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by steego 9y ago
In some countries, simply belonging to the political party not in power is reason enough.
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by steego 9y ago
Where is Bill wrong? Many cryptocurrencies are well-tested vehicles for laundering money and conducting illicit business. Also, the speculative wave around ICOs does introduce volatility and jeopardize long-term value. Speculative wave
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by steego 9y ago
Good for this guy. I've never been a 9-5 developer because I'm not a great developer who can get everything done between 9-5. I've always found I have to put more hours in just so I can get stuff done. If you can do it, do
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by steego 9y ago
> And I've noticed many smart leaders who thought they were much smarter than they actually were, and didn't need to listen to others' advice, leading to some very poor decisions. There's a difference between smart pe
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by steego 9y ago
> Wait until these kids start families of their own Maybe they won't. I've talked about this with my wife, and I think we both concluded that cost of living played a subconscious role in my wife deciding not to have kids. Ther
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by steego 9y ago
You don't have to commit to a big up-front effort. You can take an incremental approach and add type annotations as you need them. Also, I'm not sure how adding type annotations results in over-engineered solutions. Types are ju
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by steego 9y ago
> Also, "Function" would be inaccurate because they are not mathematical functions but procedures or "subroutines" (the "standard" word in the middle of the seventies). From the paper: "Each word wi de
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by steego 9y ago
The question isn't if cryptocurrencies are valuable and represent real innovation. The question is if the current valuation of crypto currencies is strangling their ability to innovate. One reason could be the high valuations are crea
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by steego 9y ago
> Does every single human endeavor really need to make a profit for someone? No, but endeavors that are profitable tend to be more self-sustaining and less fragile and less susceptible to the grace of politicians and special interests. N
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by steego 9y ago
> Cloud compute is a commodity, even one of the major things sold by internet Wal-Mart. Is that really where Microsoft wants to go? If you think the direction of cloud computing is heading towards commodification, then it's very cle
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by steego 9y ago
Are you asking how they're going to prioritize manufacturing a car with huge margins over the low margin car? I guess we'll never know.
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by steego 9y ago
> On the other hand when things blow up, it is really nice to have a stack backtrace to help debug why it blew up. But a stack backtrace can't include stack frames that were optimized away. Which makes it far harder to figure out wh
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by steego 9y ago
It's exporting the function with the name unicode name "(heart character here)" let (heart) x y = x + " loves " + y EDIT: I guess Hacker News doesn't support unicode characters. (Not a bad thing)
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by steego 9y ago
I've noticed that overly excited articles are tend to be nonsense until they're finally true. I know that sounds like tautological nonsense, but the trick comes down to predicting when these things will become real rather than if
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by steego 9y ago
Much like the old school surgeon, he hops on the production server and types very quickly to minimize website downtime. "Time Me, Gentlemen!" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/10/t
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by steego 9y ago
You need to seriously stop wasting time talking about this on HN and learn you some basic git. https://try.github.io/ It's not hard. It's not like you're computer illiterate and don't know how to progra
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by steego 9y ago
I wanted to echo this. Fowler should not be lumped in with the other guys for his Refactoring book alone. Not only is it a really good guide that helps programmers understand how to rigorously make incremental, non-breaking changes. It a
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by steego 9y ago
> If anything, Hillel's article pushes a bit far (understandably) in the other direction, hinting that a failure of discipline is so inevitable as to be a waste of time to fight against. I think you're mischaracterizing Hillel
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by steego 9y ago
For their own sake, I hope the team gives this question attention and respect. What sets Amazon apart from many other companies is their reputation for relentless customer service. Customers pay close attention to the quality of answer or
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by steego 9y ago
How is this law supposed to help with this situation? Summarize what you think this law is preventing in your words and we can compare it to what the law actually says.
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by steego 9y ago
This. I don't understand why more companies don't copy university libraries and create a mix of spaces for different tasks. Sometimes you want small collaborative rooms, sometimes you want a quiet cubicle.
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by steego 9y ago
In a larger project, communication and transparency are managed by moving people into rooms that are optimized for focused collaboration. You don't put everybody in the same room so people have to expend energy to tune people out they&
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by steego 9y ago
Can you expand on how this law is supposed to help but doesn't?
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by steego 9y ago
Good article. I hope this article inspires more people to come up with clever solutions that help bridge the gap with kids and coding. It's easy for most of us to discount the barriers of syntax because it's so familiar to us, b
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by steego 9y ago
> Yeah because lower class women do much better compared to lower class men. The study is flawed. Are you saying the study is flawed because women got more hires in this context and that doesn't reflect the larger aggregate trends?
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by steego 9y ago
Who's to say Pichai hasn't used data? I think you may be presuming too much. If one thing is true, there's plenty of data to demonstrate non-merit based discrimination. For example, studies that send out the same resume wit
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by steego 9y ago
I realize you're very busy and can't be bothered to support your claims, but you should actually try to demonstrate some knowledge rather than countering with the equivalent of, "but I'm really really certain."
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by steego 9y ago
Let's qualify it by posting a link which demonstrates gender bias when people read the same resume with a different name. http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2014/why-does-john-get-stem-... This is hardly the onl
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by steego 9y ago
I would argue that F# is a better business programming language for a lot of reasons. First, the type system is great when it comes to modeling the problem and communicating that model with non-technical project managers because writing goo
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by steego 9y ago
> As de Toqueville predicted over two centuries ago, democracy will end by everyone voting themselves pay raises until the economy is wrecked, then we'll start to blame and kill each other over it. You made some good points about th

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