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I've read this argument several times in several places and I'm still unclear how this is substantively different than setting up whatever arbitrary state you want to work with in tests and dropping into the console from there. Super open to be enlightened, but up this point I haven't been persuaded.

also, studying only libraries might encourage people to think that the proper amount of abstraction is higher than it might be for an actual project.

My opinion of Pollock changed drastically when I saw something in person. For me, it was Greyed Rainbow, which is completely uninteresting in a book and quite enthralling in person.

I don't think this phenomenon is limited to abstract expressionism though. Even being from Iowa, I didn't understand what was special about American Gothic until I saw it in person.

> The amount of people admitting not doing TDD surprises me. I wouldn’t dare to write any production code without a comprehensive suite of tests.

This suggests that you don't understand that people can achieve the stated goal of "a comprehensive suite of tests" without TDD.

Just to be clear, people can be passionate about testing without being passionate about TDD.

I agree in principle, though I think the example is telling.

If the combination is valuable enough, in this case programmer/statistician, then we simply create a new field for you to compete in: data science.

Confidential S-1's are reasonably new (2012) and limited to "emerging growth" companies. But yeah, I imagine most S-1s discussed on HN take advantage of that provision.

EDIT: ohh, that changed in 2017. Now all companies can file confidentially.

I've been listening to the Music Exists podcast by Chuck Klosterman and Chris Ryan (unfortunately available only on Spotify). It's quite good and definitely introduced me to some new stuff.

While I feel like I've been doing a fairly good job of keeping up with music for the last decade, their knowledge of music, even from before they were born, is extensive and got me interested in exploring stuff that came out before I really cared about music.

1. It's clearly not a monopoly by any accepted definition.

2. If you don't want to pay their fees, don't use their platform.

3. If enough content providers don't use their platform, consumers we shift to a different one. I think one of the advantages that Sony has had over MSFT in the video game console space has been their exclusive content.

4. Taxes have literally nothing to do with this. The App Store has made life much easier for countless app creators. Are the fees exorbitant? Sure. Is the market capable of correcting this behavior across a reasonable timeline, also yes. I was planning to switch TV devices after Apple's tiff with Spotify. It was resolved because Apple knows that if they don't support the content providers other platforms do, they will lose market share.

tbh, I don't really understand why Coors would be such an advantage. It's not like the visiting team doesn't also benefit from the additional ball flight.

Do you think it has to do with roster building? Like the Rockies don't spend money on pitching because pitching has less value at Coors, so they load up on offensive talent instead?

> When you make jam, you change the taste and texture of the fruit...

I mean, that's kind of just cooking in general, right? When you cook something, you do it to transform its taste and texture. Sometimes "fresh" is what you want, but if that's all you want, then pretty much every meal becomes a salad.

Counterpoint to your counterpoint: the prevalence of inexpensive off-camera light kits means it's much easier than it used to be to get the kind of lighting you want, where you want it (i.e. somewhere less sterile than a studio). None of the photographers I know have studios, but they all have great strobe kits and are quite skilled at creating the kind of light you're talking about outdoors or in some other interesting location.

I think one of my biggest annoyances, from a development perspective, with Sidekiq is that it typically moves you in the direction of running foreman or something like that, which makes using the pry a pain.

One thing I really like about Phoenix development is that I don't have to change my flow to use a REPL while still being able to run background jobs.

I don't care about Western Union. I do care about Visa and MasterCard.

And I'm definitely not saying that the current generation of crypto has figured this problem out, but I am hopeful for the sake of SMB that they won't always have to pay 3% fees on cashless transactions.

Sony and Panasonic have really strong offerings if you primarily do video, but i think the vast majority of people who take photographs for a living still use Canon and Nikon.

If you're going to Healy, AK, chances are you're not just doing it for the gram.

I remember reading Into The Wild in my twenties and feeling a strong connection to Alex. Even if going to the bus wasn't a wise decision, I feel it's only human to want to cultivate those types of connections. I never went to the bus, but I was definitely curious what Alex was experiencing in the final days of his life.

I agree with GP that it's a cautionary tale, but it's more than that. It's caused thousands of people to think more about the way they live their lives. Seems a bit more substantive than simply trying to get a selfie, don't you think?

The opinion here reads very much like the Court is a high school teacher disappointed in the efforts of a lazy student. The Administration should have known the rules and followed them. They didn't and got called out for it.

There is literally nothing stopping the DHS from actually following the rules, but in order to do so they're going to have to detail the affects of their proposed rule change on the DACA recipients.

Title VII covers other things that the majority opinion describes as "conceptually distinct" from sex but also "necessarily entail(ing) discrimination based on sex". In particular, they talk about sexual harassment and motherhood discrimination.

The differences of opinion here on the topic of the necessity of the theological content suggest that it is not, as you say, "objectively true".

Just because it is not necessary for you does not permit you to project your opinions on the rest of humanity.

A pretty common pattern I've seen in both Ruby and Elixir is to begin building up the state you want to work with in a test and then drop into a repl using pry (either adding a breakpoint in the code or in the test). I think this allows you to "Write said experiments in the same place [your] code already is".

Maybe I'm just misunderstanding what people in Clojure are doing. Please feel to point me in the right direction.

To me learning Elixir felt like a two stage process: learning the language and learning the OTP.

The language itself is pretty small and I felt like the first stage was pretty easy.

Learning the OTP is a much bigger challenge.

At the same time, I think you can gain a lot of the benefits of Elixir and the BEAM without needing to be an OTP expert, because frameworks like Phoenix leverage it for you.

In my experience, things like pattern matching and immutable data really contribute to a more maintainable code base, whether you find you need the actor model or not.

I rarely find that I have to "go into Erlang" but it is true that Erlang error messages can be a bit obtuse initially.

I personally like that Phoenix is kind of a middleweight framework, but at least one of batteries you mentioned as missing is being addressed. José is working on an authentication solution built into Phoenix.

OmniOutliner is one of my favorite pieces of software.

The idea of hierarchical organization of knowledge is, to me, a really powerful one. I started using it when I was in law school, and it helped me stay organized as I was changing careers and learning how to write software. Even today, where my employer uses Jira and spreadsheets to stay organized, I use an outline as well, which despite being additional effort still provides a lot of value to me.

I've heard really good things about notion, and I may try it out one of the days. But for me, OO has been a particularly effective organizational tool in my arsenal.

Sometimes you need org-level rubber-ducking.

I wonder if it's also fair to say that Intel was living on borrowed performance as it relates to the Spectre style vulnerabilities. IIRC, addressing those vulnerabilities was less impactful for AMD.

I tried out AppSignal for Elixir and was disappointed that the BEAM metrics don’t include scheduler utilization, which is kind of a proxy for CPU usage. IIRC there was scheduler count but not utilization metrics.

For me, the main benefit would be the ability to use a concurrency model other than the event loop.

In Elixir, I can reason about the code being run in one process as though it were synchronous, because it kind of is. But I can do that without blocking anything else, which is also pretty important.

When I worked at Chick-fil-A, I knew quite a few operators that worked less than 40. This is where Chick-fil-A’s ownership model helps them. Managers who want to be operators will work for less than they can earn other places for a chance at being an operator, because CFA tends to hire internally.

> That's the legal construct that underpins the oligopoly, though.

The durations of copyright protection in the US are too long and that's probably the fault of big corporations, predominantly Disney.

The goal of the copyright policy should be to balance incentivizing creativity (by providing rights and protections) and having a rich public domain. And every time we extend copyright duration, we starve the public domain and we should stop doing that.

But copyright as a construct is very democratic. If anyone creates anything original that can be reduced to a medium, they have rights over that thing for as long as they live (and then some). Those rights include the ability to sell it to others, including big corporations, I guess, but the rights begin with the creators, and that's very democratic.

In aggregate, search is orders of magnitude faster because it's so much more accurate. When was the last time you had to think about your search terms?

The other day I was thinking about the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, but I couldn't remember the name of it. So I googled "when you suddenly notice something everywhere" and Baader-Meinhof was first result. Go back to 1983 (maybe even 2003) and let me know how long it takes to structure your search terms so you get the right answer.