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Ironic, given you started with none. I standby the response, as appropriate commentary.

> IDK what "good money" means,

I don't know either, but that's irrelevant to the topical subject of comparison (not equivocating over 10% here or there in difference).

> Again, offputting.

That is often the case, when you are demonstrably wrong and have to deal with the realization.

> This is super offputting because you're taking on an extremely condescending tone and haven't even bothered to do the research yourself.

The income of Cargill offset by costs is not 114 billion. That's just gross. It has a fraction of that income as opposed to the incomparable bank nets.

> Wait. This is literally exactly the point I was trying to make in my original comment.

You failed and started with talking about how blue collar workers are fine and comparisons to white collar management is unfair, which is frustratingly disingenuous. Good luck with whatever.

> In general, that's not actually true.

Please do cursory searches for data to backup what you imagine to be true.

> Nurses make good money.

On average, no. There's the eventual objection about what "compensation" means versus "salary", but moving the bar introduces a number of other variables. Keep it simple, as per the article. Feel free to goole nursing salary - not counting the issue of registered nurses acting as sergeants for teams of nursing assistants who perform the vast majority of the care, they are arguably underpaid (and assistants are shamefully underpaid). This disturbing feudal system is mirrored across multiple industries.

> Comparing teachers and police officers to hedge fund guys is weird

Weird is a strange way of saying "accurate".

> Education or law enforcement consultant/vendor/leader

Whatever that means. Making some other unclear comparison serves what purpose? Law enforcement entry pay is less/parity with a teacher, but is less than a federal worker at the post office in salary and definitely in other benefits.

> the largest farming companies are just as powerful and profitable as the largest banks.

Google 'largest banks', and assume annual profit to be about 10-20% of their assets. Over 94% of farms in the US are family owned, so I don't know what you think you mean by farming companies. I don't need to guess, I know that there isn't a single farming-related company one that comes close to the banks in terms of profits, assets, or valuation.

The world isn't in the state you believe it is.

Nope. johnonolan's post is top and it explains about as much as the site. Not much at all. There's an animated thing going on a page break down from the top, but the site is so jam-packed with marketspeak and vagary that it shouldn't be surprising. Also, I still don't know what it is. Compare that with Codesandbox (also on HN) which is straightforward.

That's an example of nightmarish bureaucracy getting in the way of hiring. Titles don't mean anything in software development. If you don't know that, your notions of what to do or not to do are suspect.

> Everyone was arguing until Anthony suddenly said, “Can I speak now?” The room went silent

VP or not (lots of software devs that aren't supervisors hold VP titles of Software Dev in various industry), this is an example of a terrible communicator who is less creative than autocratic, due to insecurity. Again, so common an archetype that, the rest of the article feels tainted.

Overly-complicated code is a mistake. Maintainability matters almost as much as a passing unit test. You want your code reviews to catch meaningful things, but they often end up being about things like this (fixing inefficient small bits of code).

e.g.

     function isDry(weather) {
         if (typesUtil.isSunny(weather) ||
             (!typesUtil.isSunny(weather) && typeof weather.hasSnow === 'boolean' && !weather.hasSnow)) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    function isDry(weather) {
        return typesUtil.isSunny(weather) || 
        (typeof weather.hasSnow == ‘boolean’ && !weather.hasSnow);
    }

    function isDry(weather)
        var hasSnow = false;
        if(typeof weather.hasSnow === 'boolean') {
            hasSnow = weather.hasSnow;
        }
        return (typesUtil.isSunny(weather) || !hasSnow);
    }

Hotel Security aren't the federal government. The 4th amendment? C'mon.

THAT is a matter of profitability, whatever else you may think. SMH I have to wonder what's wrong with people who think there's some other motives.

It's not about some logical argument. That's for a judge to decide.

The set of integers represented by the integer types of pony can be treated as a field, since they have discrete ranges.

Saying that is easy and common. Can you come up with a contrived example?

Computer languages execute on rules that are not utilizing real number arithmetic. I didn't want to mention it, but there's these things called floats...

Edit: Pony took out the "normal" version of division by zero and suggest to write a wrapper to check beforehand.

1 != 0*0

I don't see the inconsistency. Abstract math vs practical application.

The same issue if division by zero throws an exception. This is simply a more practical approach that dispenses with the exception handling (ie becomes a less irregular test case). Edit: Not buggy behavior, when expected.

The lampoon in Tropic Thunder was eerily prescient.

This is a widely discussed topic.