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by yomly 9y ago
Noon question: what is a typeclass in the sense of the feature Elm lacks? Does it mean the equivalent to `class` keyword in the OO sense?
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by yomly 9y ago
You're entitled to your opinion. But I don't think you're even comparing apples to apples here. Facebook claims 2.2 billion monthly active users. Sure, that is a flattering and inflated number, but at face value that is about
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by yomly 9y ago
I don't think MySpace vs Facebook is really a real comparison. Facebook has reached a level of ubiquity that MySpace could never have dreamed of. That little white F in a blue square is a global symbol and it won't be undone in a
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by yomly 9y ago
The hilarious thing was that when I worked at Amazon, the majority of Amazonians I met thought Amazon was a Retail company...
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by yomly 9y ago
Your anecdote is both valid and interesting, I suppose (having had a bit of time to reflect on my post) what interests me is: some measures to improve diversity and counter privilege will ironically favour people who are privileged.
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by yomly 9y ago
Anecdata: I talked with an Uber driver the other day in London who said his weekly target was to make £1000 gross per week and would adjust hours (ie less or more) accordingly. On the side he was trying to bootstrap a business.
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by yomly 9y ago
Something I have been mulling over lately is, how "progressiveness" encodes bias in and of itself. Let's reason out a (very naive and overly simplistic) thought experiment: You are BigCo and want to promote diversity. Part of
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by yomly 9y ago
Not only has Spotify stopped me pirating music, it has led to me spending thousands of pounds (previously zero) on live music to see artists I had never heard of prior to Spotify, to listen to music I never would have known existed. Short-s
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by yomly 9y ago
Plenty of devices have loud fans irrespective of their current CPU load. Being facetious, there also exist fanless PCs submerged in oil which do not make sounds based on CPU load. Checking your CPU usage via `top` is a relatively "powe
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by yomly 9y ago
No, the opposite, if your hamstrings are tight then when you are trying to flex your hips you're also having to fight against your hamstrings at the same time. Hamstring stretches are pretty well trodden, yoga or any kicking martial ar
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by yomly 9y ago
Your ankle to knee and knee to hip ratio can make this easier/harder due to centre of gravity position. The three areas I've identified to work on for myself are ankle mobility, hip flexibility and hamstring flexibility. I realise
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by yomly 9y ago
Naughty Dog seem like a relatively large team. If you're thinking a megacorp tech team, there seems to be few examples of truly large successful Lisp projects, though it will be interesting to see how some of the growing Clojure comp
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by yomly 9y ago
Well for starters, losing the mentalities "well if I got paid x when I was a junior, then this junior should also be paid x" and "if I'm a senior earning a, this junior should not be earning more than b" when you re
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by yomly 9y ago
I'd argue that it's absurd that we still think 120k is a lot of money when we look around at how expensive things like property are. My father, with a modest education and a modest first job, was able to get married, raise a child
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by yomly 9y ago
My experience is that culturally, places outside of North America and West Europe have lagged in attitudes to software development. Tech is still referred to as "IT" and engineers are still seen as code-monkeys or a cost-centre. T
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by yomly 9y ago
I like your analogy. To offer my own anecdote: In pure/theoretical Chemistry you conveniently ignore in-situ solvation effects to think about mechanisms of the organic reaction. Then in the real world, you can't replicate someone
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by yomly 9y ago
Enjoyed this read, reading the comments section makes me wonder how many people have silently made money over the years arb'ing out-of-whack algorithms such as this. Also reminds me of local competitor retailers exploiting Amazon'
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by yomly 9y ago
From what I see, we are moving away from a heavy server which does the heavy lifting to thin server layers that just send data and feature rich UIs that process the data. This is possibly because the browser has become a widespread means of
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by yomly 9y ago
Personally, I'm not interested in working for a company who doesn't pay out some form of equity. We live in a world which skews towards wealth - if you don't have wealth you're slowly falling behind those who do. So wh
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by yomly 9y ago
In the liberals' world with markets unimpeded by regulation and entirely self-governed by market forces, how does something like the rise of superbugs play out? It takes a good 10-20 years lead time for this to become a real issue, and
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by yomly 9y ago
Supposedly it is by jd.com - one of the big Chinese tech players. Given that there is a reasonable number of Chinese PCs still on Windows XP, IE8 support makes sense.
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by yomly 9y ago
It is reasonable for you to find the link between videogame (or content) addiction and chemical addiction more tenuous. I would be curious to know what your thoughts on gambling are? Irrespective of any solution, do you feel that leaving th
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by yomly 9y ago
I can't fault anything you've said, but my problem is that just through your diction it is already clear to me that you are an outlier in the grand scheme of media-consumers. Having broached this subject with various people, it is
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by yomly 9y ago
It's possible to pay everyone equally - especially when you just pay everyone less. If you disclose what everyone earns at every level, it's easy to then let all your employees pull everyone hold themselves accountable to the same
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by yomly 9y ago
I see this fact touted around a lot, often in the context of stagnating/eroding wages. It 100% goes without saying that global poverty decreasing is cause for celebration, but eroding quality of life for a economic bracket of people sh
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by yomly 9y ago
From my Uber conversations I was able to piece together that one of the sweetest benefits was that you could be paid instantly for your work, equivalent to cash in hand rather than waiting up to a month for a payslip. The other was that 2-3
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by yomly 9y ago
As an aside, how are software engineer salaries in Japan?
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by yomly 9y ago
Feel like both languages aren't great first programming languages, but might edge towards Ruby if only for being a strongly typed language. As I explained to a friend who was doing a python data science course, the beauty of Ruby and P
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by yomly 9y ago
This a thousand times. In our current world, if you are still reliant on a salary as your primary source of income, you're not especially part of the problem - you might very well earn 10x what other people are earning, but you're
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by yomly 9y ago
IIRC in The Everything Store, Stone recalled how Jewellery was a struggle because of its high value to weight ratio. Pharmaceuticals will probably be a similar problem, but I'm sure Amazon will have a process built in to manage for thi

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