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by weeksie 4y ago
It's a shame that you can't do a multi part poll. I'd love to know people's rates _and_ their years of experience, language, industry, etc.
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by weeksie 4y ago
Computer science is a branch of math, but programming is not. People frequently confuse the two. The difference between using mathematical constructs to inform your engineering and discovering new mathematical constructs is fundamental and
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by weeksie 4y ago
If you don't see the massive structural difference between the practice of pure mathematics and the practice of software, that means you misunderstand both software development and mathematics.
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by weeksie 4y ago
As I said above, that's with "WHOLE APARTMENT" checked. What I saw above was for a 3 day stay that for some reason defaulted to November. Those are 100% illegal and they are all available. Here, let me do the legwork for you,
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by weeksie 4y ago
Ah man, sockets. Real sockets. Yesterday's kiosk thread jogged my memory about all that but almost all of the network communication on my old kiosk installations was socket based. It was a pleasant way to work.
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by weeksie 4y ago
If you just open Airbnb to nyc and check whole apartment there are like 800 listings right off the bat.
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by weeksie 4y ago
I had a kiosk software company for several years. Sold my part to my partners in 2008. We used Windows embedded for the hardware most of the time (until Mac Minis came out) and Flash for the front end. I built out a Lua based server that li
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by weeksie 4y ago
Define exploitation.
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by weeksie 4y ago
The usefulness of metadata in rest responses ended up not mattering as much as people thought in most cases. Pagination is the best counter example but many rest apis do return next/prev links in the payload or in the headers. It’s sti
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by weeksie 4y ago
This is only true for native stock Americans. Immigrants do very well here, and it's far far easier to become rich in America than it is anywhere else. The American dream is as real as ever. Income mobility could be a bit easier in Aus
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by weeksie 4y ago
Usually a lambda calculus interpreter is the first thing I futz around with.
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by weeksie 4y ago
I lived in Sydney for five years! Great city. Lived there before I came here. My partner and I are looking at Madrid. But yeah, there is no other city in the world that's going to be like NY. Maybe London but of course that has the sam
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by weeksie 4y ago
My partner and I have been agonizing over this exact dilemma. We have an income number and an expenses number and when those cross a certain point, we've gotta go somewhere else. So there's a very good chance that we'll immig
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by weeksie 4y ago
Bright eyed PMs whispering "statistically significant" to themselves over and over as they nervously scan their data aggregation dashboards for wiggles.
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by weeksie 4y ago
I get it, you're _really_ invested in RTK but man, I just find it to be the right answer to the wrong question. Since we last talked I have worked on projects where rtk was used because the devs didn't really grok redux and so far
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by weeksie 4y ago
The problem with redux is that it's a simple, extremely powerful tool for creating a CQRS architecture on the front end but very few people treat it that way. Instead they bolt on things like rtk and add yet another layer of abstractio
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by weeksie 4y ago
Saga is so heavy and overly complex and you don't really get much out of it if you understand how middleware works. There's really no reason to add a huge dependency to your project. You can do all of that pretty easily with a van
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by weeksie 4y ago
You don't need _any_ of that. You can use vanilla redux and put your asynchronous code in middleware.
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by weeksie 4y ago
Back in the 00s we put an easter egg into our mall kiosk wayfinding software. If you pulled up the software keyboard and typed in the name of the company it would show a card deck animation of our pictures. That was always fun to pull out.
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by weeksie 4y ago
You're wrong. If King Cove was growing at a good clip, you'd have a point but as it stands it's just a remote relatively static Alaskan town. I could point you at my own home town which is at the edge of the Prince William So
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by weeksie 4y ago
Atrocious to me that anybody would want to block that road. A mine? Sure. Logging? Yup. Oil exploration? Yeah. A gravel road to an airport in Alaska? Come on. I haven't lived in Rural Alaska in 20 years but I was born and raised in a f
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by weeksie 4y ago
This is really wild. It feels almost like a way to wedge dependent types into the system, at least that's what the MinLength<2> & MaxLength<5> stuff feels like. Amazing. How was it digging into the compiler api for that
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by weeksie 4y ago
It's grey goo for human culture.
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by weeksie 4y ago
Attention is finite.
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by weeksie 4y ago
This is one of the reasons why I have pulled back from social media. In feeds I see a random sample of the most anxious people I grew up with and find myself knowing more about their lives than I do about people I care about. I'd prefe
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by weeksie 4y ago
The failure mode I usually see on experienced pairing teams is overly complex code. There's a certain flavor that I can usually pick out and be pretty sure that a couple of Pivots or Carbon5 or whatever pair shop has been working in a
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by weeksie 4y ago
I don't like it for myself because I don't work well that way. I don't like working at companies that use pair programming because most of the code I've seen come out of pairing sessions is not very good. I realize that&
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by weeksie 4y ago
I was happy to see he mentioned "pair" reviewing. I detest pair programming but pair reviewing is excellent. Whenever the time and culture of a place permits, I do everything I can to walk through my pull requests with one or two
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by weeksie 4y ago
Sure! Informally, it's when there is a disagreement about methods of finding truth. In practice that's when the two positions in a discussion are using a different framework for deciding what's true in the world. Are illnesse
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by weeksie 4y ago
In that case I disagree strongly with your premise, but that's fine. I don't argue past epistemological closures but (sincerely) thanks for the discussion!

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