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by arstin 9y ago
In practice there's a big difference in thought process and workflow between drawing freehand on paper and flipping through a UI library with a drag and drop interface. I think this is true even if your task is just composing from the
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by arstin 9y ago
Yeah I've done this for almost a decade now---read everything by an author I connect with then move on based on that experience---and I can't recommend the habit enough! It was a bit problematic in grad school since I'd spend
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by arstin 9y ago
Yea, I love using ebooks for light or SF novels. As well as journalist-y nonfiction (especially ones structured as the story of the writer learning that subject and consisting mostly of vignettes talking with experts). Basically anything I&
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by arstin 9y ago
Just to add my own "limited experience" in support of this article, I've ran into the slow text input problem many times, but never once solved it by getting rid of arrow functions in render. It just doesn't seem to matt
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by arstin 9y ago
Milwaukee Ave I guess? Yea as someone who bikes everywhere in Chicago, I hate going down Milwaukee on a bike too (partly because of all the bikers, definitely the pedestrians and cabs, partly the cars on a relatively narrow strip). At peak
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by arstin 9y ago
I also follow the "red light stop, stop sign yield" rule. I'm as annoyed by bikers who just zip through stop signs as everyone else, but when riding attentively and respectfully, I believe the Idaho stop safer and more effici
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by arstin 9y ago
I must admit having a hard time relating to all the complaints over js churn and the new world of...compiling code. I hated website dev in the past, hated using jQuery, hated being driven insane by the css cascade, hated wasting all my time
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by arstin 9y ago
Exactly. Academic publishers especially have slashed all the editorial work they traditionally did and now contribute nothing. Unless you want a shitty $150 printing of a book. They are utterly parasitic on other people's money: grants
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by arstin 9y ago
I never heard of this Kastrup fellow, but it's pretty hard to want to keep reading about an issue so delicate with so heavy-headed a first page. For example, here's a thing he claims we know "about the universe irrespective o
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by arstin 9y ago
I only had one one set theory course so can't vouch for the details, but this seemed like a well done article on a subject that could easily have been more eyeglazingly superficial or obscure.
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by arstin 9y ago
Given the kind of paper this is, I assume the names should be understood as an endorsement. Sorta like signatures on a petition.
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Redefine statistical significance(nature.com)
303 points by arstin 9y ago|114 comments
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by arstin 9y ago
I doubt anyone would disagree "the world's foremost authorities" on classical lit need to know greek/latin. But carefully reading and comparing several translations while following centuries of commentary can surely make
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by arstin 9y ago
When I make a recipe I like, I've gotten in the habit of rewriting it with consideration for minimizing time and dishes preparing. Like, if I know the meat has to brown for a few minutes before adding garlic+ginger+peppers, I'll s
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by arstin 9y ago
Obviously "fake news" has become used for content in which truth isn't really a dominant virtue...especially when it's being overridden by "strategizing political upsets"...and especially when that's tied
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by arstin 9y ago
Good points, especially how unplanned interactions have become interruptions. Slumping through life looped into a slab of infinity glass used to be an absurd dystopia... Sure, most interactions never develop into anything lasting, but you o
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by arstin 9y ago
This frontend code. const ProfileImage = ({ user }) => <img src={user.avatarUrl} alt={user.name} />; const query = gql`{ user(id: 3) { name avatarUrl } }` export const ProfileImageWithData = g
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by arstin 9y ago
I really hope that there will be a shift back to supporting these sorts of skilled trades over the next generations. Is it too wishful to think it might happen as "industrial revolution" style jobs continue automating away and per
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by arstin 9y ago
8/mth really isn't that much. If you go to grad school for history or something you have to learn to crush whole libraries. It's a developed skill like any other, hard but achievable. Personally I closely read one dense, rich
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by arstin 9y ago
Yea it can be. But really depends on both the book and the reader. And what you're trying to get out of it. Some readers are excruciatingly slow, so 1.25 just makes them sound normal. Other readers speed along, so 1x is like 1.5x on ot
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by arstin 9y ago
Yea my experience with biking in Chicago is that at least cabs are clearly marked as such so you know they might cut you off at any moment and you'll cuss at each other. Uber drivers will just stealthily swerve into your lane and full
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by arstin 9y ago
I think his article Intelligence Without Representation is particularly worth reading at least once. http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/representation.pdf
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by arstin 9y ago
Yeah, I also like to use redux with a clear separation between actions that change state and those that don't. (For example, reducers only take actions prefixed by DATA_ or UI_, all other actions...the bulk of them really...don't
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by arstin 9y ago
If my favorite part of redux is structuring flows with redux-saga, does mobx-state-tree have a solution for me? For example, this is nice: // On login, spin off the auth process. If an error or a logout happens, clean up. &#
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by arstin 10y ago
Heh, right now it's 10F and my hands are bloody and busted open from getting extremely dry and chapped after a few hours in the cold. Lotion would absolutely help right now...if I happened to own any! Alas, I am a tech nerd! Likewise,
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by arstin 10y ago
Thanks. Perhaps. I'll check him out more. I do like people who try to pull together diverse threads. The black magic article seems kinda interesting. But my personal taste in "meaning of life" stuff these days is more the fre
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by arstin 10y ago
If only the process of our life wasn't time-bound! There's so much to read that we can't help but look for signals, especially ones in an introduction which is designed explicitly by the author to get people to continue read
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by arstin 10y ago
+1 I also don't want to bother with switching languages just to color a border or center align some text. Or have static styles in one place/language and dynamic styles elsewhere despite both setting up the exact same component. A
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by arstin 10y ago
I think your comment about modeling is a good one. It actually fits with how I view UX design. I think it's no accident that the best UX designers, in my experience, tend to come from a psychology background rather than an art school o
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by arstin 10y ago
Yeah I can understand that. I've worked with plenty of designers who can't code, and to my taste the only part that can be a little frustrating is when they don't accept that some great ideas really can't be built. But t

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