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by bbor 2y ago
Very well written post with some great formatting/pacing, but I think they’re overselling the novelty of the central point for blog reasons. To cut to the quick: Taste is some combination of design, user experience, and emotional r
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by bbor 2y ago
Oo this is fun: guessing what the meeting was like where this decision was made. Off the top of my head, there are a few possibilities: 1. Engineers like to unify + encapsulate things where possible for its own sake, and the UX people were
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by bbor 2y ago
Meh — I see where you’re coming from, but this post is about Apple violating design principles, not a pity post about this particular person. We’re all to blame for everything in our lives on some very basic level, but it’s no excuse for
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by bbor 2y ago
Fascinating, thanks for taking the time to educate! Makes sense to me — it seems this tool is purpose built for situations where tracking is complex enough to deserve decoupling from annotating or interpreting , to put it in my own kin
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by bbor 2y ago
Not to speak for them, but I think you’ve understood the point exactly. You need to be able to support arbitrary precision, but that support needs to be intentional to avoid errors. And you have to record that decision somewhere if adapte
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by bbor 2y ago
To this noob, this seems like a problem that was pretty convincingly solved by double entry accounting ledgers, but from your post it sounds like this isn’t a replacement-of but rather an addition-to that model. What’s a situation where an
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by bbor 2y ago
This is a fantastically written post by someone whose blog title tells me we'd be friends, but it's also perhaps the most absurd example of idealogical bias I've ever seen. In this case, the bias is towards individualism and
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by bbor 2y ago
Out of curiosity: what kind of philosophy do you like? Are you open to any psychoanalytic or marxist methods, if executed with enough scientific rigor? Honest question. I'm guessing basically all of HN agrees with you, so no offense in
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by bbor 2y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing, incredible stuff. I'm happily surprised to see this upvoted on here, I guess HN hides a sizable-yet-silent group of my fellow hopeless hippies! Before approaching the content, the writing style here is one of t
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by bbor 2y ago
This is probably a hot take but I’m gonna stay with Mozilla. We don’t have all the details, but it sure seems like a rotten C-suite, and I’m gonna count on the justice system to find the facts and mete out some, well, justice. Coca-Cola lit
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by bbor 2y ago
Wow, WILD story. Any armchair lawyers around to fill me in on the legality of firing someone in retaliation for suing you for discrimination…? The details are here, he posted this link a while back: https://www.geekwire.com/
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by bbor 2y ago
A) any wizards have a free link? B) “let go from an online-marketing role at eBay” doesn’t really seem like an indictment of “software engineering”, but presumably that story is just a short hook. C) reading software engineering is in troub
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by bbor 2y ago
Maybe! Not sure I've seen data that supports that, but it's a sound hypothesis among some populations. That said, the students who do the very least work and learn absolutely nothing are the ones too poor to ever become undergradu
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by bbor 2y ago
Ha, pretty funny article. Well written for sure, but it's got major "if only they let ME run things, everything would be fixed in day!" vibes. College rankings aren't broken because some data scientist made a bad decisio
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by bbor 2y ago
Looks slick, well done on the technical side! I will say that this part/the domain is likely to cause you issues, if you’re within the legal reach of Microsoft: ©ChatGPT o1 2024, All rights reserved. But also, I am not a lawyer
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by bbor 2y ago
Thanks for posting, looks pretty polished to me! Lowkey love the design, super modern finance applications do make me irrationally afraid. Perhaps it's trauma from Navient-administered student loans... I will say this is by far the mos
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by bbor 2y ago
Internal startups have the same value proposition as external ones, I think; most fail, but every once in a while you hit a React or a Gmail.
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by bbor 2y ago
Well. Kinda!
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by bbor 2y ago
Ha, fair enough, I deserved that! I just mentioned that year in that sentence because that’s when the linked graph takes off. For the curious onlooker: this person pretty much nailed it with “1980s”, according to NGrams: https:/&#x2F
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by bbor 2y ago
Kinda. The United States has threatened to stop financial aid to other countries if they trade non-food items with Cuba… Despite the existence of the embargo, Cuba can, and does, conduct international trade with many countries, includin
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by bbor 2y ago
https://www.coolest-gadgets.com/vr-headset-statistics The Global Virtual Reality (VR) Headset Market is projected to surpass USD 121.9 billion by 2032, growing from USD 13 billion in 2023
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by bbor 2y ago
I think they mean 'disrupted' in a more benign, quotidian sense. Like, changed significantly. That said, perhaps you could clarify your comment about "shitty tools that can't do what some tools could do 15 years ago&quot
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by bbor 2y ago
Some of it's simply a benign failure in pattern recognition -- despite my argument below that AI isn't the same as blockchain, you can certainly see the surface level similarities if you're not familiar with the technologies
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by bbor 2y ago
This is some of the most knee-jerk content I've seen outside of Tumblr in a while. Fun, engaging, and well written, but totally off base IMO. It's a simple fact of life that we have struck an unexpected (by most) breakthrough with
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by bbor 2y ago
(A month ago)
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by bbor 2y ago
Thanks for sharing, this is great work! I will say that their analysis is severely handicapped by seemingly being non experts in AI, leading to them missing the big picture issue here that the “Small is Beautiful” cybernetic framework can b
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by bbor 2y ago
As a self-proclaimed cognitive engineer (it’s really easy to proclaim stuff these days!), I absolutely agree with you, for two basic reasons: 1. I don’t think the author was just saying that math is hard or “a struggle”, I think they were s
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by bbor 2y ago
Looks incredible! As someone preparing a large iPhone-based scanning project, this couldn’t have come at a better time. I’m a longtime CamScanner user, but will happily move to something open source if it delivers on its promises. Will try
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by bbor 2y ago
TBF they will also happily argue for non-consensus conspiracy theories, if you ask nicely and there's no external guardrails in place. Their only concrete/stable/omnipresent consensus is a linguistic one, not a sociopolitic
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by bbor 2y ago
How do you define great? What should I be looking for?

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