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“I'm too dumb to understand smart contracts” – Elon Musk(youtube.com)
5 points by peterthehacker 5y ago|0 comments
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Both mutate o. If you ignore the array returned by map then they’re equivalent.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Look up any programming language popularity survey. Pure FP languages are substantially less popular, therefore less commonly understood and harder for the average dev to work with. If FP was the norm, then you could make the same argument
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
I think most programmers would disagree with you on this. Perhaps after enough FP experience the cognitive load that comes from the language’s constraints fade away, but I haven’t seen this in practice. FP is less commonly understood and ha
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
> After spending years in functional-land, I find the for loop (and while loop) construct maddening; you have to maintain the state of the entire enclosing scope system in your head. This is only true if immutability is enforced. In js y
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
> I've tried Python, hated the inconsistency of it Can you elaborate on this? I’ve written in both Python and Ruby, but I’m not sure what you mean by this critique of python. I wouldn’t characterize either language as “inconsistent.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Tried with Elon and Gates, but both threw this error Error occured while trying to proxy: hf.space/
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
> we, “the old folks,” just don’t get it Zuckerberg is 37 years old, so he’d probably be lumped into “the old folks” category. Why would he get it and not us? I’m, a decade younger than Mark, so idk if I’m young enough by your standards
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
It recommends products that were most frequently included in the same order. So it’s not recommending similar or related products, but products frequently purchased with the product in question, so the wine use-case wouldn’t recommend wine,
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Sounds like an inexperienced data engineer. One of the first things you learn is to read tabular data into a DataFrame, like pd.read_csv. So, there’s a natural progression to pd.read_sql [0], which default behavior loads SELECT * FROM t wit
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Thanks! Very cool. I haven’t used couchdb in prod. I’ll read into this more.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
What kind of consistency models [0] do Offline-first databases like RxDB and PouchDB have? I was thinking read uncommitted, but they might allow dirty writes. Maybe there’s some CRDTs under the hood… I can’t find any documentation on consis
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
> Whenever this topic comes up the conversation always centers around money or housing or other brute physical facts That’s not what the article is about. It’s about bad governing and policing as the primary cause of SF’s homelessness pr
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Awesome! I wish you well too. I hope today is a better day :)
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
So much flamebait. These kinds of comments aren’t good for anyone.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
A “dang-chain”
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
> Damn. I know you don't know me, but this is unnecessarily condescending and off the mark. I’m truly sorry you feel that way. My intent was sincerely to provide another point of view.
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
> I'm (perhaps naively) shocked at how opposed to this people are on Reddit, but especially on HN > I've worked with and mentored a lot of minority candidates (who often have trouble with the cultural test that is getting an
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
According to this article https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac... dang has worked for YC full time since 2014, so I’d assume that dang is “in the know.” But sometimes I wonder if dang is more than on
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Yeah, it sounds so bad that it’s probably made up. It implies that the company has 46% turnover or firing rate (29+17), but average turnover for tech companies is 10%-15% [0]. [0] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/news&#x2F
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
> Hub disappearing would be a 100 times worse than the left pad incident in the npm world This is really overdramatic. If Docker Inc. went out of business and Docker Hub was shutdown then the void would be filled very quickly. Many cloud
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
You mean without a deployment or statefulset? How would you connect to the DB without a service providing a persistent DNS name?
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Awesome! Thank you for sharing. This helps.
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What scale have you tested the UI at? Do you have any demo / benchmarks for over 1M rows for example? Reading through the infinite scrolling PR [1] it looks like scrolling isn’t virtualized (like Airtable’s) so the browser will start c
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
Another open source airtable alternative on the top of HN this year. NocoDB ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27303783 ) BaseRow ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26448985 ) Any idea why these project
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
> It's just my opinion, by I find things like this always reflect incredibly poorly on the author Ironic considering the comments that follow. Like > basically just comes off as a bitch session I do think your points could have m
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by peterthehacker 5y ago
300M Americans are on FB[0] 7/10 Americans are Christian[1] So, there are around 210M American Christians on FB. So, these posts reached roughly 60% of Christians. Sounds feasible to me. Top brands in a niche like Christians can get br
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Bad Blood E5: Fake it ‘till you make it(podcasts.apple.com)
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