JasonCannon

Strings are the safest way to hold big numbers in JavaScript due to how JavaScript represents numbers. Also no, infinity is not a number. It's a concept.

Not really, but I was addicted to Reddit and HN is atleast a better use of my time due to being about tech and other interesting content, and less addicting. So here I am.

Not sure why I got downvoted for this. I assume because of the other comment saying that doing this is "cruel" which it isn't. At all. If someone lies and says they know how to develop, can talk about development in depth, but can't actually develop any software that's on them. I've had to fire people who did stupid algorithims and harder interviews after a few months just like the one time that I've done so with my current technique. In all cases, it's been because the person I interviewed lied. In the cases with stupid algo tests they studied how to leetcode, and not how to actually develop software.

This is his twitter

https://mobile.twitter.com/jonschlinkert

He definitely voted for trump.

Comparing it against the list of examples given in is-number, this solution does not properly handle numbers represented as strings, and it also recognizes Infinity as a number.

A lot of those fields still care more about what you can do, rather than what college credentials you have. Learn to do the work, get samples in your portfolio showing you can do the work, maybe blog about it, and apply. Let them decide if they want to hire you or not, don't preemptively reject yourself.

Also, there is NOTHING wrong with going to school at 30. Or 40. Or 50. Or at any age. You will never be a loser for doing that.

https://www.kron4.com/news/national/age-is-just-a-number-to-...

This dude was almost 90 and got a phd. He isn't a screw up.

>2. Interviewing. FAANG can waste 30+ engineering hours on each candidate because of how much money they can burn. Don't do leetcode interviews. Find someone who you think is good, hire them, if they're not good let them go. Don't make a soul crushing interview process.

The only "algo" I have people do is a simple Fibonacci algo. Other then that, we chat about development. It's fairly easy to determine if someone knows how to develop software, and I'm just trying to find people with the right attitude that I know I can work with. Then I give them a few months, if they don't cut it, then we part ways. That's happened once.

Checking with someone if they want to engage in small talk is weird and not at all how it should go. You do the right thing by telling someone you'd rather not make small talk right now. If they respond badly that's on them.

You don't use .net core anymore. You use .net 5 or the recently released .net 6. When you use dotnet new it will generate a .csproj file, in that csproj file it will specify what frameowrk you are targeting. I don't know what exactly you did but setup of dot net is super easy. I'd try uninstalling everything you tried to install, and install https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/6.0

Note, dotnet 6 only works on VSCode or VS2022, older versions of VS don't support it, so you'd have to drop to dotnet 5.

Or perhaps Liberalism is inherently oppressive and no amount of reform or change will change that fact.

The state collapsing does not mean Anarchism is here. Anarchism is more than just no governments. That's what you are either failing to understand or purposely ignoring. Anarchism is itself a style of organization and ideology. Mogadishu did not have any serious Anarchist organization or Anarchist revolution. It was the result of civil war and a collapsing government. And yes, when chaos reigns warlords take over. But that is not Anarchism.

Murray Rothbard did it to both high jack left wing fervor and also to convince people that it was radical to give capitalists unfettered power. It's little more than an attempt by capitalists to create a fake opposition that is actually anything but. Most AnCaps do it because they have been duped into thinking it's real Anarchism (I was a fervent AnCap from 2012-2015. The Ron Paul campaign got me in, and Rand Pauls hypocrisy convinced me to join the left wing)

Capitalism is itself hierarchical. You have the Capitalist who owns the Capital goods and controls the workers who provide the labour in order to turn a profit all of which is exploited by the capitalist for the capitalist gains.

Markets are accepted in Anarchism (and socialism) but Capitalism is not.

I recommend Debt the first 5000 years as well as The Democracy Project. Both of which were absolutely fascinating to me. Solidarity forever and rest in power Graeber.

All Anarchists are left wing. AnCaps aren't anarchists. Anarchism is inherently socialist.

The ancient mosques? The pyramids of Egypt? The pyramids of South America? The Aztecs built their capital on a lake. The Taj Mahal, Kailasa Temple, any of the temples in ancient Babylon and Mesopotamia, and countless other monuments built all over the world (not super familiar with the far east)?

This is the peak of eurocentrism and ignorance of the rest of the world. You honestly believe on Europe was building giant monuments?

Really gonna need a source on that claim.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was the first person to use the term Anarchism to describe the political philosophy that we (anarchists) believe in. He was born the same year Thomas Payne died. So while Payne wouldn't have described himself as an Anarchist, we definitely recognize that he was in many ways espousing Anarchist philosophy.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/william-m-van-der-we...

>Nicholas Taleb

I'm not familiar, and Google doesn't seem to bring anything up under his name or under fractalistic societies. Unless you mean Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of Black Swan? If so, I'm also not familiar with his work outside of knowing about that Book.

Anarchism is not just taking down the current system and saying "No system!" It is itself a system and an ideology around how people rule themselves. We don't seek to destroy, we seek to organize new systems and build that up. The point of the black bloc and other agitators is not to seriously overthrow the government, we know that isn't going to happen. Not any time soon. It's agitprop both to shake up the libs and make them realize that things are not ok, and also a call to like minded individuals that people are fighting back and organizing and to come join us. The actual revolution won't be kicked off by a bunch of angry youth. It will be kicked off with a sufficient amount of people have become class conscious enough that the people will rise up. Most likely that will occur after decades of organization, and more than likely after the collapse of our current society anyways. Which based on how capitalism is destroying itself and the working class, is definitely on it's way (not saying any time soon, just that it will happen, just like how feudalism destroyed itself).

Gonna need a source on this one.

Capitalist democracies (no such thing they are all republics) still maintain the power structures that have always existed. The ruling class simply stops calling themselves the aristocracy and start calling themselves representatives and senators and capitalists and land lord's. There isn't as strong of an ideological push for people to destroy them. Anarchist societies are about completely destroying that hierarchy and there is a strong reason for all non anarchists to want to destroy them and see them fail.

Anarchist State.

Ruler Anarchist.

I don't think you quite grasp what Anarchism is.

Anarchism isn't simply the removal of rules and calling it a day. It's about decolonizing our minds and ideologies. It's about restructuring our societies so that would be rulers can't gain power in the first place. It's about cooperation over competition.

Like I said to the sibling comment, look up the CNT-FAI, the EZLN, the YPG, and the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine. There is nothing wrong with having the federation create a militia for the purpose of self defense and furthering the revolution

You would own the home you live in or the car you drive. Those would be your personal property. But you cannot own multiple homes that you rent out. Or a fleet of cars that you run a ride share company with. Thats private property and (private)property is theft. No one wants your toothbrush, but they do want the toothbrush factory

>what about violent communities

Anarchists are not liberals. We believe in armed Resistance and fighting back. Google the CNT-FIA, the EZLN, the YPG, and The Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine

Thanks for posting this. A lot to reflect on here. I'm a cis white male and while I can't relate to everything said here I definitely feel the "you're a cis white male so shut up and listen" frustration. I'm married to a black woman and speak out often on pro black (and all minorities) and pro women issues. And it really fucking sucks being told to shut up and sit down by those communities and being treated like the enemy. I understand why they feel that way. It just sucks. But I tell myself that it sucks even worse for them and what they have to experience and I love them and continue to fight for them because I know it's right. But it's hard.

But this isn't about me and what I go through. I'm just saying I get what this author is saying. And it really sucks. I hope that one day she is able to come out of the closet. Maybe she won't. That's her choice. But I hate that the world makes her feel like this. And until the world is more ready and accepting of people like her, I will start speaking out on things like this for people like her who feel they can't safely do so.

Also as a male feminist ally who doesn't really read women/queer/poc authors (I don't read too many books period) I really need to start doing so more.

Not athenian democracy, because that had hierarchy inherent in it. But yes, we believe in Direct Democracy.

>Direct democracy might work well for a city state where even poor citizens are independent land owners,

One of the principal beliefs of Anarchists is that property is theft[0]. So no one would be an independent land owner. Everyone would be equally involved and have equal rights as we would all be members of the Commune/Council/Community/Collective/Union/whatever term the community wants to use to describe their collective. I prefer either Commune or Union personally.

>But I'm not convinced it would work for a large nation where there are enough powerful bad actors that they can use marketing and patronage to get control of the political process.

A lot of people have this idea that Anarchism would break down at larger levels. And that's kind of true, but we have organizational techniques to avoid this. One such technique is the idea that you have your commune and it's you and your neighbors or coworkers (you can be in multiple communes) and it will be a small commune where everyone knows each other. This is the group that handles most of your day to day governance and issues. These communes will federate with other communes, and create a commune that are represented by a member of each member commune. These representatives would represent the will of their source commune in the larger federation, and can be instantly recallable if they start making power plays or decisions that the source commune doesn't agree with. There could be multiple levels of these federations, each keeping the group in session small (less than 80 people) but no one really being in a position of power or permanently having their job. Each commune that's part of the federation can choose how they choose their representative. Some may want the most charismatic person. Some may choose at random. Some may consider it a duty of the members of that commune and so it switches every few weeks. These representatives don't get special perks or privileges for being chosen. They just represent their federation and their commune in order to expedite the process.

Also, Anarchists do not believe in the concept of the City State, or the Nation. Borders are violent[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft! [1] https://crimethinc.com/posters/borders-the-global-caste-syst...

Then that would be a shitty world to live in. Good thing it isn't true.

Yeah I hate this idea that real people are rude and shit. No, you're just an asshole. I'm not fake because I make pleasant small talk with people while interacting with them. It's called being a decent person. Assholes aren't more real than nice people. They're just assholes.

>Anarchism without considering the legacy humanity instincts inherited is not realistic and not worth considering.

Man, if only in the last 200 years of philosophical work done on Anarchism one of the anarchist philosophers would have stopped and considered human nature and history. Thanks random HN poster for completely dismantling the entire field by bringing up this one point that no one has ever thought of before!

>Anarchy has no buying and selling. The strong just take. Without a non-violence consent aka state, there are no rules and no syncdicalism survives that.

Man, if only there were like ways that Anarchists could organize and fight that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Insurrectionary_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Lib...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederaci%C3%B3n_Nacional_de...

What makes you think everyone would just sit by and let people just steal from them? It's almost like you aren't considering the legacy humanity instincts and history of the planet if you think that's how people would react.

edit: Also, warlords are absolutely rulers, so no. Not like mogadishu in the 90's.

It also is about decentralizing power. There would be no one executive being who decides something is or is not legal. But the collective would be able to vote directly on how things should operate. And that includes the ability to punish / exile / whatever bad actors.