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The argument made here isn't to type out more lines of code but to match the speed of your typing to your mental model such that the slow typing does not get in the way

I think a lot of that praise in American media was an extension of neoconservatism that permeated the administrations around that time

thanks! just to clarify, how do you manage the composition of these types? Do you create a structural type per API and potentially have the "same" types repeated multiple times?

This is not easy to do in say Java which is significantly different from clojure (or how typescript enforces typing). In your example it appears that you're using the name field rather than the type Named to shape data that the function will use (this is in essence ducktyping)

geocities simply made it "free" to publish on the web I thought? As opposed to being a platform that enforced complex policies

> A counter argument is that you might miss out on a lot of the monetary rewards that comes from learning the much desired skill that others don't have the time or will power to tackle in the period where doing so involves a lot of friction

Perhaps it can be argued that one is not in the position to take advantage of such situations. Switching jobs is not necessarily cheap

This is very annoying, I honestly thought China would continue to present a very real challenge to American hegemony and keep it in check

And how does this notion of corruption compare to systems such as lobbying?

> son of your uncle's friend

And for the point of discussion how is this any different from the privileged power structures?

Wouldn't version control solve this problem anyhow?

Reminds me of Localizers from A Deepness in the Sky. That was a great book

Indeed people will die over it. But you have to make a convincing argument about changing behaviour as opposed to playing a variant of white man's burden.

I think it's also important to understand historical context. The "painting" make it seems like the "others" don't know what they're doing

Banks do post current balances which reflects how ledgers work. The current balance also reflects transactions that havent posted and that seems to be in line with the example

Sorry, are you saying "it's the cost of doing business"?

Reading the comments here, I wonder how many are aware of the use of social harmony which justifies this type of tech and why that core thesis is not identified and argued upon when compared to "more freedom is good". If this thought is too naive please point me to better reading resources

My comment is that you cannot have CP without a reliable network, an unreliable network is equivalent to a partition event. This might be a naive assertion, but how else do you have a partition event? I'm confused about what you were trying to say. The post talks about being effectively CA which is what I understood about spanner when I came across the system.

But isn't network reliability a necessary condition for distributed consensus?

Naive question, how do I figure out in which part of the chain a null had occured? Or is the assumption that you'd establish only valid inputs and therefore never have a chance for this to happen?

I don't think that makes sense, if I had a longish method or a task that could be decomposed into smaller pieces to clearly identify what's happening I would prefer to break it up and test those pieces if it made sense. Obviously this depends on how you do it. DDD talks about this in terms of services and such which might be what your long function really is. In which case you _do_ have to test this large chunk of logic.

How would one go about testing such an idea beside implementing it? The context seems to be philosophical more so than a more rigorous model.

Why do we expect fewer lines of code with more unit tests? I don't quite follow this.

These decisions interface via binding sites[1] which can be thought of as having "bias".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_site

I'm not aware of universities doing manufacturing and selling finished design, they more or less license IP.

So it sounds like the deal was to get Travis Kalanick back onboard/Benchmark an exit?

Obligatory reference to Vernor Vinge's Fire upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky that explores programmer archeologists or programmer at arms.

> is the extent to which they'll continue to develop

Is this necessarily true? The rapid development is a because they opened up to other economies from a position of underdevelopment, but there has to be a set point somewhere considering they have a massive population and more or less the means of production.

The part about Biel makes it sound like the Indians were ignorant thirdworlders who didn't know any better.

I certainly concede the cutural context, and wouldn't care much if the article we're written in German and I were reading a translation, but I assume this article is written for consumption by an English population, which means barring regional difference in English there shouldn't be much ambiguity in interpretation for that population.

Your anology doesn't quite line up. What you point out are specific actions of people. You are now easily empowered to go ask that person why they stood up to the national anthem or ask someone else. The line quoted here is an impression of a German author of what an other culture percieves. This just doesn't sound like good reporting. Is the author projecting third world impressions or projecting what _anyone_ reaching America would feel about non costal cities? The tone of the rest of the article suggests the latter, but what really stood out was the added impression of someone from Switzerland. Growing up in a culture with with tons of colonial baggage, I don't see why I shouldn't feel offended.

> They all ended up in West Virginia, not exactly the America you dream of when you come from Chennai or Bangalore. Probably not even when you come from Biel.

I find these type of statements pretty racist. I mean what does it have to do with the reporting? I'm not sure it adds to the dramatic narrative/buildup. Having said that, I suppose for most people who move to the US, there is a certain picture in mind of New York and LA among other things, so there's that. But it sounds racist in the back of my head, not to mention the IT part.

Is there a model for this? I'm asking because cross pollination can happen through other means. High density of conferences, strength of networks among other means.

This argument is reminiscent of reformations and the political landscape of Europe way back when.