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by vosper 7y ago
I'm currently reading "Blind Man's Bluff" [0], which I think I found in an HN comment, which, in addition to Thresher, also discusses the loss of the Scorpion. The authors come pretty close to claiming that during the in
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by vosper 7y ago
> So, I just copied the data from WHO sitreps and the total-cases diff of diffs has been increasingly negative for three of the last four days. So it's still getting worse, but the second derivative might be negative. Could you expl
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by vosper 7y ago
I'm a Kiwi, and whether gorse is a problem is a matter of perspective. It's not causing any harm to almost anyone at all. It's not what's native, so people don't like it - that's fine, but it's mostly aest
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by vosper 7y ago
The full quote (and the rest of the article), when including the parts you omitted, implies that it was the campaign against sparrows, not mosquitos, that was the main problem: > The four pests to be eliminated were rats, flies, mosquito
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by vosper 7y ago
> Car services were all making money charging sustainable rates to willing customers I think a fairly good portion of car services were making money charging monopoly rates to customers who had no choice but to take a taxi. It sustained
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by vosper 7y ago
> "You were barely beat out by another candidate, we hope you apply again next time!" If this is true and if the company is half competent they'll be reaching out to you proactively next time, not hoping you might see the
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by vosper 7y ago
So what exactly did these companies gain? They didn't hire you now, but might be able to hire you in the future because you would maybe apply again (assuming you get passed the "we already didn't hire this person" filter
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by vosper 7y ago
> We've solved it with an extremely judicious use of the linter, which prohibits certain constructs, certain patterns, and tries its best to get rid of weird features. This is one of my concerns with adopting Typescript in my team.
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by vosper 7y ago
Huh, that's really interesting to learn. I'll file it in my big file of "Never thought about it, but makes sense" (sorry, nothing otherwise constructive in this comment)
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by vosper 7y ago
> Any software engineer should be able to learn a new language. The idea that you have to higher engineers who already know the language, particularly a high level general purpose one, seems suspect. It's not like they're writi
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by vosper 7y ago
> here are so many languages that would be obvious better choices, but part of what allows a legacy of sledge hammered test cases to evolve is respecting the garden they are grown in - generally when you transplant a tree, you're go
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by vosper 7y ago
I have tried both, but only a bit and for a personal project. In the end I went with Hasura because I like the admin interface, and I think the way it maps graphQL to SQL makes for easier-to-read (and write) graphQL queries. I actually trie
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by vosper 7y ago
Then perhaps we really are an outlier. That'd be nice: fewer people than I thought toiling under the yoke of a crappy database. The post-IPO success of Mongodb Inc, and Amazon's recent roll out of their own compatible hosted solut
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by vosper 7y ago
> And? That's just a particular choice of tool. It wasn't a choice, it was literally the only method we had available. > I do the same thing when I'm working on a particularly tough problem; I might try five or ten diff
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by vosper 7y ago
> designed and engineered No real design or engineering was involved beyond having an idea of what we wanted and trying to select for that trait in breeding and offspring. We've just rolled the genetic dice repeatedly and selected t
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by vosper 7y ago
Further to this, check out the page for Inko: https://inko-lang.org/ They have a nice little dropdown in the top corner, right there on the front page, that lets you see little code snippets. I really like that. Should slig
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by vosper 7y ago
I think there are probably quite a lot of production Mongo databases out there from companies founded around the peak of the (bootcamp-driven) NoSQL hype train. No one's bragging about it, probably everyone regrets it, and most compani
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by vosper 7y ago
I think Next is in the sweet spot by making things static when it can, and server-rendered when needed. It's been a real pleasure for me to work with so far (though, prior to version 9 I found it not quite flexible enough, especially w
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by vosper 7y ago
> Saying we like lawns because our cave-dwelling ancestors saw them as good hunting ground is fine, but to extend that to saying that's a reason why we should have them is not. I don't see this claim in the comment you original
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by vosper 7y ago
> But the whole 'using water' claim is muddied. The water the animal drinks passes through it and into the ground. Yes, it's not like the water is destroyed. It may be diverted from directly flowing into a river, sure, and
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by vosper 7y ago
Thanks, this makes sense to me. It’s a good reminder of the boundaries of my personal bubble. I’ve always figured there must be a bunch of Oracle engineers out there (there just has to be) and wondered why I’d never met one in the Bay. 99%
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by vosper 7y ago
I get Airbnb and Stripe being up there for entry-level engineers, those companies are almost printing money. But Lyft, haemorrhaging money, is top of the list, and Oracle - the company no-one in the Bay Area or on HN seems to work for, and
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by vosper 7y ago
1. Noise levels in workplaces (especially cafes, restaurants) will be increasingly recognized as contributing to stress and later-life hearing loss for people who work in those environments. What is considered a "safe" noise level
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by vosper 7y ago
> I am not sure even the big cloud providers have solved the time-of-day utilization problems Do AWS spot prices fall at night? That would be one way of increasing utilization - assuming, of course, that there’s sufficient demand at any
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by vosper 7y ago
I don’t think India and China are the threat to US software jobs. It’s Latin America: same timezone(s); shorter/easier flights (because of the timezones as well as the distance) with easier visa requirements; far greater cultural famil
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by vosper 7y ago
You’re tarring an awful lot of people with the same brush there, and also neglecting that people may be used to paying bribes aren’t necessarily people who want to pay bribes, and they may act differently when bribes aren’t something yo
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by vosper 7y ago
Programmers in first world countries (and triply so the Bay Area) should plan for lower pay because there are increasing numbers of foreign (and some domestic-but-rural!) workers out there who’re skilled and will take less pay than you and
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by vosper 7y ago
> - Elements end up with messy, non-semantic class name strings like "m-4 mt-0 p-3 rounded bg-blue". This makes it much harder for non-technical teams to use out-of-the-box SaaS solutions for things like interaction tracking an
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by vosper 7y ago
Hmm, that’s interesting - I enjoy REPL-based development, having spent a lot of time working in Python, and a little Clojure. How does the REPL experience play with the static typing (that I think) Julia has? If you change the type signatur
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by vosper 7y ago
> Moreover, the typical workflow for writing code is very different from what users of static languages follow (edit, compile, run, loop over) Would you elaborate on what's different about writing Julia?

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