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by apsurd 4y ago
hmm, well everything is just something to do. This helps me because it's great discovering magic, but it's sad when it goes. the magic is not specific to the thing like programming. so you lost the magic, it no longer compels you.
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by apsurd 4y ago
what are you trying to do? make a website? or have a career in tech? Short answer is web design, interface design, user experience design, information architecture, can only help you build better products. people mention FAANG as the high b
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by apsurd 4y ago
What's the meaningful difference though of your conclusion? "Everything is magic" vs "nothing is magic". Why do you care more to side with "nothing". Just curious, personally my vote is on "everything
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by apsurd 4y ago
It's funny cuz the leetcode grinder also learns that "asking clarifying questions" is part of the right answer structure too. So the cat-&-mouse game becomes more nuanced, but I do agree that it usually does become appare
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by apsurd 4y ago
Your point is good, but in making it, you sound like an adversarial interviewer. You and OP are actually agreeing with "the correct answer is it depends and now let's discuss context". This echoes my experience as interviewer
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by apsurd 4y ago
thanks, i've been conflicted between "go with what you know" and investing time to keep up with tech. your value prop is a nice hedge in that i can try it out and play with results without much any investment, thanks! (long w
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by apsurd 4y ago
related question from someone technical but not in ML: for the text tagging example, is the underlying approach same or different to elasticsearch term analyzing and scoring? can anyone help with pros and cons? context: given a customer cha
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by apsurd 4y ago
the ads make this unreadable on a phone. yes i use safari reader mode but whenever i do it think "wow i shouldn't need to do this; here i am curious and our first interaction is so adversarial". Surely there's a "po
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by apsurd 4y ago
After reading the replies, i'm understanding that drudgery has to do with lack of agency. Can't websites be art too? A mindless CRUD app is framed as such if BigCo tells us to do it for the billionth time. But if it's our ag
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by apsurd 4y ago
thanks for earnest response!
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by apsurd 4y ago
curious what the emergent behavior is. it's a massive hash lookup table at a scale never accomplished and then you can lookup recursively and such. then follows whether humans/consciousness is not also just a hash lookup. humans h
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by apsurd 4y ago
i'm curious what you think is worthy of humans to do? often in life i find myself reminding myself that everything is just something to do. serious question, what do you then distinguish as enlightened pursuits vs not, for lack of a be
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by apsurd 4y ago
congrats on shipping! I know why you sorry'ed php but I and many here learned programming purely from 90's web tutorials. No sorry's! Keep going, looks good
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by apsurd 4y ago
Makes me think of Mike Bostock who created d3 for New York Times. Amazing stuff and definitely made me smarter to work my way through how it works. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Bostock
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by apsurd 4y ago
Agree, thank you for being first to say it. That humanity is _converging_ on some "intentional" optimal outcome is dramatically depressing to me in a way that i wasn't prepared to read today. Now i don't know what's
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by apsurd 4y ago
That seem easily true by looking at historical examples. But history isn't proof for future outcomes and dare I say our "age of tech" actively seems disprove all these historical truisms. Innovate or die kinda thing. But, we
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by apsurd 4y ago
late to the party but: all good, motorcycles are still very much manual
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by apsurd 4y ago
salt fat acid heat book
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by apsurd 4y ago
curious how cars have become safer for pedestrians? i've anecdotally absorbed the opposite, but maybe i'm a biased bicyclist. Cars have only become increasingly massive; an arms race to "protect your family!" meaning the
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by apsurd 4y ago
In the United States, being the 3rd best city in public transportation is infinitely better than having literally zero reliable public transport because everything is car first. suburbia is quite a miserable experience and it's tragica
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by apsurd 4y ago
I have to be honest, I frequently find myself with NIH syndrome. I just don't understand how we can make progress if we defer to "everything is a solved problem!" Truly, help me understand how to better navigate when to defer
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by apsurd 4y ago
Hi Quentin! This is Jade The loom link at the end 404s for me.
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by apsurd 5y ago
You are back justifying a linear reality of "only upward". I've never really understood this line of thinking. Of course in retrospect now that all information is known, we can linearly quantify a per year rate of return as &
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by apsurd 5y ago
wow that made me smile on this "Monday" here at work. here to say +1 watch this! and thanks
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by apsurd 5y ago
love the way you crystalized this. It's strange to me how bad UX can devolve at the hands of people whose profession is UX. I trust they aren't intentionally doing it. And other factors like ads, "need to monetize", &qu
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by apsurd 5y ago
sorry, i can't help but read this as rather tone deaf. People are very complex.
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by apsurd 5y ago
+1 "the dawn of everything" by Graeber is a lovely, fun, and inspiring read. it's because Graeber expands thinking on history. who is to say he's right? it's not about that, it's about realizing how much we t
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by apsurd 5y ago
> There's a need for both, and most of all, for men to feel valued just for being alive, not for any deed they perform or value they bring to others, just their intrinsic value. love this <3
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by apsurd 5y ago
just want to applaud you for your care and effort in such a great well-rounded reply. tbh the top comment peeved me instantly. "oh so now that one has kids, suddenly eyes open, the world is terrible and it is now time to care so much a
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by apsurd 5y ago
Another thing is to expect a mess. A weeklong streak feels good but then pressure builds up to not miss and inevitably we miss and it makes us feel terrible and we throw it all out. The streaks thing seems really popular but it amounts to

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