waivek

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by waivek 2y ago
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "frontend code can't enforce invariants" ?
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by waivek 7y ago
I see a lot of people confused about the host (Facebook). Carmack initially posted a lot of high quality articles on AltDevBlogADay. However, that site went down. Carmack said he moved to Facebook because he feels it's more reliable th
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by waivek 7y ago
Laptops aren't ubiquitous.
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by waivek 8y ago
I've used vim for seven years now. My vimrc is a gargantuan 122 lines of vimL. It went from 0 lines to 300 to 750 and it's been 122 for a year now. Whenever someone asks me for tips and tricks to learn vim I reference this tweet:
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by waivek 8y ago
It wasn't an insult as much as an observation made by another user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19357372 And almost every view you have of India, even your most recent one seems to be based on stereotypes and
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by waivek 8y ago
This is getting borderline pedantic, lol. This is the first time I dropped the second sentence. I've only quoted it twice and I quoted it fully the first time. I tried to answer your question by trying to inform you that the scenario y
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by waivek 8y ago
The "immobile incontinent patient scenario" isn't too commonplace. In my family and most of the extended families of my friends, you stay with your parents for companionship and helping them out in day-to-day tasks if require
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by waivek 8y ago
I think we're going a bit off topic here. I only ask that you don't let the plot devices of Bollywood films have a non-trivial influence on your world view. The statement of yours that I was originally replying to was: As long as
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by waivek 8y ago
I didn't mention daughter in laws in any of my comments. You might be confusing the replies together. Your entire statement really seems to be a very pessimistic take that is certainly a possibility but not commonplace. There are chall
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by waivek 8y ago
Ok good we're on the same page then. So if the nursery was permanent and replaced the role of the parent completely, would that be moral? Or to equate it more fairly, if a parent paid somebody to permanently take care of their children
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by waivek 8y ago
How was it smug in any way? I was trying to draw parallels in an attempt to understand your thought process. You asserted that as long as the quality of the care is acceptable, the source shouldn't make too much of a difference. I trie
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by waivek 8y ago
That's a very uncharitable reply
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by waivek 8y ago
With the recent (and by recent I mean since 1991) opening of the Indian economy, there has been a cultural shift in the Indian mindset. It might surprise you but leaving India for education or employment is actually pretty commonplace and i
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by waivek 8y ago
Ah okay. I think I am beginning to understand your point of view. :) Can this concept be extended to a parent-child relationship where the parent is replaced by a trained professional?
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by waivek 8y ago
I think the key difference is that the visit from your mother-in-law was a novel or unique experience which you might not have the emotional tools to handle. It isn't exactly fair to compare that inexperience with what is a way of life
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by waivek 8y ago
That's also a way of looking at it. I wouldn't agree with the part where you say "family caretaking is typically presented as a virtue" however. Being virtuous is synonymous with being honorable. If you see a parent taki
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by waivek 8y ago
If you're not living in absolute poverty, it's completely possible to take care of your parents as they grow old. My father took care of my grandfather until his last day and they lived under the same roof albeit on different floo
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by waivek 8y ago
Parents and siblings?
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by waivek 8y ago
Completely agree with everything you are saying. I also immediately have to think about something else to avoid what I feel would be a mental collapse. One thing that has given me a bit of comfort was an answer I heard when somebody asked o
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by waivek 8y ago
As an Indian, I will never ever be able to wrap my head around the concept of an old-age home that seems normal in western societies. Whenever I find myself feeling a bit envious about the obvious advantages that are there in western countr
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by waivek 8y ago
Thank you for putting into words the thoughts that I have had for quite some time. The "panicking" I experience is also similar, more accurately described as horror-fueled panic.
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by waivek 8y ago
A good snippet to come back to whenever one needs to be humbled: Euler's work touched upon so many fields that he is often the earliest written reference on a given matter. In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some dis
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by waivek 8y ago
HN generates emotional friction[1], is filled with shallow but clever sounding dismissals[2] and is filled with low quality discussions on high quality articles[3]. [1]: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/78777513168
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by waivek 8y ago
As a software "engineer", I've always been envious of architects and the well-defined path to mastery that exists in their field. You start off as a lowly apprentice and only through years of study and practice can you progre
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by waivek 8y ago
They did do an episode on the monocultural aspect in the latest season. Richard unintentionally "outs" a guy as being Christian and some of the programmers feel uncomfortable working with a Christian. The guy later pulls Richard a
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by waivek 8y ago
Try equity also
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by waivek 8y ago
Theology and to a lesser extent, mathematics.
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by waivek 8y ago
I use Github pages. I'm not a professional web developer so my take is pretty non technical. The main difference for me seems to be netlify let's you have input forms and do POST requests whereas github pages is more static and on
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by waivek 8y ago
The Turing complete one.
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by waivek 8y ago
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7763

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