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higerordermap··on Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?
I don't have much context about your technical requirements but can I ask why JSON instead of a more indexable format?
higerordermap··on Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter
I am from India and pretty sure the reason here is it's much easier to make UIs in flutter than in Android native. Nothing specific to India being a developing country.

It's natural to see students using easier stuff as well. Most of student projects you come across is using react, flutter, firebase, MongoDB, as opposed to Angular/Vue, Android native/Jetpack, postgresql etc.. which have much higher barrier to entry.

But this may have to do with developing countries having more recent developers, and less established developers.

higerordermap··on Ask HN: What's your ideal city in a 100% remote world?
Which areas in Bangalore are good from this perspective? (Cleanliness, environment, less populated, good infra)?
higerordermap··on A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic
I guess first half can be while second half not.
higerordermap··on A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more
This is a recent HN thread and Post you might find interesting.

https://nintil.com/newton-hypothesis

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25787745

Due to career and other reasons, there is a publish or perish crisis today.

Maybe we can do better by accepting not everyone can publish ground breaking results, and it's okay.

There are lots of incompetent people in academia, who later go to upper positions and decide your promotions by citation counts and how much papers you published. I have no realistic ideas how to counter this.

higerordermap··on Google employees demand Palestine support in letter to CEO
British one was different. They recognized some castes as martial races etc.. but didn't do identity politics on them.

Whatever caste system is today there in India, it was before arrival of Europeans as well, but little more flexible compared to the strict categorisation they did.

higerordermap··on Half a million lines of Go
It's mostly due to Go being statically typed and having good editor tooling IMO. Doesn't excuse other atrocities in its design.
higerordermap··on Why are there so many Canadians in India?
> "first night curfew, hegirutte gottaa!?" with "first night" in a different color.

I laughed so hard at this. Is it TV9?

higerordermap··on “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
> Well, you could, if you could rely on LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set to "." by default.

It's actually supported without LD_LIBRARY_PATH hacks, using DT_RPATH. You can do that by passing -rpath '$ORIGIN' to linker IIRC.

higerordermap··on A brief history of Rust at Facebook
Are there enough rust jobs that don't involve shady stuff like crypto currency?
higerordermap··on Radicalizing the Romanceless (2014)
Nothing to be amazed about.

The social conditioning of girls is preferring the popular person. The social circles decide half of what's attractive, and that's generally outgoing, 'popular' types and not your math nerd. This is even true for intelligent girls, as most of them are socially conditioned to value characteristics conventionally perceived as musculine and / or attractive. Often the characteristics of the partner decide the girl's social standing among the peers.

I might get a lot of flame for mentioning this, but there's a concept called Fischerian runaway. Basically the fact that female sexual selection is fragile and doesn't always lead to good kind of evolution.

This is probably one thing that conservative cultures get right. If you're a 19 year old studying engineering or medicine in India, no one judges you because you are a virgin. (The culture has it's drawbacks, too. I am not downplaying them).

higerordermap··on KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices
For me it appears in notifications as well.
higerordermap··on Google have declared Droidscript is malware
Chill dude. How do I run gcc in java beanshell?
higerordermap··on Twitter takes down tweets criticising handling of pandemic at government request
To be fair, the previous ruling party was nepotistic, and everybody knew actual power was with Nehru family. As much as current government does majority appeasement they did minority appeasement. Both are wrong.

Congress failed because of nepotism and incompetency, and they failed the nation with them. It's their fault as well.

higerordermap··on Java for Everything (2014)
Are Indian product based companies using modern tech i.e NodeJS / Go or older tech (PHP, Python, Java) in general? By S.O developer survey, Go is one of well paid languages IIRC. Is it true in India as well?
higerordermap··on Twitter takes down tweets criticising handling of pandemic at government request
Ah. A political party can always win by misleading people. Does that mean misled people "deserve" everything that happens to them?

Not to mention that choice was between two equally corrupt parties each with their own flaws. But people could've seen what Modi has done after first 5 years period.

higerordermap··on Traversing nested data-structures in various languages
As long as there aren't too many variables keeping state, imperative should be fine.
higerordermap··on Larry Page's Comeback (2014)
Joel Spolsky nails it in a blog post.

> Watching non-programmers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf.

> “It’s ok! I have great advisors standing on the shore telling me what to do!” they say, and then fall off the board, again and again. The standard cry of the MBA who believes that management is a generic function. Is Ballmer going to be another John Sculley, who nearly drove Apple into extinction because the board of directors thought that selling Pepsi was good preparation for running a computer company? The cult of the MBA likes to believe that you can run organizations that do things that you don’t understand.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

higerordermap··on Nearly 40% of U.S. Marines have declined Covid-19 vaccine
Unrelated, it's odd that everyone who expresses concern over different aspects of vaccines are labelled anti vaxxer etc.. in few circles.

Here in India, many people have concerns over quality of vaccines and whether appropriate testing is done before releasing them. I think that's a valid concern considering how rampant corruption is.

higerordermap··on A simple C implementation to stream H.264 to browser using WebRTC
> Be me

> Rewrite h.264 in rust

> Depends on swap_bits crate by Wladimir Jinping Jr.

> NIH hacked by unknown people

> NYT title next day "Cargo cult package manager behind NIH hack"

higerordermap··on Apple will finally fix issue that blocked searches for 'Asian' as adult content
We first cancel all people with BLM/LGBTQ support profiles while discriminating against Asians and Indians in real life.
higerordermap··on Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman
Yeah never forgive someone because they were once politically incorrect in some unrelated matter.

Is political correctness a religion?

higerordermap··on Golang: Know Your 'Nil'
Early C compilers were not optimising compilers. The hardware was very limited.

Although I would agree it was possible to design the language much better to avoid Null, most buffer overflows etc.., C was not designed to be good from PL standpoint. It was designed to write something and then evolved.

higerordermap··on Golang: Know Your 'Nil'
I don't think mutability is problem here. Many imperative languages don't have null.
higerordermap··on 'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
When all this bullshit actually works, I feel like there's something deeply wrong with the way modern bureaucracies are structured. If people have knowledge of field they are going to manage, this is less likely to happen.

As Joel Spolsky puts it, The cult of the MBA likes to believe that you can run organizations that do things that you don’t understand.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

higerordermap··on 'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
> I love my job, take pride in it, and work hard at it. But I think of myself as working for my students, my collaborators, and my immediate colleagues. I pay little attention to my university as a whole, don't view it especially positively, haven't learned how to work its bureaucracy, and feel little loyalty to the institution in general.

Thank you.

higerordermap··on Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust
Use something other than DDD?
higerordermap··on Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust
The reason for not keeping it freely accessible doesn't matter. It's either freeware and some hobbyist or student can easily get, or they cannot.
higerordermap··on Religious fervour is migrating into politics
Have anti wokers got anyone fired.

They are just reactionary fools and don't have as much political clout as original fools.

higerordermap··on Religious fervour is migrating into politics
So do you judge non-abrahamic religions as faiths or religions or paganism or ....
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