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Do-notation is not all that different—if anything, it is simpler —than async/await syntax that's gotten popular in a bunch of mainstream languages. I don't know if that makes it easy or difficult in an absolute sense, but it
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If the post had just been "I'm doing C++ instead of Rust because I could find a C++ job but not a Rust job", that would have been totally reasonable and I would not have said anything. But that was not what the rant was sayin
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"Popularity is the only thing that matters, and Rust is not popular enough." What a fundamentally narrow and depressing point of view. "Nobody gets fired for IBM" should not be an aspirational sentiment! And the top comm
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Oh no, if only it were possible to collaborate without being forced into an office! Hopefully we can invent some sort of technology for communicating asynchronously to make this possible.
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Eh, the difference is that for some roles being in-person is obviously necessary for the role while in others it isn't. Most people I know working in lower-level roles in-person recognize this because they've experienced more than
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Not very Schemey, but at least modern Python has basically full-on algebraic data types thanks to type hints, immutable dataclasses and structural pattern matching. It's still not great for functional programming, but far, far better t
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That's pretty much exactly the logic that got me to buy a Valve Index + Half Life Alyx and it was totally worth it . VR turned out to be cooler than I expected and both the game and the Index were just so satisfyingly well-executed. I
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It's a consequentialist sort of "worst": (lack of) artistic quality multiplied by exposure and impact. Couple that with how hard aesthetic quality is to assess and you get some odd lists.
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Yeah, I've been lucky to work on teams where people are pretty flexible about having video on or off. And for 1:1s walking meetings can work well in person too :)
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I've developed two habits that work well for me: 1. Taking walks during the day. I have figured out a lot of tricky design and even debugging questions by taking a walk. And even if I don't think about programming directly, it s
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I'd say it goes with the "write everything twice" heuristic! If you're in an environment where you can write things twice—you have trust and autonomy and aren't encumbered by process—then writing an initial vers
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Eh, the way to actually be safe—not just feel safe—is not to be macho and tough but to be uncompromisingly professional.
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The fact that software is bad is not evidence that it was built by a small team or had a low budget. A depressing amount of high-budget, large-team software is awful.
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Right, it makes sense to have the long tail of your functionality on the touchscreen, unless you want your car to look like an airliner's cockpit. Which would actually be cool but it would be a pain to learn and, presumably, quite expe
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I'm sure the designers in the automotive industry knew. The move to touch screens just reeks of management and marketing interference: chasing trends and shiny technology as well as prioritizing cost savings/uniformity/flex
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Debugging Haskell Type Errors(jelv.is)
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I mean, the books definitely show lots of "real" jobs, and ones people wouldn't necessarily be naturally passionate about. What's missing is all the bullshit jobs and awful management. But, even if you wanted to, you pro
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I hadn't noticed that. It's an absolutely hilarious little touch.
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I loved Richard Scarry as a child—still do!—and I'm convinced his books really helped build up my vocabulary as I learned English in first grade. A detail I only mentally noted as an adult: the butchers in his books are always pigs the
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Jirarrhea
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Not if you care about either the human effort that went into something—which, even if you don't care about anything "fuzzy", is still a costly signal in the economic sense!—or if you care about finding images that are represe
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Should I? If I want to see what something looks like, I want a photograph of it, not some half-confabulated garbage. Sure photos can be over-the-top edited and retouched, but at least they have a reasonable starting point. AI images don&#x2
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People largely understand that folks who can't walk can't walk. There is still a lot of moralizing around mental health and treatment. "ADHD is not a real thing, they just need to stop being lazy"/etc/etc. Th
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Schedule I drugs specifically? The regulation around them is inescapably rooted in a culture of hating recreational drugs.
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The bit that you're (intentionally?) missing is that this is just a polite way of saying "you're full of shit". The only person being stupid here is the person making strong empirical claims without qualifying them or pr
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> Why would you want to continue using a drug for the rest of your life? Because it is a substantial net benefit to your life? Same reason I might want to continue with, say, a regular exercise routine or meditation practice.
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I mean, if you can do your job in-office, then surely somebody in the global can do it in their office? Or what if somebody could do your job in a branch office rather than in HQ? Is your only differentiation really just being able to phy
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Questioning questionable claims is as much discussion as anything else.
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We still have lots of stray thoughts, responses and observations, now they just happen on blog posts, on social media and in other non-peer-reviewed venues. The Internet has driven the cost of publishing to 0, and peer review is the only th
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Hah, atomic power is a great point of comparison: people in the "atomic age" expected atomic power to be everywhere. Electricity too cheap to measure, cars/planes/appliances all powered by small nuclear reactors... That&

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