artfulhippo

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by artfulhippo 7y ago
Tyler Cowen, big business booster extraordinaire, is concern trolling. He calls this type of writing “Straussian” — It’s not meant to be taken literally, it’s a kind of intentional obfuscation. Is this political message allowed? If someone
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
I see why one would run Trident over plain FreeBSD on a workstation. But what is Trident offering on top of Void?
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
There is perhaps a connection between nonviolent communication and functional programming with immutable data structures. In both cases, change is effected through the construction of new information structures, rather than through forcing
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
How is this anything but the sunk-cost fallacy, throwing bad money after bad? Seriously looking for someone to explain why the WeWork glass is half-full.
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
Apple caved under pressure from China. The explanation Cook gave is not just an embarrassment, it calls into question the veracity of all of his other statements. Why should users believe that (closed source) iMessage encryption is free fro
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
Facebook deserves credit for iterating on solid foundations. If they make VR useful outside of games and porn, then they will deserve credit for meaningful innovation. To clarify why FB cannot be satisfied with the games and porn market is
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
That Oculus is the leader in consumer VR (games and porn) does little to spark confidence in Facebook as a hard product design firm. Oculus was an acquisition, and we know Facebook is good at acquiring amazing companies. But can Facebook cr
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
A few months ago, I was debating with a friend about the next major computing interface. Is it Voice or Spacial Computing (AR/VR/xR)? It's clearly voice, for many reasons. To cut the argument short, realize that language is w
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
If I understand you, you’re saying that Boz didn’t lie, he just said the truth in so subtle a way that other social predators pick up on it, but that seems nice to normal people. That’s a deception even worse than lying! Lie or not, this st
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
The discussion has already been debased given that it’s about a nothing-burger PR piece filled with doublespeak. My comment is about changing social norms to improve society. Perhaps my tone is a bit harsh, but on the object level I believe
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
I quoted the transcript verbatim. Then restated the quote. But I didn’t use the word “increase”. I stand by my statement. If I’m wrong, please correct me without misrepresenting it.
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
> We always are making sure that we're doing everything from a privacy, safety and security standpoint that we can and those are our top priorities across the entire company, more so now than ever before. And so those are our top pr
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
Conceptually, Dark is a game-changer. The question is: can you deliver on the details? Can apps written in Dark scale to 10k LOC or will the browser UI get jittery? How many concurrent users can Dark apps handle? Do you integrate logging an
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
This is some of the best news this summer! Anyone that wants to reduce the influence that Google and Facebook have on the Web should look into the Erlang/Elixir ecosystem.
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
What’s the probability that the US exists in 100 years?
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At Booming Toptal, No Stock for Employees or Investors(theinformation.com)
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by artfulhippo 7y ago
Just a suggestion: Give users the option to hide the controls. You already let people hide the formatting, but in order for me to want to use this to write, I would need the ability to hide the top bar ie BACK TO LIST | HOME | ... | EXPORT