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The Utter Uselessness of Some Tech Questions in Interviews

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Hoisting is (to many developers) an unknown or overlooked behavior of JavaScript. If a developer doesn’t understand hoisting, programs may contain bugs (errors). To avoid bugs, always declare all variables at the beginning of every scope. Source

Duh, of course, any logically thinking person would know that variables should be declared before used, why should someone remember totally useless new term? Just reminds Scientology, or any other cult, when in order to m...

Wow, this is awesome, 8 s build time!

Wow, this is awesome, 8 s build time! Thank you for writing this. BTW, you have two default exports on App.jsx.

Life’s economics and clustering illusion

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First generic part about clustering illusion can be found here.

Intro to“life’s economics”

It’s my idea from 2013 that anything from economics science can be applied o life.

In life’s economics, the life is basically a market or rather — markets, which is a game with some participants, goals and problems. Game is basically any set of actions with some static goal, dynamic set of participants and problems. Static goal, because each game is determined purely by the...

I see. Actually you can increase parameters of loadtest, so Google will be ~500.

I see. Actually you can increase parameters of loadtest, so Google will be ~500. I tested today a simple React SSR, it gives me ~75, so I think your numbers are reasonable, taking into account GraphQL and more data.

“So yes, it’s fair that he makes so much money.”

“So yes, it’s fair that he makes so much money.” Actually, you probably should prove that using statistics. And statistics (talking in averages) show that game is unfair and you are not getting what you are actually outputting, and the rich are just taking the advantage of the system.

It’s simple loadtest from npm, e.g.

It’s simple loadtest from npm, e.g. `loadtest -n 100 -rps 50 -k http://localhost:3000` using example-movies.

Thank you for your thorough answer.

Thank you for your thorough answer. After I read your article, I thought it’s great idea, but then I ran simple load test. It achieved just 6 rps on example-movies with very high (6 s on average) latency. Probably that’s due to GraphQL need to be cached, I din’t dig into it much, but that’s way too bad by some reason, which is not clear for me yet.

It sounds good for an MVP, but what about a complex app, getting millions of hits?

It sounds good for an MVP, but what about a complex app, getting millions of hits? I don’t want to pay thousands for Amazon, when it can be easily handed with a cheap server (and custom solution).

Why Universal Basic Income can change nothing and better approach

UBI won’t change anything, because it doesn’t change the power vector, which, in capitalism, is towards “private property” owners. So, if anyone would pay UBI to wide population, owners will just become richer through increased consumption and demand, i.e., inflation.

Inflation is sort of “legal” way how have “slaves”, who will buy their (constant) needs and wishes from “masters”, which will pocket not only true value of those needs and wishes, but also automatically (without putting any horse...

Radical hypothesis on why people are becoming dumber

Idiocracy (2006)

For more on that, starting research point can be here:

We Are All Getting Dumber, New Science Proves, and No One Is Sure Why

This hypothesis relies on the fact that intelligence is inherited from mother’s DNA:

Children inherit their intelligence from their mother

What the results show is that a turning point for the Flynn effect occurred for the post-1975 birth cohorts, equivalent to 7 fewer IQ score points per generation.

So, the hypothesis is that color magazines, movies and TV s...