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vorotato··on Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript
This and, they probably didn't mean the pipe operator from the niche language "hack".
vorotato··on Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript
This isn't the pipe operator in elixir. It's from some php derivative language that facebook uses and you shouldn't trust it, because nobody could even show in TC39 that it was sound.
vorotato··on Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript
Someone at google didn't like it, and apparently that overrode the entire original intent of the proposal. I'm all for industry participation but I was pulling my hair out with this.
vorotato··on Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript
I also pushed for this in TC39 which was shut down for seemingly no reason. Since only one language with almost no user base uses |> to mean expressions, people are guaranteed to get the wrong idea about how it works. It almost seems like intentional misleading.
vorotato··on Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript
hack pipes aren't "pipes" anyway. Every other language that uses |> uses it for functions, not expressions.
vorotato··on Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript
This is not elixir pipes. Elixir pipes are sound because they are piping to a function. Piping to a statement is not the same thing and it will become more clear in actual usage just how bad these are. Remember % in js is also modulo, and "test" % "ing" returns NaN. NaN is infectious since basically anything that operates on NaN returns NaN. "test" % "ing" + "ana" returns NaNana . You can quickly see how these pipes (as implemented) are so bad they might as well be language sabotage.
vorotato··on Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript
These hack pipes are a trojan horse. People wanted elixir/F#/ocaml aka function pipes, and what we got was unreadable line noise. I argued against it until I was blue in the face, decided it was bad for my general wellness to keep it up. I genuinely would prefer no pipes over this. I couldn't find a single example where I preferred it. The token they chose already has a meaning in Javascript! The arrogance and willful disregard for readable code was astonishing. The only tangible reason I could pull as to why they picked the least popular implementation despite all the outrage was "someone at google didn't like the function pipes". Even if you think we should avoid it because some google employee doesn't want it, that doesn't mean you should ram in an even worse implementation. I had to block the TC39 discussion because I was just going to get argumentative because they weren't listening at all, and they were dismissing actual concerns without any explanation.
vorotato··on Single dose of psilocybin eased cancer patients' anxiety, depression for years
If your identity doesn't exist, there is nobody to die. It's one of those things that mostly makes sense if you've experienced it. For the record I wouldn't recommend it. Premature annihilation of ego can lead to shunyatta poisoning, or emptiness poisoning. The ego causes issues for sure, but if you kill it before you cultivate a deep understanding of compassion you can easily become a genuine villain.
vorotato··on SoftBank has walked away from startups, months after submitting term sheets
That only works if anyone is doing it.
vorotato··on Your cyberpunk games are dangerous (2015)
For as long as any of us can remember, the average person has tried to avoid wasting their time on potentially fruitless pursuits with no joy in the journey.
vorotato··on Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age
Of course, cognitive decline could also cause television.
vorotato··on How to Buy a Private Jet
By this logic you should always take public transit or train where you can stay productive and connected while in transit.
vorotato··on If Bitcoin Looks Like It Isn’t Trading, It’s Because It Isn’t
This is the way bitcoin ends, not with a bang but with a whimper.
vorotato··on Young People Are Going to Save Us All from Office Life
Tomato / Potato :)
vorotato··on Young People Are Going to Save Us All from Office Life
Older people are just less honest with their employer, they don't actually take off less time in my experience. Perhaps there's also a thing we younger folks could learn from their experience.
vorotato··on Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature
Hard to move too far forwards without acknowledging that copyright law's constructions are deeply divorced from the public's values.
vorotato··on The Families Who Use Slack and Asana at Home
"Stretched for time, some households are starting to operate more like businesses."

Organization is not a "business" thing, it's a life thing. If you are organized at work, and not organized at home you are essentially showing that you think their time is more valuable than your time. If your time matters, it also matters that at least some of that time is used effectively for your own goals.

vorotato··on The Anti-College Is on the Rise
Plumbers pick their own work conditions as they are often self employed. So uh kinda? Mostly not. Heavy things are still heavy and still need to be lifted. You're probably not going to bring in a jack.

My best friend was a HVAC repairman and is a programmer now. He's happier as a programmer. Some people are happier as an HVAC repairman, and more power to them. However it's not the norm for people who have done both.

vorotato··on The Anti-College Is on the Rise
Sure but you don't get carpal tunnel from screwing up once, you get it by screwing up over and over for a decade. Trade injuries are often one shots. Being said if you don't have the discipline to avoid posture injuries you might not have what it takes to survive a trade.
vorotato··on The Anti-College Is on the Rise
Sounds like you should spend some time in a trade. It's still worth doing don't get me wrong but there are more risks, they are harder to avoid, and with worse consequences.
vorotato··on The Anti-College Is on the Rise
You should quit a job that has you work crazy overtime if that's something you don't like. I don't _ever_ work more than 40 hours, religiously. I may not be the highest paid ever but I'm perfectly okay. Saving money, enjoying my time in the hammock in a modest house with a modest car.
vorotato··on Hyper 3.0.0
What's fraud is that you represented your opinions in such a tremendously ineffective way that none of us can read them now, and you are acting like you blessed the world. Nobody even knows what your opinion was, I hope you're happy.
vorotato··on Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune
Obviously it's whoever misrepresented the abilities of said robot. If that's nobody then you don't have a case.
vorotato··on There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train, but I did it anyway
There's also no reason not to ;).
vorotato··on 8-Year-Old Refugee Wins New York State Championship
Clearly you're not familiar with competitions.
vorotato··on Gall's Law
git is remarkably simple in the core premise. I know nothing about paxos and tex though.
vorotato··on Learn new technology through writing a tutorial about it
If there's anything we can learn from the activity levels around this post it's that you're better off writing a blog post about writing a blog post about development than you are writing a blog post about development.
vorotato··on First physiological test for autism proves high accuracy in second trial
I would hope that there's more rigor than that. I mean if you're willing to be that dishonest with your sample selection you could select only people who don't have autism and get 100% accuracy.
vorotato··on First physiological test for autism proves high accuracy in second trial
If it's not affecting you in a negative way then it's not a disorder. If it is then it can be. If it doesn't have serious negative impacts then you're just non-neurotypical which is fine. People have the same opinions around ADHD but when you need accommodation or treatment it's worth classifying it as something that needs some level of accommodation or treatment.
vorotato··on Your success isn’t down to free will – luck determines everything
Rehabilitation has been shown to be more effective than punitive deterrence though.
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