nickcox

That's basically all of them though? I think the single most important qualification for being a law enforcement or correctional officer should be not wanting to be a law enforcement or correctional officer.

There is definitely a serious intergenerational fairness issue here. One of the best expositions of the problem I've seen is this talk by Tory peer (and boomer!) Lord David Willetts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXzvjBYW8A

> When I arrived here in 2011, I thought real estate was cheap compared to rents, that equation has completely flipped.

As long as it's possible to negatively gear unrelated income while building up a property portfolio it makes sense that people will be happy to lose money on rents in order to take advantage of capital gains discounts down the track.

Many jurisdictions also have generous tax incentives for property ownership.

In Australia, for example, there's no CGT payable on your primary residence which means paying down a giant mortgage and then downsizing at retirement is a cost effective investment strategy for building a nest egg.

Also without losing votes from the people with property equity (i.e. the majority of the electorate).

I imagine it would still depend on the jurisdiction?

High coverage isn't enough but, in my experience, it's a great place to start.

I've written an depressingly high quantity of code in my career that blows up literally the first time it runs. I'd much rather that happen in a unit test than in production.

Any test that exercises a given branch is better than nothing.

PowerShell is great. Just objectively better than Bash for scripting.

I think the lack of adoption in the Linux world is a mix of:

* Cultural (i.e. it's Microsoft) * Not included out of the box * Existing tools being 'good enough'

How so?

The terraform AWS provider lags from time to time too. I remember waiting the best part of a year for API gateway websockets support.

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/7...

Same could be sad for Pulumi though, couldn't it? It's a leaky abstraction on top of Terraform which is a leaky abstraction on top of $YourProvider's API.

I'm still much happier using CDK vs CF or Pulumi vs HCL though.

Which?

Quasi-autonomous nongovernmental organisations, in fact.

You probably don't need to test any of those things but I would still expect them to be exercised. You can't very well test a class without constructing it.

If you don't like ketchup, I guess.

> Unfortunately, this is ripe for abuse. You're basically allowing educational institutions to sell green cards. If you thought almost-unlimited-student-loans inflated education prices, you don't even want to see what selling green cards would do

That's pretty much how it's done in Australia. It props up a massive industry (education was the fourth largest export in 2018-2019) whilst ensuring a supply of qualified applicants for residency.

Prices for locals are still set by the government. So, whilst there is inflation, disadvantage to locals is limited to there being fewer places available to them. Whether it's morally okay is another question but the economics seem to work out pretty well.

Pass from me, given the published pricing is:

> Contact Sales to learn more

Where are you sourcing your stat from? It's hard believe that the millions of developers in China, India, SE Asia, East Europe, etc. are outnumbered by people in New York and San Francisco.

Cripes, US$150k is good money in London and that's a considerably higher cost location than rural Kansas.

> I think that in time it will run JavaScript apps that depend on browser APIs and/or Rust APIs better than Node

Yes! For example, you get fetch out of the box.

And also because journalists could go to prison for reporting on it.

GP's point is fair though. Many developed economies are spending literally hundreds of billions of dollars tackling COVID. Have we done proper cost/benefit analyses to verify whether that money could save or improve more lives in other areas?

Pretty sure you don't need Mono to use any modern version of PowerShell.

Not to mention _literally_ portraying the chancellor as Superman. [1]

[1] https://www.thenational.scot/news/18620765.bbc-slammed-portr...

Or, as in TFA, they say that circumstances have changes and their their previous position was 100% definitely right at the time.

Perhaps they were going for non-repudiation?

Who hasn't? Isn't this precisely one of the pros of Deno?

You haven't been paying attention then. Check out the ridiculous series of non-apologies over the Monica Cellio debacle.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/340913/627733

No sure that no macOS makes competitors objectively worse.

> From a UI standpoint, it would be virtually just as hard for a JSX dev to implement a React app with purely `React.createElement()` as it would be to just write a native DOM application

I don't think that's true at all. I find react-hyperscript[0] and friends terser, more regular and just as easy to work with as JSX.

[0] https://github.com/mlmorg/react-hyperscript

Don't Perl and PHP both predate Java? By quite a bit in Perl's case.