alexandercrohde

So there are two options: 1. Join the languages (so PHP would get that syntatic sugar too) [or preferably never have so many in the first place] 2. Be where we are now, where we have redundant librari…

The syntactic-sugar form isn't there with the @, but it can still be done in a single line. https://coderpad.io/RWTYEFY3 <?php // DEFINE DECORATOR $decoratorFunction…

[Author] I'll weigh in- MySql, Postgresql [and the other major players] should all leverage the same standardized syntax (they're close, but not drop-in replacements). In this case when one …

I'm the author, I know all of them. Php, Javascript, and Python the best. Php well enough to have read add patched the source code. If you'd like to explain what you think some fundamental d…

Tl; dr: The very act of sharing an estimate verbally creates a some weird social deadline. Author proposes deadlines should not exist.

The point is that big companies with financial backing will use market advantage to stifle competition before it gets a chance (e.g. buying up the spectrum for cell phones, lobbying to prevent broadba…

"A majority of women, and nearly half of men, say it’s unacceptable to have dinner or drinks alone with someone of the opposite sex other than their spouse." This is a crap article. The situ…

Yes it's bad. It doesn't really matter if it's "usual" or not, that's a different question. Most industries consolidate into large behemoths that are incredibly inefficie…

I don't think dating coworkers is wrong. I think making somebody uncomfortable with clumsy/forceful/persistent advances can be bad though. But let's say you like somebody at work, …

I can't speak for OP, but let me ask you this. Suppose your sister is in the back of a police vehicle, on her way to jail. Would you rather the cop who is driving that vehicle be told A) It'…

A lot of people here seem to not understand the power imbalance point, so I'd like to explain it. Imagine you're in these positions: --Being arrested, and an officer makes a romantic advance…

Here's a radical solution. Instead of becoming a scala pro akka stream 200k engineer with a cluster of kafka nodes that costs your company over $100,000 of engineering time, technical debt, oppor…

Tl, dr: When we treat unit tests as an ends in itself, this leads to writing clunky tests for clunky code. If an engineer doesn't understand modular, reusable code then that engineer can't w…

I really don't buy the "cost of living" explanation. Are we suggesting that these homeless people can't afford $1800 a month per rent, but are somehow going to get a more reasonabl…

I think people are missing the forest for a single tree. Minimum wage is just a small token in the larger discussion of distribution of wealth. Minimum wage is a means to solve the fact that incompe…

I don't see value in this article. The author asks a bunch of other people in high tech positions what they believe CTO should be. Unfortunately the plural of anecdote is not data. For example &q…

I really respect the author for going against the grain this much. I'd like to distill some of the points it makes, because the intensity can make it easier to treat this as an all-or-nothing: [I…

That's actually a really interesting parallel to draw. I have certainly seen a non-negligible amount of dishonest management ("Sure we'll promote you, we just need a few more cycles&quo…

The same thing used to happen non-stop about bitcoin, every day new articles that it was going to takeover the world and articles saying it was doomed, for years. None of the speculation amounted to a…

[Got downvoted to hell, which almost never happens to me, but I believe it's worth saying] Well I might agree if the discussion was anything more than names of people and companies I'll neve…

I'm asking why would you read every successes and hiccups of every company (google, facebook, YC, uber, yahoo, tesla)? In the scope of things, each of these is trivial, it'd be like somebody…

Lowly tech gossip, nobody will look back in a year and say "I'm so glad I read that article." I wish there was no segment of HN that cared about this.

"to bamboozle the rest." What do you mean by this? Do you suggest the author is trying to confuse/deceive people, because he clearly puts LOTS of work into his blog and I don't ima…

I'm glad somebody asked for this. I'm going by this: http://reason.com/blog/2011/11/21/why-we-should-fear-bathtub... I'm sure somebody out there wi…

I don't know if I believe that, however the spectre of terrorism is WAY overblown (more people die slipping and falling in the shower). So I do find it really unreasonable that it's used as …

This is the point. Many societies have devolved into autocracies with no freedom of speech, proving that it is a constant possibility for us too. We like to think our Western countries somehow are imm…

Why speculate when you can ask?