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by tharne 5y ago
This is good advice, except....A lot of recruiters and managers aren't terribly focused on results and the quality of software. They often want to see a resume that looks like a word cloud of tech trends and buzzwords. A lot of develop
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by tharne 5y ago
Stallman's predictions would have been impressive had he made them even 15 years ago. But the fact that he was taking about these things back in the eighties when few people even owned computers is absolutely mind blowing. People spend
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by tharne 5y ago
What's going on with Australia these days? I feel like every time I read about some wildly excessive overreach around privacy, it's coming out of Australia. Granted, I'm American and we have our own problems regarding privacy
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by tharne 5y ago
It's not an either/or, both of these angles are extremely important.
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by tharne 5y ago
It's not a question of a tax on the rich vs. a tax on the poor, it's a tax on savers to benefit borrowers and spenders. You're forcing the responsible to subsidize the irresponsible. Donald Trump loves low interest rates fo
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by tharne 5y ago
> The difference is that for the first time in a long time they can’t make enough from deposits to cover that cost. Yes, and the reason they can't make enough is because central banks are pushing down interest rates in order to nudg
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by tharne 5y ago
Also, FDIC was designed for everyday folks, not wealthy families or large investors. Exceedingly few people have that much cash on hand. Wealthy people opening multiple accounts to stay under the FDIC limit is just an example of folks findi
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by tharne 5y ago
"Negative interest rate" is such an Orwellian term. Let's just call it what it is, the government penalizing you for not spending your own money as fast as they think you ought to.
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by tharne 5y ago
To echo another commenter - What's stopping you? OpenBSD is super easy to install and set up, provided you do a little homework and make sure your hardware is supported. I have it running on an old think pad and it's a great daily
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by tharne 5y ago
Ironic that the Atlantic of all places is publishing this. While their general assessment is correct, they've certainly done their part in feeding the outrage mob. Over the years their reporting has gotten less and less nuanced and sig
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by tharne 5y ago
That talk should be at the top of every programmer's list. At the risk of sounding cliché, it actually will change how you think about program design.
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by tharne 5y ago
> Shipping a Python application is an exercise in itself I love programming in python, so long as I don't have to ship it. That part is painful enough that it's worth considering other languages to avoid that headache alone.
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by tharne 5y ago
> I don't buy into the argument that if those people limited their travel and consumption then all of the sudden the non-believers will start believing. Maybe it would convince folks, maybe it wouldn't, but you'd have a ch
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by tharne 5y ago
> Where is your ire for the dozens of Republican congressmen who don't believe climate change is real or believe the Christian end times will happen first? Oh, it's there, believe me. Just wasn't part of that particular po
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by tharne 5y ago
> The biggest challenge in climate change (for example) is that it's simply happening on too long a timescale for the average person to pay much attention to it. I disagree. This may be a problem, but I think the bigger problem is
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by tharne 5y ago
There's also the "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM" principle at work here. AWS is a safe choice that no one will question you on later, even if it's not the right choice or the best one.
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by tharne 5y ago
Fair enough. If it's strictly either/or and your interest is in getting exposure to Functional Programming, then go with Scala for sure.
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by tharne 5y ago
If you're looking to stay in the world of JVM and want something functional, enjoyable, and a little different, check out Clojure.
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by tharne 5y ago
Agreed. This is an anti-trust issue, not a strategy problem for small businesseses to figure out a solution to. What's the solution? The same one used on Standard Oil.
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by tharne 5y ago
There's some truth to that, but I don't think better communication would really change anything, beyond a few minor victories here and there. So much of the fetishization of everything "new" comes from a combination of w
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by tharne 5y ago
Oh c'mon. There are clearly languages where the median intelligence of the community members is higher than others -- I'm not a Haskell fan myself, but I have to concede that the community around Haskell is very obviously comprise
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by tharne 5y ago
I think this is also why a lot of older programmers (or even older workers in general) get mistakenly labelled as "resistant to change". It's not that we're unwilling to learn new things, quite the contrary. It's th
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by tharne 5y ago
I dislike these mega-platforms like Airbnb and Uber as much as the next guy or gal, but asking them to change is silly. Regardless of how much we try to tame these beasts nothing can change the fact that any relationship they're in is
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by tharne 5y ago
Great work! and keep going, there are more of us out there than you think. It might feel like you're tilting at windmills most of the time, but each one of us that does this makes it a little easier for the next person who wants to rec
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by tharne 5y ago
> I consider emacs-cider [2] to provide the best Clojure development experience. This is what got me into Emacs in the first place. I kept hearing that Emacs was far and away the best Clojure editor. I resisted for a while, but when I f
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by tharne 5y ago
I think this is the future of emacs -- distributions/configs. I'm doom emacs user, and I'm very happy with it. It's an easy and pleasant transition for vim users and it works well out of the box, while still giving you t
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by tharne 5y ago
This "show me data" line works well in debates, but not in the real world. You often don't have the time or ability to wait for data to roll in, do a study, have it peer reviewed, and then make a decision. In real life you co
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by tharne 5y ago
The kids weren't in danger, that appears to be changing very quickly with the new variant. Let's not be like George W. Bush standing on the aircraft carrier saying "mission accomplished", when we're still in the mid
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by tharne 5y ago
I'd venture that in this day and age, the average person has more respect for maids than for reporters. While being a maid may not be a great job, it does actually benefit other people, and folks would miss maids if they all quit tomor
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by tharne 5y ago
> If medical boot camps are as effective as Javascript boot camps... you may want to wait a while before exposing yourself to other people's germs. This line made me both laugh and cry a little.

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