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Oh, great! Something else my daughter can blame me for.

I work remotely, and I use Slack to keep an open dialog with my team. I used HipChat before that. They both have their upsides for this use case, but I think that it's basically a …

It doesn't use S3, but you can do something similar with Coursier: https://github.com/alexarchambault/coursier#launch

A coworker of mine used to ask job candidates (usually folks with PhDs) with HMMs on their CV "what's hidden in a hidden markov model". Lots of people couldn't answer that question…

I for one freely obey our new robot overlords?

Perhaps. The TSA is obviously a big problem for American airports. I'm just saying that I can't think of a major airport that I've used and felt like it was a good experience, and …

Fair, but Heathrow and Tegel and De Gaulle aren't exactly paradise.

I was there at the beginning of Ion back in my Amazon days. We may well use it in my current job, too!

I would strongly suggest that at some point in your career, you take the time to learn either vi or Emacs, even if you still use VS Code everything.

What I'm taking issue with is the description of VSC as "changing the way we code on Unix/Linux". Given your interpretation, Atom and SublimeText and other tools predate VSC and fi…

Agreed. I don't see anything in VSCode that's not present in any of the vast array of alternatives. But then again, I live in IntelliJ and Emacs land. I don't mind Atom but don't r…

Really? VSCode has already transformed the way code was written on Unix/Linux? I beg to differ. 10 years ago (when I discovered Eclipse, not sure when it was originally released), …

Can I compile it myself? I don't know why this isn't clear, but the pages don't really say any of this.

The download page there has me downloading Xamarin Studio. How do I get just MonoDevelop?

I wonder if maybe instead of asking people to code on the fly, it would make more sense to ask people to review, analyze, and explain some existing code.

Really? Rust was harder for me to adjust to by far. It seems like a moving target and the documentation I found was still lacking.

Imagine practicing a scale on the guitar. You could just repeat the scale over and over, but you could also add rhythmic variation, or play two notes up and one note down. Based on…

I just (more or less) duplicated your comment somewhere...jinx.

Did his statically typed language include reasonable type inference? Because if not, then of course it took longer to write static types. If so, then, well, that's interesting. I'm…

+1 for a Chuck Traeger reference on HN. I'm also a double bassist. Agreed about instrument modifications. It's common in the bass world for a big-sounding instrument to be describe…

Agreed.

The comments on the blog post are hilarious to me. "And why do you need type safety? Because you are used to?" Er. Well, if you like driving a car with no seatbelts, crumple zone, …

I'm no anti-government activist (far from it), and in general, I think safety regulations are a good idea. But I'm having a hard time getting worked up over this. Are the sort of t…