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by braythwayt 6y ago
Back in my day, Reddit was just one thing, they hadn’t developed subreddits yet. Reddit was a better Digg, just as Digg was a better Slashdot. Like Digg before it, there was an “Eternal September,” and one of the consequences was that Paul
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Are you an epidemiologist? Physician specializing in blood and/or respiratory diseases? Failing that, have you scoured the available literature with a completely open mind, and can summarize the arguments ranging from taking this incre
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^ ^ ^
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1. I love the “fast pencil” analogy, especially as I have used it for maybe forty years(!) in various consulting, sales, and software design roles. 2. That being said, there is a thing we used to call The “maturity model.” The customer usin
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by braythwayt 6y ago
> Tiktok is clearly a data vacuum masquerading as a social media platform For any value of "TikTok," including Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, iMessage, gmail, &c.
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by braythwayt 6y ago
There was a "Byte Store" on Queen West in Toronto in the early days of personal computers. There were--cough--a number of teenagers hanging around like groupies. One of them--cough--may even have installed their heavily customized
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Let’s compare this to a mall. If 50% of the stores sell confederate merchandise, Nazi memorabilia, MAGA hats, and souvenir photographs of Black people getting lynched and/or Jews being gassed, can we ask Blacks people, Jews, and genera
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I make a similar argument when I say that “CoffeeScript was merged to main.” Yes, JavaScript 2015 won... By adopting all of the ideas that CoffeeScript made mainstream for front-end web development. I realize this is a philosophical distinc
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by braythwayt 6y ago
It makes no sense to you , but for years , users on certain subreddits were exposed to users and their views from other subreddits thanks to brigading. Likewise, Reddit and Facebook both have to deal with being judged by all the forums th
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by braythwayt 6y ago
You are not wrong, but don't forget Sturgeon's Revelation: "90% of everything is CRUD." What makes something valuable is the 10% of the thing that is not CRUD, and whatever measures put into place to make sure that the 9
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Every time we have a conversation about why Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit shouldn't be allowed to"censor" content, I ask what would become of Hacker News if it was not permitted to moderate spam or threads that do not follow
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I agree that when they make a mistake in the form of applying the rules inequitably, get called out, and fix it, that's a mistake. But I claim that when they make a mistake in the form of applying the rules inequitably, get called out,
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by braythwayt 6y ago
There is literally no evidence at all that developers are spinning the wheel of fortune or that Apple is capricious or unjust. Okay then. That settles the matter. It's a mass delusion!
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by braythwayt 6y ago
TFA says, "A win for Apple, a win for us, and a win for our customers." Basecamp appears be saying that the new implementation offers a better user experience.
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Lots of people want the walled garden abolished, but it would be HUGE if Apple simply created a set of guidelines—no matter how draconian—and then applied them equally and transparently to everyone, big or small. If the guidelines are trans
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Apple, Hey, and the Path Forward(hey.com)
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Lawd, the number of times people write an extensive essay detailing how a particular tool didn’t fit their culture, processes, and circumstances, then explain why it’s either irredeemably broken or conversely, that failing to adopt the tool
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by braythwayt 6y ago
Previous discussions around John Conway's FRACTRAN esoteric programming language: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23142232 and: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202367
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Building Fizzbuzz in Fractran from the Bottom Up(malisper.me)
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I believe security isn’t an either/or, there are a number of countermeasures, and they all serve a purpose. For example, sandboxing is the exact thing you’re speaking of: anti-malware built into iOS. But another thing is reviewing apps
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by braythwayt 6y ago
There's another thing about your comment. I suggest you reflect on this: If you believe that someone who solves fizzbuzz in an idiosyncratic way would also do everything at work in an idiosyncratic way, you are essentially supporting t
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by braythwayt 6y ago
The pleasure of solving eccentric problems is, of course, a completely separate thing from the question of, "What is the efficacy of asking job candidates to solve well-known programming puzzles?" When nobody had heard of fizzbuzz
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by braythwayt 6y ago
But when the App Store is the only place apps can be published for iOS, and more than half of worldwide mobile app revenue is made there, there's no competition. With respect, this feels like a goose-with-the-golden-eggs scenario. If
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We don't need to debate the tradeoffs, but we should acknowledge that there are tradeoffs. If a side-channel is available to all users, developers will spring into action making games, porn, and discount coupon apps that can only be in
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by braythwayt 6y ago
FWIW, I prefer the "grit" solutions. No modulo, no faking/implementing modulo. Why? Because the original child's game isn't about "If a number is divisible by X," it's about "Every Xth number.&qu
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FizzBuzz, minus the modulo operator, plus grit(globalnerdy.com)
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Any time you can spend a half a trillion dollars without accountability, you have a massive incentive to spend all of your time either trying to obtain that power, or trying to defend it.
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by braythwayt 6y ago
In other words, “science.” Science is the study of falsifiable theory. Things that cannot be falsified lie outside of science.
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by braythwayt 6y ago
I’m not a statistician, but I know my internet memes, and the one that comes to mind is, “n=1.” Especially considering that there are a LOT of factors driving why one of many articles describing the same thing would get upvoted. Choice of h
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by braythwayt 6y ago
A couple of other comments mentioned the filaments, but the article says nothing about clear bulbs. They are very much in fashion these days, but most incandescent bulbs are frosted, so it seems to me that if you want to use a laser on the

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