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I'm downvoting your comment because - that seems to be copy and pasted (i.e. plagiarized) from the original blog post http://danluu.com/clwb-pcommit/ - your submission history sugg…

> If you're a landlord or hotelier, Yes. Also: Parent of teenagers.

Why is /usr/local bad advice?

There are quite a few introductions to macros. Maybe like monads, it's a topic where people need to read a few until one "clicks" for them. Having said that, I think this is among …

Yes. Also: this recent blog post claims Google is willing to remove apps that increase privacy (not just ad-blocking) in a way that undermines Google's business model: https://news…

> tend to list prices inc VAT in Europe I was under the impression it's a legal requirement to show the inc VAT price. (And, show it as the most-prominent price -- no trickery like…

Would "responded" include only actual replies, or also no-reply downvotes? I ask because lately I'm experiencing an increasing proportion of the latter. Apparently pg has endorsed …

I think another difference is that the bulk of FedEx and UPS customers are businesses -- who typically are smart enough to allocate business among at least two vendors. Short-term …

Somewhat related: Some who advocate for workplace diversity are suspicious that "culture fit" is often a dog whistle meaning something like "young white brogrammers". I believe tha…

It is disappointing that you got downvoted. Hopefully it was an accidental downvote due to HN's poor mobile browsing support, as opposed to someone being unwilling or unable to exp…

That's not how I understood it. It says they're doing a hybrid STW and concurrent GC. (a) A mutator may be stopped for up to 10 ms of every 50 ms by the STW collector. (b) If more …

My new habit: Automatically up-vote every greyed-out comment I encounter. I don't go searching for them, but when I see one, I upvote it without even reading it. I used to read the…

I saw a nice attribution at the end of the post. (But possibly it was added belatedly, e.g. after seeing your comment.)

Module systems really ought to allow renaming on import. (Such as: rename individual functions, add a prefix to all of the functions, or even do a regexp style replace of all exist…

^ Q.E.D.

> Don't know why you're being downvoted Perhaps because someone who downvotes without replying is the sort of person who would rather click than think. Ironically.

Does this study have any bearing on "hammock-driven development" vs. the compulsion to start writing code (with or without TDD)?

Yes, but experience in the project domain(s). Which doesn't correlate with experience using HN. Not even for $tech_du_jour_popular_on_HN.

It seems like this fits two needs, for smaller companies and/or people just getting started with EC2. 1. Laziness. Which I don't necessarily mean in a pejorative sense. Maybe someo…

> So, I think a better naming would have been... Often I like to use past participles as names for stream or signal combinators. So instead of `map`, `filter`, `fold` -- the names …

Yes. And yet, still a better tech story than Yo.

If you're in the US, I think the ADA means your employer needs to accommodate you in this regard. (To be clear, I'm not suggesting you get "all lawyered up" and obnoxious. Just ask…

I think your point is broader. It applies to spreadsheets, Prolog, SQL. A declarative system needs to be "contaminated" by non-declarative pragmas for real-world use. (I think OP m…

To be fair, the OP says it is 23 years' worth of tips. I think the intended audience is probably people already using vim for 5+ years, who are ready for this stuff? (As for "just …

Although I agree it's possible (and so "dilemma" is hyperbole), in my own experience it's quite challenging to pile on the features while retaining a simpler experience for more ca…