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Perennial “What Armenians should know about life in America (2014)” from days of HN past https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22777745

And which today must be read via internet archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20200404172130/https://likewise....

Basically explaining to Armenians at home why their relatives who moved to America don’t send better remittances back home despite their $X pay rate. Here’s why …

Look at the tenures of some of their senior architects and I.T. Leadership, and you might find that it coincides with the outdated-ness of their infrastructure and practices.

how would you acquire the robot

Draw.io’s development philosophy is just too cool: “doesn’t use artificial scarcity to produce a bloated sales-centric company with matching revenues.”

https://www.drawio.com/about

Proving or disproving intent is hard, in court trials often taking days of witness testimony and jury deliberation.

These hot-take/title patterns "X is about Y1" are exploiting the difficulty of disproving them.

I often see it in the pattern of "Behavior of Group I Dislike is About Bad Motive."

The most grating title/text pattern for me is:

1. Stop []!

The AI usage mandates are odd because why do the execs doubt that the workers try on their own to get the maximum utility out of the AI tools?

Index the H1B quantities issued to the unemployment rate per job specialty + geographic region?

Paranoid null checking of every property dereference everywhere (much?.like?.in ?.my?.joke) whether each is ever possibly null or not, usually combined with not thinking through what the code behavior should be for each null case.

(Gets a lot better if you enable nullable references and upgrade the nullable reference warnings to errors.)

What?.could?.possibly?.go?.wrong?.

It could be said that you’re over-generalizing here.

Arguing against any attempt at competitive healthcare pricing because medical emergencies exist is a bit throwing the baby out with the bath water.

I don’t think so, although that seems like a fair question of you to ask.

I’ve tried on numerous occasions to get pricing quotes for healthcare both paying fully out of pocket, and for getting an estimate for what I’ll be left covering after insurance negotiates ads pays their part.

In every attempt I get absolutely nowhere price estimate-wise and wind get this or that procedure done just hoping and praying that the ultimate bill will be remotely reasonable

We’re so far off the mark for having a healthy marketplace for healthcare pricing that I just can’t see considering it dysfunctional to itself be an appeal to some purity.

Perhaps one might argue that a formerly functional healthcare pricing system will inevitably degenerate into this robber Baron situation that we’ve got currently, but otherwise I don’t see the no true Scotsman.

Pricing signals have been blocked from flowing from consumers to providers since LONG before that.

When did the U.S. really try?

Is all of your healthcare 100% heart attacks?

1. A properly competitive marketplace 2. Socialized medicine 3. What we have now

I would like to see #1 tried but at this point I’ll gladly accept #2

I'm way late to think of this and circle back here, but if you don't mind briefly switching languages to F#, I first grasped these concepts via "Designing with types: Making illegal states unrepresentable"

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-with-types...

... and I would suggest actively playing around with the code examples, extending them, breaking them intentionally etc. somewhere like https://dotnetfiddle.net/

I think the article is brilliant but as I recall I wasn't able to grasp the concepts from reading alone.

That same website has a separate article on building a calculator (in code) that I recall was also excellent.

I might suspect that if you are lumping all statically-typed languages into a single bucket without making particular distinction among them, then you might not have fully internalized the implications of union (aka Rust enum aka sum) typed data structures combined with exhaustive pattern matching.

I like to call it getting "union-pilled" and it's really hard to accept otherwise statically-typed languages once you become familiar.

Fantastic comment from an earlier posting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35720336

“… one of the principle issues is that it's less a protocol and more a skeleton of a protocol.”

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I wonder how much of a bright line can be drawn to distinguish these sites that charge to “help” you through some governmental process vs like TurboTax.

“Yo dawg, I heard you liked XML …”

Christina P: “I graduated with a degree in philosophy only to discover The Philosophy Corporation wasn’t hiring.”

Won’t this cause [insert LLM] to lose context around the semantics of messages passed between microservices?

You could then put all services in 1 repo, or point LLM at X number of folders containing source for all X services, but then it doesn’t seem like you’ll have gained anything, and at the cost of added network calls and more infra management.

“Oh, that must be exhausting.”

Types require opt-out and automatically extrapolate onto new code. Tests require opt-in.

Unclear from the video: do you need to use any sort of bait or lure to attract mosquitoes upstream of the fan?

Do you feel the urge to fuck your toaster?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25667362

Stack Overflow is a programming Q&A website where people get mad at you for asking programming questions the overwhelming majority of the time.

Not to mention > $10K financial transaction disclosures