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by zachrose 6y ago
I appreciate that the author was specific about “if you count addition as 1 operation.” Without saying this, it’s not obvious that the notation is such a simplified abstraction over operations and their costs, with all the limitations that
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by zachrose 6y ago
> They're already involved in legal cannabis industry in the USA anyway. How so?
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by zachrose 6y ago
> We should separate an issue of moderation and actual motives of the platform itself Why though? On some level in seems impossible to make a distinction "from the outside," and I'm not sure it should matter that a decisio
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by zachrose 6y ago
To the contrary, the managerial class of hired administrators who did not themselves own the business was a product of the industrial revolution. MBA programs sprung up because the huge new corporations (steel, oil, etc) needed a steady sup
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by zachrose 6y ago
Interesting, do you know what they were called?
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by zachrose 6y ago
A little bit of both! Elm the language is different from JavaScript, Java, Ruby, etc because there is no facility for statements or imperative APIs. It’s restricted in that sense. Frameworks in those languages still have some inversion of c
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by zachrose 6y ago
Yes, very much so, but the problems are self-fulfilling: no infrastructure because not enough riders, not enough riders because bikes are unstylish and expensive, etc. But this also means that improving anything is a step towards improving
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by zachrose 6y ago
The core thesis behind the program is exciting. The bike industry in America exists primarily serve a relatively small group of enthusiasts, but it doesn't have to. There's no equivalent to the Dutch department store bikes that, i
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by zachrose 6y ago
Elm is a purely functional language, meaning all you write are the insides of functions that take a value and return a value. There's no imperative way to "do anything" like make an HTTP request, all you can do is return a &q
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by zachrose 6y ago
Thank you, I may have misspoke but this is what I was referring to.
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by zachrose 6y ago
Programming languages with built-in inversion of control by way of an effects system, like in Elm.
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by zachrose 6y ago
And even then trying to run Docker on Fedora will prompt you to turn off Security-Enhanced Linux features or use Podman instead. So it’s really like, what, 1/2 or 2/3 or Linux support
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by zachrose 6y ago
But wouldn’t that just move the horse trading into the even more opaque process of deciding party positions?
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by zachrose 6y ago
Where have I heard that before? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25196754
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by zachrose 6y ago
The adjective has a lot of meanings, nothing I'd call a void. > More common, especially in the West, are those who see it as a socially progressive trend of thought that affirms the power of human beings to create, improve and resha
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by zachrose 6y ago
America is one of maybe half a dozen countries in the world with a two-party system. The others are Malta, Zimbabwe, Jamaica, and a few other Caribbean countries.
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by zachrose 6y ago
Yes! Craig Hickman was a professor of mine, and his class "Programming for Artists" is where I got into programming.
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by zachrose 6y ago
> the order was met with mixed reactions; a senior economist at the Institute for Energy Research pointed out that “Electric cars might not have emissions at a tailpipe, but they do have emissions at the power plant.” > IER is often d
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by zachrose 6y ago
Kickstarter did unionize, that's why I want to know how it's going.
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Ask HN: How's the Kickstarter Union Going?
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by zachrose 6y ago
It’s not stupid, no, but a “supporting foundation” is a largely just a seductive metaphor. It says, “Clearly software is like a building. Every building needs a solid foundation.” It doesn’t inspire engagement with other metaphors, like con
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by zachrose 6y ago
Indeed xlsx files don’t have VBA macros, you need the less common xlsm file format for that.
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by zachrose 6y ago
Maybe there just aren't that many designers that use Org Mode.
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by zachrose 6y ago
“I am not a fan of removing the CEO until and unless it is abundantly clear that it must be done.” Presidential terms are four years. It seems demented to make a comparison to firing as a last resort.
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by zachrose 6y ago
The map in the Twitter thread doesn’t seem to support this, but from the cities listed on the page it seems like the colder cities have more broken ice cream machines.
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by zachrose 6y ago
This is a pretty good breakdown of the dynamics of software engineering hiring, even if I don't follow to her conclusions. It seems like "abstraction" is a recurring theme. The hiring manager is abstracted from the job descri
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by zachrose 6y ago
I'm not an expert but I am interested in the wisdom of regional and historical architecture for this sort of thing. Look at the old buildings where you are. How did they do it? (You might get less out of this if you're in a place
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by zachrose 6y ago
How plausible is this scene from Rambo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgfoCa2-V3g
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by zachrose 6y ago
Not to jump in on this question exactly, but Rakesh Khurana wrote a very well-researched book about the market for corporate CEOs, finding that expectations are hugely inflated with meager correlation between CEO compensation and anticipate
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by zachrose 6y ago
I imagine that Formula E will support more innovation as they grow, with more suppliers and a contested regulations.

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