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   by amasad 8y ago

   It's draining and kind of silly of you think about it. Why don't we also track and and count other activities: like when you go to the bathroom, how much sex you have, and perhaps how many breaths a day you take. Animals with no a
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   by amasad 8y ago

   Yeah, I wonder that, similar to the "dark web", how much of the wealth of monarchs and kingpins doesn't actually register as public knowledge.
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   Parkinson's law(en.wikipedia.org)

   1 points by amasad 8y ago|0 comments
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   by amasad 8y ago

   > And to boot, after so many words, the final advice is extremely hollow... literally just saying, > > “And so we should try to do better along lots of axes.” > How should we improve? I guess by “doing better” on “multiple axes.
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   How should we evaluate progress in AI?(meaningness.com)

   119 points by amasad 8y ago|63 comments
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   by amasad 8y ago

   This is demonstrably false. No respectable scientist believes in the calories-in-calories-out model of obesity anymore.
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   Repl.it is hiring a developer tools front-end engineer(repl.it)

   1 points by amasad 8y ago
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   Repl.it Code Intelligence Powered by Language Server Protocol(repl.it)

   7 points by amasad 8y ago|0 comments
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   by amasad 8y ago

   Repl.it | Devtools Engineer | Full-Time | On-Site | San Francisco, CA Repl.it is building a programming environment that blurs the distinction between learning and building. A development experience where the tedious setup and maintenance o
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    Disintegrated Development Environments – How Did We Get Here?(amasad.me)

    3 points by amasad 8y ago|0 comments
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    by amasad 8y ago

    Thanks -- Keygen looks cool too! Yeah you can embed. It's under the share dialog. More in the docs.
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    by amasad 8y ago

    Oh awesome. You can probably also use it for docs. You can now hide keys in a .env file https://repl.it/site/docs/secret-keys . Edit: lol re slug. Sometimes I think the title gen aglo is prescient
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    by amasad 8y ago

    It took us a while before opening up. We only did after building tools to handle abuse, and after hiring someone to help us monitor.
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    by amasad 8y ago

    Ah cool. Do you have any examples online of how you use it?
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    by amasad 8y ago

    Read my other post. Be grateful. https://amasad.me/grateful
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    by amasad 8y ago

    That's inspiring. Thanks for sharing!
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    by amasad 8y ago

    Since I'm talking about programming I'm also perpetuating ableism because you need to have functioning hands and eyes. I'm also perpetuating alivism because you need to be not dead.
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    by amasad 8y ago

    I can't tailor my advice to everyone possible ever. I'd wager there are many many underprivileged kids who have a lot of energy and some free time and my advice goes to them.
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    by amasad 8y ago

    Agreed. However, it was GitHub and not, for example, sourceforge that lowered the barrier to entry for open-source. The open internet is the substrate on which innovation runs.
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    by amasad 8y ago

    So I mentioned, multiple times, that you shouldn't exclude people that don't have a Github profile. All I'm saying is that if you're underprivileged you have this awesome tool, use it. And no I didn't have a lot of
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    by amasad 8y ago

    How so? Programming is unprecedented in it's power for upwards class mobility. We're just scratching the surface. But it's the only thing we have that: a) doesn't require a lot of resources to make a meaningful contribut
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    GitHub and Open-Source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged(amasad.me)

    331 points by amasad 8y ago|180 comments
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    Don't Let Your Development Environment Rot(repl.it)

    1 points by amasad 8y ago|1 comments
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    Andreessen Horowitz is pocketing a huge win in the $7.5B GitHub acquisition(recode.net)

    2 points by amasad 8y ago|0 comments
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    by amasad 8y ago

    Repl.it | San Francisco | Infrastructure Engineer | onsite | https://repl.it/site/jobs We're building a new kind of software platform. Our users go from learning how to code to deploying apps, getting users, and i
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    by amasad 8y ago

    There's a curious anti-intellectual trend in HN where people think they can explain things simply without "fancy ideas". Scarcity on it's own doesn't explain it. Your grandma's locket is scarce (only 1) yet no
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    by amasad 8y ago

    More things, more state = bloat. Don't you agree that if you can do something without holding state it's invariably simpler? That's what MVS does. There's also cases where your lock file and manifest are not in agreement
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    by amasad 8y ago

    There are a lot of suboptimal design decisions that's shared across the state of the art in package management (cargo, pipenv, npm, yarn, etc) that the Go team is not taking for granted. One is reproducible builds. The standard answer
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    by amasad 8y ago

    You have it mostly right. Thanks for clarifying my sloppy writing here. I just wouldn't say "completely useless," especially at the start of the s-curve but then at the shoulder of the s-curve you have diminishing returns.
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    by amasad 8y ago

    I just finished reading Radical Markets ( http://a.co/7cNafHl ) and it's funny to see this HN story because the last chapter was about "data labor" where the authors claim that we're all working for FB&#x2