thesmallestcat

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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
> the controversy arising Could you be more specific? Are you talking about a Hacker News thread or something else?
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
You shouldn't have replied. You and the other guy are both out of your gourds, and you don't understand how crazy you look.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
I sort of doubt that. In practice, it seems to incentivize influencing policy to drive up healthcare costs, with little regard for patient outcomes.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Before the tire fire that is rvm became "standard", it was normal to just download the version you needed and build it from source. There's nothing forcing us to use crappy, obscure tools like rvm and rbenv. And I agree with
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Forget public healthcare, I'd gladly live in Canada for this protection!
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Great advice! I'd venture that managing large files is an unsolved problem. It's a hack in most version control systems, and uploading/downloading files from a host, even S3, is a slow, serial process. Same for checksumming.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Static website generators.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
> Traditionally, there are two ways to study a page like this: > 1. Type out every line of code > 2. Copy+paste the code from their website, maybe play around and make small changes Um... wut? How about: 3. Read the code. Think. If
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
uMatrix is your friend.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
I think it's sort of like first-class flying. There's no logistical reason for not boarding the plane rear-to-front, but you can get people to pay for the privilege of being first, so why not? Non-Prime customers are second priori
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
It's destructive, and Amazon can get away with being a crap book store now. I've ordered many thousands of dollars worth of computing books from them over the years. In the past six months, and especially the past couple months, &
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
This is a known footgun of promises. But if you are using async/await, uncaught error in the promise chain is the same as uncaught error inline.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
As a fallback. I like LISPs as much as the next guy/gal, but editing the AST by default is too low-level. The importance of paredit is a language smell in my opinion, not something to aspire to.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
This is like saying running for exercise is a waste of time because you could be driving instead. It's not about knowing a particular sort algorithm. It's about the discipline of solving performance problems in the small. Knowing
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
They destroyed the XPI/XUL platform and thousands of hours of work that went into those extensions. Now Firefox is a much worse version of Chrome, no reason to use it except for dubious ideology preferring Mozilla. Sacrificing the one
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Smoke signals here, can't trust the postman either.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
There's a good chance somebody on the other end's going to run your program without really vetting it. Especially if you include a convenient "test runner." Not a bad attack vector, just get your alias past the first scr
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Any, really.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
That's a sad way to think about life. Back of the envelope math says I can be pretty happy with way less than that, different standards and all I suppose.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
I've had similar experience finding on-site work in a healthy market as I have as a remote worker. I don't think parent's advice is sound, claiming that software eng. is a dead-end path for most, with a five year fuse. Clearl
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Let us know how a passport.js hiring filter works out long-term.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Few if any of the 300 applicants were overqualified for that garbage opportunity. Can you describe on how they were overqualified? List a bunch of certs and techs? Good programmers aren't fighting over scraps for underpaid government p
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
I think there have even been studies that correlate all protein intake (regardless of source) inversely with longevity, so I try not to get too worked up about not having a meal with a lot of it. Beans, lentils, peanuts, etc. have a decent
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Protein is good, but not too much from meat: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27479196 > CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: > High animal protein intake was positively associated with cardiovascular mortality and high
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Shady gatherings in Ibiza, visits to BSDM clubs, and here I am rebasing commits.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Not only that, but [some film] last summer smashed box office records. Yes, it's the most popular film ever.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
This is exactly the attitude I'm talking about. Employees take risks too. Time has its own opportunity cost risk. and it's felt more by employees slaving away at company initiatives than by the ones who dream up those plans. If I&
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Most people aren't getting equity at all. Of those who get equity, it's meaningless. The lion's share of profits go to ownership or shareholders.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
I'm talking about uneven share of profits. Ownership takes it all. We are paid the minimum possible in most cases.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
I wouldn't fault any employee for slacking off, because almost everybody is underpaid, has no real share of ownership, no loyalty... it's an adversarial relationship of the employers' making.

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