nimnio's comments

> You don't have to learn a new language ... javascript ecosystem ... Vue.js ...

You seem to be assuming that everyone is a javascript developer and wants to work in it.

The paper you're citing investigates the idea that "early childhood investments have significantly higher benefit cost ratios than those targeted at older age group", and it concludes that "there may in fact be no relationship between program cost effectiveness and the age of the recipient."

From this you seem to have drawn the surprising conclusion that there is no benefit to greater in investment in early childhood education, a conclusion which the paper you're citing specifically warns against:

> This finding does not imply that there should be less investment in early childhood programs. There are many early interventions that have large positive rates of return, and there are powerful equity reasons for investment in children.

> The data shows that prevention can be cost effective, but in addition, later treatment and amelioration using evidenced based programs can also succeed.

Just FYI, you didn't need to check Instagram. It's in the article.

More developers are coding in Windows than any other operating system -- almost more than Mac and Linux combined. The Hacker News filter bubble might lead us to believe otherwise.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...

Windows 47.5%

MacOS 26.8%

Linux-based 25.6%

BSD 0.1%

87,851 responses

(The Stack Overflow survey is a poor representation of the entire development community, but it's worth something, maybe the best we have.)

I'd like to see that evidence.

Most people will categorize crashing, overheating, and graphical artifacts as a more severe problem than "what's that small noise I hear once in a while".

Well, that would depend on whether it's really "absurd" or not; maybe it's effective. You put on glasses, people think you're smart. You wear an expensive watch, people think you're successful -- "nothing succeeds like success", "dress for the job you want", "talk the talk, walk the walk", and so on.

I only read page one of that link (thanks for sharing), but it appears to limit its scope to a specific scenario: given a lump sump of money (a windfall), it is it better to invest all at once or dollar cost average over a period of time? It is not recommending against dollar cost averaging in general; it is recommending against it for windfalls. Diversification is also not mentioned in the article.

Could you explain what's a shame? I'm having trouble guessing your point.

By definition anonymization is supposed to be irreversible. What you're describing is de-identification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-identification#Anonymizatio...).

Brave is not fooled either, which is interesting because it's based on Chromium.

Brave 0.14.1 libchromiumcontent 57.0.2987.133

Fixed in Chrome 58, so I wonder what the significant difference is.

"If you're tech savvy, you can even host your own Standard File server."

This would be a perfect candidate for https://sandstorm.io/. As far as hosting servers go, I'm not tech-savvy, but thanks to Sandstorm I'm hosting my own Git repo, Davros file share, Ghost blog, etc.

Did you click the link? This isn't "How to Read a Book" by Adler.

I realized it was fake in the first paragraph thanks to the cheesy, melodramatic hook:

"The last thing I want to do is write this down, but I’m doing it anyway, partially because people ought to know what’s happening with the things they post here, but mainly (like 99%) because of Julie Rubicon and the spike."

Oh, I've just discovered a world changing dark secret brewing in the heart of Facebook. I'd better tell the world! But first I must build some... suspense!

If it had turned out to be real, I'd thank the whistleblower right after I slapped them for being a twit.

"The advantage of unit testing modular code bases is that you don't have to test every program state, you just have to test every module state."

I don't think that's true with a capital T. Modules interact with each other. You can modularize, microize, or nanoize your application but the minimum subset of test-worthy states stays the same.

According to some definitions, AI is just "the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages." So by some definitions, a linter is absolutely an AI.

Semantics aside, it's not important to slm_HN's point. We can call it an AI, an algorithm, or just a computer, and in any case it's still possible for it to find errors beyond spelling ones.

"... there is a small part of me that enjoys playing Mr. Party Pooper when I see a mob of enthusiastic programmers trying to tie down some great cultural Gulliver with a thousand tiny little automated, black-and-white rules."

I'd reexamine that part, if I were you. I suspect it may be bigger than you think it is, especially since you've already pigeonholed the creators.

I don't think anyone is questioning whether your work resonates with a whole subset of people; I think we're questioning whether conferences and a full inbox are all the evidence we need to accept broad pronouncements about the state of an industry.

One of his domains is tomsdog.com. I don't know how much he paid for it, but I can get donsdog.com for about $10 a year. The list kaismh posted has 75 items in it, so say $750 a year.

The way I like to think about this is that if his after-tax income is $50,000, he is spending 1.5% of his income on domain names.

"More significantly in this particular case, various studies over the years have not supported the claim that short functions have better error rates, nor that longer but otherwise reasonable functions have higher error rates; if anything, the overall body of evidence seems to suggest the opposite conclusion."

That's an oversimplification of the research, and misleading. After citing five studies in Code Complete (including the one that shows an inverse correlation between errors and function size), McConnell summarizes as follows:

"That said, if you want to write routines longer than about 200 lines, be careful. None of the studies that reported decreased cost, decreased error rates, or both with larger routines distinguished among sizes larger than 200 lines, and you’re bound to run into an upper limit of understandability as you pass 200 lines of code."

I wouldn't advocate for a strictly short functions either, but the overall body of evidence definitely does _not_ suggest the opposite conclusion: the opposite conclusion would be that we should endeavour to write long functions!

Anyhow, nitpicking aside, thanks for providing a quick review of this book. I'm going to skip it based on your comments.

The Toys R Us stroller you linked weighs about 15lb, I think. The Bob Stroller weighs about 25lb. I challenge you to find a 30kg/66lb stroller.