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by ythn 8y ago
> Can you blame people for trying to make a career out of it when that's how Uber and Lyft marketed themselves when they first started to grow? If Uber/Lyft really marketed it as a viable career option, then yeah, they definite
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by ythn 8y ago
Is Uber actually giving out car loans? People are getting those on their own. It would be like if someone leased a lemonade factory from a 3rd party in order to use my app.
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by ythn 8y ago
It doesn't even have to be intentionally exploitative . People will exploit themselves. If I wanted to help clean up local communities, I could make an app that allows you to post trash bounties on your neighborhood, to be collected b
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by ythn 8y ago
It's basically impossible to have nice things because people will always try to any little thing into a career and then complain when it isn't viable. Made an app so that kids can deliver lemonade on weekends to neighbors for a fe
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by ythn 8y ago
Coming from a game programming background - before clicking the link I was expecting a VFX "bloom filter" effect on a visual commit graph where "light sources" are exaggerated and seem to "glow".
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by ythn 8y ago
Housing in Alaska already is affordable...
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by ythn 8y ago
There's no technological or legal solution to this problem (short of draconian), the solution is a cultural one.
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by ythn 8y ago
Libertarians are the new advocates for small government. Libertarians = Arch Linux (lean, mean, minimal) Everybody else = Windows or Mac (i.e. huge operating system that tries to protect users from everything under the sun)
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by ythn 8y ago
Not just a broad tree, but a labyrinthine broad tree where you are basically traversing a maze of choke points
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by ythn 8y ago
If everyone in the world is an equally hard worker, then yes, all success is luck. But that's just not the case. Anecdotally, I knew two identical twins who were both obese. They both tried to diet, but one always relapsed, while the o
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by ythn 8y ago
You can say that about anything. Pick a technology/company you like and I'll write an "excuse me, but" piece that "justifiably" criticizes it.
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by ythn 8y ago
Unless China and Russia do the same, there is little point in weakening yourself and your allies
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by ythn 8y ago
It's what happens when profit is not your primary (or even secondary) goal. That's why my personal company will never go public. From what I understand it would force me to put profit as my primary goal, even if I value quality mo
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by ythn 8y ago
> People don't want to buy cars because they're low-emission, they want to buy cars because they're fast, big, and safe You forgot the two biggest factors - cost and efficiency. Most people doesn't want big or necessa
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by ythn 8y ago
Yes but I think OP is saying that, paradoxically, prioritizing correctness over simplicity actually makes correctness more elusive than if simplicity were prioritized.
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by ythn 8y ago
In my experience you need a paradigm shift then. If your earth centric approach is creating a need for epicycles of complex code, then you need to paradigm shift to heliocentric which eliminates the epicycles and replaces them with a simple
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by ythn 8y ago
> Correctness comes first. Not always. Have you ever used a SNES emulator? There is one emulator that is more correct than all others combined - it's called BSNES and it's the most true to the original SNES hardware of all the
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by ythn 8y ago
You missed the point of the article if you interpreted it as correctness being intentionally sacrificed for simplicity. Plus, a complete leap year implementation is already what I would consider simple and most standard libraries already ha
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by ythn 8y ago
The simple thing to do then is to call an `isLeapYear` function that abstracts any complexity. Abstraction allows you to hide complexity and make it a simple, reusable part again.
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by ythn 8y ago
I subscribe to this philosophy, but unfortunately simplicity is surprisingly difficult for most software devs. It's because if you don't have the tool in your toolbox, you won't even know it can be simplified. I once did a
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by ythn 8y ago
*for very loose and liberal definitions of "facism"
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by ythn 8y ago
> But the language itself never seemed “cool” The author of "Joy, Inc." disagrees with you https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Inc-Built-Workplace-People/dp/159...
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by ythn 8y ago
I would say it's more like people are pooh-poohing certain brands of hammers as being inferior to TrendTech Hammers (R) which are "obviously" superior.
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by ythn 8y ago
> First off, I was genuinely surprised by the love students and more junior developers are giving Kotlin. This seems to indicate that the "love" Kotlin gets is mostly fad motivated. Just like younger generations reject the hair
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by ythn 8y ago
Anytime I see someone bashing Java/PHP/JavaScript on /r/programmerhumor (reddit) I challenge them to a coding contest. I use the language they just bashed, they use their ideal language. No takers yet. I think, more ofte
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by ythn 8y ago
Modern C++ is WAY better than C, IMO. I can never go back to C, having tasted C++14, and I work on embedded systems.
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by ythn 8y ago
> A 30,000 ton ore train in Brazil will take about that long to stop, due to the nature of that weight strung out over 2.5 miles of distance. I once learned in a physics class that weight has nothing to do with the stopping distance, but
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by ythn 8y ago
Needs satellite link as a backup-backup!
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by ythn 8y ago
> Issac Arthur speculates that Titan may become a center of cryogenic industry and computing in the late 21st century. More like the late 31st century
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by ythn 8y ago
Some really good books will get false negatives by this rule, however. For example: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie. By the bottom of page 50 I was not enjoying it at all, seemed like a trite mystery novel. I was ready to pu

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