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by atomicnature 2y ago
Don't have the time to make a long rebuttal, but my points are: - For the past 50+ years, really intelligent people, including Turing award winners have believed in this dreams - In fact, getting computer to solve problem on their own
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by atomicnature 2y ago
OK - how many practical declarative goal-based languages have been successful in the past 50 years? Only option I can think of till now is SQL. Maybe there were some Operational Research optimization stuff as well. All of these were quite l
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by atomicnature 2y ago
Software was telling computers what to do, to get those things done that we wanted done. This still remains software. With AI, the new evolution in software is to skip the "telling what to do" part and directly specifying the goal
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by atomicnature 2y ago
No surprise that Galileo made enemies while some of his thoughts on math are spot on, he really underestimated Sersi throughout the work, who himself was a math professor. On the nature of comets - looks like Sersi was nearer to the Truth c
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by atomicnature 2y ago
off-topic: Love the username :)
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by atomicnature 2y ago
I've read Grove's work, and I agree with the "output" aspect being important. But I wouldn't consider "output" the only thing that connects to wisdom. I've heard of people I consider to be "wise&
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by atomicnature 2y ago
Excellent point. That's why the truly wise people use "results" in terms of judging wisdom. If your thought is coherent, when you put it to practice - it works. And if it works - the desired result is produced. Doesn't m
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by atomicnature 2y ago
My definition of wisdom (after many years of study & consideration): "Getting desirable results most of the time for themselves AND most people around them throughout their lives" The most important aspect of wisdom to me is &
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by atomicnature 2y ago
Interview with Senior Rust Developer in 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGfQu0bQTKc (not really)
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REST APIs Turn 25: How They Came to Be and What Could Be Next(journal.hexmos.com)
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by atomicnature 2y ago
I agree that "lived experiences" in highly regimented environment can be extremely harmful. But my point is on the efficacy of it. I think regimentation doesn't work well in fields where there's complex problem-solving
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by atomicnature 2y ago
I think the author gets it utterly wrong. My argument would be - greater the complexity, higher level of personal initiative and responsibility is needed. This is not an arm-chair assertion. For example - read the works of Admiral Rickover
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by atomicnature 2y ago
For me - it is a visceral thing, I don't try too hard to remember anything. But I end up retaining some associations, a kind of mood, and I also tend to grasp the tendencies and attitudes of the author. So in a way I read between the l
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Read the Masters(link.springer.com)
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by atomicnature 2y ago
Amen to that. Over-organization is often a sign of high turnover in teams. If you can retain engineers long-term, then the amount of repetitive paperwork/reports/status updates, etc reduce significantly. You can have low frequency
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by atomicnature 2y ago
So you are saying Alan kay is 100% bullshit? Or 50-50 sense/bullshit? 25-75? What is the percentage that makes someone a crank or not? Because newton has a 30/70 score by this metric. In my book Kay makes lots of sense most of the
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by atomicnature 2y ago
Newton spent 1/3rd of life pursuing Alchemy, another 1/3rd pursuing biblical prophecies. Paul Graham once said that Newton wasted so much of his life (basically PG thinks he knows what's worthy work and what is not - I mean e
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by atomicnature 2y ago
Why'd anyone judge Alan Kay on making any particular biz succeed? He's been a big contributor to the "ideas ecosystem" as a researcher's researcher. It's like asking Bezos to care about the Internet as a techni
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by atomicnature 2y ago
What do you think of the Internet? Has it worked? Has it scaled? Is it reliable? Remember that Alan Kay, his team and his colleagues had a lot to do with this thing you are using to rant here :)
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by atomicnature 2y ago
That's an interesting example, thanks for sharing.
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by atomicnature 2y ago
Reminds me a bit of the old smalltalk GUI. It had this sort of "object editing" capability IIRC. Actually, smalltalk could connect different data types, such as code, images, videos, presentations, docs, etc into a cohesive whole.
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by atomicnature 2y ago
Interesting stuff!
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Ask HN: Favorite Data Structures?
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by atomicnature 2y ago
What's the product if I may ask? Or at least the general category of products you operate in - if you don't mind mentioning it.
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by atomicnature 2y ago
To the author: What are your thoughts on tiger Beetle? I think it provides most of the primitives that you mention in a highly optimized package (except hierarchical relationships).
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by atomicnature 2y ago
Doing a Job by Admiral Rickover: https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm This one-pager guide never fails to set me straight whenever I feel like I've lost my way. If you have more time - I recommend reading everything Ric
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Startups Are an Act of Desperation(blog.eladgil.com)
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Ask HN: Embedding Code Review Data in Git Repo?
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I Learned to Get by with C++ Packaging: A 5-Minute CMake Survival Guide(journal.hexmos.com)
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by atomicnature 2y ago
The central thing to me is - "quality of efforts" more than "quality of results". For anything sufficiently complicated or "difficult" - one needs to persevere. There's nothing magically special in any pla

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