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by alecbz 6y ago
It could have been built in to the language. Tons of builtin features (slices, maps, channels) are already "generic".
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by alecbz 6y ago
Maybe this is too idealistic, but like I said, the root issue feels like energy not being priced correctly (i.e., in a way that captures the true costs of energy consumption to the climate/planet). Rough analogy to "safer systems
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by alecbz 6y ago
Yeah I don't really understand -- normally people buying things (energy) at a price the supplier is willing to sell is good. If energy is priced appropriately, this shouldn't be a problem. Are people concerned with the negative ex
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by alecbz 6y ago
I think features are often products for other companies, not for end-users. E.g., digital displays are a "feature, not a product". End-users get value out of digital displays on their thermostats, microwaves, etc., but no end-user
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by alecbz 6y ago
Mostly agree, but Netflix isn't a feature just because Google and FB also do streaming. It's fair to call Netflix a product because it's something that end users actually care about for its own sake. You can pay for Netflix a
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by alecbz 6y ago
I think the problem is: a) it's too easy to build data syncing into other products b) the ease of having syncing built into the product I'm using is really powerful When Dropbox first came out a lot of software was a lot more &quo
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by alecbz 6y ago
Honestly I sort of agree with your sentiment, but I have some sympathy because many people who join early startups do it at comp deficits, and believing you're actually going to make a significant return on your investment only to sudd
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by alecbz 6y ago
Sure. But my point is that it's not correct to go from "multiple independent organizations think this way" to "basically everyone must think this way", as if those multiple organizations represent a random sample of
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by alecbz 6y ago
It's not an explicit conspiracy but there are incredibly strong political bubbles in the US.
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by alecbz 6y ago
I think it's good for some things and really terrible for others. Forcing brevity is often really useful for encouraging more succinct, clearer writing. But sometimes the inherent complexity in what you're trying to say can't
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by alecbz 6y ago
Maybe they felt switching to 1 would feel like too much of an effective increase of the character limit?
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by alecbz 6y ago
> Of course not. What did I write that would suggest that? > being persuaded by an essay is ... a red flag that we may be being manipulated by someone we wouldn’t choose to be manipulated by I was persuaded by SSC essays, despite not
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by alecbz 6y ago
Re. strawman: maybe this is a good essay, but I was referencing Dumblydorr's assertion that if someone else had written this essay it would be considered mediocre/not make it to the top of HN, and your response that this is irrele
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by alecbz 6y ago
I'm not saying PG asserting some insight is the same as some random person asserting it: certainly PG has some prior we should take into account. But I think good essays are ones where you don't need to really rely on that prior.
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by alecbz 6y ago
What does freedom of expression have to do with anything? Freedom of expression != all opinions are correct and equally valid
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by alecbz 6y ago
I think if your perspective has enabled you to know things you wouldn't have otherwise, _most_ of that should just come through from the writing. It should be possible for you to write in a way that's convincing independently of w
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by alecbz 6y ago
I feel like "closed form" becomes a lot less special when you realize that things as simple as sin, cos, log, or even just sqrt don't have "closed forms" in the sense of "able to be expressed in terms of '
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by alecbz 6y ago
Also, I can see how statements like: > The world would be a better place if others too had the insights that I have now. seem narcissistic, but I think that's kind of just a logical conclusion of thinking meditation is useful? (and
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by alecbz 6y ago
> The results of these three studies do not imply any casual direction; the authors suggest the causal arrow may work in both directions.... spiritual training may attract people who already feel superior. And the “extensive exploration
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by alecbz 6y ago
I don't relish the idea of doing work where I can only succeed when I disagree with others (it feels both risky and lonely) but that's different than if, in practice, I tend to conform to what others think (I don't think I do
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Why does Vim use `hjkl` for navigation?(twitter.com)
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by alecbz 6y ago
> Those aspects are also too inward/selfish. What About the company? Wasn't that covered by: "Community: Am I excited and happy to go to work every morning and see my teammates. Do I believe in the mission, vision, and l
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by alecbz 6y ago
Really I think the only part of the post that's particularly status/money driven is: > If you are an average 30 yr old engineer, let's say you want to retire reasonably by the time you are 60. You have at best 120 quarters
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by alecbz 6y ago
I guess I don't really agree that it doesn't sound hard. Like, at some point I might have thought it didn't sound hard, but I've come to view good leadership as much more important, subtler, and rarer than I once did.
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by alecbz 6y ago
That doesn't seem obvious to me. It could be that it is actually hard despite not sounding hard. Certainly not implying that luck and timing didn't play a huge role, but I think there's often subtle unspoken but super importa
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by alecbz 6y ago
I actually think it's almost the opposite for me. In a tiny yaml file it's pretty easy to understand what everything is; it's huge files where toml's forcing you to full qualify nested tables becomes useful. Too many hug
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by alecbz 6y ago
Can you expand on the negatives? I don't think I understand what you mean.
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by alecbz 6y ago
Though I'll agree that I don't love the name "table". I think it's referring to the kind of table you might see in an instruction booklet or something, with keys on the left and their values on the right, but the po
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by alecbz 6y ago
I think terseness and readability are often at odds past a certain point, and TOML seems to optimize for readability at the expense of terseness. E.g., having to specify column names again and again is tedious to write, but makes the file e
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by alecbz 6y ago
https://noyaml.com/

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