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> TS is eating the JS world Definitely another reason to stick to C. In C you don't have to change to another language or another framework, or yet another design principle, or wha…

> Until we wake up to this fact That is not really the case here. I woke up already long ago, but there is no way I can stop the idiots. Only governments can take action by law, no…

Indeed, insect population decline was the first cause that came to mind, and then I read: > In addition to habitat loss, pesticides may have taken a toll. Which is also the main ca…

It's even pre-industrial age model. School and its strict class system originate from the church. And I totally agree it should be disrupted by a more scientific proven model so ki…

> so there may be something to the social thing You have a point there. In regular school you are forced to be 'social' or risk punishment. I put 'social' in quotes because I think…

> Most homeschooled kids I've known have been very behind their schooled peers. Behind? In what? We are homeschooling our daughter. For her age she's amazing with computers, englis…

> Globalisation is fundamentally about individual freedom. You mean individual freedom for the rich? > This dynamic has raised hundreds of millions of people out of poverty And bil…

No one seems to understand! Macro or micro economy, for me it's just another pyramid game. For some reason most people are completely unable to see that and can only humdrum what t…

No. It's a linux, and there is no mic or cam connected. I use Netflix too, works like a charm. And I can understand your temptation of using the Netflix button on the remote contro…

> Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook No way! Has that ever been news? It is the first thing that comes to mind when some product 'needs' to be connected …

Inkscape is just totally awesome and very much needed. Without it the only serious option left for vector graphics is the overly expensive Illustrator, entering Adobe's sucking sub…

> The answer is that most of our mind does not even realize that fiction is fiction, so we react to it almost as though it were real. Yes, we are dreamers and believers. And that i…

Hmm, it only works with a Spotify account which I don't have neither want..

Thank you all for taking the time to explain, very valuable for me at least.

Welcome to making money as a software developer. Your experience is nothing exceptional in IT, most startups are pretty bad if you ask me. You can be more picky with companies, but…

There is something about this immutability thing I really don't like. In the authors example it looks like v1[0] is set to 42 (const auto v2 = v1.set(0, 42)), at least that's how y…

> C++ > Pros: none > Cons: ill-defined, far too big, Object Oriented Programming, loads of baggage, ecosystem that buys into its crap, enjoyed by bad programmers. This is just rubb…

Just a quick look at the code. One of the first lines in the random first file I checked: > function printBasis( state: any, dynamicBasis: any, staticBasis: any, indent: number = 0…

> It cannot be stressed enough that pools of water should not be forming at the top of mountains. That’s just not what Mother Nature had in mind. Does the author really know what M…

About 4 million lines of Python code is just a bad decision from the start. Now they are trying to fix it with types, but IMHO the fault is not in the language. They just should ha…

> The worst, buggiest, least maintainable code I've ever dealt with was a 500ish line (heavily tested!) untyped Python file at my last job. Caused more trouble than all the Java an…

Lets try to be a little more honest. > 1. What do you want to do differently in your next role? Earn more money > 2. Imagine yourself in three years. What do you hope will be diffe…

Yes, curious what will happen with the private repositories on Github now it's Microsofts'. Will no one in the company ever check what's going on?

What is good design, what is good naming, over-engineering, etc, etc.. How on earth can a group of people agree on all those points? Look around here on HN, all those discussions..…

> and if it doesn't work out for your group, you can delete the TypeScript-specific annotations and go back to Babel. You are joking right? Ever tried to do that with a large Types…