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> You even introduce a class of bugs doesn’t exist for statically typed languages.

As type systems vary, almost every statically-typed language allows some errors of the class statically-typed languages, in general, can prevent, so this is not really true.

What is true is that on the continuum from no static validation to something like Idris or Agda, you accept more statically-avoidable type errors the closer you are to the former rather than the latter.
It's a small chat message in the bottom corner, hardly a full-screen takeover - is it really that annoying?

And it makes business sense as it usually increases engagement and interaction with potential customers.
Something doesn't add up here.

- Shouldn't the New York Times be reporting more often about sexual inequality on Wall Street?

- Silicon Valley has fewer women.

- Silicon Valley has the highest concentration of Scientific and Technical workers in the country - if you went to an American school, then you know where they stand in the hierarchy.

Could it be that the lower number of women here is forcing the men to go out of their way to beat the drumbeat of female rights to their own detriment, while the rest of the country points, laughs and pressures them into even more submission?

Something just doesn't add up.
If we're doing that why not just imagine a PowerPoint presentation that's not bounded?
Well that's easy to remember.
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> Inheritance is presented everywhere as the go-to method for structuring everything in languages supporting inheritance.

No, it's not. Many places recommend restraint in use of inheritance (and in languages that support only single inheritance, there are sharp limits to what it can do to start with.)
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You're not alone there, Apple has integrated a whole lot into iOS now, so there is much less reason to need a jailbreak.
> You think the otherwise smart and successful founders of these projects all made the wrong choice when it came to selecting the right tool for the job?

Not at all! I think dynamic typing hurts code, but there are:

- not always alternatives

- many other slightly suboptimal choices that it’s quite possible to succeed in spite of

> No, they wrote a faster runtime.

I’m referring to Hack, which is in fact another language with static typing. (Type annotations are static typing with compromises, and you can see what’s being gone for.)

> No, in the past statically typed languages were the norm. C, C++, Java...

Those are not remotely good. Some examples closer to being good are Rust, a step in the right direction that’s still unfolding, and Haskell, a wonderful language hampered by a slow compiler and a lack of decent packages. (And probably several less popular languages, but popularity is an important factor…)
Wondering why Dart was not considered. Large apps are written in it (Ad sense UI, Ad Words UI, Google CRM). Has good tooling (IntelliJ plugin, Webstorm). It's fairly easy to pick up - Java/C# like syntax. It's harder to shot yourself on your own foot (it's not JS superset). It has strong mode. It has superb tooling and package manager ( dartanalyzer, pub)
If that were the case the first one would've killed us all.
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Does any major tech company use Dart other than Google?
I don't think your reply follows logically.

What I said originally was that 999 is a bad choice as it takes considerably more time to dial.

The reply was that there were technical reasons for using 999, for which I replied that the two are not mutually exclusive.

Did you mean to reply to my original post maybe?
It's an explosive combination of socially maladjusted nerds who suddenly ended up in positions of power in a location/industry with rather few women for them to influence with that authority + a new wave of progressive women trying to break into a male dominated space.

It's going to be a rickety ride for sure.

On a personal note, part of me was refusing to believe that someone like the partner at Binary was even possible in this day and age, I had never run into this myself and concluded this must have been a caricature at best. I must admit I was wrong to assume that, turns out those people are real. Hopefully there are very few of them, but I might have to change my mind on that one too soon.
I used to automatically jailbreak all my iOS devices right from the first iPhone.

From installing apps before the App Store existed , to attachments in mail, to download managers in safari, to a fully featured files app, the ingenuity of the early jailbreakers and coders was incredible.

I have fond memories of my wife and I spending hours playing iZoo, a pre App Store candy crush-like game.
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Just read The Baroque Cycle - you can learn all this and more in much more entertaining form.
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If type annotations support a static verifier, they implement static typing (which, after all, is just having a static verifier that uses some combination of annotations and inference to validate types.)
You'd rather say that she was sufficiently well connnected to make her voice heard. Even then she came public only after she had left the company and was employed elsewhere.
> Next time you hear "a constant murmur" of harassment, racism, or other bad behaviour, _believe it_.

Um, no?

There's a constant murmur of racism in SV companies. I haven't seen that at all. In fact, the opposite. Doesn't mean there's no racism, but I'd rather have actual examples before I buy into that line.

There's a constant murmur of ageism in tech companies. I haven't seen that either. Plenty of people over 40, over 50 in tech. Fewer over 60, but this is a newish field still.

I've managed to go some 20 years in tech without seeing hardly any guys openly hit on girls at work -- except a couple of cases where they're now married. So why should I just "_believe it_", before reading stories like these recent articles?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673412
Yep. What I'm saying we should learn from this, and Uber, and all the rest is that we should treat "a constant murmur" as much stronger evidence than we currently do. (Not necessarily a slam dunk - but, in Bayesian terms, it should shift your priors much more now than it would have before these stories came out.)

Edit: Although really, what stronger evidence will you ever get? I suppose you could get a personal account from someone you trust (but that's not something you're going to hear if you're in the habit of brushing off such stories - most commonly, "honey, are you sure you're not just misinterpreting him?"). Barring that, a constant stream of similar rumours is the only evidence of a problem like this you will ever hear - until there is a "Susan Fowler event". Update accordingly.
Surprisingly, we don't any long-running tasks.
Where are you working that you can reasonably imagine this happening? The risks of someone making this claim are so, so high, yet you believe someone would do this just to 'settle unrelated personal scores'?
Dude, what the fuck? Her having picture of herself showing cleavage is totally irrelevant. Dressing attractively does not make it ok to be harassed.

Secondly, saying "don't hit on women who come asking for funding or professional consolutation" in no way means "you can't date or hit on professional women".... you just can't do it TO THE WOMEN WHO ARE ASKING YOU FOR PROFESSIONAL HELP. You can flirt and do your thing if you meet a professional woman in a social situation, just not when you are interacting with them in a business context.

You can even date co-workers (I am married to a woman I met at work), but 1) you can't be in a position of power over them and 2) You have to be EXTREMELY careful in how you approach them. You do NOT start off with texts about sex or sexual things. You don't send anything sexual until you are way into your relationship. You would start with something like 'hey, would you like to grab a drink after work', and then if they say no, you stop IMMEDIATELY AND NEVER ASK AGAIN.
That's basically what it is.

People who want to grow lists quickly all get together. The smaller lists pay for the prizes, the bigger lists pay with exposure. They all pitch a sweepstakes to their subscribers, all entrants end up subscribed to all lists.. everyone wins (allegedly).
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I've always found English SE to be interesting, because it varies between questions like this with extremely well thought up answers and questions that are so-so.
A rudimentary end2end test should catch most type related bugs. A type system aids in refactoring, not so much actually catching bugs.
As much as I am disappointed that Nim wasn't chosen, I am impressed that it was mentioned at all. Nim's JS backend is still rather young, and tooling is definitely lacking. But you can make some pretty cool things with it[1].

1 - https://picheta.me/snake/
Well can't say if any of those are major - but here is a list https://www.dartlang.org/community/who-uses-dart
What is the general policy on the so-called 'Ryanair jacket'? Can you get in trouble by packing 20kg of stuff in your coat?
As a culture we are obsessed with psychopaths, but in reality there is nothing out of the ordinary about people who enjoy sadistically wielding power over others. You find them in every schoolyard. The difference between a psychopath and a bully is that bullies act in a way that increases their power and standing, so they are affected by (and can be constrained by) social and cultural norms, especially among adults. Our obsession with psychopaths (and the power fantasy it reflects) reinforces bullies' intuition that people secretly admire and envy their bad behavior.
The China Enterprise certificate thing is simmering down actually. I have been watching the "helper" apps, and there seems to be a shift to using iTunes APIs and an AppleID/password combination to sign via Xcode, like Impactor. Additionally there is a "repair" functionality to make the 7-day thing less of a pain.

Your point still stands of course: Jailbreak is not at all needed for privacy.
How much of this is actually illegal? In workplaces you have legal recourse but in this situation it doesn't seem like there's anything you can do except blast their name out there for everyone to see.
Because these stories are an object demonstration that this sort of thing can be happening in a blatant, undeniable way - seriously, read those texts - and the men around can never see it. So, "never seeing it" isn't really strong evidence that isn't happening.

(Compare catcalls. Female friends I trust tell me this happens to them all the time. Around me? ~Never. But that's cause it happens when I'm not there. Extrapolate.)
A good hire is a good hire in any language. Just focus on good hires.
Might not be it, but https://camelcamelcamel.com tracks the biggest price drops on Amazon each day.
"If you're not doing doing anything wrong you have nothing to fear."

Ahh--if only this were ever true.
Yes, exactly. Thanks very much. Do you know if Facebook/ Youtube are still in PHP / Python?
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It is a problem still: http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/01/gillian-anderson...

Wall Street is a different animal all together, and in a lot of ways worse. Having lived on both coasts and experienced both types of people (and still working with both types of people) I can tell you first hand that Wall Street is far worse. There is just more easy money to cover stuff up.
"Because VCs are all populated by serial harassers who now realize they can't get away with this crap?"

Because any of them that aren't used to avoiding all the risky behaviors, whether doing it intentionally (asking for dates) or unintentionally ("discriminatory language"), will now worry that they'll be hit with newspaper articles that can destroy their career. They'll be considered guilty until proven innocent by good chunk of America. Association with them will taint many other employers who won't hire them. A percentage of the claims will also be fake to try to boost some woman's time in the spotlight.

Interestingly, one woman here predicted image-conscious men would get a bit paranoid. I told her prediction was good since I've been hit with numerous false claims that were all disproven by witnesses by customers and coworkers alike. I'm blunt, never seeking popularity, and say controversial stuff (political moderate w/ flair for dark humor) that they felt would make me vulnerable with their great skill at manipulation, acting, gossip, and so on. Fortunately, each time I had at least one witness who was a white or black female (diverse team pays off) backing me up that I didn't say/do whatever they claimed with others (including semi-opponents) saying they agreed that basically I don't hurt workers or treat them unfairly.

Due to the risk, I naturally didn't try to get a date with anyone when I was in leadership positions... despite much, much temptation since they were impressive inside & out. Later, I doubled down on that when false claims came in by people wanting to replace me as lead, get discounted product from me to benefit them, get better service(s) than other customers at a loss, attempt lawsuits against the company hoping for settlements (they never tried haha), get me fired for alleged mistreatment of customers, and so on. This shit happened to me so much that, as the HN commenter predicted, I started avoiding women or anything like those making the false claims (occasionally men) as much as possible unless professionally expected to deal with them and always on camera. I'd treat them [visibly and audibly] exactly like everyone else. I even considered wearing a recorder on me all day at work in case they (again) tried to make something look bad on camera reporting different words than actually exchanged. My female boss was too smart for that, though, blocking that individual's actions.

So, this shit happens whenever the aggressive, scheming women (or men) see a way to get more for themselves at some seemingly-vulnerable man's (or woman's) expense. The possibility with its consequences should be considered. At least acknowledged if we're calling side-effects of reporting a necessary evil. It's happened to me personally numerous times since a PTSD-afflicted individual looks weak or nervous much of the time: a magnet for attackers. Oh well. What doesn't kill you makes you (stronger/stranger?). ;)
I could breed a human baby for meat, and it, too, would exist to fulfill its purpose by dying. There are two major differences:

1) You probably place value on the baby's life and its ability to suffer, whereas that seems not to be the case for farm animals.

2) The government also places value on the baby's life, and disagrees with my assessment that its purpose for existing is to feed me. This at least serves to prove that different observers can disagree about a being's purpose, and opens the door to the fact that the animals, at least, do not agree with you about what their purpose is. (They won't say so, but the government has nothing to declare about the baby's purpose either, only that I may not kill it.)

The argument is based on the idea that farm animals exist to be useful to us, and since that isn't objectively true, I don't see that the argument reveals any objective truth.
He turned off comments on his super creepy post.
Maybe, but if you know a nice proof I'd love to hear it.
This is simply incorrect. These other industries are just as bad, and widely understood to be so. I don't think you actually need to look very hard to find evidence of this.

One thing that does define a difference between SV and at least Wall Street is that fast growth startups tend not to have put proper HR processes in place fast enough, which can create an environment in which harassment is easier.
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They definitely do this WAY more in the music and entertainment industries. The women are probably just less empowered in that industry. The stories of men in power sleeping with young upstarts in the music industry is abundant. If I remember correctly, one of Lana Del Rey's songs (or maybe it was an interview), talked about kissing record label producer or executive or something.. and in her case she didn't have a problem with it specifically.

Here's a testimony on John F. Kennedy's sexism and drug use:

"The dark side of the man she calls "the Great Compartmentaliser", and who would identify himself on the telephone as "Michael Carter", was never far away. One day in the swimming pool, he decided that Dave Powers was looking "tense", and coerced Alford into giving the first friend a blow job. "I don't think the president thought I'd do it, but I'm ashamed to say that I did. The president silently watched." With sex, came drugs. Alford claims she was "the guinea pig" for the president's fascination with amyl nitrate – poppers."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/10/affair-jfk-ken...

Martin Luther King Jr was also a known womanizer.
Thanks for taking a close look at the distribution strategy!

You're absolutely right, this strategy does encourage contributors to wait until the end of the crowdsale period, since they'll get more tokens for the same cost. And you're also right about multiple transactions being more fruitful, since the amount of additional tokens isn't dependent upon the contribution amount; a previous version of the contract would have permitted 0 Ether transactions to effectively get free tokens, but I've since changed it to require a contribution of at least 0.01 Ether (three bucks, give or take a few cents) in order to get any tokens above and beyond the contribution amount. In theory, this will encourage many smaller (but not tiny) transactions spread out across the crowdsale.

But at the end of the day, does it really matter? The tokens are useless and you shouldn't buy them. Seriously.
I believe the author is referencing Ruby's Enumerable class (https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.4.1/Enumerable.html), and getting those helpful functions in JS.
I am not much of a fan but I think such stuff is completely in the domain of humanity and human nature. I can't think of any political or economic system that can suppress the evil and good that comprise the human species.
Most of these languages are pretty terrible to run at scale.

Also, all of the examples you cite a rather the "in spite of" kind. Wikipedia? Struggles to maintain the code base, lest to speak of significant new development. Wordpress? Afterwit of web security. Facebook? Facebook literally developed a new PHP implementation (edit: actually, two) and then turned that into a separate language (which is statically typed) because that's easier than to clean up their PHP code base. YouTube? Maybe some help pages are still on Python. The application most likely isn't at all. GitHub? Goes down every few days with 500s after buggy code was deployed.
That looks really cool. Is there hardware support for posits anywhere?
> I expect less VCs to take meetings with women, sadly.

Why? There's a really simple procedure that can solve these problems:

Don't hit on, feel-up, or try to have sex with people you're in a professional business relationship with. That goes double for people you hold power over (managers to employees, VCs to Founders, etc).

If you're really truly worried about false accusations then here's another fix you can have for free: record your meetings, texts, emails, and calls with founders and/or don't meet alone.

I expect smart VCs that are interested in making money (as opposed to lording it over others or using their position to get sex) will continue to take lots of meetings with women.
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I was thinking of popular business books, be it in marketing, management... or, why not, "The Mythical Man-Month".
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...but it increases run time. It's fine not to care on hidden constants while analyzing algorithms, but not while using them in real life
> Does this make sense or is it feasible to skip learning JavaScript and jump directly to TypeScript?

It's definitely feasible and it will even save a few headaches. It's especially good for learning the API because, of course, it provides intellisense.

I find myself downloading type definitions for JavaScript libraries because it's often a quicker form of documentation than the library's official docs.

> I was more worried about not understanding other code and libraries that are written in JavaScript style.

There isn't much stylistic difference; TypeScript is not a huge departure from JavaScript.
"Aside, and not meant at you specifically, but: Next time you hear "a constant murmur" of harassment, racism, or other bad behaviour, _believe it_."

If there's a constant murmer, don't believe it: it may just be a cultural or group narrative they push without evidence. I hear constant murmers that totally contradict each other with cherry-picked, source material from esp liberals and conservatives all the time. My favorite is obviously structural racism since I experienced it in mostly black school, town, and government. The blacks had it so much better off than us in those environments with ostracism, shouting down, and beat downs keeping whites anxious and some got really messed up in the head. However, the murmers in media say black people are always disadvantaged and white people never experience structural oppression. (cough) bullshit! (cough)

I figured out where that one started since I grew up with them from a young age hearing students and parents in both races. Essentially, they repeated what their parents taught them with amount of motivation to operate in their circumstances also usually based on parents teachings. There'd be some elements of truth like someone's experience or racial studies but it became a story that applied to everyone whose repetition made it self-fulfilling. Then, the echo chamber took over for most with small percentage breaking out to any degree. Facebooks study of spread of bad information within in-groups confirms this at a large scale. Lots of those were murmurs about political topics. All bullshit.

I'm lucky to have made it out. I said smart before but I got caught in quite a few in life. So, I was just lucky to see counter-evidence to both side's murmuring of bullshit.
Dart is for Google, by Google, and external engagement has been as neglected as for all of Google's front end efforts. Google ceded the thought leader position in this area years ago and everybody knows better than to trust any of their new efforts.
Facebook still uses PHP for a lot of templating/page generation, they use a bunch of stuff on the back not least HHVM which was great because it forced/focused the PHP team in a bunch of areas, php7 is a huge I improvement over 5 on just about every metric.

It's not amazing as a language still but it's much much better and the ecosystem has really improved, modern PHP leveraging good composer components is pretty good.

Even some good static analysis tooling these days.
yeah. i remember this. my garage door opened and closed all by itself. and the weird thing is this: i hadn't even been born yet.
I agree other industries with far worse issues don't get the same scrutiny.

there are going to be pompous douche bags in any industry. and there's nothing worse than a horny male idiots with a little power.