodge 6y ago
This comparison done by Google is really helpful at understanding all the work that Webpack (and related tools) do: https://bundlers.tooling.report/ . Click through each test and read through some of the descriptions. They
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by paulhodge 6y ago
Nice to see some actual numbers and research on the topic. Most complaints about NPM seem to fall into the category of fretful, emotional hand-wringing (although there's some of that here too). If we measure success by the amount (not
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by paulhodge 6y ago
Tesla is definitely one of the easier cases to think about, the rest are in a grey area. But even with Tesla it's not 100% crystal clear. There might be some buyers who pick Tesla specifically because of the fancy tech features like Su
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by paulhodge 6y ago
Nothing stopping them from doing code splitting. Most extensions just modify the dom to insert script tag(s). So the performance strategies are the same as any other frontend app.
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by paulhodge 6y ago
For all the people who don't like this change, here's an analogy. Try thinking of it like you're making your bed. Admiral William H. McRaven has a terrific speech (link: https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches&#
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by paulhodge 6y ago
When a programmer says "I want visual programming" I think it's often one of those situations where 1) the asker has correctly identified a pain point, but 2) the thing they are asking for isn't necessarily the right way
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by paulhodge 7y ago
Just optimizing for 401ks is going about it wrong. $500b from the stimulus went to corporations, which indirectly boosts stock prices, which indirectly boosts 401ks. (unless the market still crashes). It's essentially trickle-down econ
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by paulhodge 7y ago
If you're a connoisseur of video chat platforms then you probably already know it. For the past ~5 years it's been one of the best options. Really easy to use and good quality. Within our company we got in a habit of using the fre
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by paulhodge 7y ago
The fact that Japan is only banning US travelers, instead of banning all foreigners, is pretty newsworthy.
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by paulhodge 7y ago
This kind of thing is what makes me nervous about what WebAssembly will do to the web. Wasm is cool, but it makes it easier to deliver on some really bad ideas. Bad ideas like: maybe some blogger decides he wants to write his click handlers
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by paulhodge 7y ago
Was thinking like dark matter, you can't measure it directly, but you can infer its size from other signals. Also it's not just asymptomatic cases, it's also symptomatic but not tested. Some people ignore it since it can pres
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by paulhodge 7y ago
This article is really good at predicting those "dark" cases: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop... If we assume that the growth chart is similar everywhere, then with our 1,000 conf
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by paulhodge 7y ago
Great decision IMO. I remember maintaining a bunch of Python code that we supported on both OSX and Windows. Out of all the platform-specific bugs we had (where it worked on one OS and not the other), one of the most common causes was code
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by paulhodge 7y ago
> The thing that truly hurts the iPad is the App Store. I'm skeptical if the situation would be better without an app store. The app store provides monetization and that leads to higher quality apps. I think what we'd really wa
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by paulhodge 7y ago
It's pretty hard to 100% replace Facebook, but a more feasible strategy is a gradual/piecewise approach. Opt for non-Facebook alternatives for certain tasks when you can. Like if you're going to share a photo album with famil

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