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Was about to type the same thing, am also pianist. Using small muscles to do repetitive things is exactly how you get RSI. Don't do stuff with small muscles that you can do with la…

You shouldn't swallow errors like that in FP either. You can trap the error in an effect type and throw it at the top level of your app when your effect type gets run after all of …

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More or less, yes.

> It’s definitely hard to explain an idea like SVM, it’s applications, and how it works/what it does without a background in some linear algebra. I don't actually think this is the…

I agree that in a vacuum, zero sum games aren't necessarily a bad thing. However, in our hypothetical economy, the actors obviously aren't at parity for their level of skill at pla…

Completely agree with the last paragraph. The economy is tilted way too far towards incentivizing value extraction instead of incentivizing value creation. Don't know that I agree …

I used to think this, but I've come around somewhat. The economy as a basic premise is expected to grow at least 3% a year or bad stuff starts happening. Obviously no kind of expon…

You can be nouns first and still be anti-OOP. I think the objection anti-OOP people have with OOP is the business of folding your verbs up with your nouns, not being "noun oriented…

I don't know. I've been slinging Haskell on the side for the better part of a decade and do most of my day to day in RoR (trying to start moving clients over to Elixir/Phoenix.) Ha…

Was going to say exactly this. Major common misunderstanding about even Haskell. Mutable state has to eventually be a part of basically every program that does something useful. Th…

Skill-wise, absolutely. Demand-wise, absolutely not. I'm a freelance developer now, but before I was a senior engineer at an international software company. I've considered several…

I suppose it's all relative, but at least in Rails, while I suppose it's trivial in an absolute sense, it's much harder than doing stuff "the rails way."

I didn't mean to say that SPAs were easier at all. They're not. I think they're under most circumstances much harder than traditional webapps. That being said, my experience is tha…

It's been probably 2 years since I've seen a front-end dev listing that doesn't list experience with a SPA framework as mandatory. I'm not going to question that hybrid and traditi…

Nuclear is a political non-starter. No one wants to live near a nuclear power plant, and people tend to fight tooth and nail to fight the placement of nuclear power anywhere near t…

You don't want to participate in such a market even if it exists. Your wife is a human being and a professional, not a faucet. Participating in an undifferentiated labor market com…

Caveat that networking is a slow "long term growth" activity. If she needs work now, researching businesses that fit a target profile and cold calling is the name of the game.

There's no magic here. I too am an engineer, and find sales work yucky. If you want to make more than 5$ an hour on upwork and you're not about working a "real job" sales work is g…

I don't know what country you're in, but if it's the US, my advice would be to just start a company, throw up a decent looking website and start pounding the pavement. Most of the …

Poker is much harder now and it's hard to find tables that will happily pay off nitty play ad infinitum. I'd make a list of concepts you should learn about, but I think it'll be ea…

I stopped teaching piano for much the same reason. The level of focus just isn't there any more (obviously there are exceptions.) Not that I blame the students, If I'd grown up in …

My advice would be not to worry about this too much at this phase. A lot of "best practice" is institutional and has to do with how the stack/org/community is structured. There's n…

Counterpoint, being exposed to other people's ideas within your discipline of choice is important. You learn a lot faster when you're plugged into a network of brains that are all …

Maybe I'm just old and crusty, but I think motivation and passion are overrated. Just put your butt in the chair and do it. Passion and motivation are important, but no matter how …