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I’m also a big fan of rails, but I’ve experienced a lot of problems scaling it. A lot of the problems ultimately came down to the simple fact that Ruby is really, really slow. At a…

Not even close to FAANG level compensation in my experience. I’m just a moderately experienced backend/infra person and VC backed startups would straight up tell me they can’t comp…

Wait, so your investors lose money, your employees (probably just a few) got at most $80k, and you get to retire? I mean, congrats on the hustle, but I wouldn’t waste your time try…

Which of course didn’t happen hear - Biden is on track to win by a clear electoral and popular margin. Florida in 2000 was decided by hundreds of votes though.

Another thing worth mentioning is it’s a lot easier to spread a faulty statistics analysis than it is to spread an explanation. I’ve seen a lot of viral posts about Benford’s law a…

It’s not pretending. In fact, web application hosts are a great candidate for replacement with faster languages because it can have an immediate impact on infra costs.

You might be surprised by just how slow and bloated a simple rails or Django app can be! But the real benefit for me is reliability. With rust web apps, I feel a lot more confident…

It doesn’t “mean nothing”, it’s another data point. If you see test positivity rate remaining low but cases increasing - which we do in many areas with sufficient testing - then it…

It’s just a political thing. You see the same behavior in threads about climate change. A seemingly innocuous comment to you is a firebrand political statement to someone who think…

That was true until last week. Deaths are now rising again, and daily new cases are approaching the level of the summer peak.

This post reminds me of a younger me. The experience I got working hours like this at jobs like this was not as good as I thought. It was shallow and rushed, every cuttable corner …

Come on, that’s bordering on the kind of contentless dismissal you see in right wing propaganda today. Someone already provided examples contradicting your assertions, and others h…

Has there been much progress with the D borrow checker? It always comes up in these threads but it seems to still be missing some key features (parameterized lifetimes for example)…

It’s both ethical and statistical. If you observe a strong enough effect, you can reach significance with less data. When people are dying, sometimes you throw a Hail Mary.

Researchers typically present findings in journals (or conferences in computer science). These YouTube videos aren’t research, they’re some mix of unscrupulous money grab and delib…

Some people try to approach an employment relationship as one of good faith, rather than an adversarial one where you try to do the minimum amount of work without getting fired. Pl…

That’s not the problem, it’s having to manage a bunch of sets of credentials, and the logistics of pushing updates through multiple stores. Both are obviously solvable problems but…

Why are other countries with comparatively less free markets and more regulations not experiencing this problem in a greater degree? Shouldn’t we be doing better if it’s really as …