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by chefandy 3y ago
There’s a disclaimer at the bottom of the article that says they publish articles from a variety of sources, and that the viewpoints expressed aren’t necessarily their own, etc. Considering that it does seem to have an angle, the byline say
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> It's a lot of money, but spread out over let's say 10 years it isn't crazy. Friend, that would would be a bit over 1.3 million dollars per minute for ten years straight. I imagine anyone who came up with a number like th
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Honestly, given the current tech business culture, I'd be surprised if this was the peak for this quarter.
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"Sam Alman Wants $7T (astralcodexten.com)" Maybe I'm missing some play on words, but that should be Altman, no?
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Ok: I'll chalk this set of nitpicks and amorphous opposition up to "nuh-uh".
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I thought the movie was cheesy cute-- a friend always said it was a movie about rollerblading in Manhattan with strong computer themes. It is telling that the soundtrack had two sequels and the movie had none.
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The big 2600 conferences of the era were absolutely electric.
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For me, Orbital, Underworld, and a few other acts from that scene were such a compelling background to the new tech aesthetic emerging in the 90s.
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I reckon simple solutions are often simple because they ignore important complexities. I'd love to abolish patents, but I don't see how our society could before figuring out stuff like how else to support the people that do import
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Cool program but when visiting your site, people need to 'land' on a sexy screenshot, clear illustration, or animation that shows the functionality explicitly before literally anything else. An image that screams "this is an
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by chefandy 3y ago
Yeah. I totally get why people conceptually hate the idea of paying taxes, even if my values lead me to a very different conclusion. That said, most of the arguments I've encountered about places with higher taxes being worse places to
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I just watched a solid mid-90s documentary about African art on YouTube. It focused on the colonial Europeans and subsequent anthropologists wild misinterpretation of beautiful African objects, and how that was used to justify the oppressio
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They're not asking for a timeline-- they want to know what you consider the seminal experiences in your life that make you the way you are.
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Tufte can back up what he says with reason and examples, rather than repeatedly making the same assertion. Just saying "well Tufte says so" is a pretty blatant appeal to authority.
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> To be clear, I'm specifically talking about pie-charts and not all charts. There are plenty of cases where a chart conveys information appropriate to the task. Ok, let's start with the most obvious. How about a chart showing
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See my response to your comment above. You're ignoring the reason data visualizations exist in the first place.
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Charts are useful for quickly conveying relationships within data, not for presenting data as raw information. They're useful specifically because they're not extremely information dense. If you're making video media, an ar
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Even then, it's pretty ridiculous to say that this is a valid argument against using pie charts. It's a valid argument against using them when you've got multiple similarly sized slices, or some other thing that would make th
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You swiftly trounced the “these are flawless systems” assertion that I didn’t make.
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Design studios also tend to be a lot smaller and their reputation is more transparent than tech companies. If I was applying for a job to be a designer at IBM, I'd be more wary, but you're also much less likely to be doing the rea
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I agree the article wasn’t trying to do that, and I also didn’t think it was good. It read like an arrogant philosopher trying to be edgy at the apex of a coke binge. I was only really commenting on the blustery, arrogant yet often uninform
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As a former library developer, I've written all sorts of little bits like that for all sorts of archives and databases and publicly supported open access. If that's really all they've got, it's pretty light. I imagine th
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I'm not actually cynical about art. My life is art: I went to art school and am a professional commercial artist. I'm cynical about the way people in the tech crowd use the word, now: glib, hamfisted philosophical snippets to rede
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That probably makes perfect sense for you, and reflects most technical people's perspective, but it depends on the job. When I've interviewed developers and other technical people when I was in that business, I wanted to gauge if
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Art(n.): An overloaded catch-all term for various creative things which people can nearly define however they want in any given context to lend unearned credence to their glib and/or self-interested philosophical stances.
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Order vs disorder is a false dichotomy. The vast majority of situations fall somewhere in between "math problem with a proof" and "random assortment of unrelated events." The processes required to make progress at one en
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Ambiguity and uncertainty are anathema to approaching problems from the classic engineering mindset. That's not a bad thing when used properly, and it's great in school where people hand you a stream of problems designed to be int
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Conversely, some in the engineering mindset have a pathological need to nail down ambiguous things to a definition because it fits their style of reasoning. Nobody thinks it's easier to work with poorly-defined things-- even with a wel
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Neat, I'll look into that.
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I've been feeling particularly alienated by the algorithm sludge recently. I just don't feel comfortable being a part of this big automated closed knowledge/influence loop but it's pretty hard to avoid.

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