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by raiflip 8y ago
Another few books I've found incredibly helpful: Clean Code: https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsma... Clean Architecture: https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Architecture-Craftsmans-Soft
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by raiflip 8y ago
This might just be fear-mongering, but what is the potential that someone uses some take home CRISPR kit and creates a super virus? Considering the existence of psychopaths in the human population, this sort of technology seems like somethi
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by raiflip 8y ago
Absolutely, agree 100%. A major problem is that economic growth has been spent on, say, propping up ski resorts in upstate new york, instead of reinvested in the subway. It's really an absolute travesty the way the system has been mana
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by raiflip 8y ago
At least from what I've read, the primary problem have been a lack of financing for maintaining the current system. The subway does need to move to a more advanced signaling system, but there's no reason why the old-fashioned sign
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eh it's flashier and more fun to build something new than maintain something old. Not to mention people forget that building new stuff means needing to allocate budget to maintain it...
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by raiflip 8y ago
To an extent, yes. That can prevent monopolies, but it does not prevent oligopolies, and in this case those are just as dangerous. If you want to protect free speech, you need not just one or two, but probably hundreds of viable platforms.
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by raiflip 8y ago
This is a great comment. Honestly love the nuanced take, far too rare. The only point I would respectfully ad is that I'm not sure if we can enforce decentralization. Many markets, like payment services (like Visa, Paypal), tend toward
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by raiflip 8y ago
Actually Patreon rules had explicitly said they will only kick you off if you violate the rules on their website, so technically Sargon was not even breaking their rules. The primary distinction between your example and what happened was Sa
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A lot of major tech companies employ a lot less people you'd expect. I think tech companies in general try to leverage tech to scale up their business without increasing their employee overhead by a lot, but that can clash severely wit
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I don't agree with his choice of words, and I think its kinda weird that he chose to express himself the way he did when there was a much easier way to go about making the same remark, but that said, it's simply amoral to try and
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by raiflip 8y ago
This is the Eco 101 way of thinking about it. Reality is more complicated, and more advanced economics models reality closer. Basically put, what you are describing is whats called a Perfect Market. A Perfect Market is one in which there ar
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Those are Manhattan prices. If you travel more than 10 minutes outside Manhattan the rent drops. This normally means long commutes, but with the new HQ in queens, workers could commute from the cheaper parts of queens.
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That's partially true. Not sure where you are from, but as opposed to places like San Francisco, NYC has a functioning real estate private sector that reacts rationally to increases in demand by increasing supply. This is not to say ge
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https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mabiols67J1rnkn4oo2_1280....
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by raiflip 8y ago
Sure, if you're going to dump your project in 6 months like a hot potato. Any coder that takes pride in their work knows that constantly piling on more tech debt to push thing out faster only slows down your project in the end. The onl
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by raiflip 8y ago
Functions with a large number of parameters means your code is over-complicated under-designed and hard to maintain. If you are producing a function with 10 parameters, your code is probably so complex you missed the 11th.
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by raiflip 8y ago
True, but I've generally found the line moves fast even when the line is out the door. The main bottleneck in most fast food places are putting your order in at the cash register so if that's removed it speeds things up a lot.
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by raiflip 8y ago
It's crazy efficient. When you walk in someone with a tablet takes your order, and by the time you get to the cash register your food is ready. Works so well because the employees are able to catch customers at the end of the line.
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by raiflip 8y ago
That is definitely a good strategy for a recruiter. However the context of the author's experience seems to be how the author's coworkers treats them. If I'm working with someone and I get to see their code, or I can take a l
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by raiflip 8y ago
I have a friend who recently bought a house with his fiancee in a decent neighborhood for 250k, which for more rent-minded folk corresponds to monthly payments of 1180. Add in maintenance and the monthly payments increase to about 1600 a mo
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by raiflip 9y ago
This is a very upper-middle class view of the economy because it very much represents the difference between most people and upper middle class - those in the upper middle class tend to be employees of successful tech or medical companies,
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by raiflip 9y ago
Apologizing helps indicate the person will make an effort to avoid their mistake in the future. Focusing on someone in the present without acknowledging they are a person with intentions and feelings reeks of lacking empathy.
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by raiflip 9y ago
Genuine question, my impression is that Lisp is dynamically typed, but this uses type declarations. Would that make it different than Lisp?
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by raiflip 9y ago
Except point is that Manhattan is denser than London or Paris.
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This is a great point, but also if the MTA builds a subway which increases land value, then the city will get an increase in property tax as the property value has increased, thereby effectively getting increased tax revenue from the subway
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by raiflip 9y ago
One of the major costs of building subway (in Manhattan at least) is that Manhattan is one of the densest places in the world. Higher density equals a higher density of infrastructure for things like electricity, water, and so on. This impa
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by raiflip 9y ago
This is actually one of the best authors people can read from. Regarding your second link, Krugman has already admitted his prediction did not come to pass. On a number of issues Krugman has proven a good deal more accurate than other econo
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by raiflip 9y ago
While UBI is a cool idea, one problem with this idea I don't think anyone has brought up with yet is a single global currency would be terrible from an Economics point of view.
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by raiflip 9y ago
Thats a good point, I was thinking of Gresham's law as simply regarding more or less valuable currencies. Nevertheless in my other reply explain why I think the USD would still drive BTC at least out of circulation.
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Think of it this way. For any given transaction, the spender will want to spend USD, the receiver will want BTC. Lets say the receiver gets his way. Then the spender will want to hold onto the BTC anyway, unless the product/service is

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