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by timbuckley 1y ago
Zod is a critical piece of infrastructure to virtually any TypeScript project. Glad to see they are taking inspiration from other similar validation libraries on performance and ergonomics.
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by timbuckley 5y ago
Related discussion on a different article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28505103
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Hack Pipe for FPers: How I learned to stop worrying and love the placeholder(jamesdigioia.com)
2 points by timbuckley 5y ago|1 comments
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by timbuckley 6y ago
And for the first time in history, since the middle of the previous century, we have some capacity of ending the entirety of human life on the planet, with only a few hands involved.
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by timbuckley 7y ago
> It's a beautiful language but it lacks a lot of features to make it useable at scale. Can you expand on this? What features is it missing?
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by timbuckley 7y ago
Exactly. The only way a pyramid-shaped population chart "works" is if people die soon after (or before) they reach the top of the pyramid. In the long run, the only stable population shape ultimately is a column that is thicker at
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by timbuckley 7y ago
This is also why universal basic income is a fantastic policy.
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by timbuckley 7y ago
I suggest you look at Andrew Yang’s 2020 platform of Freedom Dividend and explanation of how to pay for it. Yang would offer each person an annual choice between existing benefits or an unconditional transfer payments (UBI). This allows for
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by timbuckley 7y ago
To a large degree that's because the cost is far higher to pay a human to do the driving. In a world of self-driving cars, more of them can be stations geographically close to where they may be needed - without having to pay for a huma
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by timbuckley 7y ago
You can have convoluted or simple FP programs as you can have the same for OOP. Nonetheless, is paradigm better at yielding more robust software you can reason about well more of the time? I would say yes, and FP does this.
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by timbuckley 8y ago
> The article is refuting a strawman This is simply not true. How often have you heard the phrase "equal pay for equal work"? That phrase literally implies that for the same work, women are paid less. That is what people mean w
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by timbuckley 8y ago
Do you consider ethics business related?
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by timbuckley 8y ago
> I'm curious as to what 30 years of sitting, programming, drinking cool-aid will do to health vs 30 years of lugging steel... Trawler fishing, I agree - v.dangerous, not good for you! In those 30 years, you will likely accumulate i
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by timbuckley 8y ago
For a great example of its use in a dynamically typed language, see Elixir.
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by timbuckley 9y ago
Not really sure how you can reach that conclusion. With JSX you are declaring what the HTML will look like, rather than specifying how to do the transitions. It's difficult to get more declarative than that.
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by timbuckley 9y ago
Here's a direct link to the Imperative vs Declarative video.[0] [0] https://courses.reacttraining.com/courses/advanced-react/lec...
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by timbuckley 9y ago
It's exactly because there is so much violence that we need to reward actors who work to reduce it.
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by timbuckley 9y ago
I agree whiteboards are great for all those things. But they are terrible as a way to write actual code. The problem is that many whiteboard interviews have you write actual code on the board, and all of the inefficiencies involved in that.
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by timbuckley 9y ago
Indeed. I'm a graduate (3+ years ago). Best thing I ever did.
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by timbuckley 9y ago
App Academy is extremely selective (less than 3%). Also there is probably sample bias, since these are all self-reported.
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by timbuckley 9y ago
I'm an App Academy grad. I don't work at Google myself, but I know a few who do. App Academy is indeed extremely selective, with an acceptance rate less than 3%. The salaries shown are all self-reported (App Academy isn't rel
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by timbuckley 9y ago
People on LinkedIn who have gone to App Academy who currently or previously work at Google: https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetCurrent...
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by timbuckley 9y ago
The vast majority of these are App Academy (a/A) programming bootcamp graduates, which explains why only 10% have CS degrees. Bootcamp graduates are probably not representative of all CS grads, or even most devs, so take this with a gr
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by timbuckley 9y ago
I graduated from App Academy NYC in January 2014. I'm in my 2nd post-bootcamp developer job at a small-ish company, making double my previous salary before a/A. I love what I do and attending the bootcamp was the hardest and most
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by timbuckley 9y ago
I'm going to use this opportunity to plug my Redux Saga testing library: redux-saga-test-engine[0][1]. It makes saga tests much less verbose. Let me know if you like it (or don't)! :) [0] https://github.com/DNAinfo
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by timbuckley 9y ago
I guess other companies should be wary of persons who leave Uber in the past few weeks or so.
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by timbuckley 9y ago
There must be SOME minimum wage level at which jobs would be lost. (If you doubt this, consider how a $100 minimum wage would work.) The question is, what is the maximum minimum-wage before jobs are lost?
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by timbuckley 9y ago
How does a (more) progressive tax system increase real median wage?
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by timbuckley 10y ago
The non sequitur here is dizzying.
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by timbuckley 10y ago
You are welcome to start working on it at any time.

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