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Something I learned by going down the daraflow rabbit hole is that it makes digital computing act like analog computing. That is, if you try to model this type of system to be capable of an if statement and Boolean expressions, you really e
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At this point I'd say build a minigame collection. It's a no-no most of the time because it means "now you have two problems" but if all of them explore the engine, it sets the right tone. I remember seeing the lack of d
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I was taught, like everyone else, that I should grow up to be brilliant, rich, famous, hard-working, caring and empathetic. Someone who can code software in a flash, hustle up a great deal and then send Christmas cards to the relatives. But
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It requires human effort to maintain any emotional memory. If you don't contact your relatives with a card or a call to remind them you exist, you don't enjoy a good relationship with them. And if the government doesn't perio
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Or what about if your comment were mass-downvoted on HN? Would you be happy? The censorship card ultimately falls into a relativistic trap - it's always okay to broadcast hate if it's the speech of you or your friends, because you
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Ether is a "computational currency." You earn it by running computations on your computer. You spend it by purchasing processing power on other people's computers. The computation is software defined, so that customized &quot
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An underlying premise of productivity tracking is that we are able to consume more indefinitely. But in all likelihood there is a logistic curve to human material needs as well. If we did have $30,000 more on average, as the article states,
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I realized this the moment I started interviewing for engineering positions, after doing game design for some time. I decided I would go back to design from whence I came - albeit now I've expanded from game design to include UX. That
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There's definitely a learning curve involved. UX improvements tend to follow an arc from "configure everything, expose everything" towards "a bit too crude for power users, but 99% of use-cases are automated, defaulted,
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The article's style got me into a ranting mood. I don't want "allusion links" that surface vapid text like "new superpowers" or "never ending stream of goodness". You are forcing me to click on them t
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My mom's strategy for the biggest items: lash them to the walls so that they don't topple or walk out of position. This doesn't solve the problems of falling plates, but it does mitigate death-by-cabinet. That said 80% of the
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So then, you would be okay with a military sending in troops with old, underpowered armaments because "it still works."
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Discomfort is not unwelcomeness. What you should be looking for is a situation in which direct concerns of Catholics are getting shouted down - that does happen(in an existence-proof sense), but it's not nearly as common as an internal
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Websites are a great example since the bloat is clearly visible on the developer's end. I decided to try using Foundation last week. The last time I worked on a website I just generated some static HTML markup and filled it in with my
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A glib way of answering this is to look at how much of U.S. GDP went to military spending. It was extremely high during the war and has remained at a higher average level ever since - thus Eisenhower's "military-industrial complex
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I currently approach it from the "cyclical" time-management model. I'll know that things are never finished, but what I can do is finish a sketch of a broad system, or a detailing of a smaller portion, and return to it later.
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Practically speaking, this has happened among SJ activists using social media; see for example the "Block Bot", "call-out culture," et al. What has been observed is that the harassment doesn't "go away", s
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Anything sufficiently challenging and plain-spoken will experience external forces that attempt to dismiss, discredit or co-opt it - starting with one's own self. As well, ideas that are serious and challenging require the reader to ma
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1. Good content, advertised occasionally 2. Heavy moderation 3. Esoteric writing The first two are pretty simple. The third one is theoretical, based on the book I've been reading lately: Arthur Melzer - Philosophy Between the Lines .
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Think of the architecture as a wheel that you're running in like a hamster. You never "finish" architecting, but you know that you make progress when you complete full revolutions of the wheel. In the first half of the wheel,
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A perfect example of bashing.
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The "tech stack != career" is on my mind lately since the "stack" terminology seems to be really in vogue these days. Like, I hadn't even heard of a "full stack engineer" until a few years ago and now it&#
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You're right that it's poor rhetoric. "Oh Woe" flagellation doesn't fit well in self help writing. The ancient way of fitting a potentially offensive statement in is to write it esoterically, so that only the people
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I think I'll take his advice and not buy the book, cause I don't need more stuff(even digital stuff).
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I'm increasingly forgiving of that kind of "primitive" code with giant, heavily nested functions, because the worst that can go _wrong_ with it from a maintenance standpoint is heavy duplication and overreliance on mutable st
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I try to seek out the data structures first. If I need help doing it, I either run a profiler or insert some debug prints to get an idea of what parts of the callstack are "hot" and then progress from that to discovering the data.
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Sounds like "Java Phones." It was being done way before Apple got involved.
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I can say with some confidence, in the twilight of my twenties, that it is inherent nature that has guided my decisions, not the story I tell myself at any given moment. Like my parents and extended family, I fall into intensive training an
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None of these systems fit anyone's personality or situation perfectly(or, if they do, you're the lucky one). All of them are ultimately about getting small stuff right, and so they complement you where they give you ideas for chan
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We've only seen the tip of the iceberg, in my opinion. AAA is in the process of a slow-motion collapse, despite its best efforts, because the nature of retail has changed to favor digital distribution, triggering an erosion of price po

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