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Maybe I’m just full of Ruby on Rails induced trauma, but I can’t remember any particular pleasant memories. Every app would start with a reasonable and straightforward view layer, usually ERB templates sprinkled with jQuery, and then slowly but surely be consumed by one-off JavaScript snippets.

“We need a sortable table on this route and it should support pagination without a reload, but the pagination needs to be persisted to the address bar for outside link sharing.” This feature alone can introduce all kinds of unmanaged state and be a testing nightmare. And if another part of the site uses the same functionality, you’ve just signed up for an lifetime of maintenance, usually somewhere between your server-side templates, and your asset pipeline. God help you if your bugs can be described as, “I have some local state here, but I’m not sure how to get it either up or down to the right place.”

Personally, these kind of code smells demoralize me enough to consider a job elsewhere, preferably at a company that uses something like React where there’s bound to be complexity, but at least there’s component boundaries to keep your mental facilities from being overrun by a “simple multi page architecture.”
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> If you're a 22 years old student, you probably never used and will never use IRC.

It seems that the author does not realize that filtering out 22 years old students may be a feature, not a bug. If you need to be convinced just look at the dev mailing list before Google summer of code, lots of low effort proposals borderline on spam. I cannot blame maintainers for trying to shield themselves from some users.

An advice from someone who was a 22 years old student not so long ago? Learn to use IRC, it's awesome!
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That’s not whimsy though.
Tho either could have happened, only one of those things could be experienced.
I meant explain. I see explain as a superset of implement. I have met lots of people who can implement but not explain. I didn't mean a simple explanation, I mean actually going into depth about things like algorithmic complexity, memory usage, etc.

As an interviewer (granted not at FAANG) I see no value in you just proving you did an algorithm on Leet Code. You could just be passing it through rote learning. I want to make sure you understand it. Otherwise I'm just wasting your time. But that's just my interview style, I know bigger companies may be different.
A limiting factor for the effectiveness of anti-virals for Covid is time. Maximum viral load happens often happens before any symptoms are present, and the most severe diseases occurs weeks after infection as a result of the bodies inflammatory response instead of the virus itself. This means that by the time you know that a patient will have severe Covid-19, it is likely too late for any treatment that is based on interfering with the virus itself.

Having said that, we have a good demographic understanding of who tends to get severe Covid-19, and a large testing capacity, so a cheap anti-viral treatment with few side effects could still be effectively deployed.
I agree. Maybe a was bit unclear. I think the nice thing about micro frameworks like Flask is that you can build your own Django. Or your own whatever it is you need.

But you need to spent at least once quite significant time following mega-tutorials, thinking about how to structure your application, what libraries to use for x, how to integrate them etc.

If you do that, it's great. But what I have seen in practice in various large flask app developed over years is, that in the very beginning people just jump in hacking away because it is so simple, just an app.py and a requirements.txt. Then over time they slap on the same thing Django has, but in a much less robust, hard to maintainable way. I'm guilty of the same, often simply not having time due to reality to really think things trough (the mega tutorial and similar didn't exist when I last started a Flask app).
How birds can fly into a tree at speed, and land on a branch without poking an eye out (or anything else) several times per day is amazing to me.

"Bird-brain" may be an insult to people, but I'd bet their 3-D processing capabilities blow away an RTX 3090 - especially when considering power use and heat.

We have a lot left to learn from them.
The problem isn’t the cost, it’s the way folks with ADHD are being charged.

The whole point here is to help folks who are having trouble remembering to do things. Regardless of the economics, the optics here make this seem like exploitation.

Making this opt-in avoids a dark pattern. Folks with ADHD are often impulsive and strike while the iron is hot—if this has value people will opt-in.
As another commenter suggested: it's absurd beyond parody and a flagrant abuse of language to conflate being a "front" with being compelled by a third party (especially one with legal authority) to do some action(s). Being a "front" suggests an entire business model created by and built around propping up that third party such that the two are indistinguishable actors on everything but the surface level.
If they're truly convinced that vaccine = death, then would they really choose death in combination with the paycheck?

I guess in this case the threat of those severe consequences is good enough to make them reevaluate, maybe they'll see that maybe a billion people have been vaccinated with the mRNA vaccines and there hasn't been a mass die-out and in their mind this is how they convince themselves it'll be ok...

Some other anti-vaxxers believe in vaccine timebombs (I've seen someone write on FB "Just wait until April 2022 and all the vaccinated will drop dead", just as convinced like the people who believed the world was going to end in December 2012), and I've also read that such timebomb is very unlikely, but hey, if there is such a timebomb, that last paragraph of mine will be very ironic indeed.
DragonRuby's just mRuby scripting a framework written in C.
Someone should tell Not Just Bikes about Calgary. He has had a lot to say about Canada's winter bike infrastructure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU
The worst part is the other poster claiming you only believe that because of the misinformation of your news sources, not realizing they also have news sources which could be misinforming them.

It's reasonable to be leery of a vaccine produced in such a small amount of time when most vaccines go through much more rigor.

And making claims such as "it's been thoroughly tested" is balderdash. It's like claiming your software has been thoroughly tested because you push straight to production with minimal testing after someone says they won't use your software because they don't want to be the testers of your software.

We're still learning about both the virus and the vaccine. In 10 years we'll be a lot more confident in our knowledge, and what's "known" about it will be a lot more trustworthy.
>We find that the Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei and Realme Android variants all transmit a substantial volume of data to the OS developer (i.e. Samsung etc) and to third-party parties that have pre-installed system apps (including Google, Microsoft, Heytap, LinkedIn, Facebook).

Of course they do. That's the whole reason they're selling high-capacity hardware for cheap, they more than make up for their foregone profits from user data and third party partnerships.

That's why you should always flash a custom ROM whenever you buy a "value for money" Android phone; never stay on the vendor's OS. Thankfully, except Samsung and Huawei, most other Android device manufacturers aren't actively working on locking down their firmware against customization and appear tolerant as of yet. You can even choose not to install Google services on your phone, although it would make using it normally a hassle.
Do programs installed via installer executables/scripts also contribute to this problem?
The standard refrain in companies is "don't talk about your competitors, talk about yourself". And that's fine, unless nobody wants to buy your product because your competitor is all anyone talks about. At a certain point you do need to tell people why you're better than the competition.

But actually, they're not competitors. Hashicorp supports K8s clusters for their customers. Nomad is just a product they built that is an alternative to K8s, and plugs into their whole product suite. Someone has probably asked them many times, "Why should I use Nomad instead of K8s?" So they have a page about it.
"Eh, "[insert stable, mature MVC framework] is dying/dead/etc" articles are a dime a dozen on the Web. I suppose it could be considered a badge of honor for a framework to have some internet punter declare the framework as "dead"."

Well said, people confuse hype, growth with death. If something is not hyped or people some folks are switching to something else then it is prematurely declared "as dead" which is a fallacy of thinking.
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Does therapy actually work? I’ve always been under the impression that it was mostly placebo, and that only medication produces meaningful results. Happy to be proven wrong though
Even prosecuting the wrong people at least encourages whistle blowing. If someone thinks they might be the sacrificial lamb if excrement hits the fan they can protect themselves by being the first to report it to regulators
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08205
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It deserves consideration. Saved my but.
Maybe because it doesn't require a helicopter pilot? You could run it 24x7 possibly autonomous to deliver specified goods. Heavy lift is also relative. 20mph on a bicycle is fast, 20mph in a car is slow.
> A bit of an aside, when I moved to California I wasn't able to vote in the primaries because I refused to pledge loyalty to the Democratic party, though registering to vote was rather easy.

I still don't get why people think they are entitled to participate in party-internal candidate selection elections without even claiming membership (with absolutely zero commitment ot pledge of loyalty of any kind) in the party.

(There are primary elections that serve different functions than selecting party nominees, often simultaneously with party primaries, and you've always been able to vote in them in California without identifying with a party; California has extended the scope of them and gotten rid of most party primaries, though the Presidential primary is still a closed party primary.)
> But what if tomorrow, Microsoft launches a full-featured node/Typescript framework? You would get:

> all modern features and tooling Django has failed to provide over the last years

> having to master only one language as a developer.

> safety of a big corp to maintain the framework, rather than relying on individuals

Yeah that's called ASP.NET
None of what you’re saying makes sense. If the product is amazing people will continue paying and attrition will be low, annual or not.

Basically the model here is like a gym, where people buy things that they don’t use as much as the price implies or is simply ineffective.

Given that the customers are executive function impaired, seems shady.
“ more technical and complete but less dense secondary reference.”

Isn’t that basically just reading the source code? Like I get that’s probably not right to throw everyone toward, but reading source code is a staple task for working with FOSS.
I've recently started using Django Ninja at work, and I really like the FastAPI-like request/response schema handling.

[1] https://django-ninja.rest-framework.com/
yet interestingly, if they weigh those odds and come down on the side of waiting for more information, you come after them and tell them they're wrong while simultaneously telling them they must weigh the odds.

You don't actually want them weighing the odds, you just want to imply they're wrong without being histrionic about it.
Isn't that crazy, that one could go 45+ years without knowing they had ADHD? It wasn't until I was... > 50yrs until someone I was talking to said "sounds like you have ADHD" and I was like "what???" But sure enough, after seeing a couple of specialists and reading up on it, turned out I had all the classic symptoms and was coping with it in a number of suboptimal ways. Knowing about it and treating it has improved my life immensely.
So your proof is one bullshit story made up by someone who wants to claim Google was created by the CIA but lacks any real evidence. The fact that a mid-level exec at twitter was an Army reservist, and an claim that TLAs were controlling newspapers that is even more poorly sourced than the Google claim. Did you even read the first and third story you cite to see the level of innuendo and hand-waving suggestions without supporting evidence that this 'reporting' was using? Try again paranoia troll.
GZDoom fixes this.
So, what's the over/under that you'll soon move your goalpost to say "I'm going to wait until there's 2/5/10 years of data" as March 2022 approaches?
How about an amazon locker location that has a landing zone. I'd love that.
Nothing you wrote invalidate the point he makes about admin UX. Internal pages may not need to be fancy, but realizing that expectations change over time and that it may be a good idea to polish the UX a little isn't something that should be ignored by saying that only internal people will use it.

If the claim had been about ugliness, then you may have had a point, but it was not, it was about UX.
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That is an archaic, prescriptivist opinion, not an actual grammar rule in English. There are many style guides but those are opinions, not rules.
> I feel like a lot of people are commenting about sport

Take another look. They're just bikeshedding.

Everyone knows that if the US would just change the name, they'd win the World Cup. That's clearly the most important thing.
Pollution isn't fungible, as mentioned in the article.
In general, most lisps are imperative, or support multiple paradigms including imperative.

First-class functions are a necessary feature of FP, but the mere presence of the feature does not make a language functional. Some counterexamples include Fortran and Smalltalk.

It's an easy misconception because most the well-known newer entries to the lisp family - Scheme, Racket, and Clojure - are all mostly functional, and because most of the major non-functional dialects of lisp died out 30 or 40 years ago.
I think the last time I heard anything about the Wizard of Christchurch it was a little human-intrest story that was just "hey did you know this NZ town has a wizard", and there was mention of an apprentice he was training to take over the gig when he got too old. Guess that fell through.
There are some interesting nasal sprays that wipe out early viral load in the nose and throat that are available right now. ImmuneMist and XClear for example.
Election fraud Chicago style: Illinois’ decades-old notoriety for election corruption is legendary https://www.salon.com/2016/02/14/election_fraud_chicago_styl...

Once the political machine has control over "the system", they can shield the grunts from consequences.
It would be so nice to have something like -fsafe instead of a myriad of mitigations, where the right defaults get enabled, but it will never happen.

By the way, the upcoming ARM conference has sessions regarding MTE.
> I’ve always been under the impression that it was mostly placebo

I don't think placebo is relevant in the case of therapy because placebo itself is a psychological effect.

CBT seems to be somewhat effective but with these things people's experiences vary a lot.
This really is the issue with all these Chrome clones - as nice as they might end up being, they keep Google steadily in control of the real thing underneath. The price of outsourcing development of your backbone components is a fundamental loss of power.
Canada is a highly federal country. In some ways even more so than the US. The political situation differs a lot between provinces, and the provincial governments have a lot of power.

And Alberta has essentially been a one party state under conservative rule for the last 50+ years (minus one 4 year term where a nominally left wing party took power by "fluke" because of a feud/split in the conservative vote). Every position of consequence there is connected to the conservative party, which is connected in turn to the oil and gas industry.

And they have bungled COVID badly.
Why are we holding this new startup to a standard we don't hold anyone else? 6 months from now when they have their economics figured out, cool, they can run that test.

Generally, giving users a toggle to get reminded when a trial is about to run out will INCREASE conversion rates.

That depends on the business, and is part of a pretty standard set of experiments you run post-launch.

With your comments you're part HN is descending into a circular firing squad of virtue signaling. These guys shipped something that could help a lot of people, over time they can improve their onboarding flow, lower cost.

Is the most remarkable thing about a really cool CBT tool for ADHD really that they have a standard trial flow?
Completely agree. I've not seen it tested legally, but the EU now has a 'right to explanation' where automated decisions are made about people. This would prohibit closed ML from most arenas.
"Tasks such as opening applications, browsing the internet, interacting with the user interface or watching videos are on par with recent mid-range Android smartphones."

If this holds true, I'm truly excited
If you aren't doing so already, you should look into if your card has virtual cards. Capital One for example does. I think it would make your current process easier.
I avoided this fact for years, running from JS/TS for “better languages”. After a stint with Haskell I’ve decided the grass isn’t that much greener so just accepting that JS is what it is - one of the worlds most popular languages which can run in most places and therefore worth learning.
which would also be bad! however, my example actually happened.
The hard problem will be solved in time.

My reasoning is that the people that defined it did so in a time when our science was less developed, so of course the problem seemed much harder.

Information theory makes even the hard problem a matter of understanding interaction fields of physics, with the chemistry of biology. Relativity and sensory network effects explain relative experience elegantly enough.

A lot of theories from back in the day are built on outdated understanding. Unfortunately their authors did not get to see our achievements in engineering unravel a lot of their over baked theories due to a need to fill in gaps without hard evidence. Same as we won’t see technology in the future have no need of all this software we wrote. It won’t literally be handed on.

Luminiferous Aether was once a thing to many even though it’s not one discrete thing. One might consider it was a poetic initial take on field theory, which we now rely on sets of glyphs of shares meaning. Which artistically could also be imagined as flowing sets of matrix code that glow like a luminous field.

If there’s a hard problem to consciousness it’s an unwillingness to consider there is no Valhalla. Is there a hard problem? Or do we hope for an answer that suggests we’re not just meatbags?
I worked at a job once where this was deliberate.

Certain voices in the team were terrified of "siloing", and so it was a matter of policy that everyone had to jump tasks and teams every two weeks, unless they had a solid case for a longer term task.

The result was that no one knew what the hell they were doing, because no one had time to learn anything before they were shuffling chairs again.

We were only saved from this madness when a major data center failure took out the app and all process theatre was temporarily suspended during crisis mode. Once we got back online, it was quickly realized that we'd all been wildly more productive and not just because of the crisis, but because we could actually function organically without the artificial strictures.
I found doing a few vim tutorials valuable as a reminder to look up some basic text manipulation in other editors. Like selecting a text rectangle with the keyboard, or cut and paste a single line.

Or that a text search is a perfectly reasonable way to move the cursor seven steps right to the next right paren.
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>This is the Chinese Room problem restated. A computer is capable of behaving as a conscious actor without any concept of knowledge or qualia as we would recognize it.

This is begging the question of p-zombie existence. Searle and Chalmers both think it's possible for arbitrarily complex systems to exist without qualia. But given that qualia is unmeasurable, there's no way to know for sure.

That's why I consider the statement of the problem to be faith-based. It is possible that consciousness is an emergent property, and qualia is experienced by every sufficiently-complex system. Declaring that p-zombies are conceivable requires assuming that this is not so.
Thank you! Unfortunately I need to read the response (so extra thank you for pointing that out before), but maybe just posting will be enough for a future application :)
I was your age when I was diagnosed, and it changed my life. I had suspected for years, and one day a friend gave me an adder all. I felt like everyone else seemed. I then found a psychiatrist that would let me book via email, and was near my work. I told him everything, including the illegal adderall, and we walked through questions and I believe his words were "you are the poster boy for adult ADHD". Within a year I had taught myself some new skills, within 5 years my salary had more than doubled.

The hardest part is making the appointments, if you have someone who will help you, ask them to. If you don't just force yourself.

Though as I put on another comment I might delete, ADHD isn't really about mundane vs interesting, at least not always. Sometimes I find myself focussed on the mundane, or ignoring the interesting and enjoyable. The pills aren't magic, and there is no cure, but if you suspect it I recommend finding help. Also, intense cardio exercise, high protein low carb diet, lots of water, and vitamins. I don't stick with any of them for long periods of time, but whenever I do it makes life easier.
Interesting. So this drug, in addition to the novel compound being developed as a covid treatment by Pfizer, is a protease inhibitor, targeting TMPRSS specifically...just like a certain "horse dewormer" from recent memory[0]. Yeah, I know, "in vitro". Did you also know that the emergency vaccine authorization is explicitly contingent on there being "no adequate, approved, and available alternative to the product" for covid19[1]? Very interesting indeed.

0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8203399/#!po=12...

1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/what-ar... NOTE: it's getting hard to search for sources that mention this fact, and now that what little faith I've had in our institutions has effectively been destroyed, I suspect this is an emergent, collective, deliberate exclusion. Wouldn't want to give the proles any strange ideas about "conspiracy theories" and such.
"Baseball is a slow-paced, ceremonious game with an inch-thick rule book and a deep layer of historical cruft, does that sound like agile to you?"

Sounds like agile methodologies; doesn't sound like agile manifesto. Which is kinda the point. The manifesto is a few salient points and heuristics that devs at the time found effective for delivering working software (and which, I would contend, still hold). The methodologies that have arisen are overly prescriptive, adopted without any eye to the culture, and frequently lead to outcomes no better than what they're intended to replace.
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