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by Glench 7y ago
I would go talk to scientists and try to understand deeply what they’re working on, how they do it, and what systems (social/technical/political) allow them to do it. I’ve done this a few times and it’s always illuminating and ins
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by Glench 7y ago
While I don't know about this specific policy, I'm happy that the push to electric vehicles (and hopefully carbon-free energy) is happening worldwide. This is one of the big areas we need to do absolutely immediately. Otherlab fou
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by Glench 7y ago
+1 to Scratch. It's the most learnable programming environment for kids, kids can easily make things that are personally meaningful to them, and the community is great. I'll also plug my own Python Play, which is a Scratch-like Py
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by Glench 7y ago
I think Otherlab's analyses talk about this a little: The Green New Deal: The enormous opportunity in shooting for the moon. https://medium.com/otherlab-news/decarbonization-and-gnd-b8d... (electrifying everything
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The Green New Deal: The enormous opportunity in shooting for the moon(medium.com)
2 points by Glench 7y ago|1 comments
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by Glench 7y ago
Saul Griffiths of Otherlab makes a solid case for massive electrification as the primary means for reducing carbon: https://medium.com/otherlab-news/decarbonization-and-gnd-b8d... (mainly that moving to electric HALVES
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by Glench 7y ago
Pick something to concentrate on, like the breath. With your awareness, focus and get absorbed in the details of the concentration object. When your mind wanders from the object, bring it back. With good practice, it starts to become automa
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by Glench 7y ago
Concentration meditation is an extraordinarily powerful method. Ordinarily, the mind wanders haphazardly from topic to topic even in the middle of tasks [1]. Most people find it a challenge to focus on even one thing fully for 30 seconds wi
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by Glench 8y ago
Bazqux is a Google Reader clone that I've been using for 6 years now. It works amazingly well, has all the features I need from Google Reader, and doesn't change. One of the few SaaS I pay for. https://bazqux.com (No a
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by Glench 8y ago
Haha, it's true. And there's no music in it. :) I see a lot of people focusing on the technology of Dynamicland but less the idea behind it, which is to make computation more of a medium that's continuous with our human world
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by Glench 8y ago
I understand your sentiment, but as Alan Kay likes to say, "The music isn't in the piano."
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by Glench 8y ago
Okay, that makes more sense. Maybe if you had included some of that context it would have been helpful in properly interpreting your comment.
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by Glench 8y ago
What part of my comment made it seem like I need to be educated about what RSS is? I think it would have felt nicer for you to inquire rather than just tell me what RSS is. I’m saying that it’s easily possible to imagine a world where the u
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by Glench 8y ago
That feels kind of like a historical circumstance. I could easily imagine something based on RSS where people just express small blurbs like on Twitter. Heck, I've even thought about abandoning Twitter's UIs and creating RSS feeds
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by Glench 8y ago
I'm not a huge fan of these stateful GUI libraries. I've really been enjoying Dear Imgui as an alternative: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui There are Python bindings too: https://github.com/s
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by Glench 8y ago
For many years I had a Chrome Bravo but all the Velcro stopped working and it was pretty beat up so I looked for a new bag. With some recommendations from friends, I ended up with the Timbuk2 Especial Tres. I love it because: - it carries a
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by Glench 8y ago
Hey, you should definitely check out Python Play, the games/graphics library @amasad mentioned: https://github.com/replit/play It's uses similar language and a Scratch-like execution model, so you can do thin
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by Glench 8y ago
> Detaching emotion from the outcome is key. I think this means more, "however things might go, the outcome is not taken personally", the person's selfhood and worthiness is independent of the work they do. I also agree th
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by Glench 8y ago
This is a good point. Our culture places a lot of emphasis on work. And I think there's something important there — that if we're going to spend most of our time doing something (work), it should be something we enjoy, find meanin
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Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist(glench.com)
422 points by Glench 8y ago|314 comments
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by Glench 8y ago
That's fine, but I think what I would find more convincing is an example of actual complicated program mocked up in this manner. I'm all for using toy examples to sketch out the basics, but if you're proposing a system to mak
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by Glench 8y ago
I agree that human understanding of software is one of the primary bottlenecks and difficulties of writing and maintaining software, but it's always a little suspect when someone claims to improve something about programming and then t
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by Glench 8y ago
If you're interested in this, you might also like Neil Postman's "5 Things We Need to Know About Technological Change": http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/pos...
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by Glench 8y ago
I'm glad this issue is getting some attention. I found the "Exceptions are not exceptional" section to capture something I've noticed several times — that code in Python can fail at a huge number of points even in a smal
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by Glench 8y ago
The concentration of the vast majority of wealth in the hands of a small number of people is obviously an unbalanced and unjust system that can't continue to work.
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by Glench 8y ago
As I see it, the number one hurdle in software productivity is human understanding. The more understandable software is and the easier it is to make software understandable, the faster and more accurately it can be modified. This is why fun
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Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist(glench.com)
3 points by Glench 8y ago|1 comments
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by Glench 8y ago
Defund the military.
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by Glench 8y ago
Are you saying Jonathan Blow only prototyped his games? Because he didn’t — he also programmed the shipped game code. You can watch him program his new game live on his twitch stream or see the archived streams on YouTube: https:/&#x2
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by Glench 8y ago
Well I don’t think there’s a definition of world-class but Jonathan Blow not only designed and produced Braid and The Witness, but also programmed most of the engines for those games and they’re largely bug-free. That’s a pretty amazing fea

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