Curious what other languages were evaluated.
Readit Newsevanm commented on Choosing Go at American Express (2019) americanexpress.io/choosi... · Posted by u/veqq
Dead Comment
I'm........skeptical about all of this. Kid-sized sub built from rocket parts in a matter of hours?
evanm commented on Convert React JavaScript Code to TypeScript with Proper Typing github.com/lyft/react-jav... · Posted by u/styfle
It's such a no brainer after you use it for a while, and the time savings after the fact far make up for the initial learning curve.
Just do a small project to muck around with first. Maybe something small that nobody has thought of, like a to-do list?
> You can take an incremental approach and add type annotations as you need them
Most definitely. We've added type safety to new features in our legacy codebase. It's very seamless.
evanm commented on Convert React JavaScript Code to TypeScript with Proper Typing github.com/lyft/react-jav... · Posted by u/styfle
sounds like someone failed a lyft interview
evanm commented on Mozilla Bug 77790: Style the scrollbar bugzilla.mozilla.org/show... · Posted by u/scrollaway
A pre-9/11 ticket.
ADP is in my axis of evil. Their employee and employer-systems are horrendously out of date and their support is non-existent. Let them fail.
evanm commented on MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues apple.com/ca/support/macb... · Posted by u/lstamour
THANKS FOR POSTING THIS.
I was affected and had a repair done. Looks like they're reimbursing customers for past repairs for this issue. Woop!
evanm commented on Two Airplanes Successfully Ditch in Pacific avweb.com/avwebflash/news... · Posted by u/2a0c40
Wow -- It was cool to see they had parachutes on the plane itself. Is this common on smaller planes these days? I've always wondered if/why airliners couldn't do something like this.
Outside of most Cirrus aircraft, they're not standard. They work pretty well on light and ultralight (single engine) aircraft.
Think of the extraordinary size and weight a chute or series of chutes would be for a short haul 737-sized aircraft. The cost of lugging those around across a fleet would be absolutely prohibitive. There's also little reason for this type of safety mechanism for such passenger jets. Commercial twin or quad engine planes are extraordinarily safe, and offer many more redundancies than a tiny single engine plane.
I'm fully aware of the extreme cost of rolling out a fiber infrastructure in new locations, but I still wonder why Google isn't more aggressive with their expansion. While the upfront costs are great, they more or less have guaranteed success in most major cities. Nobody likes the incumbent telcos--they're hated all over the US. I just dream of a world in which we aren't getting raped by Comcast, TWC, and Cox. They are absolutely abysmal and have no incentive to make their customers happy given their market monopoly/oligopoly.