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Yep, I don't see free will in a completely random universe OR a completely deterministic universe. In either case, something you have no control over is governing your behavior.

I think other comments put it best. Knowing how much luck is involved in your life allows you to have greater empathy for others. That is, unless you're an unlucky bastard ;)

> Where free will enters the picture is that not everybody that was lucky at some point in their life ends up making it: you can easily annihilate your luck by working against yourself.

What do you think determines this? At what point can you say this magical thing called free will pops into existence? I don't understand how the laws of physics determine how the universe behaves but then those laws decide to step aside while someone is making decisions about their life.

You have precisely the same attitude as I do. Try to think about the circumstances other people were put in before you judge them. I had to exercise this thinking on the pickleball court last weekend.

I stopped believing in free will since diving into physics in high school/college. Everything we've ever observed appears to follow laws of universe over which we have no control. Feeling like you have free will does not mean you have it, and many studies have found your "decisions" happen before you are even conscious of them.

I think it's a stereotype from the old web when it didn't require as much technical skill as other programming fields. Most of my colleagues started in other languages and learned Node/JS on the job.

Mostly goofing with you. But it is kind of crazy to think 20 years ago, nobody knew about a thing called "Google".

> I'd have thought that impossible a couple of decades ago.

Me too. Good thing Google exists now :)

I don't think I could disagree with this post any more than I do.

This analogy doesn't work because the blue ball was blue the entire time (and vice versa with the red ball).

So... .000005% of the population?

This ended up sounding a bit like a "back when I was a kid" story.

> And dedicated servers are linux servers. You can hire engineers, I believe, that have used those.

Hiring a single engineer to do this is more expensive than using a cloud service...

The article mentions that Ava differs from Jest because of its focus on speed. Just figured I'd mention we are in the process of migrating from Ava to Jest, and we gained a 5x speedup in running our entire suite.

I haven't used bitwise operators since college (approaching 8 years ago) but wanted to try this as a fun exercise during the NFL playoff game. Here's what I came up with -- mostly untested.

[edit] Note this is obviously for 16-bit integers.

int flip_endian_helper(int num, int i) {

    if (i == 16) {
     return 0;
    }

    int shift = 15 - 2*i;
    int workingBit = num & (1 << i);
    int partial = shift > 0 ? workingBit << shift : workingBit >> (shift * (-1));
    
    return partial | flip_endian(num, i + 1);

}

int flip_endian(int num) {

  return flip_endian_helper(num, 0);

}

> I'm mostly working with startups, helping them with web app architecture and performance

When I read the blog post my first thought was that I would love to do exactly this. I'm working at a startup right now but I'm so bored of the day-to-day and really enjoy architecture/performance tasks. I think I'm going to give consulting a try after I vest a little more stock :)

I started working remote 80% of the time about 2 months ago and I'm getting to this point as well.

Agree with you here. I use git for literally every coding project, even my quick practice folders. I haven't had an "oh-shit" moment from losing anything in like 5 years, back when I was still learning git.

It's only easier to copy the directory if you haven't done the due diligence of learning git properly. It's a tool to avoid doing the ripcord approach -- ever.

Have to disagree on this one for anything but the most basic apps (think blogs and lots of static content). I'd have rewritten my entire app over by now with the "targeted air strikes" approach.

They still have some awfully awkward stuff in npm5. In some cases they will overwrite your package.json with logging data (WTF?)