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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Totally agreed! I think Brew will eventually be remembered as "this bad way of entering the topic of interest", like BASIC for programming, or a learning js / web programming through a framework first. It's teaching you
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> I live in Korea and older people are technologically no inferior to younger people in that regard. You guys truly are wonderful unicorns. How do you do it? (serious question in that regard) On topic, I think the ultimate solution is to
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Considering how the brain seems to process words when reading ('glancing in context' more than analyzing each letter), I'm pretty sure the length of words does not make reading much longer. Writing is another matter but with
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Right, this is exactly what I try to explain in a long comment[1] (different thread, comparable topic). I essentially argue that we should not confuse the medium (internet, a "network of networks"; like air or water or space) with
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> this “network of networks”, the free and open online world envisioned by early pioneers is under attack This is a dire topic. But I think we have it backwards when we consider the "network of networks" as a high-level constru
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Shadows in dark mode is an interesting design topic. Experimenting quickly gets to you 'inconsistencies' with well-known principles that work in light mode, otherwise simply the 'full color scale' so to speak. It goes to
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
This is gospel for teachers / learners. Well put. There's such as thing as too verbose, but it usually comes from writing stuff in the wrong kind of document: there is always a place for in-depth explanation, and there is a place
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Thanks a lot for the explanation / clarification, helps me qualitatively appreciate events. > it is in no way some sort of novel realization that space is important for the military. I know, and didn't mean to imply that it was
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> We need to stop treating knowledge of public data like this as some sort of identity metric. And one step further, such public data should not be used by corporations / governments to validate (or inform much, beyond "details
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
This is my take away: “The sky is no longer the limit for the Air Force and, if Congress approves, the U.S. Space Force” I used to be worried that the current trendiness of Space in the media would be a fad, gone by 10 or even 2 years fro
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I appreciate your understanding. And your phrasing, you nailed it. Candidly, while nigh impossible to see things from the eyes of Ancient Greeks, I think the main take away (which may explain my incorrect recollection, as a shortcut/ov
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Yup, ostracism, that's the one.
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
My only source for this is Etienne Chouard[1], a French teacher; it dates back to a 2011 video of a lecture[2] (in French). Notwithstanding political opinions, I expected his apparently factual take on history to be reliable; but I am now q
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Worth noting that suspicion towards 'merchant' types was not new back then, afaik it dates back at least to Ancient Athens and was one of the tenets of their democracy: rich people were excluded from the political process entirely
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Being able to pay on a regular basis means you have some structure, it's not just a fad in your life whether personal or professional. It's gatekeeping, don't think for one second I agree with the principle, but from a busine
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I guess it's just one more visual marker, perpendicular to e.g. colors so you get twice the possibilities. Whether italic or bold or colors or anything, I find that too much visual marking is bloat, unecessary cognitive load which over
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
It's generally the thing to do, whether governement or lone programmer —security is a collective matter, bigger than us. Just like we notify people when there's a fire hazard, we don't just stand idle when many people are at
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Luckily, you fall in the textbook mainstream part of the adoption "S" curve. I think it's expected by any early adopter that you're basically testing beta products, I know technology taught me that in all regards. I say
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I am very much convinced —have been for about a decade— that this is the general way to go. To fundamentally give democracy to people in a much more direct fashion, a peer-to-peer design true to what democracy actually is. Starting with the
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
This is as painfully true as it is down to earth. Zooming out a bit, a less cynical take (merely observation) is that we seek what we think are the right means for our goals (and these too diverge a lot). Maybe I want money, maybe you'
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Not saying I like it, but I think the financial commitment aims at ensuring some long-term involvement, because what matters is not to make an app but rather to maintain it —especially in the Apple ecosystem which breaks things quite often.
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Unkept in check, "follow your heart" as a commanding principle is for sure a straight road to much sadness. The heart (emotion) is there to guide us, not lead us, because the heart has no brain of its own. Don't mistake the l
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
That's tough. I think it's becoming more and more true these days; but I very much disagree if we look at a long story of best-in-class UX that truly set the tone for the entire industry and beyond. Apple used to be much, much mor
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I too revere this man as far as design goes. It is my understanding that he's not the best at managing whole products the likes of what Apple sells; my intuition is that he should have joined Google —a true engineering temple of softwa
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Perhaps you can help shed some light on my apparent misunderstanding? See this other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21365183
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I suppose it's too late to ask for a deeper explanation. I must admit I'm puzzled on this one; these are principles that were taught to me very early on and never questioned since. I can remember by physics teacher along the lines
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
"Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success" is a fantastic book that explains this at length. Great insight into champion mindsets.
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
A few years ago, after following the same path as you, I switched to Linux and never looked back. I'd recommend KDE (e.g. Kubuntu) if you like out-of-the-box productivity, with built-in settings for pretty much everything useful, and a
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> Jonny Ive Ah, this would explain that. I seem to remember that he did not want to deal with software design, but pretty much had to to fill the gap after Jobs passed away. something along those lines. I'll cut him some slack for t
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I'll give you that it's a bit of an idealistic view, to be filed under "epistemology". It is my understanding that margins of error in reproducible rates are on-par with our limits in engineering capabilities to 'te

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