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Yes. Whether they truly believe in what they do or not, I would prefer a politician like Trump over an "internally consistent" one like Carrie Lam/Xi. At least Trump is scared enou…

The reach of culture. I hadn't thought of this, but it makes sense. And yes once it's pointed out to you, it becomes quite obvious that actively resisting temptation is not worth t…

I think the issue he's addressing with his design is whether supplementing vitamin D would actually CAUSE infection rates to fall - versus simply knowing that vitamin D levels and …

Yes, but it would also be much harder to organise as a study and require significantly more resources. Unfortunately, most studies prefer less work/almost equally publishable/newsw…

But will Atlassian scale pay according to location? (like Facebook proposed) That would put a stopper to working from a beach somewhere after this pandemic has been put to rest.

You're right, it can't simply be because Muslim country ties to China are economically huge/vast... oh wait.

This is one of the most cleanly straightforward and mature posts I've read on HN in awhile. And quite practical too, particularly that last portion. Also, agreed.

They don't understand the original tradeoffs that led to client-side only applications. Let them experience the pain of rebuilding that old wheel :)

I used to believe this too. You've acquired/developed negotiation skills, you should reap their rewards, etc. But then I consider, I've seen many individuals who are such strong en…

Well that's completely wrong. Attractiveness is a trait that signals health, not intelligence/social skill/etc. That's why we evolved to desire attractive people. It has nothing to…

I agree wholeheartedly. As an arts/law graduate, who has since moved into a senior, highly technical IT role, I can honestly say that had I not moved into the IT field, my existing…

Agreed.

Quite genius.

Rust is much too low level for most glue/web services. Unless you have a specific high performance requirement (and Go doesn't meet this), there's no real strong case for migration…

If you remove the specific technical choice from mind (a great engineering team can move mountains with any data layer, something I've also learnt working in numerous contract team…

I enjoy reading thoughtful posts that canvas all the possibilities, rather than pressing another singular opinion. This was intriguing, thank you.

For me, it's half half. I actually do love the aesthetic of the open office, the large clearing space and the beautifully connected common areas. It's so vast and 'open'. But I do …

I'm assuming the parent meant how would this specific configuration of elixir + phoenix + liveview scale.

I was going to point out the same.

I disagree on the Javascript count, specifically modern, statically typed Javascript. I might choose another language for perf characteristics that JS cannot match, but otherwise J…

I watched Gordon Ramsay pretend to be a beginner chef on some TV series too. Despite slipping up numerous times, teaching chefs don't discover him. Why? Because impressions matter …

I agree with dagmx. However, I'd carve out an exception. In an interview where you have, without a doubt, not done well and there's greater than a 80% chance that you feel you won'…

The source is credible, but looking rationally at this, the cause of the interrupted economic flow was not some underlying or unstable monetary/country factor. This is a self-induc…

On a sidenote, I intensely dislike statements like this that hedge their point.