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Both mutate o. If you ignore the array returned by map then they’re equivalent.

Look up any programming language popularity survey. Pure FP languages are substantially less popular, therefore less commonly understood and harder for the average dev to work with…

I think most programmers would disagree with you on this. Perhaps after enough FP experience the cognitive load that comes from the language’s constraints fade away, but I haven’t …

> After spending years in functional-land, I find the for loop (and while loop) construct maddening; you have to maintain the state of the entire enclosing scope system in your hea…

> I've tried Python, hated the inconsistency of it Can you elaborate on this? I’ve written in both Python and Ruby, but I’m not sure what you mean by this critique of python. I wou…

Tried with Elon and Gates, but both threw this error Error occured while trying to proxy: hf.space/

> we, “the old folks,” just don’t get it Zuckerberg is 37 years old, so he’d probably be lumped into “the old folks” category. Why would he get it and not us? I’m, a decade younger…

It recommends products that were most frequently included in the same order. So it’s not recommending similar or related products, but products frequently purchased with the produc…

Sounds like an inexperienced data engineer. One of the first things you learn is to read tabular data into a DataFrame, like pd.read_csv. So, there’s a natural progression to pd.re…

Thanks! Very cool. I haven’t used couchdb in prod. I’ll read into this more.

What kind of consistency models [0] do Offline-first databases like RxDB and PouchDB have? I was thinking read uncommitted, but they might allow dirty writes. Maybe there’s some CR…

> Whenever this topic comes up the conversation always centers around money or housing or other brute physical facts That’s not what the article is about. It’s about bad governing …

Awesome! I wish you well too. I hope today is a better day :)

So much flamebait. These kinds of comments aren’t good for anyone.

A “dang-chain”

> Damn. I know you don't know me, but this is unnecessarily condescending and off the mark. I’m truly sorry you feel that way. My intent was sincerely to provide another point of v…

> I'm (perhaps naively) shocked at how opposed to this people are on Reddit, but especially on HN > I've worked with and mentored a lot of minority candidates (who often have troub…

According to this article https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac... dang has worked for YC full time since 2014, so I’d assume that dang is “in the know.” But…

Yeah, it sounds so bad that it’s probably made up. It implies that the company has 46% turnover or firing rate (29+17), but average turnover for tech companies is 10%-15% [0]. [0] …

> Hub disappearing would be a 100 times worse than the left pad incident in the npm world This is really overdramatic. If Docker Inc. went out of business and Docker Hub was shutdo…

You mean without a deployment or statefulset? How would you connect to the DB without a service providing a persistent DNS name?

Awesome! Thank you for sharing. This helps.

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