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by srpablo 11y ago
Don't burn out. Tell them, in very frank terms, about the technical debt and demand a reasonable timeline. If they give you pushback, tell them to do it themselves or fuck off. You don't have to use those words, but you may have t
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by srpablo 11y ago
Decades of highly-reproduced social study performed by professionals called a "myth" by a simplistic narrative 1-liner by anonymous commenter on HN. Cool.
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by srpablo 11y ago
Tastes in books varies wildly between developers: there are many on there that I wouldn't say helped me as much as others, but to each their own! With that in mind, I'd put a plug in for David Herman's _Effective JavaScript_.
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by srpablo 11y ago
> It is apparent that many societies unlearn how to get things done. Instead we learned to mourn things we can not right. We can go to the moon, perform fusion on atoms, but finding an arrangement where large pluralities of hard-working
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by srpablo 11y ago
> The industry is a lot healthier and more balanced than the OP article makes it out to be. I think that, for some who believe it is healthy (not necessarily you, but many others I speak to who make similar claims), the conclusion is arr
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by srpablo 12y ago
Reminds me of the 2009 Scheme Steering Committee Position Statement, they stated (correctly, imo) "the Scheme community has rarely missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity."[1] I think many of the design choices the author is
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by srpablo 12y ago
Reminds me a bit of Scribble http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/ Scribble isn't type-checked (though maybe it plays with Typed Racket?), but is similarly about creating documents that leverages the underlying pr
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by srpablo 12y ago
I disagree -- OP was just suggesting the person quoted doesn't understand or appreciate the scope of what income taxes (and many of the other 'evils' he espouses against) have provided for him and others. Like the article men
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by srpablo 12y ago
I also hate things that are made up. http://www.harkavagrant.com/?id=341 Most people who feel animosity to feminists are attacking a caricature of them that can't be said to meaningfully exist. It also usually involves
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by srpablo 12y ago
Missing Frog! https://github.com/greghendershott/frog Fun little list :D
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by srpablo 12y ago
The police, the parties involved, hell, even the courts have seen this video. Could they ALL be lying, and he's a perfectly innocent man!?!? Furthermore, it's not like it's particularly ambiguous: it's _117_ strikes over
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by srpablo 12y ago
I have no idea in this particular instance, one sensible option is that these comment threads are a space where many victims of abuse feel their accounts are dismissed and/or questioned. If you're coping with a trauma, it's n
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by srpablo 12y ago
Here's what you said, but with some context you missed: > If people don't want something to be linked to by a particular community of people who historically dismiss or question accounts of abuse, people who are perfectly happy
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by srpablo 13y ago
They are committed to this, he says so multiple times. Much of the piece is him acknowledging that there are systematic barriers in place that are discouraging many of the pool of "potentially best founders" from applying, and the
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by srpablo 13y ago
He mentions -multiple times- in the article that they wish to avoid this. I don't know what could have prompted you to write this comment if you read it, he says it more than once...
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by srpablo 13y ago
Piling on to other commenters: Modern Dance & Ballet. Most of the coveted, paid choreographer positions go to men, despite being a tiny fraction of the dancers.
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by srpablo 13y ago
Someone else already pointed out the irony of glamorizing hacker identity and "living close to the metal," but the contents of that tribute being un-indexable or inaccessible from a CLI. For me, it's more about accessibility
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by srpablo 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification, and the link :D
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by srpablo 13y ago
/pedant hat on Technically, the language does support exceptions. That said, they're in the "please never use this, ever." /pedant hat off The spirit of your comment is right, however -- the wonky code resulting fro
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by srpablo 13y ago
While I think there is plenty of doom and gloom that isn't entirely true, I think the picture you've painted is still a bit rosy. > korean cybersport is finally transitioning to SC2 Yes and no. Proleague finally switched from B
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by srpablo 13y ago
Adding on to what other's have said, I'll mention that while Go's concurrency features match Erlang's concurrency primitives pretty closely (`go routine()` compared to `spawn(fun routine/0)`, Go channels compared to
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by srpablo 14y ago
Ugh, can we please mention this was authored by MG Siegler in the title so I know not to click it? I find his work awful and do my part by not visiting his site or reading his published articles, but it's hard to do when you don't know it's