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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
I’m also a big fan of rails, but I’ve experienced a lot of problems scaling it. A lot of the problems ultimately came down to the simple fact that Ruby is really, really slow. At a certain scale you end up forced to develop infrastructure o
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
Not even close to FAANG level compensation in my experience. I’m just a moderately experienced backend/infra person and VC backed startups would straight up tell me they can’t compete when I told them what FAANGs had offered. We’re tal
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
Wait, so your investors lose money, your employees (probably just a few) got at most $80k, and you get to retire? I mean, congrats on the hustle, but I wouldn’t waste your time trying to make it look good for everyone else.
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
Which of course didn’t happen hear - Biden is on track to win by a clear electoral and popular margin. Florida in 2000 was decided by hundreds of votes though.
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
Another thing worth mentioning is it’s a lot easier to spread a faulty statistics analysis than it is to spread an explanation. I’ve seen a lot of viral posts about Benford’s law and the 2020 election. I finally dig up the data and the expl
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
It’s not pretending. In fact, web application hosts are a great candidate for replacement with faster languages because it can have an immediate impact on infra costs.
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
You might be surprised by just how slow and bloated a simple rails or Django app can be! But the real benefit for me is reliability. With rust web apps, I feel a lot more confident that runtime errors have been properly handled. And of cour
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
It doesn’t “mean nothing”, it’s another data point. If you see test positivity rate remaining low but cases increasing - which we do in many areas with sufficient testing - then it does suggest more people are getting the virus. You can als
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
It’s just a political thing. You see the same behavior in threads about climate change. A seemingly innocuous comment to you is a firebrand political statement to someone who thinks the virus is a hoax or whatever.
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
That was true until last week. Deaths are now rising again, and daily new cases are approaching the level of the summer peak.
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
This post reminds me of a younger me. The experience I got working hours like this at jobs like this was not as good as I thought. It was shallow and rushed, every cuttable corner was cut. And ultimately, it wasn’t worth it. You may not car
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
Come on, that’s bordering on the kind of contentless dismissal you see in right wing propaganda today. Someone already provided examples contradicting your assertions, and others have accurately explained that defending civil rights appears
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
Has there been much progress with the D borrow checker? It always comes up in these threads but it seems to still be missing some key features (parameterized lifetimes for example). What’s the timeline for this landing in some form of “non-
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
It’s both ethical and statistical. If you observe a strong enough effect, you can reach significance with less data. When people are dying, sometimes you throw a Hail Mary.
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
Researchers typically present findings in journals (or conferences in computer science). These YouTube videos aren’t research, they’re some mix of unscrupulous money grab and deliberate misinformation from Republican-affiliated groups tryin
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
Some people try to approach an employment relationship as one of good faith, rather than an adversarial one where you try to do the minimum amount of work without getting fired. Plus, investing in your craft has long term benefits for your
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
That’s not the problem, it’s having to manage a bunch of sets of credentials, and the logistics of pushing updates through multiple stores. Both are obviously solvable problems but definitely annoying barriers to someone who really just wan
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
Why are other countries with comparatively less free markets and more regulations not experiencing this problem in a greater degree? Shouldn’t we be doing better if it’s really as simple as less government = better outcome?
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
I don’t think the genuine content publishers who go out of business win.
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
Everyone wants to return to normal, but there’s still a pandemic. “We’ll open the bars when it’s safe” isn’t a satisfying answer but what good would lying about a timeline be?
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
German elections are considerably more legitimate. For one, opposition politicians aren’t poisoned.
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
I think you’re underestimating the number and quality of restaurants that are easily accessible in say a mixed used NYC neighborhood vs what’s within a 30 minute drive of a Houston suburb. Especially if you aren’t a fan of the midrange chai
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
Don’t you think it’s a little hyperbolic to compare the ownership of human beings to running some software on your computer?
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
I don’t think 20 year olds avoid this path because they lack your insight, it’s probably more that most people can’t get $200k from their parents to start a business.
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
I don’t know if that’s true otherwise but webgl is supported by safari on iOS.
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
I have only ever seen this usage by people pointing out that this is what it “actually” means.
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
Complaining about the use of unsafe as a “gotcha” is a common canard used by people who often don’t understand what it means. On HN at least, it’s usually not a substantial criticism.
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
You don’t think those are important?
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
I’m sure Steve Klabnik will eat me alive, but having read both I think it’s the better book!
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by ffdjjjffjj 6y ago
Wouldn’t this exclude the strongest candidates who can get other job offers?

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