bckr

55 ms·

811.
by bckr 4y ago
> You might as well complain that you are missing out on being able to tell racist jokes with your same-race buddies, I sympathize with your point, but object strongly to this analogy on the grounds that being racist is a choice, while b
812.
by bckr 5y ago
When taken together, your observation and GP's form a phenomenon called the "fundamental attribution error": https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/the-fundamental-attribution...
813.
by bckr 5y ago
I changed many beliefs and thought patterns that were causing me suffering. This included ideas I had about myself and society and how things "should" work. Yes, making an impact on others is very rewarding. Making things for myse
814.
by bckr 5y ago
I think you're very fortunate to have made lifelong friends in college. I have 2 people that I hope will be lifelong friends from this time of my life. One is a teacher and another is a classmate. Then again, I went to a commuter schoo
815.
by bckr 5y ago
Little games, stories, or songs that I showed people and they enjoyed. Tools at work that help people do their job much more efficiently. Changing my psychology to be a happier person.
816.
by bckr 5y ago
Great point that I was having a hard time articulating. This is a massive part of why "web felt different" after its death.
817.
by bckr 5y ago
it is comparable, but if I recall, not only was Google Reader's interface slick and had nice features for filtering / automating your feed, but there were pleasant social and discovery features, as well as, I think, the ability to
818.
by bckr 5y ago
> As a result, products and services will become cheaper. As a result, people will have to work less for a living. I think we've seen this play out before and instead of reducing work, our standards of living increase and people kee
819.
by bckr 5y ago
I love this. It works great on mobile. It's inspiring, seems like something that can be put together without too much tech, but requires some thinking to design properly. I really enjoyed the puzzle aspect of figuring out your opponent
820.
by bckr 5y ago
I remember this. I was a teenager and this inspired me greatly to learn more about tech.
821.
by bckr 5y ago
> jobs that are more important to society as a whole—at least in my opinion—are not paid as much as developers. this is a great point. Here I think the best thing we can do is be politically active and advocate for, e.g. teachers to have
822.
by bckr 5y ago
A modern NLP system might help extract user intention from the user input. Or you could use "chat" where chat actually means pre-fabricated inputs in a simple decision tree.
823.
by bckr 5y ago
It's a mental exercise similar to watching a movie."Willing suspension of disbelief", it's called. Why would you care whether Mr. Big Muscles is winning or not given that he's just pretending to be the hero of the u
824.
by bckr 5y ago
Hmm, the article links to the Linking Sigil at the bottom, in the links section. But the rest of the article is concerned with how mysterious the symbol is, and how no one knows where it came from. A clue: anyone can register a symbol for a
825.
by bckr 5y ago
The universe is terrifying.
826.
by bckr 5y ago
This is absolutely brilliant. I'd like to have something like this for every endeavor where I suffer from "blank page syndrome".
827.
by bckr 5y ago
My philosophy is this: We live in a market economy. Charge as much as you can for your work, constrained only by how intensely you're willing to work and for what causes you're willing your work to be used for. If you're unsa
828.
by bckr 5y ago
I think you'll find most startups that engage with the hiring threads here lean towards system / API design interviews or take home projects.
829.
by bckr 5y ago
The way to go about those is to break them down into pieces. How do I compile I GUI app for Mac? How do I create a plaintext editor? How do I expose a Go parser? Continue with each feature.
830.
by bckr 5y ago
I think a lot of people suffer from guilt/shame/nagging thoughts/distraction because they start a lot of things and then lose track of them (the opposite of "mind like water") . So this is a technique for people who
831.
by bckr 5y ago
three+ green accounts posting the same link... feels off to me too
832.
by bckr 5y ago
fabric is great. made sftp a breeze
833.
by bckr 5y ago
Perhaps DevOps is an area you can go into. Also, if you don't like Django, give Flask a try. It's much simpler and easier to get started. If you can tolerate that it opens up a lot of opportunities writing backends.
834.
by bckr 5y ago
Was just about to CTRL-F for that, thanks :)
835.
by bckr 5y ago
Fascinating video, thanks
836.
by bckr 5y ago
Hmm, I think it's possible to raise your IQ by practicing and applying certain thinking strategies. Especially given that IQ is an artificial measure of intelligence.
837.
by bckr 5y ago
Yeah, this is heavy editorializing
838.
by bckr 5y ago
Yes, this image isn't the worst example, but as a person with high sensitivity to deformities, I `python - c "['hate'] * 70"` generative art for this reason. I can appreciate it, like it even to some degree, but AGH
839.
by bckr 5y ago
I also don't understand GP's comment and am curious about this non-girlfriend flatmate situation.
840.
by bckr 5y ago
Yea,that would be a weakness of the approach for sure.

More ›