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by sidlls 5y ago
I have a different view. I saw a lot of friends lose their fathers and mothers to the system thanks to dirty cops. Being white in a poor (understatement) neighborhood was an enlightening experience. The police are very powerful voices in lo
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by sidlls 5y ago
The play store provides basically no value at all, not even the marginal value Apple's App Store provides.
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by sidlls 5y ago
It is incredibly difficult to make access to prostitution easier without causing aftershocks among other social phenomena. (Trafficking, Abuse, Laundering) Historically, making something legal tends to reduce illicit behaviors like traf
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by sidlls 5y ago
Physics isn't simple. It took (literally) thousands of years of study by very smart people to get to the point where what we call "intuition" about the physical world is what it is. And, as any physicist who paid attention in
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by sidlls 5y ago
Unmarried, childless, 20-something me would have loved nothing more than to have that kind of isolation. I love my family, but I could very easily picture myself not interacting directly with people and being very happy.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Best for whom? Based on what evidence? Every time I see "free market" honestly I roll my eyes a little. There really aren't any truly free markets in the first place; in the second, the more free, the generally less efficient
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by sidlls 5y ago
Most people never retain much of anything past that anyway, in my experience. I’d guesstimate that fewer than 20% of undergraduate school graduates are actually well educated in any meaningful sense of the term.
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by sidlls 5y ago
It doesn't work like that: the individual is engaged in an activity in a society, not on an island alone. If an activity would typically be considered a work for compensation by society's norms, it's not reasonable to call it
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by sidlls 5y ago
If one is engaged in an activity that is typically compensated (e.g. software development for others' use), then it's not a hobby. It's unpaid labor.
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by sidlls 5y ago
"[I]f your tests are ugly, its a sign your code is ugly" is a bit tautological, and highly subjective besides. I consider the 50-line function to be "less ugly" than the same function butchered for "testability&quot
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by sidlls 5y ago
How would this even work? At best you might get a set of class/function stubs with some minimal logic. At worst what you'd have is a compiler that is actually a complicated, truly AGI brain, which could produce some truly awful co
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by sidlls 5y ago
Development methodologies exist to solve product development problems, not the product problems. In that sense, an organization that adopts TDD necessarily focuses on the tests (as part of the development process), by definition. The proble
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by sidlls 5y ago
I take the opposite view. Code developed with TDD tends to be overly complicated and inefficient, and the test suites themselves are often bizarre labyrinthian hellscapes of mocks, facades, and workarounds. "They just did it wrong, the
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by sidlls 5y ago
On the other hand, with TDD we often end up with code that has been butchered in the name of "testability," and which is both less efficient and more complex than necessary.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Yeah, "Clean Code" is pretty terrible, and a number of practices promoted within aren't very well substantiated in practice. I don't think he should be promoted in software circles, either.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Reminds me of old DOS-based C++ editors I used way back in undergrad. Borland C++ being one of these. Except smoother/nicer looking.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Tu quoque arguments are rather poor, really.
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by sidlls 5y ago
In the HN bubble, sure.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Please don't abuse the phrase "standing on the shoulders of giants." It's the difference between riffing off a work of art to produce something novel versus plagiarism. What China does is the latter, not the former. It&#
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by sidlls 5y ago
Sarcasm doesn't make a poor point better.
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by sidlls 5y ago
That's quite contrived in my opinion. How can people uploaded into a simulation maintain that level of control in the physical world for any durable period?
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by sidlls 5y ago
That's almost as poor a signal as FAANG's hazing rituals. It sends a certain signal, too. That signal, to me, isn't "this person's company really supports open source!" The signal is, "we want to select de
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by sidlls 5y ago
You’re mistaking appearances for reality. The rhetoric is different today, but the substance isn’t much different from 20 or even 30 years ago.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Having an au pair puts one firmly above the middle-class. Not necessarily rich, but certainly flirting with "affluent."
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by sidlls 5y ago
It's a matter of frequency, opportunity, and deterrence. Do you have statistics to compare, or are you just making conjecture? It's fairly straightforward to go after Airbnb: put some teeth behind the regulations with respect to e
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by sidlls 5y ago
> one party is steadfastly committed to keeping it that way, and the other party only vaguely recognizes how big of a problem it is. Not quite: the other party is committed to keeping it that way, too, but is also content to let the firs
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by sidlls 5y ago
No, a healthy democracy only exists with complete transparency and access throughout the whole process. That means a public counting of paper ballots--no mail-ins, no electronic ballots, etc. Other large democracies manage to do it this way
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by sidlls 5y ago
Beneficial to whom?
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by sidlls 5y ago
I got mine honestly: a good ol' fashioned tech IPO. Soon as I cash out the rest of my unvested shares (next year or so), I'll definitely consider "cashing out." Why bother working for $400k - $500k per year total compens
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by sidlls 5y ago
"Shitty proxy" as in "little to no demonstrable correlation whatsoever." Willingness to grind/memorize is about as poor a measure of intellectual ability as one can get. It does show some level of interest/dili

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