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Where's the fallacy? She's saying the only systems that are beautiful are the ones that haven't been forced by massive spontaneous adoption to scale faster than the developer(s) ca…

Larkin is a poet who "comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable." I often return to his poem Aubade [0], in particular the idea that "death is no different whined at than…

I find these types of questions invaluable as an interviewer, at least for mid-level to senior roles. And you're right, I am looking for an actual story, not just the lessons learn…

While it makes sense that the police would unionize for the same reason any other workers would, your second paragraph seems to contradict your first. Your proposal to shift respon…

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I like this. Here are a few more: "We maintain a lot of BAZ we think no one needs anymore but we don't know for sure" is called a Yikes . "You just have to know which alerts matter…

Just to add some color to your comment as I think the idea that philosophy can be therapeutic is counterintuitive for a lot of people: consider the loneliness of depression, a big …

It seems more likely to me that it's not a misspelling of "monjita" but rather just a naive application of the Spanish -ito/-ita diminutive suffix to "Mongo".

This is great! I recently built a similar thing because I wanted to learn more about WebRTC. Fun to see someone else's take. https://tmpch.at

The US will suffer if its international students can't get an education here without being told by the government to pack up and head for their favorite Caribbean island because we…

> This mentality leads to systems that are a mess of callbacks, don't scale, and practically impossible to maintain. Why would it? I can put the same types of abstractions into my …

Sure! To start, just fundamentally—why assume workflows are DAG-shaped? Why no cycles? Lots of real-world processes contain unscheduled repetition that arises at "runtime." Or what…

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say any purported workflow tool that comes with a data model you have to memorize (i.e. "Before we start building a workflow, let’s learn a little ab…

Dunno if it was you or someone else who clicked your link but it was nice chatting with a couple folks just now :)

Source for the curious: server https://github.com/nmyk/nmyk.io/blob/master/pkg/tmpchat.go client https://github.com/nmyk/nmyk.io/blob/master/web/assets/tmpch...

By "issues" I mean software defects.

Fair enough. I would say if the way someone uses the Go "enum pattern" is causing them to have issues with type safety then their code could probably use a refactor, but the point …

FWIW, there's a slightly more concise way of expressing this in Go: type state int const ( on state = iota off )

A somewhat related idea: the discovery that light is an electromagnetic wave falls right out of Maxwell's equations in a vacuum. Simply rearranging terms yields two wave equations …

Yeah this is where it would have helped if I had discussed what I meant by "new". AlphaGo is a supervised learner that outputs optimal Go moves given opposing play. It yields new d…

Yep, you and the user you're replying to are both right in different ways. One thing's for sure - machines don't generate "insights" on their own. Let's define an "insight" as "new…

Reminds me of a quote from Picasso: "When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap…

Welcome to NeverPivot.mvp! We're thrilled you decided to take the next step in your career as a NeverPivoter. Your job is to add features to the product, period. More features, bet…