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by zarathustreal 2y ago
I’m surprised you read moralism from what I said despite it being such an ostensibly immoral concept. Moralism would advocate for the Good Thing (tm), saving people, in other words. Im actually advocating more of a pragmatism take on the si
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
> …and that is bad because they aren’t raw-dogging it. You’re correct, I just want to emphasize that “not raw-dogging it” is bad because it deprives the individual of the self-discipline training. You’d think it would be a blanket Good
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
If it isn’t embarrassing then it’s not self-deprecation, it’s just virtue signaling humility
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
If you’re still using social media after e.g. the 2016 Cambridge Analytica scandal, the Twitter Files, etc, you kinda deserve this. You’ve been warned multiple times.
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Hmm.. I must be even further out of the loop than you, why would that be embarrassing?
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
It’s hard to give that answer because after a security breach has happened, you know you made the wrong choice. It’s a tradeoff, as you said, for practicality. Sometimes you gamble and lose. The bank doesn’t care that “well there was a good
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
To riff on the famous Upton Sinclair quote: “It is difficult to get an engineer to see something, when his salary depends on his not seeing it.”
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Minutes? There’s no way you’ve seen a minutes-long stall caused by TypeScript inference..I need to see some evidence on this one
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Those are the stated rules, let’s be clear about that. The actual rules are that there are no rules. Painting an election by popular vote as a “battle of ideas” is falling into the all-too-common trap of thinking that we are rational ag
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
I’m baffled that anyone is even asking the question.. Anyone reading this, if you are of the “well the employee whole typed the command is to blame!” opinion, could you please reply to this comment? I need to know what you think the purpose
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
I’ve got to disagree here, especially with memoization and streaming, deriving metric from structured logs is extremely flexible, relatively fast, and can be configured to be as cheap as you need it to be. With streaming you can literally r
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
This is easy to say as a consumer but on the other side of it you’ve got to realize, most people are not like your average HNer. In my experience, customers are unwilling to dedicate even 60 seconds to reading documentation, FAQs, bright bl
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Astonishing.. they never cease to amaze me
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
It’s not even a hack these days, investors look for this as a traction metric
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
While I do agree, it would be nice to see something more than just “I hate this” in a comment. For example you could remind the author of the perils of imperative programming such as needing to mentally simulate application state at every l
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Not directly related to the theme of this comment but I need to point out that the speaker of a statement has no bearing on its correctness.
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
I find it annoying to have to solve a puzzle to make progress solving my intended puzzle (i.e. whatever I’m computing)
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Yea this can be problematic if you don’t have sum types, it’s hard to enforce correct typing while also having correct default / uninitialized values.
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
“Properties” in the Property-based Testing sense refers to mathematical properties such as equality, associativity, commutivity, etc
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
The point they’re making is that there is no performance without tradeoffs and “fast” is meaningless unless you define what you’re measuring. Asking the question implies a misunderstanding of the intent of the implementation, OP was trying
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Hiring someone that doesn’t know Java would be.. quite a feat actually! Clojure though, well, engineers should always be ready to learn
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
As a Haskell and then TypeScript dev now having to work with Python for exactly this reason, I second this sentiment. I can’t understand why Python is the language the industry decided to use as the de-facto AI language
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
I’d say be very skeptical of this advice if you’re a beginner. You almost certainly aren’t qualified to identify quality so don’t intentionally leave any on the table
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Because it’s less effort to implement?
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Make money off the work of other people? …brother where do you think the money to buy the land comes from?
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Both actual cheating and attempted cheating are morally wrong. Actually cheating has an additional negative consequence attached: potentially exposing your partner to disease and / or infection
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
It’s not a request, it’s a rhetorical question with the same intent as the comment it’s responding to: signaling outrage. Both are self-serving and harmful to the actual cause. Despite being on the same side of the issue, neither actually a
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Do you really need an answer or are you as guilty as they are?
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
This is exactly true but it’s hard to accept that some people that are willing to work simply aren’t skilled enough to make a living wage
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by zarathustreal 2y ago
Isn’t it strange how employers can make the decision to pay their workers less than we think they’re worth, employees can make the decision to take a job working for less than we think they’re worth, and yet the person feeling responsible f

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