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by rnd33 7y ago
The number of confirmed cases in South Korea is flattening out at around 8,200 people out of a population of 52 million (0,016 %), China is flattening out at 81,000 cases (0,006 % of the whole population). Is it really reasonable to assume
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by rnd33 7y ago
One thing I can't shake, and it appears already in the second sentence of the quoted letters by Seneca: "Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest
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by rnd33 7y ago
Honestly, I'm more concerned that people are blinded by an ignorance of history. If people truly think the average human life was better or 'not that bad' 200+ years ago I don't know what to say. Sure some things are get
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by rnd33 7y ago
I think the main point I got from Factfullness was not that "the world is getting better stop being so pessimistic", but rather that we are biologically wired to seek bad news and we will automatically try to find the bad angle in
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by rnd33 7y ago
On the coworker relationship question, why can't you just answer something like: "Anywhere from cordial professionalism to best friends who do everything together, it depends on who I 'click' with." I mean people ar
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by rnd33 8y ago
> It ends exactly where you decide it does. > Otherwise, you are simply doing an entrepreneur's job for an employee's salary... Thank you... I'm beginning to realize this but it's still sort of a professional ident
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by rnd33 8y ago
> You are not paid to write code [...] The only thing that somebody cares about is how much does your software cost and how much revenue it generates. I have a real trouble with this sentiment, and it is repeated often here on HackerNews
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by rnd33 9y ago
> "Yes, it's just an API change, but it requires 50 new test cases and impacts 120 existing test cases", "See, that's exactly why we shouldn't write any/so many tests!" - A product owner I know...
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by rnd33 9y ago
> I was referring to men coming up with the idea and colluding over a millennia. How do you reconcile with the fact that there are hundreds of texts and stories that have selectively excluded by human hands to create what we today call t
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by rnd33 9y ago
> The idea of an "Old Testament God" and "New Testament God" is rejected by all the Jews and Christians I know. How many Jews and Christians do you know? How many theologians do you know? I could just as easily state
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by rnd33 9y ago
Definitely agree, firing someone for performance reasons is so rare that unless the person is generally disliked, and generally thought to be really bad at his/her job morale will take a huge hit.
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by rnd33 9y ago
In many places the 'best sushi' is not even legal. For example, EU regulations state that fish to be consumed raw must have been deep frozen (-20 C or lower) for at least 24 hours prior to consumption, to kill any potential parasi
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by rnd33 9y ago
Yeah, it's almost as if the minicab drivers have neither the time (as in money to quit work for a year) or the skills to create something like Uber. I'm sure lots of them have had the idea, but an idea is worthless if you can&#x27
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by rnd33 9y ago
Well it's branding, and I get the feeling branding is pretty important to the HN crowd.
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by rnd33 9y ago
There's seems to be some kind of American myth that "at will"-employment is for the benefit of the employee, or in the very least of equal benefit to both parties. That may be true for educated middle to upper class professio
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by rnd33 9y ago
Whether it's ridiculous or not is a matter of perspective. In Europe the minimum is 1-3 months, though there's often a trial period where the obligated notice is 1 week or less. In practice though the employee/employer are fr
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by rnd33 9y ago
True, but regardless of whether you think that is a good or bad thing it's part of the value of a college degree, and should be included in your calculation when you decide if college is worth it. I've seen the insecurity of some
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by rnd33 10y ago
Why does he specifically say "non-trivial" defects? The probability of any defect surely increases with code size?
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by rnd33 12y ago
It all depends on what they asked for. Did they ask for an example of how to structure "real"-sized web-application? Because otherwise this could have been seen as a bit of overkill for something where perhaps a hundred lines of J
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by rnd33 12y ago
Then hopefully you would state that explicitly before-hand no? This guess work from the interviewee's side is what makes many of these interview code problems so completely arbitrary.
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by rnd33 12y ago
How is 50k lines of build declarations even possible?
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by rnd33 13y ago
Agreed, and what exactly is the baggage traditionally associated with functions and scope that you avoid by using a function expression?
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by rnd33 13y ago
> Are there any other subtle hoisting consequences to consider? I can't think of any, other than consequences from the hoisting such as making the order of the variable declarations important (whereas it's not important if they
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by rnd33 13y ago
I think I've been unclear. When I say function definition I'm referring to this: function foo() { console.log('bar'); } And when referring to a function expression I'm talking about this: va
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by rnd33 13y ago
Yes, a function definition is hoisted too but its implementation is always hoisted together with its declaration, preventing some bugs caused by variable hoisting. I made an example here: http://pastebin.com/2nS9EDPb (Pleas
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by rnd33 13y ago
Sure, but the solution should not be "semicolon everywhere" but rather "semicolon where necessary", where necessary also includes places that can produce ambiguities depending on the code directly following (or after min
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by rnd33 13y ago
Regarding function declarations, it considers function declarations to be an antipattern and advises you to instead use function expressions at all times ( https://github.com/shichuan/javascript-patterns/blob/m
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by rnd33 13y ago
I don't understand this attitude. There must be lots of great companies to work at where the interview process is a bit flawed and the questions a bit unrealistic. Why let that stop you? Why handicap yourself when you can just learn it
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by rnd33 13y ago
And people in America stating that healthcare is not free is a rant-trigger for me. Everyone here knows that it's not "free" but subsidised by taxes. That's what "free" means when talking about healthcare, free
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by rnd33 13y ago
Because time has a direction (for some reason it doesn't seem possible to go backwards though), and a value. I can't think of similar analogies for 'thought' that makes it fit with the other 3 room dimensions.

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