samhw

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by samhw 4y ago
Parity is not identity (nor equivalent to it, lol). The two jobs are importantly equal in their difficulty and (more directly) their value, and not - among the many other differences - the number of people they manage. This thinking is why
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by samhw 4y ago
Hell, GitHub does that to an extent, with the "type the name of this repository to delete it" prompts. Typing the name of the repository isn't exactly perfect, but it's an interesting direction.
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by samhw 4y ago
> Thus they imply that a few cells (under some state laws this would be from the moment of fertilization) have rights that supersede (or at least conflict) with an actual person's right to have their liberty protected from the State
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by samhw 4y ago
Haha, yup, that's what I was quoting in my comment ("just use curlftpfs!").
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by samhw 4y ago
> Set the wrong incentives, get the wrong behaviors. I don't mean this as a slight at your comment - rather at the shockingness of the reality that your comment (really) needed to be said - but isn't this blatantly implied by
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by samhw 4y ago
Totally agree with this. I'm also an advocate for giving people substantial pay rises every year. It sounds profligate, but the alternative is that people leave for the so-notorious-as-not-to-merit-explaining pay bump one gets from swi
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by samhw 4y ago
Some people think that if they look down hard enough at someone else, they can lift themselves up. Especially if that 'someone else' is someone clearly high-status by an agreed standard (which 'senior software engineer at Goo
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by samhw 4y ago
If the open source implementation is equally good, I'm sure people will use that instead of Tailscale. That Tailscale exists makes me suspect that the open source implementation - as is usually the case with these "just use curlft
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by samhw 4y ago
I dunno, but you ought to figure it out (for your business) before you make that offer!
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by samhw 4y ago
Then don't use that software. If you're right, software made with it will be worse - if even producible - and it won't take off. I'm sorry, but the ship has sailed: it is already possible to create bad software. The Hare
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by samhw 4y ago
> for code that’s supposed to be used in production it’s useless Then ... don't use it. Others can use it and see what they learn from it, or even whether they find it productive to build stuff with. Even Brainfuck and Malbolge have
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by samhw 4y ago
> The vast majority of people I’ve seen using neopronouns, or “it” or “they” pronouns (either exclusively or alternatively with classical gendered pronouns, e.g., “she/they”) have nonbinary gender identity or agender identity, and t
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by samhw 4y ago
What they are describing is literally the objective objectives of a company's management. It's not some fluffy 'cultural values' thing that changes based on what the company's philosophy is. I've held exec posi
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by samhw 4y ago
Their comment is perfectly reasonable and measured. I don't think anything in it is 'uncalled for'. Your own comment is a confusingly ironically ill-tempered response.
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by samhw 4y ago
'Nowadays' as opposed to ... 7 hours ago?
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by samhw 4y ago
Honestly, there's no point interacting with these people. Your comment was a perfectly fine chatty observation about the name of the article. 99.9% of people here aren't robots annoyed at any hint of spontaneity - most of us appr
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by samhw 4y ago
What is that URL? Does that lead to an account cancellation flow? I'm bemused that Netflix would make that so straightforward, and go-viral-able. (Also, come on - nothing says 'allyship' like trying to ruin a black guy's
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by samhw 4y ago
> That’s definitely not how errors work in Go, either in theory or practice. Sorry, I originally had a footnote after that, which I mistakenly removed: something to the effect that "yes, I realise errors are actually nullable struc
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by samhw 4y ago
"Language wars are silly" doesn't mean that only negative views are silly, and that we should all be blindly positive about every language. Evaluating our tools properly is a good and desirable thing to do.
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by samhw 4y ago
This is an extreme intellectualisation of Go's error handling, which is literally just "errors are nullable strings returned by functions, and you have to check for them"[0]. I can't see where Go has learned from anyt
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by samhw 4y ago
Hey, I’m not the OP and I’m not in that particular position, but I wanted to say I really appreciated reading your comment. It’s rare in this thread to see a comment from someone who’s admittedly unhappy with their current position, but sti
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by samhw 4y ago
> In the end, the person writing the code is just a cog in the machine. I mean, I hate to break it to you, but everyone is a cog in the machine. The person running the company is a cog in the machine. The person running the country i
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by samhw 4y ago
Hey, I’m sorry you have to read comments like that. That was a dickish thing to say. You were open and honest about your feelings (in this case, that you were more diligent and intelligent than your coworker and yet made the wrong choice an
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by samhw 4y ago
I’m disposed to liken it to an anytime algorithm ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anytime_algorithm ). You want your projects to be as ‘anytime’ as possible, IMHOBOLHE. I think that’s what your comment is driving at: th
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by samhw 4y ago
> both are equally supported conclusions Yes, I would agree with this. In other words, the word ‘echo’ entails nothing at all about whether it refers to prompted or unprompted speech (which of course it doesn’t ). That’s precisely why t
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by samhw 4y ago
Yeah, that sounds very similar to me. I’m the opposite in terms of spending - I’ll naturally default to spending my income, rather than defaulting to not spending – but that only holds up to about £100k, at which point it goes beyond my cap
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by samhw 4y ago
Yeah, I should have clarified that I don’t consider that non-standard. Well, it’s semi-standard, I suppose. But yeah, I had in mind the ones more like ‘xe’ and ‘xer’.
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by samhw 4y ago
Also, speaking personally as someone doing £180k when I know my market salary is at most two thirds of that: I don't really spend the money, because I never want to be pinioned to my job, or to even feel like I'm locked into my
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by samhw 4y ago
I think there's a difference between 'in the standard library' and 'in the language ', though. They seem to be praising Go for doing the latter. And the technical language in which it was expressed gave me to think
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by samhw 4y ago
Sorry, that's true, I didn't mean that literally no trans people (or gay people, black people, etc) use non-standard pronouns. I meant that it has nothing to do with their being gay or trans. Certainly some people may happen to be

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