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Just don't tell them how far they are from reality and they'll keep writing the papers. Intelligence contained.

This is just science fiction. To mention "recent developments" in the introduction is somewhat misleading considering how far the current state of technology is from their hypothet…

The topics and quality of discussion have really changed over the past week and I'm not that interested in more free speech flame wars or questions like "Would decentralised distri…

> plenty of firms are using Scala in their data engineering stacks Isn't that just a result of everyone being into Spark a few years ago?

> Optimizing for worker fungibility, in a vacuum, seems like a -EV "playing not to lose" strategy. That's why you don't optimise for it in a vacuum. You weigh the potential benefit…

> I hear far more complaints about how difficult it is to find good people from companies hiring for mainstream languages than from those using more niche stuff Of course, there is…

> on the other hand you have an easier time to attract the few you need How is it easier to find a Haskell developer vs finding a Java/Python/PHP developer?

I don't think that it's wise to sabotage your own future and productivity as a company just so you can pave the way for some language to become more popular.

I feel like this isn't discussed enough. I can't comment on the technical merits of Haskell but growing an organization and replacing engineers is so much more difficult when you'r…

It's possible depending on how much inconvenience you can accept in your life but that's also kind of irrelevant. If you don't like something online, don't take part in it. You don…

It's really a strength, not a quirk. Negative indexing and array slicing in general are great in Python. Really easy to pick up and way more convenient than any other language that…

I need to switch between zero- and one-indexed languages often. It really doesn't make a difference.

Bidding on your name might be an even bigger waste of money than bidding on a competitor's name, especially for established brands. eBay's experience with this came up on a recent …

This is kind of embarassing. Do you guys think that the people at Facebook who make these decisions realise how pathetic it looks from the outside? Or are they somehow justifying i…

Please seek professional advice if you haven't already. Advice from strangers on the internet can sound comforting but it won't do much for serious problems that are also very pers…

> It was probably a good idea to rebrand from Riot to Element after this week's deadly violence at the US Capitol. They rebranded in July 2020 - https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-…

> and those insights are transferable to your daily work Some people say this, others say that it makes your daily work worse because going back to a language that isn't on the cul…

> is it safe to live there? This varies a lot depending on where you live, your skin color and your socioeconomic status.

I was referring to the threats of hanging in this case. I phrased it more generally because there are many other examples from the similar threads that we've had over the past coup…

It's kind of sad to see how these threads quickly turn into a a messy sequence of poorly reasoned arguments or how some people are trying to justify really extreme positions.

How different is it to work for a big tech company in Europe compared to the US? Are FAANG jobs really that different compared to the rest of opportunities people have in Europe (i…