dean177

Trust arc is incredibly obnoxious

In a completely harmless way

"What we know is 17 million people have received the vaccine and 37 people have developed these blood clots. That corresponds to .0002% of actually anybody that has been vaccinated getting a blood clot,"

If you aren’t sure you should stay, you should leave.

If you think it’s affecting your health, it’s a no brainier.

> My colleagues don't like becuase it's so different to what they are used

Is it worth being faster if it makes everyone else slower?

The const keyword also guarantees that once a value is assigned to its slot it won't change in the future. As a result TurboFan skips loading and checking const slot values slots each time they are accessed (Function Context Specialization)

https://github.com/thlorenz/v8-perf/blob/master/language-fea...

> wouldn't this just be an issue of promotion? How is a language different from other products?

Network effects. Languages benefit (and become more useful) the more people use them:

- You are less likely to run into compiler bugs

- You are more likely to find a high quality library that solves your problem

- You are more likely to be able to get help with your problems

Building up the community that drives that network is a huge amount of work.

> What is a non-technical person supposed to do?

Hire someone that knows what they are doing

Thanks for the great article

What valuation do you think would be fair?

You can have your cake and eat it too, Ocaml & Go both have type systems and compilers that are fast enough to work iteratively

That app looks considerably more powerful that trello. Why so dismissive?

> All these "competency tests" are good for is catching blatant lying. Is this a serious problem?

It absolutely is, there are plenty of companies who have no staff capable of verifying a candidates technical abilities

Which means they are of doubtful origin. There is no doubt that this particular story is a complete fabrication

Please stop repeating this, it’s total nonsense.

Outsourcing is usually done as a cost saving measure, often in the knowledge that they might be getting less than before.

The cost savings are often overestimated and many companies can't evaluate quality well in the first place.

Also outsourcing doesn't always mean remote, lots of companies hiring consultants (developers, or even teams of developers) require them to be on-site.

The problem is often the outsourced and the company doing the outsourcing have incentives which don't line up.

Try being less dismissive, you might be happier and make others happier while you are at it

Guaranteed good performance (the bit you picked up on) for a feature people want in an easy to use package sounds great. Well done the author and thanks for sharing your work.

From the NHS website, not a newspaper article.

https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/doctors/pay-d...

> Healthcare professionals are paid much more compared to the average UK citizen. Especially doctors, the average pay (100k pounds)

This is just utter nonsense. The average UK salary is around £30,000. Nurses can expect to earn anywhere between £22,000 and £30,000.

Junior doctors (which a new doctor can expect to be for somewhere around 5 years) starts at £23,000 increasing to somewhere between £30,000 to £45,000. GP's earn around £75,000.

“The new thing is bad, people should do more of the old thing”. If people couldn’t watch Netflix they certainly wouldn’t be using that time to think about important issues.

The world has not moved away from a reading culture, it never had one.

This is unnecessarily snarky. Nobody is claiming to reinvent anything, just someone sharing their wisdom.

“I’m shaking hands continuously. I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were actually a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody, you’ll be pleased to know. I continue to shake hands.“

Guess who said that a couple of weeks ago.

I really hope this doesn’t kill him.

“I’m shaking hands continuously. I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were actually a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody, you’ll be pleased to know. I continue to shake hands.“

Guess who said that a couple of weeks ago.

You can satisfy your scepticism, the list of all publications used to generate the database (with complete reference) is included in the full download.

You can just not upgrade.

I think you are overstating how hard it is to add the config (pro tip: you can add it to package.json) and how painless it is to run the formatted for the whole project.

The changes to the defaults are small and (in my opinion, worth it).

The variance for muscle density is considerably smaller than the variance in shoe size.

https://itis.swiss/virtual-population/tissue-properties/data...

In this case the average alone is representative of the population without any additional qualifications.

Please don’t drink and drive.

> muscle weighs more than fat

On average, the density of fat is 0.9 g/mL, while the density of muscle is 1.1 g/mL.

It’s just not that much

8GB is absolutely fine for most people, but it is an expensive upgrade.

It’s the opposite in the UK, with the exception of oranges fresh produce is fine and things like pasta, rice, baked beans and frozen fish fingers are long gone

Clearly the USA. What point are you trying to make?