Fiction and non-fiction are almost universally treated differently.
The best part about your comment is that the video in question is fiction!
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fridif commented on YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007 twitter.com/twotafkap/sta... · Posted by u/epaga
I kind of get it. Punching someone outside a boxing ring is pretty much always a bad move. A funny video where the funny part seems to be an unsuspecting person getting punched may "encourage violence". (I don't feel this way, but I could understand the reasoning.)
The cat is out of the bag on this one though. So much so, that I'd argue the video now has cultural and historical significance that justifies its wanton violence. That is to say, even a general purpose video platform that forbade violence should probably still allow war documentaries.
>wanton violence
>punching someone outside of a boxing ring
I could probably find 100,000 unique instances of violence solely from big Hollywood studios on Youtube as we speak
fridif commented on The U.S. Health Care System Isn’t Built for Primary Care hbr.org/2021/09/the-u-s-h... · Posted by u/JshWright
It seems like a lot of what your GP does in the US is 1. write prescriptions and 2. give referrals for patients that want to see specialists.
I've thought a bit about this, and really, I don't see any reason why it has to be a physician that does these things. Why can't we change the law to allow an RN or some other qualified but cheaper medical practitioner to write adderall scripts? Why do we need someone who went to 8 years of higher ed and several years of residency to do that?
It reminds me of eyeglasses in the UK. Prior to 1984, you had to get them through a licensed ophthalmologist. As a result, it was quite a process and expensive to get a pair of them. Then in 1984, it was deregulated and now you can go to SpecSavers and get a pair of eyeglasses for cheap. There was no reason that a licensed and well paid ophthalmologist had to gatekeep it.
Because of lobbying and greed, sadly.
fridif commented on Maybe the spaghetti code conjecture is false nickdrozd.github.io/2021/... · Posted by u/nickdrozd
What about performance? E.g. you don't want to implement an O(n) algorithm if an O(log(n)) equivalent exists, and merely testing inputs and outputs won't reveal that.
I do agree, but it depends on the criticality of performance and the level of change the system goes through by default.
For us we are always implementing complex new logic for not very many users, so there's not much benefit to some clever data structure that we are all too dumb to understand. If I get a ticket that involves inserting something into the logic you wrote, and I can't understand how to operate your current solution, I will be hacking up an n logn solution as long as it is adequately performant
fridif commented on Maybe the spaghetti code conjecture is false nickdrozd.github.io/2021/... · Posted by u/nickdrozd
That’s a bit too extreme to me (and already covered by unit tests). Code reviews are good mostly for asking questions, not dictating changes.
I do agree but too often they turn into "well I would do it this way".
If it is some very big and very critical system then yes, code reviews can be beneficial compared to the alternative. But for systems that are innovative and rapidly going through iterations as it is, it's better to judge coverage of test cases (and adequate performance but not optimal)
fridif commented on Maybe the spaghetti code conjecture is false nickdrozd.github.io/2021/... · Posted by u/nickdrozd
Describes my workplace. Too pedantic on layers and abstractions. Endless code reviews over nonsense. Before anyone says this - we have linters. The problem is nits about how the code reviewer would do things.
The pedants also can't figure why nothing gets done.
Code should be judged by inputs and outputs only! I hate code reviews. We end up rewriting well-structured code anyway simply because it is always easier to rewrite than to do surgery
fridif commented on Ask HN: Which would you choose? Elixir/Phoenix or Crystal/Lucky? · Posted by u/akudha
Spring and JSP. Just kidding. I sadly do not have enough exposure to the platforms you have listed, but wish you luck in clarifying the answer.
fridif commented on A Tour of Grant Imahara’s Shop [video] youtube.com/watch?v=hsCST... · Posted by u/vo2maxer
I'm struggling with a mixture of sadness and desire to build my own shop. The answer was obvious for Grant but how does a normal person decide to go all out and build something like that versus just trying to find space in the garage for yet one more thing?
If you are not comfortable spending x amount of money on one of your interests (which is totally a valid feeling to have), then it is time to prioritize and innovate! Necessity is the mother of all invention.
Yay free money!