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by rednafi 2y ago
It’s a different tradeoff. I come from a country with a weak passport, which limits my opportunities a lot. It’s hard to explain that to someone who can travel wherever they want, so it’s a bit different for me. When visas are tied to jobs,
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America needs better labor protection laws. Every other day, I see drama like this that ripples across the globe. Fed rate has improved, inflation is rising again, and the surrounding conditions resemble those of the ZIRP era—aside from the
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I don’t work in a safety critical system. If it works for Cockroach DB, it works for my use case. It’s a tradeoff I make to be able to use a nicer and safer language.
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This makes me love Go even more. Gotta appreciate the things that the compiler takes care of for me. While I wish the stop-the-world GC pause were more predictable and took less time, I’ll gladly pay the cost for safety. Zig seems interesti
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So many shells, so little time.
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This is a terrifying reminder of the shortness of our lives. I remember reading a blog by Tim Urban, where he showed that you could put all the weeks in your life on a single piece of A4 paper, and it didn’t feel nice.
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Imagine having to import this or some nightmare like Hausvogteiplatz or Schlesisches Tor. Not German, and I wanna cry everytime I have to pronounce these :v
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Python dependencies are tear garden for sure.
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But multicultural. So I don't mind.
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Gotta write something named Wedding, Schoneberg, or Pankow. Kewt names.
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> I would better have an app, which does one thing good, than a thousand badly. I would rather not have an app at all if possible. If not, then, web apps over their mobile counterparts.
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Half a decade ago, I picked Hugo as the SSG and so far it has held up[1] the test of time. To me, content is far more important than website design. While it’s not forbidden to go overboard with JS and CSS frameworks, I've found that p
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What Goes Around Comes Around and Around – Andy Pavlo (Dijkstra Award 2024) [video](youtube.com)
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I don’t know if the transpiler approach really helps when you still have to be aware of the underlying database engine. I’m fine with choosing something like PostgreSQL and writing code optimized for its specific SQL dialect. But I’m not su
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Backed by Oracle DB; sure he does.
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> Skiing in the Alps was absolutely normal even for poorer families. Rents were high, but not impossible. Job stability was there, and infrastructure was built in their eyes. I'm in Germany too. Rent in Berlin makes me glaze over th
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Parenting is one of the hardest things I will probably ever do in my life. I grew up in a middle-class family in SEA, and when I came to the West, I realized what a fantastic job my parents did raising me. Here, things are quite different.
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Is it somewhat reproducible? Yes. But what did it cost? Usability.
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Did he really expect the continent that was ravaged by WWII to be thrilled about his gesture and rally around to buy his Swasticars?
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Why does Go's io.Reader have such a weird signature?(rednafi.com)
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*little The country could focus on legal immigration and increase the contribution from little to more.
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Nobel Prize winners are only allowed because the country is overwhelmed with illegal immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees who contribute little to the system. However, there is a group that benefits from undocumented workers taking unde
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I worked in the US for about a year before moving to Europe. I would love to go back. The process of migrating to a new country with nothing but an H-1B visa tied to your job is extremely stressful. Some people find it worth the effort, but
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Channel Axioms(dave.cheney.net)
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Curious Channel(dave.cheney.net)
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Reconciling Everything(youtube.com)
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Go Slice Gotchas(rednafi.com)
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People do read it. The problem is that you have to consistently prove your content is worth their time for an awfully long stretch. I started my blog[1] back in 2019, and it wasn’t until after I published my 100th post in mid-2023 that some
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When an ecosystem tries to go in the opposite direction, the mob shreds it to pieces, chanting, “Smart devs don’t use it,” “Only mid people like that,” and “The universe is memory unsafe, gotta rewrite.” Then, PL creators whose language isn
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