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nawitus··on Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine
You're assuming that not taking this particular vaccine means getting COVID. There are alternatives, like waiting a bit more for an alternative vaccine.
nawitus··on Facebook freezes Venezuela president Maduro's page over Covid-19
Agree, but Facebook has also removed things that are not "10% most blatant disinformation".
nawitus··on On power markets, snow storms, and $16k power bills
By selling an insurance.
nawitus··on Choose Exciting Technology
Choose a mix of boring and exciting technology instead. Pick 1-2 new things for your new app and you're probably good.
nawitus··on Hiring Myths Common in Hacker News Discussions
>On the other hand, if you’re a brilliant engineer who struggles with being told what to do or doing work that you can’t immediately connect to something intrinsically motivating to you, that FAANG interview just did both you and the company a favor by weeding you out of the process.

Or maybe the candidate is willing to do that type of work during work hours, but lacks the time and motivation to do it at home after work.

nawitus··on “I just woke up one morning and it struck me that I was a murderer. so I quit.”
Self-defense?
nawitus··on The Failed Promise of Web Components
I've built several complex apps (which I suppose are "of significance") with web components. I just used a framework (Polymer in my case) to abstract away the web components API.
nawitus··on Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM
Families of 3 also have e.g. station wagons. Big sedan should be fine seating-wise too.
nawitus··on Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM
Finland deals with this issue with snow plowing and winter tires. Small cars work very well in ice and snow.
nawitus··on We Don’t Like Our Underground House
Code here doesn't require pressure treated wood, but instead asphalt felt is added between the concrete and the wood, which prevents water from travelling to the wood.
nawitus··on We Don’t Like Our Underground House
Waterproofing on concrete walls is not recommended imo. (even if popular now in the States), as it will prevent the concrete walls to evaporate the moisture. This was popular in the 80s I believe in some Nordic countries, but not allowed/used anymore. You can/should install a dimpled foundation membrane though.
nawitus··on Twitter web app now runs ES6+, reducing polyfill bundle size by 83%
They still support some older browsers, but serve a different bundle for them.
nawitus··on Design Docs at Google
Are you suggesting to write a design doc every sprint, e.g. two weeks?
nawitus··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
Interesting, as I have the inverse experience with Phabricator (and the related tools in that ecosystem like arcanist). I don't like it, and nobody else seems to like it.
nawitus··on Unit Testing Is Overrated
What is external behavior? Behavior of the user interface of the program or behavior of some other code? What is external?

The term "refactoring" is commonly used in a way which includes changing of public interfaces. Random article, which even cites a book, agrees: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/lets-not-misuse-refactoring

If you're developing a library, then refactoring shouldn't change public interfaces. If you're developing an application and you own all the code paths to the code, then refactoring could change public interfaces, as the external behavior here would be the UI.

If you literally agree with the "refactoring shouldn't change public interfaces" then we need a new word for "code improvement which doesn't change external behavior, which can mean UI", which is the more commonly needed term.

And then perhaps we could agree that "code improvement often changes public interfaces" and how this relates to unit tests.

nawitus··on Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case for a basic income
You would get an increase of $2000 in the form of UBI, but increase in taxes of $2000, so your net would remain the same. It's assumed tha UBI would replace current unemployment benefits. Of course UBI can be expensive if the amount is too large.
nawitus··on Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case for a basic income
> Every single proposed UBI was either insufficient to cover people's basic needs, obscenely expensive, or both.

I don't think that's true. In a really simple model imagine UBI of $2000/month given for everyone. Then imagine increasing income taxes by $2000 for all employed workers. Then the true cost would be difference between current unemployed benefits of the UBI, which shoudln't be obscenely expensive (in normal economic times). Employed workers shouldn't care about the increased taxes because their take home money would remain identical.

That's of course a very simplistic model, but explains how you shouldn't just count the UBI amount times population as the cost.

nawitus··on Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case for a basic income
> People studied the UBI idea and recognized the costs of giving money to everyone are so enormous that it's unworkable.

Not really. There are UBI models that are more or less zero cost - taxes are increased by roughly the UBI amount for employed workers, and for the unemployed the UBI would be similar to the unemployment benefits they would lose.

nawitus··on Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread
The idea is explored here: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/02/consider-controlled-in...
nawitus··on Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps
What does "do in action" mean? If you mean "make API call in reducer", that is commonly known to be an anti-pattern. Triggering the API call by dispatching action, however, is a common pattern. Usually it's implemented with a library like redux-saga or redux-observable.
nawitus··on TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex
"Full type safety would require a lot of runtime checks injected into the final JavaScript"

Why would this be the case?

nawitus··on The Political History of Pad Thai
Thais do order and eat it.
nawitus··on Neo.mjs – Webworker-driven UI framework
Well, CSS-in-JS is just one option for styling React components.
nawitus··on Show HN: PNGR – Docker-compose for a Postgres-Nginx-Golang-React stack
Bad ergonomics? Pretty much every developer I interact with has Docker already installed, which makes this very ergonomic to use.
nawitus··on Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews
It's usually not a waste of time, and the person can expand what the commented line does. A more specific question can be preferred sometimes, like my comment stated.
nawitus··on Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews
"I don’t understand this." is a valid review comment. Of course sometimes you can expand on the comment, but sometimes it's enough.
nawitus··on Tesla Model 3 = 24% of Small and Midsize Luxury Car Sales in USA
https://www.truedelta.com/car-reliability-by-brand?min=2016&...
nawitus··on Rental firm walks away from Tesla order after quality dispute
I believe Nissan Leaf is the still the most sold electric car, more than Tesla Model 3. The Model 3 is catching up though.
nawitus··on Interest Rates: Naturally Negative?
They're positive for regular customers, but negative for large organizations.
nawitus··on 20-Year Mortgages Hit Zero for First Time in Danish Rate History
Because the central bank has negative interest? It's the reason commercial banks will refuse to store sufficiently large amounts of cash in a 0.00% checking account (even though they offer it for smaller amounts).
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