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by chipsy 11y ago
I really feel like the web today - the turnover, the frameworks, The Cloud, the burying of old under new - is the automation trend working faster and harder than ever. It all works better for the 80% case than an individual doing it from sc
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by chipsy 11y ago
My mom, and to a lesser extent myself, have some attachment issues to old stuff. It's not quite like "Hoarders" but it's worse than it has to be, with lots of books and boxes and boxes of books, shelves buried behind box
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by chipsy 11y ago
True of an individual company or business unit and its major tech decisions, but businesses ultimately die. Thus we have a world where Cobol coexists with Node.js - companies saddled with old software never pay for a new system until it&#x2
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by chipsy 11y ago
You're reading it too politically. It says right up in the first paragraph: > While LLVM is an excellent optimizer, it isn’t specifically designed for the optimization challenges of dynamic languages like JavaScript. LLVM was, more-
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by chipsy 11y ago
This doesn't change how we debate solutions. We do not have a magic-bullet policy instrument that targets "looters". We have lots of instruments that target easily categorized groups like "rich" or "poor",
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by chipsy 11y ago
I love this statement, it's so true. We self-determine what the internet consists of. If we're unhappy with our addiction, we'll invent a better drug. I see more of the rifts being a surfacing or metastasization of things tha
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by chipsy 11y ago
It speaks to how finite we are around "knowledge." At the moment we reach understanding, we experience a sophomoric feeling of confidence. But as it fades farther and farther from our working memory, we become less fluent and more
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by chipsy 11y ago
Assuming apples-to-apples JIT technology, Pawn would still be faster because it's a barebones coding environment. Its semantics are roughly similar to C, but with even fewer features. The only definite way to outdo that is with somethi
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by chipsy 11y ago
Employees can easily experience tunnel vision even if they were happily dogfooding the product themselves: http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/6/10926816/twitter-employee-e...
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by chipsy 11y ago
This kind of consideration has led me down the road towards XML, because it's the syntax that is powerful enough to model documents that bundle a mix of schemas(including source formats with their own idiosyncratic syntax). It is not a
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by chipsy 11y ago
Basic rules * Never follow accounts with blue checkmarks. * Take the words of very popular accounts (even if they have no checkmark) with a grain of salt. * Use your account to converse or pontificate, not to advertise your personal brand.
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by chipsy 11y ago
I like the "mob programming" concept because it offers a potential win-win here. Not that I've tried it yet... but it doubles down on what works with pairing and acts to diffuse the stress. https://en.m.wikipedia.o
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by chipsy 11y ago
Folding kick scooters are a good compromise for urban commutes. You can take a fall on them if you push hard or take a steep slope, but they generally aren't going to go above 15 mph, so it's more like running everywhere and you c
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by chipsy 11y ago
You'll never get around the source of the problem, which is that it's not the priority of the artist to figure out how to name and organize things. It's the same as bothering developers to "update the wiki". Pick a
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by chipsy 11y ago
A lot of the excitement in a project comes from learning: "can I do it," "what will happen," etc. After a certain point in your life, you grow convinced that you've seen it all before, and that has a way of draining
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by chipsy 11y ago
If I might extrapolate with anecdotes, I know some people who are prone to extensive storytelling about every event. This leads them tremendously astray at times, because to make a better, more truthful story they weave in their hopes, fear
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by chipsy 11y ago
I tried to rediscover this fun with modern languages in the last year and figured out how to do it: Don't use most of your language's features. Write a lengthy main loop. Use a lot of statically-sized arrays. Use plain old data
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by chipsy 11y ago
If you mean to say that society is a construct, well, yes. You learn that in the 101 course. That does not lead to a "this is bullshit" conclusion, unfortunately, because we act on the stories we tell ourselves.
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by chipsy 11y ago
Philosophers of technology. People whose mission is purely to facilitate a conversation about where we really are and what should be done next, and are given the backing and platform to work on and diffuse radical messages within a context
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by chipsy 11y ago
Gold isn't particularly real, as resources go. It doesn't have that many practical uses. That's what makes gold rush economics similar to bubble economics: Everyone decides to chase after a nebulous source of value. San Franc
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by chipsy 11y ago
The crucial aspect is the "crunch per bit" of HFT. We know that an electronic system is mostly an improvement over having pit traders yell at each other all day. What we do not know and cannot prove without experimenting is whethe
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by chipsy 11y ago
Art is at its best when it presents questions. If our games declare random winners, or can be played perfectly to a predictable conclusion, they have stated a definite answer about strategy, and lack room for further investigation, which is
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by chipsy 11y ago
The argument made is a corollary of "openness to experience" indicators for creativity - just, with immigration, once you make the big leap more of the new experiences automatically come to you during ordinary life. If you're
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by chipsy 11y ago
I'd love to see some more details about this work, in a form like the OP's blog. Simulation results hold a big appeal to the HN crowd and I think you'd find a good audience for them.
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by chipsy 11y ago
A non-falsifiable situation is true of almost everything macro-economic, so you're sunk from the beginning. Might as well bow out of arguing that any of this is more than simple faith.
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by chipsy 11y ago
Voxels with a texture index vs. voxels with a color index is not really a big distinction in my eyes. They're both integers. The way in which you resample them, as well, is not invalidating. Otherwise "pixel art" would also b
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by chipsy 11y ago
The environment is good overall, but marketing has become more complex for indies, since it's no longer directed through a platform owner - it has to go to an audience beyond "game players" to make a big impact. This has stym
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by chipsy 11y ago
The advantage isn't really in that resources can be wasted by adding a feature like garbage collection, but that if you are going to have features like that in your programs, building it in at the OS level is a better way to go about i
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by chipsy 11y ago
I find the sturdy feeling is mostly derived from the specific devices in question. My "main" laptop has looser ports than my old netbook; when I connect some brands of flash drive, they tilt a little bit out of the port. But with
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by chipsy 11y ago
I've been taking an interest in mind mapping/concept mapping software lately and some of it crosses over into outlining and task management, for example Vym[0]. For now, though, I am using these tools in a more disposable fashion

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