remixff2400

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by remixff2400 18d ago
Yep, same experience. We were a company of largely bootcamp grads with past experience in the product area. Most people had tenures of 5+ years and everyone had great rapport. Made it to unicorn status and then some. Then, for whatever reas
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by remixff2400 3mo ago
This is just a poor strawman/false dilemma: you don't have to be 100% or 0% for something to be effective or true. You're not addressing the actual claim (_why_ climate change is controversial, and particularly why the curren
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by remixff2400 4mo ago
I'd wager the main difference between "many decades ago" and mid 2000s onwards is the perceived stakes of college. My time in college (around that time) was perceived by most as "make or break": either you did well
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by remixff2400 11mo ago
Flow was a type checker (used to be Typescript vs. Flow debates early on before Typescript ended up with more support), Flux was the unidirectional data flow architecture.
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by remixff2400 1y ago
From the guidelines: > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. because... they don't have as many examples, documentation, textbooks, or public
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by remixff2400 1y ago
I just started with it, so still getting my feet wet, but it's been better than any other tool at really grokking my codebase and understanding my intent. The workflow feels better than a strict IDE integration, but it does get pricey
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by remixff2400 2y ago
1. <- I think this is a good thing to focus on, and even lightly touched on in the video. The idea should be that you don't _need_ to be sophisticated to enjoy the sport. The NFL does well in this regard because it's pretty eas
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by remixff2400 2y ago
Seconding this: you don't try and fix things after the damage has been done, you try and anticipate _where_ and _when_ the damage could be done. In this case, giving a foreign _adversarial_ (<- emphasis) government significant lever
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by remixff2400 2y ago
Hard disagree: your own government at least has the incentive to make the country better (or at least appear so) to seek reelection. A foreign adversarial government has the incentive to limit the growth and power of the other country, in s
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by remixff2400 2y ago
End users just won't care about the algorithm. Try talking to a niece or nephew, especially one who makes money on the platform about The Algorithm and you'll get blank stares, or, at best, a "yeah I know, but...". If yo
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by remixff2400 2y ago
My read on the situation is that this is the beginning of clamping down on _all_ (or most) of this. Also important to note the difference between racism and national security. The notion isn't "wacky chinese people ooh so mysterio
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by remixff2400 2y ago
I mean, book banning isn't a federal level thing (at least not at any remotely broad level) and typically happens either on one side of the political spectrum (same deal with LGBT stuff), or at the level of individual school systems. e
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by remixff2400 2y ago
The difference is that citizens can influence those companies, or influence the politicians that can influence those companies. Also, there's no direct incentive to have broad negative impacts on citizen consumers at a global politics
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by remixff2400 2y ago
Not my area of expertise per se, but the counterargument that I've seen is that the states (e.g. Oregon) that tried it never got the backstops in place to help soften and support the transition (i.e. rehab centers, support programs, so
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by remixff2400 2y ago
Implementation has been a big part https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36976670 (one of many discussions if you search for previous Hacker News articles) Especially earlier on, web components were implemented without incor
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by remixff2400 2y ago
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. > Eschew flamebait. (Hacker News guidelines) There's a perfectly fine topic for debate here, but you'd do much better to word it in a less inflammatory way. The internet has a lot of material
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by remixff2400 2y ago
That's the thing: we're _only_ 8 billion and amongst that we only have so many researchers and people who have the knowledge to do anything like that. We have limited capital to pursue any major initiative, so wasting it on unfeas
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by remixff2400 2y ago
Isn't that the whole point of the article? Microbiome research is hard? In this case, we're just left with trying to extrapolate loosely based off of trends. There's nothing to suggest that these things are bad for your healt
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by remixff2400 2y ago
I think your point makes sense, but the comparison of programming to swimming loses the thread of thought a bit. Swimming is not my forte, but there are books by professional marathoners on how to train for marathons, for example, that are
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by remixff2400 2y ago
I think that some of the advice hasn't aged well into modern language features and computer power, similar to the GoF Design Patterns book. Rather than an entry level book, this would be better for a budding intermediate who can parse
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by remixff2400 2y ago
I think the argument isn't "engineer" vs. "farmer", but rather engineer (or doctor, interpreter, commercial farmer/farm manager, industrial project manager, any other specialization that realistically requires
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by remixff2400 2y ago
Not as sure about electricians, but plumbers at least pay for it with their body. Even though PPE can reduce the strain, there's still a reason why these trades haven't just shot through the roof. Bad knees, bad backs, respiratory
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by remixff2400 2y ago
The unfortunate part of this is that a large percentage of that small percentage is library maintainers, so it matters a lot more overall because of their role in the React space, even if users aren't necessarily using those features.
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by remixff2400 2y ago
Spinning up DB instances is a lot faster now than it used to be in the past. There are even modules for in-memory instances of certain databases. The speed of a unit test vs. that of one that uses an actual database is small enough for it t