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Zod is a critical piece of infrastructure to virtually any TypeScript project. Glad to see they are taking inspiration from other similar validation libraries on performance and er…

Related discussion on a different article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28505103

And for the first time in history, since the middle of the previous century, we have some capacity of ending the entirety of human life on the planet, with only a few hands involve…

> It's a beautiful language but it lacks a lot of features to make it useable at scale. Can you expand on this? What features is it missing?

Exactly. The only way a pyramid-shaped population chart "works" is if people die soon after (or before) they reach the top of the pyramid. In the long run, the only stable populati…

This is also why universal basic income is a fantastic policy.

I suggest you look at Andrew Yang’s 2020 platform of Freedom Dividend and explanation of how to pay for it. Yang would offer each person an annual choice between existing benefits …

To a large degree that's because the cost is far higher to pay a human to do the driving. In a world of self-driving cars, more of them can be stations geographically close to wher…

You can have convoluted or simple FP programs as you can have the same for OOP. Nonetheless, is paradigm better at yielding more robust software you can reason about well more of t…

> The article is refuting a strawman This is simply not true. How often have you heard the phrase "equal pay for equal work"? That phrase literally implies that for the same work, …

Do you consider ethics business related?

> I'm curious as to what 30 years of sitting, programming, drinking cool-aid will do to health vs 30 years of lugging steel... Trawler fishing, I agree - v.dangerous, not good for …

For a great example of its use in a dynamically typed language, see Elixir.

Not really sure how you can reach that conclusion. With JSX you are declaring what the HTML will look like, rather than specifying how to do the transitions. It's difficult to get …

Here's a direct link to the Imperative vs Declarative video.[0] [0] https://courses.reacttraining.com/courses/advanced-react/lec...

It's exactly because there is so much violence that we need to reward actors who work to reduce it.

I agree whiteboards are great for all those things. But they are terrible as a way to write actual code. The problem is that many whiteboard interviews have you write actual code o…

Indeed. I'm a graduate (3+ years ago). Best thing I ever did.

App Academy is extremely selective (less than 3%). Also there is probably sample bias, since these are all self-reported.

I'm an App Academy grad. I don't work at Google myself, but I know a few who do. App Academy is indeed extremely selective, with an acceptance rate less than 3%. The salaries shown…

People on LinkedIn who have gone to App Academy who currently or previously work at Google: https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetCurrent...

The vast majority of these are App Academy (a/A) programming bootcamp graduates, which explains why only 10% have CS degrees. Bootcamp graduates are probably not representative of …

I graduated from App Academy NYC in January 2014. I'm in my 2nd post-bootcamp developer job at a small-ish company, making double my previous salary before a/A. I love what I do an…

I'm going to use this opportunity to plug my Redux Saga testing library: redux-saga-test-engine[0][1]. It makes saga tests much less verbose. Let me know if you like it (or don't)!…