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by GuiA 6y ago
What about a carpenter testing out new techniques in their garage and taking notes as they go - are they exercising their trade?
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by GuiA 6y ago
That’s a very good point. One line of thinking I’m interested in is social networking over email. Everyone has email, so you could imagine a social networking app that’s just a thin layer over your email, and every interaction is encoded as
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by GuiA 6y ago
What you’re referring to is splitting the presentation from the content. The server (eg Facebook) provides you with the content, and your computer/software displays it to your liking (ie without ads and spam and algorithmically recomme
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by GuiA 6y ago
On a small sailboat outfitted with batteries and solar panels. Ideally I'd dock only once every few days to take meetings/sync my data/connect to the internet, and then head back to open waters.
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by GuiA 6y ago
Read Nick Lane’s The Vital Question. He goes into a somewhat related line of thinking about energy transfer in hydrothermal vents and what could have led to primitive structures that lead to life.
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by GuiA 6y ago
It’s a well debunked meme, see this thread https://twitter.com/danalarsen/status/1167941723969900544
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by GuiA 6y ago
You don't know what things will be like by the end of the year. As long as 1) the virus is still around, 2) we do not have a vaccine, 3) we have not reached a certain level of herd immunity, policy making should be based on the day to
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by GuiA 6y ago
> I'll be in the pub by the end of the year. "The war will be over by Christmas."
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by GuiA 6y ago
Interesting analogy, but people are using Haskell, Prolog, etc. in production... if I were to stick to the comparison, I'd suggest that projects like Lighttable are more akin to the runway outfit.
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by GuiA 6y ago
Building your own thing is fine if you're solo. When you start having to collaborate with e.g. artists who expect their assets to render the same way they do in their editor, or a game designer who needs to edit levels in the engine, e
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by GuiA 6y ago
Maybe you'd feel way worse if you didn't do it.
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by GuiA 6y ago
Your comment ends at your claim but you do not provide any sources, evidence, or reasoning.
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by GuiA 6y ago
The way these things tend to go is more that some illustrator does something a little different, others see it and like it, it spreads, and it’s now the new mainstream, until it all repeats again. The ideological bent you choose to read int
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by GuiA 6y ago
It’s hard to bring up that point without being misunderstood. While therapy can obviously be incredibly positive, like any discipline it suffers from a large proportion of mediocre practitioners, and a smaller but more dangerous proportion
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by GuiA 6y ago
I've found that the lag impacts even day to day speech. Turn taking cues are all out of whack, and I notice that e.g. my teammates interrupt each other significantly more. It makes conversations in groups larger than 4-5 people very aw
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by GuiA 6y ago
If you made a video of the slides with a recording of your voice over it and posted it on Youtube, I’m sure you’d get a great response
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by GuiA 6y ago
I suspect you may have misunderstood the spirit of my comment. I believe that computing should be accessible to everyone, and can guarantee that the harsh thoughts you put in my head are far from my intent. Let's say you want to enable
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by GuiA 6y ago
That’s the software economy we’re in. Everyone’s thinking in terms of “productization” and “features” and “user journeys”. Only old grumpy hackers care about minimal, composable tools anymore. Sigh.
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by GuiA 6y ago
That's one thing I was definitely envious of American teens of, as a French teenager. I did odd jobs for family friends etc., but that was a few hundred euros every few months at most; I was jealous of my internet friends in the US who
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by GuiA 6y ago
Check out acme/plan9. Lots of similar cursor/content/programming synergies. There are entire parallel end user computing universes out there that we have barely scratched the surface of.
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by GuiA 6y ago
They complement each other. There are certain things that I’d love to pull up a command line for (e.g. quickly aligning dozens of objects using a non trivial heuristic); but on the other hand there are plenty of things where the act of visu
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by GuiA 6y ago
I have a hard time understanding what you've built (and don't have an Android device handy to test). The GIFs are jerky, and it's always hard to tell what is going on with touch interactions on screen recordings alone. From w
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by GuiA 6y ago
Unfamiliar with the man beyond basic things like the Game of Life, I had his biography on my to read list for a while. His passing unfortunately propelled it to the top of the pile, and I read it in a few days. Conway truly was a once in hi
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by GuiA 6y ago
Rayman Legends
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by GuiA 6y ago
> Embrace and accept the brownie points you get just by being young! +1. I was the youngest in everything I did/achieved, until one day I wasn’t. It’s natural to take the ego boost, but it’s definitely something to introspect abou
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by GuiA 6y ago
It's going to be at least a solid 3-5 years until one can say "now that we have real-time ray tracing" as far as most consumer devices are concerned, and even then it likely won't mean that all games will use raytracing
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by GuiA 6y ago
UX is to Human Computer Interaction what petroleum engineering is to chemistry. The methods aren’t wrong per se but it’s probably something we’d be better off with less of, and any questions around “ethics” or “sustainability” are going to
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by GuiA 6y ago
It’s a spectrum, but yes most companies do a terrible job at prioritizing the development and well being of their employees. Ask your boss to take a week long course that will make you significantly more productive, paid for by the company.
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by GuiA 6y ago
The prerequisite is a lackluster/dysfunctional/toxic work environment, which is probably like 99% of jobs out there.
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by GuiA 6y ago
"Are they generally active on programs and websites that I would consider productive like Excel, PowerPoint, Word, email, as opposed to YouTube or Facebook?" The CEO talking about his product in terms of first person value judge

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