aaron-lebo

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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Unfortunately, no, your info about Perl 6 is news to me. Only ran into it a few months ago, tried it in Python and Nim, but haven't seen it in the wild. It's very cool though.
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
I'll admit I've never written more than small programs in C, but the criticism that this "isn't C" isn't a fair criticism to me. He's not doing anything more than any other library can do, were he to write
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Understood. To be specific, they said Rust has the ergonomics of Python, Go, and Java, which are garbage collected languages. It does not strike me as realistic.
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Goes without saying, but it is shocking how quickly the world has changed. The easy take would be that a lot of people are finding out how the other half lives, without easy access to healthcare or using credit cards to pay bills, but the p
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Rust absolutely does not have the ergonomics of any of those languages because it has lifetimes. They are things you don't worry about in those languages. Have you done a lot of Rust? I spent considerable time in Rust, and at the end o
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Not to advocate for one language over another, but sergio, you're right, Nim is ridiculously underrated and a much easier to use than rust. There's just a lot less mental overhead in almost anything and iteration is going to be mu
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
If you really want to get into this, Nazi Germany and Hitler were more or less fueled by meth. https://www.amazon.com/Blitzed-Drugs-Germany-Norman-Ohler/dp...
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
It's been a decade, but a friend in a college town just north of Dallas had an off campus apt for $300 a month. I had an off campus apt much closer to everything for under $500, similarly a friend even closer had an apt for $500. The p
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Those that don't know what it is like to not be naturally happy in many cases may not understand how easy it is to get intoa bad headspace, and how vitally important it is to take the correct steps to prevent it. It is life-threatenin
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
There is a book by some political scientists have the opposite starting point: Why Nations Fail. For the record, they've also got other material which I think is some of the most brilliant research we've got on why politics/s
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
You must not know many people with tattoos. ;)
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
You're reading it wrong. I'm saying that iterating on a nightly basis isn't difficult.
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
This is undoubtedly true. My point is, if you don't build, you can't do any of what you are laying out. My point isn't that you should recreate Instagram, but that these kind of apps and apps like it are not difficult. Virali
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
I'm a nobody and I don't have any work that I'm ready to show you. You shouldn't take my advice, I very well may not know what I'm talking about. I'm just laying down some beliefs I've got that I plan on t
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
You don't think so? What's Instagram doing tech wise which is so complicated? Yeah, at scale, they're doing a lot of stuff you can't do as a single person show, but the core website, the core app? I've been on small
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Yeah, I probably would, because I've worked as hard as anyone for the last 15 years. I'm underpaid. 40k isn't poverty around here, but it's not a lot of money. I just don't need or want much else other than freedom,
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Reddit faked users and content at the beginning, as the founders have stated. If you were building Reddit today, it's something that directly benefits from network effects, as does any social app or site. Search engines are difficult,
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Bill Shakespeare's Julius Caesar https://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/yond-cassius-has-l...
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look, He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Do you have any specific examples of those companies (2000, 2008-2009)?
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Do startups really cost as much as we act like they do? I mean, yeah, if you've got 10, or 30 or however many engineers, it's gonna be expensive, but there are a lot of projects that can be bootstrapped and really don't take
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Just to back you up, your post is 1022 characters. If you were limited to 280: Some discussions have nuance that cannot be expressed in 280 characters. Yes, when expressing a simple idea or an idea you understand very well, you should be a
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
The network is a boon and bane. The network allows things to go viral, but I don't think a retweet or tweets are very consumable. Twitter has an atrocious UI. I think when people do these threads tweet storm things, it's way way l
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
It doesn't help that Dorsey is terrified of making the smallest changes to the platform. I guess he's too busy meditating with Himalayan salts or something. He works 80 hours a week at his companies (or did), but increasing the Tw
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
The tax code is complex to a large degree due to the political process. See Mayhew's Congress: The Electoral Connection, or literature on path dependency. https://www.amazon.com/Congress-Electoral-Connection-David-M...
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
You're right. That may be a poor example given that their forte isn't software. I don't believe the process is very different, though. To give another example: I don't think users really want Ruby's parser to be 10k
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
That kind of goes without saying, doesn't it? The buck has to stop somewhere. If Jobs did not drive the company that way, you could have 100k people under him doing that stuff and it wouldn't be readily apparent. I mean, look at t
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Exactly! I worship at the altar of Steve. I've got a shrine in my house. That quote is kind of at the heart of what I wrote. It's why I said: > The user a lot of times doesn't know what they want or need until they see it,
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
What's nonsensical about it? I feel like you are pretty much agreeing with them. Nobody really wants a complex tax code, either. If politics wasn't a game of compromise and design by committee, people would find something else to
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by aaron-lebo 6y ago
Noah, I love that menu. Nice work!

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