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by bxjx 4y ago
Fond memories! My first job out of uni was building interfaces for embedded devices using XUL/javsacript/xpcom/c++. The technologies were fun to develop in at the time and it felt special to be somewhat of a part of such a bi
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by bxjx 4y ago
I too was going to mention Robodebt. In addition to wasting money, it caused all sorts of trauma to already vulnerable people - sadly in some cases leading to suicide ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme#Alleg
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by bxjx 4y ago
I think my biggest recommendation is David Graeber. Perhaps something like Towards an Anarchist Anthropology. In a similar way to Kropotkin, Graeber challenges a lot of narratives that form the basis of capitialism e.g. that all we did was
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by bxjx 4y ago
haha great! You are correct - this is where i pulled the term from! Such a great book.
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by bxjx 4y ago
Can totally relate! The Dispossessed was another seminal book for me.
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by bxjx 4y ago
"Conquest of Bread" had a huge impact on my politics. It cut through the capitalist realist narrative that we're all in economic competition and that capitalism is the only sane solution. It made me feel like another world is
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by bxjx 4y ago
Satisfying static types AND 100% code cov is a significant burden. If you're intrigued by this approach, or perhaps by a similar approach with typescript, I highly recommend checking out a strictly strong typed language at some point.
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by bxjx 5y ago
Great comment! This brought back so many similar memories - spending hours configuring Enlightenment and tweaking my desktop with transparency and flames (I hope Rasterman is still out there coding somewhere), everything2, audioscrobbler an
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by bxjx 5y ago
I had been thinking about building a reverb in max. Thanks for sharing! Also Valhalla's supermassive is one of my favorite reverbs.
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by bxjx 5y ago
This is a fantastic post and I really appreciate your rationale (having faced similar struggles). A limited but simplified set of Haskell libraries that offers similar ergonomic benefits to Elm is very appealing! It would be great if this b
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Ask HN: Posted article on a startup that discouraged long hours?
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by bxjx 7y ago
Some of the wildest sci fi I've ever read. So many mind stretching concepts are explored while still remaining a great story.