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by sowhatquestion 7y ago
As a Laravel dev who almost went down the Rails path, I’m curious: what advantages do you think Rails has over Laravel at this point?
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by sowhatquestion 7y ago
This is the Soylent hypothesis. "Processed food" as such is not the problem—it's processed food used as a delivery vehicle for as many addictive sugars, fats, and simple carbs as possible. I would guess that the bad kind of p
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Ask HN: What's one book or article I should read before starting a company?
12 points by sowhatquestion 7y ago|5 comments
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by sowhatquestion 7y ago
I would recommend Kafka's short story "The Great Wall of China"
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by sowhatquestion 7y ago
> It's so easy in the vacuum of a single developer with a single application to think everyone should keep up to date, but the reality is most of the PHP sites on the internet are owned by non-technical people "Non-technical&qu
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by sowhatquestion 7y ago
I've heard this criticism of Laravel a couple times and never understood it. I've been using the framework for years and have never had an issue with upgrades. There is a clear and comprehensive upgrade guide with each release, as
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by sowhatquestion 8y ago
> How do you compose two base classes into a subclass? In most other OOP languages besides JS, the obvious answer would be to use traits.
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by sowhatquestion 8y ago
Honest question: what's so bad about the reddit redesign?
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by sowhatquestion 8y ago
PHP has had optionally typed function parameters and return values since the late 5.x releases I think (current release is 7.3). Types are checked at runtime and throw TypeErrors if the declared types are violated. They can also be checked
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by sowhatquestion 8y ago
It would be far from the first HN article (or comment) that failed to make a distinction between "poorly designed object-oriented systems" and the very idea of OOP, design patterns, etc
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by sowhatquestion 8y ago
I was glad to see this posted here. Reading it again, I thought, "I can't be the only one who works in ad tech yet broadly agrees with this proposal."
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by sowhatquestion 8y ago
Very impressive. Does the federal government have anything comparable to this?
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by sowhatquestion 8y ago
I'm a (primarily backend/API) web developer, with 5 years of experience at this point, and I've been planning to apply to Georgia Tech OMSCS in order to branch out into different specializations like ML and data science. A be
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About That Joint: Marijuana Startups Pass(nytimes.com)
2 points by sowhatquestion 9y ago|0 comments
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by sowhatquestion 9y ago
They've addressed this many times. There are different "grades" of maltodextrin with different glycemic indexes. Soylent uses a higher grade with a low glycemic index. Google "low DE maltodextrin." Soylent also uses
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by sowhatquestion 10y ago
> It always amazed me when someone looks at computer systems of the 70's through the lens of "today's" technology and then projects a failure of imagination on the part of those engineers back in the 70's True en
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Tech and the Fake Market tactic(medium.com)
1 points by sowhatquestion 10y ago|0 comments
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by sowhatquestion 10y ago
I'm highly curious about Rust as a potential introduction to systems programming. One thing that bothers me is the lack of proper classes. This seems to have become a trend among newer languages, as though traditional OOP is an outdate
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by sowhatquestion 10y ago
> Most professional developers I talked to are perfectly fine with the changes. They just weren't interested in taking part in the online drama. You just described my reaction to every single MBP thread I've seen since the anno
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by sowhatquestion 10y ago
This is false. Soylent is classified as a food, and has to follow the same FDA requirements as any other food. "Soylent is not in violation of any product-safety standards or requirements, and is manufactured in FDA-approved facilities
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by sowhatquestion 10y ago
>I think that Soylent will go down as a cautionary tale for anyone who looks at a field they know very little about and thinks "how hard could it be?". Along with Theranos. Terrible analogy. Unlike Theranos, Soylent has been sh
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by sowhatquestion 10y ago
DNS resolves for me now but the page doesn't load.
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by sowhatquestion 10y ago
You're describing the reality that any observant Millenial lives in. Unfortunately, the spurious trend pieces will continue until Boomers finally grasp that the economy no longer offers the "average" person the same opportuni
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by sowhatquestion 10y ago
Was anyone else disturbed by Strack and Martin's hand-waving away the null replication result? Based on my (admittedly elementary) knowledge of statistics, it seems like 17 replication attempts (samples) whose means are distributed aro
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by sowhatquestion 10y ago
Correct me if I'm misreading, but I have a hard time seeing how the study supports your hypothesis. In the "Discussion" section, the authors state that their heritability estimate for educational attainment was 31%, and only
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by sowhatquestion 10y ago
>something about the tone of this blog post is utterly repellent to me and I'm struggling to put my finger on the reason why. Points for honesty. Drawing from my own experience: sometimes this feeling happens for a reason, and somet
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by sowhatquestion 10y ago
Hold up, you mean teams at Microsoft are "mailing zip files around!?"
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by sowhatquestion 10y ago
Thanks for the links! The tech is absolutely stunning, I can't believe it flew under my radar for months after being announced.
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by sowhatquestion 10y ago
> It is clear that the United States in particular is, especially in recent years, churning out unprecedented numbers of severely psychologically ill individuals. Is it clear? Or have we gotten better at diagnosing conditions that peop
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
Yeah, it reminded me of Spaceballs. "They've gone to plaid!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAWL8ejf2nM

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