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mikerichards··on Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis
You people always have to preface with "...I'm always for regulation and government interference...but".
mikerichards··on Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' aliases from PowerShell
You don't seem to understand the definitions of "convicted" and "community".
mikerichards··on USMS Asset Forfeiture Bitcoin Sale
so the US government says Bitcoin is legit? good.

Forfeiture is a scummy thing by the feds, but I'll take a 2017 vette with those bitcoins.

mikerichards··on Blackjack Simulator with OMEGA II Card Counting
so many of remember the movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_(film)

How can you maximize before you get kicked out....you always get kicked out.

mikerichards··on Marie Curie Got Her Start at a Secret University for Women
How tired are you after a days of works. Many of us are mentally drained, which we feel as physically drained after work.

Not only that, but physical activity plus our mental strain screws with our cortisol levels.

Personally, I used to work out a lot. Then I realized I was getting crabby all the time. I think I have cortisol problems, but not sure.

Anybody refer me to research with stress and and physical workouts and not getting enough sleep?

mikerichards··on Singapore Is the Perfect Place to Test Self-Driving Cars
yes, it'll be a slow slog, but Americans aren't stupid and understand that fully autonomous roads are controlled by government and bad.
mikerichards··on Singapore Is the Perfect Place to Test Self-Driving Cars
That's a good point. Singapore is an autocratic state and very small.

It'll be decades (maybe a century) before Americans give up their right to freely drive their cars.

The are huge individual american rights to move around freely that can't be denied.

mikerichards··on 2015 Set a Frenzy of Climate Records
"the right" didn't invent "global warming"....the left did.

Listen, maybe, or maybe not, there is man-made global warming, but when the left calls for the death-penalty for global warming "denialists", then we know it's the official religion of the left.

The politics of "global warming" is too intertwined with leftist political agenda.

You people can keep on being "denialists" about that in public, we know its true.

mikerichards··on 2015 Set a Frenzy of Climate Records
Global Warming coincides with leftist economic/political policies very neatly. That can't be denied.
mikerichards··on When It Comes to China, Google’s Experience Still Says It All
he's not falling for Chinese propaganda, he's part of the Chinese propaganda
mikerichards··on Show HN: HammerJS for React Native
Exactly, I still have no idea what HammerJS is.
mikerichards··on Why We Need to Pick Up Alvin Toffler’s Torch
In many large ways, it’s almost as if we have collectively stopped planning for the future.

We never did "collectively plan" for the future, nor should we.

mikerichards··on Three Big Lies (2008)
In the mid-late 90s, when I started writing C++, I had a gut instinct that methods and data shouldn't be encapsulated together. I couldn't explain why though.

Rich Hickey started clarifying it for me a little though. I can't dig up the interview he did, but he talked about classes being mini-DSLs and hindering reuse. That makes sense to me.

I much prefer generic functions and multi-dispatch in Common Lisp's CLOS and the new language Stanza - it just seems more flexible.

But generally, I want to think about data transformations and not little "machines" (objects) doing things things to their state internally.

mikerichards··on Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed
So Spain isn't Germany, but I'm curious why even in the midwest (St. Louis no less), senior developers easily command $120k+.

But I guess this also goes to the point why SV is only playing "normal" senior developers $150k/yr?

Unless you're really digging the Bay Area lifestyle (or "I'll get my chance in the next cool startup), why even bother.

mikerichards··on How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics
Not sure why you're getting modded down, because your'e exactly right. They're stupid, psychological, trick questions to get people to lie.

Just walk out when you get questions like this.

mikerichards··on New Cities
Where besides NYC? Nowhere. Americans like their cars. They like to drive. America is not the collectivist/statists that represent modern HN...which is pretty sick.

Hackers are anti-establishment! Hackers are not conformists that defer to government minders!

mikerichards··on New Cities
you pop into the market as you walk past it on the way home from work,

We're not European, we're not going to be European...ever. We just don't "pop in" to some market while we're walking by. We pop-in while we're driving by or we plan to drive 5 minutes to an awesome supermarket.

Just stop this constant crap about walking and "only if we're like some European village" crap that will never happen in America.

mikerichards··on New Cities
I think its pretty telling that Y-combinator wants to become central planners.

I'd back off these political positions you guys keep on taking.

mikerichards··on Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer
That's not working out.
mikerichards··on Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer
At what point are there consequences for bad decisions by judges? At what point are there consequences for bad decisions by prosecutors?

At some point, judges and prosecutors have to be held account for decisions that are clearly unconstitutional or against the law.

Where are the checks for these institutions? Appeals courts and whatever bodies oversee prosecutors is not enough.

mikerichards··on Heisenberg Developers (2014)
Been there, seen that. Nebulous, pie-n-the-sky requirements coupled with PMs that don't understand software development and probably don't even understand the product.

I feel bad for PMs, because there is a role for them - just usually not the role that they've been assigned to. PMs tied down to small teams usually causes problems. PMs should be facilitating inter-team development. I believe tech-leads and BAs should be assigned the role that PMs seem to find themselves in when they're assigned to small teams.

And please PMs, learn what the product is all about. Too many times I've seen PMs actively not wanting to know what the hell the product is about and instead love getting bogged down in process (and of course meetings).

mikerichards··on Table-oriented programming (2002)
I think topmind/tablizer has been somewhat vindicated with the rise of Clojure and Rich Hickey ranting on OO in a much more eloquent way.

But generally, I think the glow of OO as some kind of awesome panacea for software development woes has worn off. Or at the very least, the way it was sold back in the 90s has been pretty much debunked.

mikerichards··on Iran Launches Its First RTB Platform
Is this government sponsored? If not, then why "Iran Launches"
mikerichards··on Why Young Americans Are Giving Up on Capitalism
Maybe because except for the 1% most of the population feels the negative effects of it?

A Bernie Sanders meme isn't reality. Vastly more than 1% are doing fine.

mikerichards··on Why Young Americans Are Giving Up on Capitalism
The democrat party is so far to the left of JFK, that there's no real middle-ground between the parties anymore. America is at a tipping point right now. Things could get real nasty in the not too distant future. No wonder there's so many AR-15s sold and no wonder that the left wants to take them away.
mikerichards··on Four months with Haskell
I'm not a Haskell programmer, but I wish more languages had Newtypes.

Most of the time I'm too lazy (or consider it too much boilerplate) to wrap strings in classes. But on more than one occasion I've spent too much time tracking down a bug because I passed the wrong string to the wrong argument in a method.

mikerichards··on The case for memory-mapped GPU assets
Yes, annoying. Ended up right-clicking, inspect, and delete element.
mikerichards··on Show HN: Map of immigration to the U.S. since 1820
My great grandparents were born in America in the late 1800s and live in southern Ill (right outside of St. Louis), but spoke german at home as did much of that area.

My grandmother tells me the story of how mad she was when she started going to kindergarten/1st grade and she couldn't speak English yet.

mikerichards··on I Was Wrong About TypeScript
Interestingly enough, the Typescript compiler team doesn't even use classes. If you want, you pretty much write just functional code.
mikerichards··on I Was Wrong About TypeScript
From a React newbies's perspective, the React community is much more in the es6 camp than Typescript. Many of the starter kits are in es6. It's not a huge deal.

I actually write most of my front-end code these days in Aurelia, which is written in es6, but they actually have type annotations which Babel knows how to deal with. So basically the tooling can auto-generate the *.d.ts files for you.

That said, Typescript natively supports React syntax through TSX files, which is nice.

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