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Terrible take. Trying to moral gymnastics your way out of taking responsibility for who you work for. If you're working at meta it's unlikely to be your only good option. Yes, the janitors get a pass.

Yeah, it's a struggle. I've attempted to read it twice, and never made it all the way through. Still immensely rewarding though.

but not one side effect!

Was it a 'functional programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing' kind of joke?

"Not many outlets selling fried chicken"... in Peckham?? I'm not sure the authors data is all that accurate.

That image was so striking and appeared to come out of nowhere. Was it some kind of marketing ploy do you think? I'm glad to have found the source anyway.

So true - I'm not sure what I expected. It always comes down to the fact that:

a) There is no intelligent auto-complete (not compared to an real IDE)

b) Background tasks of compiling/testing will block the UI. With scala especially, this is an issue.

c) No comparable refactoring capability.

I once had high hopes that eclim would be the answer, but I think it's just the wrong tool for the job. Let's not pretend vim can be something it was never designed for.

Neovim however might help to solve this problems, but when that will see the light of day, it seems to be hard to find out.

After the Snowden leaks, none of this should be surprising. Still makes me cringe though, just to have it confirmed.

That book looks really interesting - thanks for the recommendation.

What still twists my melon about harmony is the Pythagorean Comma.

Harmony equating to integer ratios seems so right... But the fact that a perfect 5th on a piano isn't really a perfect 5th troubles me at some existential level.

The hardware you intend run on will impact your architectural decisions.

Given the wide scope of hardware targeted by android, it's not that surprising that it performs less well than a system targeting a very limited set of devices.

Having said that, it performs 'well enough' for the vast majority of use cases.

Arch is awesome and I've used it at home and work for years, but the rolling release cycle means that you must keep on top of upgrades.

I was once a little too slack (no pun intended) and had several hundred packages that needed upgrading and there was simply no easy way of making it work. It was around the time of the systemd introduction, so that may have been a significant complicating factor.