SomethingOrNot

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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
What better way to refute elitism by mentioning “even janitorial work”; the job so derided by ostensibly successful people that it is the stand-in trope for “low-status employment”.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
> There is the matter is that blue collar professions slowly become extinct because they are replaced by robots and automatic machines. Now whole factories are ruled by a few engineers and skilled technicians. This is good because no in
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
You apply pressure to the system. Not just elements (individuals?) that make up the system. The most enlightened human being could become a CEO (insert your favorite mythical person) of an oil/coal company; they would still simply be
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
This is reductive. Systems are not merely sums of their parts (people): they have emergent properties. Systems don’t change because people as individuals decide to do things differently. That’s not sociology, that’s just individualism. U
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
The world doesn’t change by “getting things across” to CEOs and politicians. If a CEO’s enlightenment gets int the way of his fiduciary responsibilities, he will simple be replaced. It’s about systems, not Great Men.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
Seems like you are going for a two-staged language with homogeneous metaprogramming. As opposed to heterogeneous metaprogramming (macros). I like it, I must say.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
> Btw, I encourage you to keep at Zig for diversity in systems, language space. I don’t think that “Basically like C but a tiny bit better ” deserves to be associated with the word “diversity”.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
He doesn’t have a programming language. He has a series of YT videos. Until he open sources the code (or at least lets someone else try it/look at it) discussing his “language” is giving him too much credit.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
> The software ecosystem is not well served by everyone being focused on the same few familiar programming approaches. Sure there are economies of scale—better tooling, programmer fungibility—but there is less intellectual diversity. The
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
You’re affiliated with Stanford? If so, also with the developer of Terra?
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
Have read some of it. Maybe I should read more of it.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
Those middle class progressives sure are easy to spot. Unlike you, with your innovative counter-arguments like “homogeneous country v.s. diverse America”, “some people just wanna be addicts”, “street lifestyle”—you are a real original.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
> Normally programming language blog posts get started with grammars and syntax and parsing and all sorts of stuff like that. I can't be bothered with all of that, And I can’t be bothered with C++ for compiler construction.
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
*rooting
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
> More than just minorities, the wasted talent problem extends even to the elite. Ivy League students aspire to work in investment banking and management consulting. The finance industry is one of the biggest modern-day brain drains. The
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
> The wasting of talent does not always look like someone languishing in a position below their abilities. Waste of talent can also look like someone expending their creativity pushing addictive services or building products for an audie
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by SomethingOrNot 8y ago
You’re like the main character in Hurt Locker at the end of the movie. He has come home from deployment and is standing in a supermarket. The mundane, everyday reality of First World civilian life seems meaningless in contrast. So he goes
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by SomethingOrNot 10y ago
> Also I find the hyphen surprisingly wide (in the proportional version). In fact so wide that I keep thinking it's an en–dash ... So did I! At first I thought that they had inserted en-dashes by some mistake.
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by SomethingOrNot 10y ago
ML has been around for 40 years, but only lately have algebraic data types been catching on somewhat.