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Bet someone will be rooting out hard-coded strings with incorrect pronouns in for years to come.

The sentence immediately after the one you quoted was: "Don’t get me wrong: React is good". So dismissing the article on the grounds that 'React is good' doesn't get you very far.

Also, if I'm calling 'getInstance' on PlaneFactory, why am I having to explicitly assert that I'm expecting a Plane in return? Isn't that a given?

This is just string typing:

PlaneFactory.getInstance<Plane>('BoeingPlane')

Doesn't that defeat the point of both TypeScript and the factory pattern?

... within the context of ticketing.

Is the "3rd-party marketplace" bit a hard requirement? If I'm organising an event and I am ok with tickets being transferred, would it satisfy requirements if I offered a mechanism for transfers myself?

I believe the concept referenced is the one mentioned in the second paragraph: uniqueness+art.

Today is a great day for you, because you get to learn something new! Specifically, that if you derive pitches of notes from harmonics, D sharp and E flat are slightly different pitches! There's actually a great article about exactly this you might want to read, and it's handily linked above.

> Another way to phrase this is “statically typed languages suck if you want to write highly dynamically typed code.”

Reminds me a lot of the NoSQL wars which eventually boiled down to 'Non-relational databases suck if you want to store highly relational data'. As ever, there are no silver bullets, only the right tools for certain jobs.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/24/23319552/facebook-bug-cel... - media picking up on it

Verge article on this: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/24/23319552/facebook-bug-cel...

Sure, here you go: https://www.ft.com/john-burn-murdoch

"But it dawns on me that luck is just the product of all these other qualities"

This, to me, highlights the flaw in the whole article. They nearly died. They were saved by a chance encounter with a friendly boat. This encounter was SO OBVIOUSLY not a product of their own motivation, boldness or any of the rest of that guff.

This is the worst form of survivor bias.

Do you believe, privately, that there's a really great business here? (I don't mean 'do you believe that if enough miracles happen what you have might turn into a great business?')

In my experience, that's the question that causes people to ditch a startup despite whatever headline metrics it has.

Growing up, #2 was called 'the sermon game', but only letters that started words counted. The goal was not to reach the end of the alphabet but to get further through than your peers.

The thing about virtual sets is, like real sets, they force you to have commotted to every decision about a shot at the point you shoot the actors. And half the reason Hollywood uses VFX so much is to NOT do that. So don't expect virtual sets to be universally adopted any time soon.

Sneaky little hotbitses.

In my very recent experience (specifically in the UK for roles to do with Ruby), the shirtage of developers mean it's way less painful than it used to be, cos companies are marketing themselves on their ease of interview process. I went from sending out CVs to getting a good offer in a week, and that offer was from a 1-stage, 1-hour interview process. Don't get me wrong, I basically spent that entire week on the phone to recruiters, but still, massive improvement on the last time I was in the market.

That. Doesn't. Work.

Burned into my auditory memory.

In my experience (UK traditional banking system) I can move money directly A to C at 4am on a weekend, any amount, without talking to anyone for a NO fee. That's just how online banking works, and I'd have to increase the sums of money involved by an order of magnitude or two before having to walk into a bank. What sorts of values of A, C and $ do you have in mind where a bank isn't cheaper, faster and more convenient than crypto?

In the former there are always some people paying for something they do not want enough to go through the effort of buying (although they may still consider it reasonable enough value to stick with given it requires no further effort to do so).

Dear customers: we know. But our businesses are viable as subscription services, and not as one-off or ad-hoc puchase models. We know because we tried them. So we're catering to the people who are OK with buying a subscription because there are enough of them. Sorry if that doesn't suit you.

> no source for the $6.5k/month revenue

It's in a photo attached to the first tweet: https://readthegeneralist.com/briefing/helium

> Data Credits are used when onboarding a hotspot, asserting a location, and processing a payment. Onboarding hotspots, in particular, is intensive from a Data Credit perspective. Since Helium is onboarding so many new hotspots, this skews results, suggesting greater customer activity than is actually present. Data from The Decentralized Wireless Alliance removes these three uses, demonstrating the size of the Helium economy’s customer demand. By this measure, DC usage was just $6,561 in June.

They all laughed at Moviepass, but just look at a chart of its usage growth. Clubhouse too.

This is often true even for people who do not naturally gravitate towards other people. You can both benefit from social interaction and find it extremely challenging.

I once worked in a VERY chaotic startup with near-constant pivots and priority shifts. In each case, at the time, the change in direction could be justified... but morale was chronically low, particularly among software engineers. I spoke to one who, after a year, mournfully revealed that none of the code he had written had ever shipped. He, and most of his colleagues, burnt out and dropped out pretty fast.

Right, but now imagine you weren't one of the people who had someone knowledgeable and sceptical pointing out the flaws. Imagine all you ever came across was crypto bros and people who believed, repeated and amplified their bullshit. Imagine the received wisdom all around you, from your family, peers, role models, was: this is the thing to do.

Yeah, a bunch of people ignored you and ostracised you. But not everyone. Not most people. Most people never even got the chance to ignore you.

It appears to me that the measures France is preparing are measures to keep the power _on_, not turn it off: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/france-pr...

Your sentences 3 and 4 prove how your definition in sentence 1 is not remotely exact.

A counterargument might be that consciousness is an inherent side effect of all the stuff that goes on in the brain. And while yes, the brain does some computation, that is by no means a complete description of all the brain does and is. So computation of any sort will not necessarily produce the side effect if you just do enough of it. Rather it's a side effect of the way the brain works, which is not the way a barrel full of pocket calculators, or a Macbook, or a bunch of rocks in the sand works.