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by weeksie 6y ago
No. This graph puts it in better perspective. Why comment with so much certainty when you clearly didn't check? God I hate this place. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?id=WTISPLC ,
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by weeksie 6y ago
Nope [1] Lord grant me the confidence of a HN commentor talking about economics :/ [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?id=WTISPLC ,
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by weeksie 6y ago
No. What happened was that in the 70s energy got expensive. As renewables and battery tech get cheaper, we'll see bigger gains across the board. The "evil bankers" stuff is mostly a just so story to explain away the slowing o
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by weeksie 6y ago
No, it sounds like a big red flag. Far more likely CP wasn't being logged.
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by weeksie 6y ago
I've run into that in a few places and it always baffles me that people would intentionally choose to add even more gotchas to javascript . Don't get me wrong, I think aesthetics in code are important but not to the point of de
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by weeksie 6y ago
Cordova, not too far from there (for Alaska.) I moved out of AK in 98.
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by weeksie 6y ago
Not sure this is true everywhere. Maybe in the northeast, but I grew up in a fishing village in Alaska and pretty much all of our coastal towns are fishing-dominated with many, many small boats in addition to the bigger trawler/process
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by weeksie 6y ago
One time as a tourist I stayed at a guest house in the Kerala backwaters. My host had several coconut trees and gave me a shot at climbing one. There was this contraption I harnessed to myself with a strap around the tree and I made it up a
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by weeksie 6y ago
No. I'm saying many (most) firms will still require offices. The shape of the office will change as firms realize which business functions work best in the office and which are best remote. This will take many years to shake out becaus
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by weeksie 6y ago
Remote work is massively inefficient for some things, even if it is much more efficient for others. Smart firms will do the efficient thing in the most efficient place and see gains across the board as a result.
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by weeksie 6y ago
Try to give a generous reading, we're speaking in short paragraphs on the internet. My argument was that a shortened commute is a real productivity increase. That's one of any number of hypotheticals that depend on industry by ind
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by weeksie 6y ago
You've identified it. We're talking about productivity gains, so that accountant gets as much done as they did before, minus the commute time. At a bare minimum, that's doing 8 hours of work in 8 hours, versus 8 hours of work
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by weeksie 6y ago
I'm talking about macro level gains. When your small local accountant figures out how to manage work from home a few days per week that creates small, cumulative gains over the whole of the economy. Hard to quantify right now, especial
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by weeksie 6y ago
The long term shakeout of this will be that everybody realizes that yes, we need offices. They are spaces literally built for working. The required footprint will be smaller, people won't need to be in the office for absolutely everyth
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by weeksie 6y ago
Martin Gurri is fascinating. His book Revolt of the Public is available through Stripe Press. Worth the read about our current cycle of bang/whimper crises and how our new communication styles lead to public actions that tend to have l
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by weeksie 6y ago
I have a copy paste dump that I did a few months back to show someone how I was working, happy to pass that along. I wouldn't make claims that the way I'm using things are the best but so far I've been happy with the general
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by weeksie 6y ago
Haha yeah. Evangelists, man. Ah well, what can you do.
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by weeksie 6y ago
Framework developers want you to use their framework. Engineers want to solve a problem in a manner that works best for their organization. The two incentives sometimes intersect but that is by no means a given.
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by weeksie 6y ago
I'm not trolling you, I'm exhorting you to stop pushing extra frameworks for things that there should not be frameworks for. The issue is not that one or another approach is always better, it's that the entire act of lobbing
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by weeksie 6y ago
You've worked on two apps. Besides that you've been a part of the evangelist ecosystem for a tremendously simple framework. You are not what I could call an expert in using Redux. You are almost certainly an expert in Redux's
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by weeksie 6y ago
Lots of blog posts, tutorials, etc. blah blah blah. How many complicated applications have you built with Redux at their center? Because that's the part that's missing from your list of qualifiers for being an expert.
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by weeksie 6y ago
I see it as someone clout-chasing for their framework. A framework that promotes questionable practices. Framework developers and working engineers have diverging interests. The problem with his style is that he parades himself as an expert
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by weeksie 6y ago
I see what you’re doing there. I also see why you think it’s a good idea. "How the community" uses redux is badly. I guess congrats for reinforcing that at scale. Gives me some more hours to bill when I run across the next ratsnes
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by weeksie 6y ago
What's with the copy paste spam on every one of your posts? None of what you're saying matters in the scheme of things. You can get everything you need from const { types, actions } = createActions([ 'ACTION_NAME',
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by weeksie 6y ago
Man I wish you’d quit spamming every redux thread with this stuff. You’re not solving any problems, you’re just promoting your framework.
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by weeksie 6y ago
I think the biggest problem is the default approach of using thunks for handling async state. You get these "opinionated" frameworks that then reinforce terrible design ideas. If it's simple just put handle async stuff in sit
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by weeksie 6y ago
Any license with an ideological component is a timebomb that goes off when the developer decides you are no longer pure enough. You’d have to be insane to use any software with a license like this (if one was enforceable)
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by weeksie 6y ago
I don't think "generate a writing prompt" is a problem that people have. Great for exercises perhaps, but if you can't generate your own ideas, picking one at random isn't going to help. Mad Libs are fun though and
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by weeksie 6y ago
I think that one of the neat new narrative art forms that GPT-3 like algorithms will make possible is a prose cinema where the author is more like a director, prompting agents to react to one another. Like lining up billiards shots. I think
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by weeksie 6y ago
GPT-3 will revolutionize spam, twitter astroturfing, and high school essays that you didn't study for.

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