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by ritchiea 6y ago
Did you read the article? It’s anonymous data about where tourists are in the city that only checks their cell phone’s country of origin. They are using it to manage crowds, not monitor individuals.
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Amazon legal brief says Parler shutdown was for dangerous content violating TOS(twitter.com)
1 points by ritchiea 6y ago|0 comments
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The Death of the Dream Job(newrepublic.com)
13 points by ritchiea 6y ago|2 comments
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Doesn't everyone know you don't need React? That it's a choice? That said, I was once a single page app skeptic but I now think React and Vue are great alternatives to HTML/templates that compile to HTML if you have a re
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by ritchiea 6y ago
That's an interesting comparison. I can understand the argument that design patterns are just like learning another service or tool or library. But aggressive use of design patterns is taking a language we already agree on, say Rust or
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by ritchiea 6y ago
This is a brilliant distinction, that design pattern are meant to be descriptive rather than prescriptive. Because the problems I tend to see in the wild are when developers treat design patterns as prescriptive.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
What's more or less understandable is a bit subjective. There are some things that are obviously less complex than others. Some things that are obviously more complex than others. And then a lot of gray area. In my experience there is
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Once you get past writing a language idiomatically, is a list of design patterns a good thing? It is an obvious negative for code readability because it reduces the number of people who can clearly understand your code from Rust users to Ru
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by ritchiea 6y ago
When scientists write results sections and abstracts they strike a tone. They make an argument for why the raw data is meaningful. Scientists interpret data, which involves a layer of human analysis that is not objective but is attempting t
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by ritchiea 6y ago
What's the difference between writing OO code that depends on internal state and writing a pure function that expects an argument that is a data structure of a specific type (and thus has internal data that could be different)? Is the
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by ritchiea 6y ago
You're correct, Rails is not Ruby. But in my experience 80%+ of the Ruby ecosystem is Rails. But now I'm even more curious what problems you encountered with Ruby because I find it to be an excellent scripting language, especially
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Interesting, I'd say the opposite. In a Rails app that was written consistently with the styles and APIs documented in the Rails docs I have never been more productive. In other micro-framework type environments, regardless of the lang
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by ritchiea 6y ago
The comment above yours cites Steven Spielberg and Steve Jobs. Clearly the vast majority of us don’t have the autonomy at work or the compensation that those Steves have/had. There are many types of work that people enjoy and not just
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by ritchiea 6y ago
It's a shame people don't actually read the articles because, assuming the article is actually insightful, you can have better discussions after the community has actually read the article. And in the case where people don't
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Agreed. There's been a lot more "commenting without reading the article" here recently than in the past. So when someone comments on an article without anything in the comment that refers back to the article and merely offers
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by ritchiea 6y ago
This is literally one of the topics covered in the article and the author advocates for the same solution, documenting the alternative in the error/deprecation message...
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Exactly, there’s nothing inherently boring about being earnest. You can be earnest and boring but you could also be earnest with a good sense of humor and an interest in film history or software engineering. I’m not going to go all in on pg
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by ritchiea 6y ago
There are plenty of rubes on the left but I don’t bitch about them nearly as much because, at least in the current political climate, they aren’t active barriers to the changes I’d like to see in America. I’m not someone who believes left a
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by ritchiea 6y ago
For the majority of Americans on HN or employed in tech or finance or some other salaried office work, the sky isn’t falling, we’re doing well. but we’re also a minority of Americans. Walk through towns & small cities in Indiana, Kansas
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by ritchiea 6y ago
But you can get good studio monitoring headphones for less than half $550.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
And Elon Musk is not much of a philanthropist that I am aware of but is a guy who claims to care about the future of humanity so he builds luxury cars & rockets instead of doing things for humans alive today with difficult lives. Gates
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by ritchiea 6y ago
What has Elon Musk done for humanity? He got extremely wealthy from a payment processing website. Now he runs a company that makes luxury cars and another one that is or aims to be a global military arms logistical network [0]. If I had to
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Beyond it being "hard" to fight bloat, it's against the individual interests of most of the company. Let's say you have a job at Google or company X or wherever, you're a PM/dev/designer/manager/
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Is TTS actually useful for editing writing? I haven't tried TTS on my mac in years but my experience with TTS is it's very utilitarian. It will certainly speak the words you input but the best use of reading your own writing aloud
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I generally like this advice but also worry that unsaid number 3 is “only hire people without boundaries who will fully devote themselves to your company until they burn out.” I’d love to see more companies that give you a reasonable work l
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by ritchiea 6y ago
No good company wants to lose or alienate a valuable contributor, especially not a valuable technical contributor. If they tried to screw him then he’s lucky to be out. And if he is assessing the situation correctly then he’s asking the rig
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Wow we must be in separate Berlins because I see tons of JS backends. My impression is Javascript & Python are competing for most popular backend.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Related sentiment: what a sad state of affairs that an industry whose productivity is coupled with FOSS software, struggles to find solutions to support FOSS.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Vimeo?
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Maybe but I've reached out to open source maintainers to offer them contracting work focused on their library and they have pretty much unanimously replied that they are too busy. And we were willing to pay above market rates to work o

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