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I don't know, it seems pretty libertarian for a county/township to nullify state law when it deems the law unnecessary or bad. Different branches of libertarianism may disagree but in the end it's all about localism, no?

This articulated for me one of my biggest frustrations with traditional 1:1s with managers I've had throughout my career: by these people I want to be coached, not mentored.

Most 1:1s have been driven by me, at the explicit behest of the manager. "I'm here for you" and "this is your time" are/were common phrases. I found this particularly annoying as a new grad when I really didn't know what I didn't know and just wasn't getting a lot of mileage out of those conversations.

What do public EV markets have to do with private PaaS VC investments?

You would have a case if Vercel has no revenue, or no chance of becoming profitable. I don't know their numbers, and I'm sure the multiple is high, but relating this to EVs is a non-sequitur.

How do you feel about GCP?

"Selling support" is one way to make money from OpenSource, but a) it's not clear that Wasmer is even doing that, and b) there's loads of other ways too (hosting, open core, freemium, etc).

FB revenue is going to be up in Q3, not down, would bet $10k on that.

Why?

Seems like a programming language that optimizes for "codes well with Copilot" could be fairly successful. Things like memory safety, human readability, verifiability, etc.

You could also have some kind of AI-driven testing/verification program -- Copilot and <other program> could go back and forth multiple times until the program is deemed correct and returned to the user.

Interested in links or books on this if you know any good ones. Don't you still have to use soil?

Texas checking in -- the dirt in my backyard is full of clay and totally unsuitable for growing anything other than grass and weeds. Many places are like this.

Is it possible to invest in the LTSE itself?

Tbf, he made the first version of Replit as an open source project before joining Codecademy, and it's likely that retaining ownership of that project was part of his employment contract.

Part of it is FB’s company culture — generally the ethos has been to enable engineers, technical precedent be damned, and to never say no to a product idea. It is really impressive and a major part of why FB can move so fast despite being a very large corporation.

What good is a prediction without accountability?

I love that this prediction has a clear deadline. Now, what skin in the game does the UN have? Will they pay back any government spending that occurs as a result of this prediction if the 1.5C rise does not occur?

Then the statement is worthless! If any country is every covered in water at any point in the earth's future then it can be proved "correct".

The negative is not even true -- no one can guarantee that no countries will ever be covered in water at any point in the future, even if we had presumably gotten the rising temperatures "under control" twenty years ago.

I think that number of classes is the main issue. It's in the many, many millions.

Also, the app has sooooooo much more functionality than people realize. Plus, there is a lot of functionality that ships with the app but is behind a feature gate, meaning that it is turned off for the majority of users. There's lots of internal tools for adjusting feature gates on a per-user, per-region, per-whatever basis, in the name of user research as well as just safely deploying new features at scale.

The year 2000 has already past.

The real problem with Facebook at least is build times -- using the native stack incurs something insane like several hundred hour build times IIRC. So the native stack is just a non-starter once you get to a certain (ludicrous) codebase size.

That answers it, thanks!

Wow, that pricing is awesome. Once you have email verification, social login, and a C# SDK, I will switch away from Auth0 in a heartbeat.

This being open source is a HUGE draw. It means I don't have to trust you as much, because the code is out in the open for security researchers to poke at. Do you have a bug bounty program?

I assume this works via an API as well, not just web based sessions? My use case is an online multiplayer game written in Unity.

I’ve lived here 6 months and already found 2 in my house. Depends where you live I guess!

The Krusty Krab?

I am. Morale is good, took a minor hiccup recently but has pretty much recovered by now. When I tell everyday folk that I work for Facebook, the reaction is usually, "wow, cool!" and if they're tech minded, they might ask a few questions about the tech stack we use.

Most people at Facebook believe that FB is good for the world, Zuck is a good leader, and that we are working to address dubious ethical decisions made in the past. Sure, FB itself may be a bubble, but HN is even more of a bubble :)

In my experience, CS is useful when software engineering breaks down. Many foundational abstractions in modern high level languages and frameworks are leaky. This leads to pathological behavior under stress (extreme scale, extreme performance, groundbreaking tech, unusual requirements). CS is also a big help when you're exploring new technical areas that frameworks haven't been developed for yet.

You know that person who you always go to when your program malfunctions? Or the high level engineer at your company who also seems to know how to diagnose a site incident or other strange software problem? What about the technical founder who leads a startup to do something new and extraordinary? Or how about the person who wrote your framework/language of choice? These are people who understand CS fundamentals, irrespective of whether they have a formal CS degree.

See "Why Learn Computer Science" in the OP.

If you make games, Unity Cloud Build can turn a Unity project into a downloadable IPA that you can easily load into TestFlight/App Store (and presumably a device or simulator, but I've never tried).

I was curious about vim as well. I wonder if the defaults of vi are somehow optimized for QWERTY.

A few are, such an hjkl being on the home row, but the rest are more semantic (for example, "t" is "unTil", "f" is "From", "a" is "append", "i" is "insert", etc. So all of those lend themselves to muscle memory from repeated use but aren't particularly better or worse on any keyboard layout. Dvorak keeps "j" and "k" together (in the place where "c" and "v" are, respectively), which is a nice touch.

This thread convinced me to try switching to Dvorak but I'm a bit scared after reading your comment. It's not clear from your comment, did you switch back to QWERTY or are you still giving it a shot?

I switched to Dvorak about a month ago, and have no plans to switch back! It is a definite improvement in comfort, which I expect to translate to a speed improvement eventually. Nowadays when I type anything at all in QWERTY I wonder how I ever put up with contorting my fingers into such strange shapes to type the simplest words -- not to mention how so many words have almost zero hand alternation.

Looks very interesting, but re-learning how to type is so painful, not to mention devastating to my productivity at work, that I think I can only afford to do it once in a lifetime...

I recently made the switch from QWERTY to Dvorak, during a 2 week period while I was in between jobs, and it was one of the most frustrating things I've ever done. Over a month later and I'm back up to a plodding 60 WPM (from a glorious 120 with QWERTY). Not to mention how shot my vim keybindings are!

Maybe if I eventually switch again it will be less painful, but the experience has taught me that typing is almost 100% an exercise in muscle memory.

Anyway, my point is, I wish I could be the kind of person that could type fluently in multiple keyboard layouts, if nothing else then just for the heck of it, but I'm not sure I'll ever have the kind of time to make that happen. Cool project though! There are certainly words and bigrams that are needlessly hard to type in Dvorak.

In my experience, Bach appeals more to analytical and mathematical types because the music relies less on dramatic swells and romantic melodies, and more on complex, baroque counterpoint that requires multiple listens to truly unravel. That and it makes people feel smart.

I thought the whole point of capitalism is that you don’t have to answer “should” moralisms about any particular business. Consumers will decide and competition among vendors will drive down prices. Why do so many outsiders feel so confident that they know better than Grubhub/Uber Eats/DoorDash what their prices should be?