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Eire_Bansheeon The New Wave of Indian Type

So... the comment wasnt stereotypical enough?

Eire_Bansheeon Are Monads a Waste of Time?

You are missing his entire point.

Eire_Bansheeon SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to asteroid belt

This isnt a real concern... right? Like... of all of the things to worry about in a rocket launch.

Eire_Bansheeon Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

As a software engineer in Indy, a lot of us have the opposite opinion.

Eire_Bansheeon Golden Rules of Financial Safety (1999)

He never said try to hide it. Pay your taxes on it, do what you have to do so that it is legal. Just have it somewhere where "the man" cant seize it.

He specifically went out of his way to say NOT to try elaborate overseas schemes to avoid paying taxes.

Eire_Bansheeon Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley’s monopoly on big growth tech companies is over

I stand by what I said.

Eire_Bansheeon Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley’s monopoly on big growth tech companies is over

Meh, it doesn't have the geographic limits that you get on the coast. The only geographical feature hemming in the city is the lake. You have essentially unlimited space to expand in all other directions. It would be hard to get skyrocketing rents outside of the immediate downtown area.

But mostly Chicago just sucks. Its all the shitty parts of the midwest without any of the good ones. What you really want is Indianapolis, Columbus, Minneapolis, Louisville, etc...

Eire_Bansheeon Times I've Messed Up as a Developer

incompetence

Eire_Bansheeon Diminishing returns of static typing

Lets be real, when we say dynamic languages, we aren't talking about niche languages like Lisp. We are talking about JS and Python almost exclusively.

Eire_Bansheeon Diminishing returns of static typing

This.

Not just, "who the hell uses this", but "where the hell is this defined" as well.

Eire_Bansheeon What's Functional Programming All About?

internet street cred

Eire_Bansheeon What's Functional Programming All About?

Its about feeling smarter than the guy next to you.

Eire_Bansheeon Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B

Which is almost all of them now?

Eire_Bansheeon Polynesian people used a kind of binary number system 600 years ago (2013)

Meh. Ancient babylonians used a base-16 number system. Does it really matter what number system they used?

Eire_Bansheeon I went to Nigeria to meet a man who scammed me

Motherfucker, thats called a job!

Eire_Bansheeon How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016

We cant force browsers to support other front end languages. JS is the only reasonable choice for front end development, Dart didn't end up going anywhere.

Eire_Bansheeon Your programming language is probably unproductive

What is it about programming that just causes people to constantly bash languages they don't use?

Eire_Bansheeon Western Digital unveiled its SanDisk 1TB SDXC card prototype

Depends on how often you write to it

Eire_Bansheeon Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month

steering wheel

Eire_Bansheeon Ask HN: 12 year old tech savvy girl – books, programs, events, advice?

Lego mindstorms is outstanding

Eire_Bansheeon Be nice to nerds

> Andreessen Horowitz has invested in various gadgets and products that early adopters have embraced, including a nutrient-rich drinkable meal for engineers too busy to take a break from coding, called Soylent.

What? Does nobody else think that is... messed up?