mping

Curiously, I just read this: https://blog.expensify.com/2018/01/08/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-q...

12h is maybe too much but I have worked with people from +/-4h, what you want most of the time is a decent overlap between all team members. Besides there are some roles such as SRE that need people 24/7 around the world

Kinda reminds me when LinkedIn invited your Gmail contacts without your consent. I think fb did something similar in the beginning. So the lesson is that if you want to grow quickly you do a land grab, just stomping on your user's rights.

I agree. I even remember an article about an Amazon warehouse worker that could only afford diapers sold by Amazon because they were the cheapest. The irony.

But like someone else mentioned, there are countries where Amazon has to pay minimum wage and it works just fine. I think we as consumers have the responsibility to vote with our wallet but we as society have responsibility to put boundaries into laws to prevent abuse. So in my view consumers, suppliers and legislators are at fault.

Consumers suffer because they won't buy that 50in tv? Really, any business that exploits workers should not exist. If some goods are just too expensive then people should really learn to live without them. I don't mind "suffering" as a consumer if what I pay reflects the real costs of production. It's called honesty.

The problem is that any company as big as Amazon is a billion pound train moving at high speed, it can't make turns that fast. So while I would like for them to try harder I don't expect it to happen.

Porta mesma door in Portuguese. Author is probably pt/pt or pt/br

I agree that what matters most is UX and battery life, but these are not fixed and are actually pretty malleable, otherwise the only thing that would beat a mbp could only be next year's mbp.

I had a laptop with terrible battery (desktop replacement) and it was great for my use. I also have a xps13 and it's great. I also had a mbp15 and it was great too. As you guessed, I had a different use case for each.

If I had to spend my money, would probably be the Acer as long as battery was ok.

If you value your time like that you might as well sleep 2h less and earn 400$ every night.

This is not a fair comparison because there are a lot of benefits of troubleshooting, most of them intangible. If you don't like it fine, just get a Linux "certified" laptop or a Mac.

I'm not familiar with scala but will take a look. Completely agree over your last point. I very much prefer libraries over frameworks, and as you said pointcuts are a bit fragile, but my main point is that they behave differently because of bytecode transforms.

Don't forget AOP can work on top of compiled classes, not sure I'd there is an equivalent in python or ruby.

If I give you a jar (or equivalent) of my compiled app, can you still apply cross cutting concerns (over compiled code you may not own)? Because that's what AOP and bytecode transformation can do.

I remember the Rails people making fun of the Spring stacktraces vs the Rails one (being much shorter). Guess what, a couple of years later Rails has the same layers of abstraction

Academia is geared towards paper publishing, so why would they bother with code quality? Even if in the long run it would benefit them, its at best a nice to have. Most academia doesn't share code or data anyway.

It's like saying that programmers are professional English writers, so comments and such should be written in perfect English.

IMHO the only valid criticism is if the the simulation modelling is sound and implemented accurately.

HNers very much like knowledge, and books contain large amounts of it.

Sounds like a job for Erlang

This assumes conditions don't change. With enough time, a treatment or cure can be found. In the future, hindsight will be 20/20 but right now the wisest is to buy time to understand the spread and disease better.

Hey, where's your blog? I'd like to take a look at those bits too!

Will take a look, tks

I saw the videos, they are helpful but I couldnt make my project work somehow.

I tried fulcro but the amount of concepts you needed to learn was a bit too much. Unfortunately I was experimenting with electron which made it more complicated. It sounds a great framework if you have the right requirements but personally I found reagent/reframe alot simpler for my use case.

Also, the fulcro docs are thorough but it didn't click for me, I left with some questions unanswered.

Aka engineer's disease

Of course it is. Stealing is taking what is not given. People can play with words and logic all day but that's it. If you take something that was not given to you it's stealing. In case of torrents, the owner of the media obviously didn't sell it nor gave it.

Don't forget the bill

I keep backups of my cloud data whenever possible. Mostly a couple hundred mb for small projects, I have been bitten by the same situation in the past

Well SMS and voice calls work fine. For the res, most of the time it can wait.

Apparently no, they have more candidates than they can manage so they can afford it.

Ecosystem is a real problem, but motivated engineers will make it work no matter what. I mean, banks run on COBOL.

Besides, I am willing to bet idiomatic rust is 2x-10x faster than idiomatic kotlin.

Productivity is a function of concentration and understanding. If you have sufficient knowledge, what lacks is concentration. I'm perpetually amazed how people 1) fail to see this and 2) think their concentration power is fixed for life.

An example of this is when you do pair programming, your pair forces you to keep concentrated (and you force him too) - if you are screensharing you won't alt tab to reddit) so it's an example on how you can keep focused for longer periods than normal, at the expense of being more tired at the end of the day.

Err, no it is not safe unless you trust the app you are running to validate the certificate chain. Not so long ago, I found out my bank's app didn't validate the cert and I could happily put a proxy and intercept all calls.

I'm not familiar, but it was US's own NSA that was caught red handed. China has an aura of non compliance and state sponsored hacking but I trust them as much as the US.