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by digging 2y ago
Oh, then I misunderstood that too, yes. I read "mark of integrity" as being a strictly positive thing. Your edit looks good though.
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by digging 2y ago
It is usually free and kind of magical to talk to a lawyer, though.
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by digging 2y ago
What does `this` refer to in your comment? If "hiring his son," I don't think anybody is indicating that it is a mark of integrity or honesty.
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by digging 2y ago
It's absolutely a mistake and a lack of critical thinking to believe that any given father would go out of his way and put his own reputation at risk for his son. Some would. I don't know if it's even a majority. But plenty
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by digging 2y ago
The only clueless judgment is one that doesn't ask for evidence.
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by digging 2y ago
Super cool! Like a simpler (not in a bad way) Universe Sandbox. I'm reminded of the astronomical-visualization app I created at the beginning of my career and abandoned. This makes me want to go back to it again!
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by digging 2y ago
I think it's available on Steam which would mean you could theoretically use it on Linux with Steam's Proton compatibility layer.
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by digging 2y ago
I don't write a lot of while loops so this is just a bit unfamiliar to me, but I'm not really understanding how this isn't the same as `do{block}while(condition);`? Could you give a simple example of what kind of work `prepar
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by digging 2y ago
Being only in my 30s but also affected by a lot of usually-age-related disability has been a big struggle for me as a programmer. I don't know how typical it actually is, but I guess I skipped the "work way too hard because your b
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by digging 2y ago
Did you reply to the wrong comment? I think asking questions is ideal. Even when I'm 99% sure a line is blatantly wrong, I will ask something like, "What is this for?". Maybe I missed something - wouldn't be the first ti
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by digging 2y ago
That is a very good point! You'd have to be careful to craft the messaging so that it doesn't imply you can help troubleshoot the password manager. But something simple could work. Already you usually have a note under a password
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by digging 2y ago
> If it's actually better, others will start following your lead. Not really my experience in teams that create inconsistent, undocumented codebases... but you might get 1 or 2 converts.
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by digging 2y ago
Totally agreed - a correctly used password manager is many, many times easier and faster to use than so-called magic links. It's not even a contest. I'd even say magic link emails border on misuse of email; they're a fundamen
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by digging 2y ago
> If you know you know And if you don't, you... don't deserve to know? > you're either wilfully ignorant or actively dishonest I think "willful ignorance" is a good description of accepting impossible-to-verif
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by digging 2y ago
I'm kind of confused by the question. Do you think an unverified commenter on a public website saying "all the stores in my town [not named] do X [but I didn't count]" is a type of hard evidence that I'm arbitrarily
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by digging 2y ago
I don't see how it's odd at all. The kinds of changes that would stabilize housing and make growth more sustainable would threaten the interests of many wealthy people, including politicians themselves.
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by digging 2y ago
Still mostly anecdotal, but a better answer, and probably belongs higher up in the thread actually.
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by digging 2y ago
> Ah yes, increasing theft is just a fact of the "developed" world It seems like a pretty likely outcome of high population growth! > anyone that claims theft has increased is just imagining things Anyone that claims an anec
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by digging 2y ago
Um... why exactly am I looking for a highly homogenous society?
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by digging 2y ago
> One could endlessly go on... Yet, apparently one will instead sidestep the discussion entirely. Frankly the more you've tried to answer the question the less you actually answer it... I don't see how "rapidly transitioni
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by digging 2y ago
Of course that's the reasonable approach, but in reality the US gov't finds mind control useful, and wants to be able to exert influence over it, rather than allow a foreign gov't exert influence over it.
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by digging 2y ago
That line made me stop and think. At first I thought it was an exaggeration, but then I realized it was exactly true - however, I don't think the author understands it fully. If someone offered to sell me that pill, I wouldn't say
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by digging 2y ago
> So if it's after the middle of December, start wishing people a "Happy Solsthelion" > ... it's a great way to form the ice. The best part - although perhaps untrue in a room full of HN commenters :)
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by digging 2y ago
For me it was not confusing; I don't think a newly discovered taxonomic Class would make mainstream news. I was expecting something higher-order and the discovery delivered!
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by digging 2y ago
You don't think a tool saving 10% of your time is worth learning to use?! Anyway, this gets off-track. The metric is (time wasted on problems that only exist without typing) / (time it takes to configure TypeScript). Regardless of
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by digging 2y ago
Yes, but, I'd argue it's trading one type of endless, tedious work for a different type of concrete, meaningful work.
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by digging 2y ago
Honestly, yes, I'm curious to hear that perspective. The negative responses to "TypeScript makes JS programming fun and easy" are always pretty ill-formed, and I really want to know if there's a genuine argument against
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by digging 2y ago
As someone in a similar position, may I take a tangent? I'm curious what you transitioned into out of programming. The stress of feeling "always behind" is taking its toll on me, and I wonder about another career change often
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by digging 2y ago
Agreed; with 3rd party APIs I type down to the level of the properties I actually need. And when I use a property but don't care what the type is, I use `unknown`. That will throw an error if the type matters, in which case, you can pr
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by digging 2y ago
I loved this paragraph: > This dichotomy gels really well with the way my brain works. I’m able to channel short bursts of creative energy into precisely mapping the domain or getting type scaffolding set up. And then I’m able to sustain

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