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by serve_yay 11y ago
A good writeup, though I don't agree with the statement about web devs and browser makers -- we read the web too, perhaps more than anyone! :) It's possible to want to make the platform more powerful and not like some of the way
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by serve_yay 11y ago
By that logic it's more like an argument for disabling JS entirely - there is nothing about this that's specific to ads, and the reporter has speculated that it was placed by an attacker and only disguised as an ad.
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by serve_yay 11y ago
We have a different form of redistribution, a non-socialist one, a crappy one that does not actually help citizens. When capitalists screw up, as in the economic crash of the late 2000s, it is acceptable to give them huge sums of capital in
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by serve_yay 11y ago
I think that sounds backwards. People decide whether they want to have babies and seek out an employer whose environment works well with that life choice. So if you as an employer see parents as typically older (therefore more experienced)
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by serve_yay 11y ago
Inner functions and function arguments have function scope anyway, so it's not just about `var`. From the acceptance of ES6 forward, JS devs (and devs of whatever languages consider themselves to be a superset of JS) need to accept tha
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by serve_yay 11y ago
Mm hmm.
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by serve_yay 11y ago
Apple makes things that "do more" than their products of old, and we expect them to do more than devices past. The combination of features plus our expectation that all our devices be aware of what is happening on the others at al
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by serve_yay 11y ago
Yeah, having your version numbers mean something? What'll those wacky JS hipsters come up with next?!
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by serve_yay 11y ago
Yeah, same here, I don't see how avoiding Pg (or other "real" RDBMS) makes things easier.
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by serve_yay 11y ago
So much fun to read. Great post, thank you.
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by serve_yay 11y ago
I agree. Bite the bullet and learn to work with Pg in your dev environment. The dev ergonomics aren't worth all the other stuff listed here. Think about all the time you'll spend reasoning about the differences between the two. Th
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by serve_yay 11y ago
I don't care if VCs waste their money like idiots. Let them. Plus, the sad part isn't that they wasted $10 million on this worthless "idea", it's that $10 million is probably nothing to them.
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by serve_yay 11y ago
http://zedshaw.com/archive/programmers-need-to-learn-statist...
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by serve_yay 11y ago
> Programmers typically don't like politics and tend to argue using technical language. But that doesn't make politics go away, it just makes it subconscious. In fact, I am tired of people pushing their political agenda under t
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by serve_yay 11y ago
When anyone can publish something that goes viral, what is the difference?
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by serve_yay 11y ago
So it's a currency, a contract system, a new form of law, a distributed computing system... I think I need to lie down. These explainers I keep reading are not helping. Can anyone tell me whether this is some giant boondoggle circleje
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by serve_yay 11y ago
Hmm, I feel like such a revelation would break down fairly quickly. What happens when you check equality somewhere, or add two numbers? It's not only parens everywhere (although that is quite the eyesore), other things like prefix nota
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by serve_yay 11y ago
A while back I enjoyed going through this, also allows you to get a feel without futzing around with tools: http://clojurescriptkoans.com
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by serve_yay 11y ago
Yeah, and you can't arrest, try and convict people either. Or ratify treaties.
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by serve_yay 11y ago
The reaction to what seems like an unalloyed good are dismaying.
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by serve_yay 11y ago
We are insane.
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by serve_yay 11y ago
I get that leadership was a role he ended up in and not one he wanted. But, that quote above sounds to me like exactly what a leader is?
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by serve_yay 11y ago
I wish every HN link had a separate comments section where people bitch about the page the news was served on.
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by serve_yay 11y ago
Sucks when the free market doesn't work out in your favor, eh.
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by serve_yay 11y ago
It's kind of crazy to me that its value even needs to be argued for. But then again, I use it every single day.
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by serve_yay 11y ago
Not mentioned: read a book
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by serve_yay 11y ago
Do this instead of white boarding or other coding during the interview. Please.
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by serve_yay 11y ago
You learn to code that way or you learn to code this way, either way you're gonna pay the piper.
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by serve_yay 11y ago
"It is probably more illuminating to go a little bit further back, to the Middle Ages. One of its characteristics was that 'reasoning by analogy' was rampant; another characteristic was almost total intellectual stagnation, a
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by serve_yay 11y ago
You won't catch me defending open offices, but they're even worse when they're full and the meeting rooms are booked all the time. I even frequently can't attend a standup or other meeting because someone is in the room

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