benrbray

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by benrbray 6y ago
To me, the most infuriating trend in web design is adding a crazy amount of padding to everything and increasing the font size! The old TS website packed a ton of information into a single screen, but it seems like I need to scroll quite a
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by benrbray 6y ago
This is the first I'm hearing of lit-html, but it looks great! Is it still an active project? I'd be curious to hear your thoughts about lit-html in comparison to newer tools like svelte, solidjs, etc., which, like lit-html, aba
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by benrbray 6y ago
There's also SolidJS which is a promising alternative to Svelte! [1] https://github.com/ryansolid/solid [2] https://indepth.dev/exploring-the-state-of-reactivity-patter...
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by benrbray 6y ago
For what it's worth, I find that Wikipedia is a great place to learn about more advanced topics in abstract algebra / analysis / category theory. For example, the representation theory [1] page gives some pretty good context
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by benrbray 6y ago
I actually suggest finding a book about a topic that actually makes use of linear algebra , since the intro chapters will actually explain the core concepts in a way that is actually useful. For me, linear algebra didn't click until I
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by benrbray 6y ago
If this is naive, then please change my view, since I know nothing about web marketing! My opinion: > The best SEO is to do honest work for a fair price, so that others talk about you and link to your stuff.
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by benrbray 6y ago
Fair enough! I didn't look closely at this icon set, and definitely agree that we should strive for high-clarity icons if they're the only signal about what a button does.
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by benrbray 6y ago
> Very little of people's code needs Turing completeness The Wikipedia page on Total Functional Programming [1] has a nice (even if contrived) example of this with Quicksort. I feel like my undergrad complexity class did me a disse
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by benrbray 6y ago
The symbols are pretty standardized these days. I am always perplexed on the rare occasion I encounter a physical radio, but I wouldn't ask them to waste space by adding text to the buttons! On the web, hover text is probably good en
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by benrbray 6y ago
In my experience, I think the biggest problem is that due to structural and historical racism, race is correlated with economic status in the United States. It sucks to be poor, no matter what color you are. If you're not surrounded b
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by benrbray 6y ago
I think the point is that a cheaper subscription model would bring in a lot of new subscribers that were previously paying nothing . There's a quote that goes along the lines of "those who don't read the news are uninformed;
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by benrbray 6y ago
1.65 is not the average ratio, it's the smallest ratio among the group of countries under consideration. So, it's intentionally misleading. Regardless, even if the average WERE 1.65, that's still a damning enough number that
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by benrbray 6y ago
> Nonetheless I don't think English can function as an universal language because it is specialized in some regards. It is better for thinking about and capturing some things and ideas, but not for everything. Other languages, it se
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by benrbray 6y ago
I'm almost the complete opposite. I find that most people with a following don't understand at all what their audience finds compelling about their work. A book or an audiobook represents months or years of intentional thought pu
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by benrbray 6y ago
I think that depends on a lot of factors, and I wouldn't want to judge one way or the other. Perhaps a kid who spends several years in chess clubs and really enjoys it is better off academically+socially than a kid forced by their pare
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by benrbray 6y ago
> Why is it so hard to accept that domain transfer does not exist. I think, because, that's simply not true. The question is really "to what extent does domain transfer exist, and how can we exploit it?" > If kids lear
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by benrbray 6y ago
The CommonMark standard [1] is an attempt to solve this problem, although I don't necessarily agree with all their syntax choies. For instance, I find the redundancy built in to Markdown to be a misfeature--most Markdown editors don&#x
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by benrbray 6y ago
Any suggestions for dealing with this problem? https://newsandrumors.com/?q=haskell Most of the results seem to be about horse racing rather than functional programming!
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by benrbray 6y ago
> Type annotation takes away from readability. Do you mean for Ruby specifically or in general? I've found that it's much easier to (safely, accurately) read, use, and extend e.g. a TypeScript file than its JavaScript counterp
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by benrbray 6y ago
Exactly! Unfortunately as a small child it was out of my hands :(
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by benrbray 6y ago
I had a similar experience learning the piano when I was a kid. Understandably, my parents started me out with a cheap $100 electric keyboard, which was good enough for the first year or so of practice. As I improved, though, it became a
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by benrbray 6y ago
I'm someone who the travel restrictions have caused actual problems for. In March I accepted an offer for my first full-time job out of school at a company in Tokyo. I was scheduled to move in May, but the travel ban put a halt on my
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by benrbray 6y ago
I lived+worked in Tokyo for 5 months. Compared to my experiences living in Seattle, Detroit, and Atlanta as well as visiting places like Chicago and San Francisco, * To me, Tokyo feels like it was designed for people, not cars. It's
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by benrbray 6y ago
No need to wait -- a short stay in Tokyo was enough to convince me that daily life can be much better right now if I leave the United States. I was scheduled to move permanently to Japan in May, but unfortunately the travel ban delayed m
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by benrbray 6y ago
> Fretty: An interactive fretboard exploration tool for all stringed instruments. Except for the stringiest instrument of all: the piano. :)
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by benrbray 6y ago
No one is forcing you to use it. Besides, if read the project description, you'll see that Dendron brings a number of features to the table that I haven't seen in other editors. The most interesting to me is document schema, whic
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by benrbray 6y ago
The folks over at Athens Research [1] (open-source Roam alternative) have made an exhaustive comparison [2] of current notetaking apps with bidirectional link support. [1] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens [2]
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by benrbray 6y ago
Is creating your own pseudo-selectors really possible? I like to think I'm pretty up to date on modern CSS but I've never heard of this.
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by benrbray 6y ago
I wish operating systems managed files in a similar way. Ideally filesystems would be tag-based [1] rather than hierarchy-based. This would make hyperlinks between my own personal documents much easier and time-resistant as my preferences
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by benrbray 6y ago
There aren't really any mathematical prerequisites, except for a basic understanding of writing proofs. Most of topology is about defining a set of axioms (specifically, a topology is a set X together with a collection T of subsets su

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