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by sidlls 4y ago
Eh, maybe. But when the argument itself is a bit of an ad hominem what is one left with? The usual implication of the “argument” is that if one doesn’t think FP is all that great, it’s because they don’t understand it (and, usually, that
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by sidlls 4y ago
"Instead, the most intelligent coders I knew tended to take it up; the people most passionate about writing good code." Ah, yes, the most intelligent people tended to take it up, therefore if I take it up I, too, am intelligent. T
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by sidlls 4y ago
You're right: it was the next line after Nexus, Pixel, that I had. I edited my original comment.
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by sidlls 4y ago
For context: I'd been a "linux person" since undergrad (mid-90s). I picked up a really early Android model after my BlackBerry expired. I have almost the exact opposite experience as you describe: I switched from Android to i
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by sidlls 4y ago
Yes, it's fair to say SpaceX has done innovative work. It's not fair to compare the cost of something that is an incremental improvement on a huge body of engineering knowledge to what NASA is doing, here. And this comparison alw
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by sidlls 4y ago
Just a little reminder: Space X is leveraging decades of research and billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars put into this industry already. It didn’t start from scratch as some scrappy upstart that is now showing some sloppy, bloated g
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by sidlls 4y ago
This isn’t exactly it, but roughly: Make a vector space with primes as a basis (instead of “x, y, z,…” use “2, 3, 5, …”). For a number, find its prime factors. Make a vector and set elements corresponding to the prime factors of the numbe
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by sidlls 4y ago
They compose differently and non-trivial projects still benefit from build tooling even with go.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Make still helps with go, if for no other reason than to simply provide shortcuts (e.g. `make test` instead of the `go test` command with all its options one has to type out. The Makefiles are generally quite simple, though.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Clubs (activities or nightclubs), online networks, out-and-about (stores), from their existing friends network, etc.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Other developed nations have no problem providing same-day (or near) tallies of all votes. The fact that it can take weeks to get a complete tally is a symptom of huge dysfunction.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Those tweets weren’t constructive criticism, they were the kind of insults petty, insecure people hurl at others to inflate their own egos and assert dominance.
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by sidlls 4y ago
The two are married in my mind. Proper error handling with something that doesn't make my wrists ache just thinking about it falls out handily when combined with sum types.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Yup. Go desperately needs a sum type with compiler-enforced matching on all possible cases. And errors need to be such a type. Long before Rust I used to implement this (to the extent possible) with templates in C++ when I'd start work
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by sidlls 4y ago
Depends on the code base, as usual, and the quality of the development practices the code was written in. Same as go's error handling, actually.
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by sidlls 4y ago
emacs has plenty of plug-ins that turn it into an IDE. For people who are already comfortable with it, these tools are great. I’m more productive in it than with “modern” tools. For newcomers the learning curve is going to be steeper. I’d r
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by sidlls 4y ago
> Unless you have a very particular background, I'm suspicious that you can actually follow the frontier of that argument. More likely, you're getting the ELI5 explanation. People who actually understand complex things are able
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by sidlls 4y ago
That's not any better, really. If you know what it's like to be impoverished (and I certainly do), it's very easy to commiserate with people who experience a substantial loss of means.
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by sidlls 4y ago
> FP people are not bullying you, or shoving anything down your throat. Have you ever worked with a FP evangelist? Every single experience I've had has been with a person who simply won't take "no" for an answer. The
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by sidlls 4y ago
> The fact is that many employers don't actually know what they would be willing to pay someone. Until they have met them, assessed them, heard what they salary target is and weighed it up against their skills and experience and cal
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by sidlls 4y ago
Yes, the fact that others are impoverished certainly justifies celebrating anything that helps those who aren’t join their ranks. How spiteful.
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by sidlls 4y ago
On the other hand it seems one method is more likely than the other, given the legal implications of each.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Half that compensation is in equity grants. Google generates millions of dollars in revenue per employee. The real question is why are Google’s salaries so low? The answer is the same as it is for other jobs: because the labor market isn’t
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by sidlls 4y ago
You’ll have people say that there are good quality videos on TikTok and that you just have to spend a small amount of time training their AI to show you what you want to see. I’m unconvinced by arguments that TikTok’s AI is good. I think in
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by sidlls 4y ago
I was being tongue in cheek. My generation literally brought us all the modern things we enjoy/loathe today. There isn’t a single aspect of life today that Gen X did not have an outsized impact in creating. Just like the silent generat
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by sidlls 4y ago
Gen X didn’t fail. We quiet quit. On purpose.
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by sidlls 4y ago
Nice Polite Republicans is hardly left wing. At best they’re right of center. It’s hard for me to take seriously anyone who suggests any major news media operation in the US is “left-wing”. This country doesn’t have a big or strong enough “
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by sidlls 4y ago
High availability doesn’t require constant in-person vigilance. And on-call rotations should be brief: 1-2 weeks every quarter or so for any reasonably sized team. Even that is objectionable: the company should have dedicated SRE staff that
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by sidlls 4y ago
Regardless, a video is poor medium to communicate the idea. Publish at least a summary with actual work shown, or the video is just useless self-promotional fluff
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by sidlls 4y ago
Here’s an example of train commuter fares in the Bay Area: https://www.caltrain.com/fares . Travel from San Mateo to San Francisco (3 zones, around 20 miles) is $200/month. That’s the discounted fare for a ticket. It do

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