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by buzzybee 10y ago
To loosely paraphrase Marx, capitalism tends to destroy itself while self-perpetuating. SV did, and still does, perform a certain benefit in making goods and services flow. It's also a very attractive power center for our generation. T
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The phrase I use is "balance of cares". You can care a whole lot about a single part of the job. But to do a good job overall you have to care about a broad swath of concerns, else one of those unaddressed concerns will turn into
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by buzzybee 10y ago
To improve in any field, you basically have three options to choose from: Reference existing work and instruction, philosophize about ways to intentionally design a new concept, or iterate within your existing processes often towards a spec
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I've definitely gotten the sense that Prolog would make a great library or extension to another, more traditionally-paradigmed language. In the same way that LINQ has received a lot of praise as an extension to C#.
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You can jump off the train and do bad UI at any moment. But UI always, always, gets hard when you start caring. That's not a measure of whether UI is harder than CV, it's a low-pass filter on what the market will value. Most of th
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It's really, really hard to change an old organization to follow a different business model without effectively firing everyone, selling everything off, and starting over. There's inertia in the various forms of personnel specialt
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The guarantee it's making is that it's not going to manipulate program state that is outside the scope of "db". That is a pretty big deal for a systems developer since, as I discovered while working with D, many standard
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The paper's intent is to articulate a particular ideological element within the current mainstream(finance being equated to the real economy), identify its appearance, and set the stage for a counter ideology that pushes finance away f
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by buzzybee 10y ago
From TFA: In their article, “Too Much Finance?” Jean-Louis Arcand, Enrico Berkes, and Ugo Panizza (2011) argue that expectation of bailouts may lead a financial sector to expand in size beyond the social optimum. They use a variety of empi
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What the last reports I've read indicated was that identity trumped objectification, i.e. what engages players for the long haul is not a random boobshot, but a character that represents them in the way they want to be represented. For
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I think a lot of the favoring of staff notation comes down to what the instrument does well. A majority of acoustic instruments are monophonic(voice, wind, brass, many strings) and have some form of linearity in pitch, and the staff accommo
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by buzzybee 10y ago
eevee seems to be a relatively popular writer, however I became less enamored with the persona as I realized that a lot of the work on display is shoot-from-the-hip hot takes, a smattering of summarized research minus the essential componen
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Music theory can't explain why a piece is designed in some way; it explains what patterns can be found within an existing piece. Designing any aesthetic is primarily about how patterns are prioritized, associated to other parts of cult
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I've known and have paid attention to Red for a while. I don't know my opening to get into it as a user, though, so I'm still very "wait and see." The progress looks good, though.
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I was younger and I thought that the right abstraction - and more specifically, the right language feature - would surely lead me to higher productivity. By invoking a certain keyword my code would magically be better in some way. Howev
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The focus of a lot of engine dev is shifting away from AAA. For the AAA model, everything was about heavily optimizing the runtime performance of mostly-static scenes towards large teams delivering complex assets. The engineering team has s
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I think the criticism is real, but also that we market the pre-stage 4 technologies inappropriately by implementing them as binary "completely hands off, else emergency" systems. Integrated in a way that is more assisted, keeping
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by buzzybee 10y ago
A paraphrased quote I faintly remember from one of the original creators of Rogue(which, of course, passed through a number of different hands before it became the game we know today): "It's easy to make a new kind of game, it&#x2
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Web programming has never been wholly controlled by a platform owner. I think that's the main difference from any traditional environment that might come to mind; Unix has its traditions, so do Windows and Mac. This is even the case fo
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It's a really good idea to invest in headphones that have a detachable cable, if you are rough with them at all(basically any travel or commute situation). Then the point of failure becomes the internal connection, which mostly rests o
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by buzzybee 10y ago
I don't think hobbies are all that amazing. They appeal to a time when work stayed at work, and, implicitly, most work was dreadfully boring and you needed something, anything, to escape. Most of these pursuits didn't feed back in
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Most (naive) VMs are defined as Forth-like stack machines as it's hard to reckon ways to map high-level instructions to load/store register semantics, but much easier to think in terms of stack push/pop. In that sense, Forth
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Police are there for crowd control first, public image second. Sometimes they can do good work, but that really isn't how they've been set up. At least, that's what the histories I've read say.
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I've had a conversation like this before and it's full of nuance. The typical action of startups is to disrupt something about the current marketplace. That threatens some older entrenched interests, but supports the investors. So
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There's a cautionary aspect to this in that simply adding parameters and making configuration data(e.g. much of the Java XML ecosystem) is not enough to squash out "coding". It takes some carefully thought abstraction to make
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I now see it as more crucial that this author succeeded in designing a workflow, than that the result is the best one possible. In media, you're always challenged - implicitly - to discover a good workflow for doing something, to craft
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by buzzybee 10y ago
It's not wrong to notice how unfair it all is. I've seen several sides of it. But in terms of "what do I do about it," self-flagellation is probably not correct. My answer has become: Attempt to set some business idea of
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After climbing for a while, I went down the ladder from whence I started and try to use fewer features to do more. My code aims for reusability by cut and paste as the first step - not as the end point, but as an important validation of whe
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by buzzybee 10y ago
Governance and land use decisions definitely play a big role in how the Bay Area has become messy. The Bay Area doesn't have a regional transit authority empowered with the final word on routes and infrastructure, it has at least one a
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Even if every bureaucrat and official says, "my group is a snowflake and needs a bespoke system", opportunities will arise to change a project from completely out of scope to "possible if we leverage this open system". T

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