benjaminjosephw

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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
If you find it offensive that sometimes people are treated differently (intentionally or not) because of their gender or race you wouldn't be alone! But, whether these concerns are real or just perceived, they won't go away simply
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Commoning is a vigorous force for renewal and hope(freefairandalive.org)
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Generational talk is usually just a way for older people to talk trash about younger people as well as to help them figure out how to sell more stuff to them. That's not the whole story though. The world has changed significantly in
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Why I Work on Ads(jefftk.com)
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
> In Webland, there are four massive cities called Amazonia, Appleville, Facetown, and Googlemore, and one-third – or 2 billion citizens – choose to live inside these cities, but they represent two-thirds of the economic activity of Webl
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Welcome to Webland(blog.nextroll.com)
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No
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It's absolutely transparent then that, without intervention, companies act in ways that are against individual's and society's best interests in order to make more money. With that evident fact, we to face the reality, howeve
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This is also true for basically all "cloud" services. There's no real innovation, just a return to mainframes and timesharing with a massive amount of marketing momentum to convince everyone that this is a step forwards. But
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
If new devices are more likely to break than old ones doesn't that suggest that planned obsolescence has been introduced? Probably not because of a cartel but almost certainly due to plain old greed and a lack of moral integrity.
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There's a difference between fulfilling work and drudgery in every domain. I've worked a few very dehumanizing programming jobs where I didn't have any agency and just worked to someone else's instructions without any ro
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
> Outsource tedious, repetitive and boring work to our workforce in just a couple of clicks. This is exactly how you create an environment that is just asking for regulation and rightly so if you show such disregard for other people. Exp
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This sounds like a fair description of how software engineering and computer science has progressed over the years so maybe it's a fair term ;)
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> The resulting expansion of trade leads to increased productivity, which creates opportunities for further expansion of trade. Economic progress, therefore, is a self‐ perpetuating process. I'd love to hear a right leaning libertar
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
> An API-only method of getting data is elitist. Or, at the very least, exposes privilege. I think this goes for computing as a whole. We on HN are probably in the crowd of people who feel completely in control of our machines and are fu
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The Powell Memo (1971)(reclaimdemocracy.org)
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Using money as a way to evaluate the worth of how you spend your time carries a huge set of biases with it. Should I put a monetary value on playing with my kids so I can justify it against making an extra sales call? As a metaphor an &quot
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by benjaminjosephw 6y ago
Wow, that sucks. Wouldn't a source-to-source compiler into Pascal be a good option in that case? Writing a simple compilers might also be a good learning opportunity for the more experienced. Compilers are a way simpler concept than th
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by benjaminjosephw 6y ago
One implicit idea here is that companies are now also different kinds of things now - they are much smaller and leaner while also making a lot more money - that gives them a very different character to the large, dense and slow moving corpo
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by benjaminjosephw 6y ago
When companies ask their customers and supporters to "help your policymakers better understand" something - is that lobbying? Microsoft/Github have a lot on the line with these policies but not all of the futures that look ba
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by benjaminjosephw 6y ago
> When other countries do not have GDPR equivalent procedures for data protection – which the EU calls adequacy procedures – there is currently no workable mechanism for sharing health data for public sector research. If you can't g
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by benjaminjosephw 6y ago
Isn't the sentiment really about how end-user unfriendly a lot of open source is. It is generously shared but sometimes only within the community that already understands the conventions and has the technical/historic knowledge
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by benjaminjosephw 6y ago
> "the accelerator occupies an ambiguous position within the continent’s startup ecosystem, at once bringing in necessary funding and attention..." One of the biggest problems with startup ecosystems outside of SV is the percep
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by benjaminjosephw 6y ago
> if you truly want a 'low-code/no-code' thing, you're stuck with no-logic no-interaction software I think this used to be the case but the landscape is changing quickly. Deepnote[0], for example, looks like a really
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by benjaminjosephw 6y ago
Any modern social history text that describes social structures should be sufficient. Social power doesn't shift as quickly as we'd like to think it does and so any historical inequalities are bound to have impacts in present day
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by benjaminjosephw 6y ago
Good point. Standing back from any individual's point of view and thinking about the national consciousness for a moment: To be able to remember the British Empire as anything other than a time of prosperity and progress is hard for th
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Einstein's Enigmatic Quote(icarus-falling.blogspot.com)
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Strange Loop Language Panel (2011) [video](youtube.com)
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by benjaminjosephw 6y ago
Great title for a blog about glue programming. Pretending that's what this is instead - is the increase in the amount of glue programing job (i.e. assembling software where most of the work is really done by libraries and frameworks) r
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by benjaminjosephw 6y ago
Are you saying that individuals wielding massive amounts of power in shaping social policy isn't such a terrible thing as long as those people have the "right" political view?

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