weberc2

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by weberc2 7y ago
Seems most likely to me that the public doesn’t know what to do or how to help. The things that are most publicized are often the least impactful (e.g., plastic straws. All we hear is that the house is burning but there’s no discernible aut
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by weberc2 7y ago
Those aren’t mutually exclusive
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by weberc2 7y ago
I wasn't being rude, and I understood your point. I was pointing out that the metaphor can as easily be used to support Go's position as the critics' position. The metaphor lacks substance. Criticism != rude.
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by weberc2 7y ago
And then you switch to Go thereby removing the metaphorical pebble, but you have to relearn how to walk efficiently. See how pointless this is?
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by weberc2 7y ago
Maternity leave refers to a specific employment benefit. We’re you genuinely confused or trying to make some other point? In the latter case, is it relevant to this thread?
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by weberc2 7y ago
I would be curious if these companies put similar pressure on women to forego their maternity leave, or if the pressure is only directed against men.
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by weberc2 7y ago
> If you go with most languages definition of "slice", that would be pretty horrible just by itself. Most languages don't have a definition of "slice" at all. > What would be pretty much like Java's Array
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by weberc2 7y ago
And to the parent’s point, most people simply learn to remove the pebble in the first month. ;)
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by weberc2 7y ago
Yeah, iteration speed is a pretty big blocker for adoption in a lot of domains. Go isn’t perfect, but it lets me get things done today. That said, I appreciate that Rust exists for safety/performance critical domains, and as Rust matur
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by weberc2 7y ago
How would you prefer it be implemented?
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by weberc2 7y ago
Productivity. There just aren't other languages that let me build things quickly with confidence that those projects will also scale well into the future. You don't need to employ people to set up the build system, you don't
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by weberc2 7y ago
> Isn't this just duck typing? Don't other languages renowned for their type systems do this? It's "structural subtyping", which is the type-safe equivalent of duck typing. It's a feature that allows impleme
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by weberc2 7y ago
I'm not sure it would even reproduce in Chicago. Downtown and the North, West, and South sides are pretty culturally distinct; how do the researchers know they're observing some universal human trait and not something that is spec
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by weberc2 7y ago
It's not beyond belief; it's that it's happening so slowly that it's not perceived by the common person. And the "crying wolf" that people upthread were referring to was the "this will be irreversible in N
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by weberc2 7y ago
Related: https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/9805/would-...
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by weberc2 7y ago
Pretty sure we've considered sulfur dioxide or similar, which has in the past been released from large scale volcanic eruptions that have cooled the earth. One such event was the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815, which caused global c
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by weberc2 7y ago
Another interesting Thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly)
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Ask HN: Where in the US are software salaries around or above national average?
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by weberc2 7y ago
Plumbing isn't the only kind of blue collar work, but I expect even there the work safety has improved considerably. Many things that used to be heavy are now light (copper and lead vs PVC and other plastics), many things that used to
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by weberc2 7y ago
To be fair, she has had a steady stream of Tweets going back to 2014 that were pretty unambiguously racist (or if you're of the "you can't be racist against white people" persuasion, some other term that means something
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by weberc2 7y ago
It's not a dichotomy, we can and must hold both accountable. This race-to-the-bottom thinking is ruinous.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Depends on your database. S3 will handle the hug just fine.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I would expect open connections to be the bottleneck (not CPU or mem). Do you just have very low latency and thus relatively few concurrent open connections (yes, I saw the graphs in your link, but it's hard to figure out how many conc
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by weberc2 7y ago
Never mind that work conditions have improved since the days of GP’s grandpa.
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by weberc2 7y ago
Is this just a "Republicans are the worst" digression, or am I missing the relevance to this thread?
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by weberc2 7y ago
The GP was talking about hiring a developer to contribute. I pointed out that financial support is an option. Yes, licensing is one model, but a check is also valid.
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by weberc2 7y ago
We were discussing “hire a developer to contribute” vs “financial contribution”. Of course it’s voluntary and the incentive is low, but that’s off topic.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I hadn’t heard of blueprint before. What has been your experience?
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by weberc2 7y ago
Yes.
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by weberc2 7y ago
I would think the obvious way a corporation could contribute would be financially.

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