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by dgreensp 9y ago
“I’m going to go to the middle of the room and improvise some poetry, just say whatever I’m moved to say in the moment, maybe riff on some motifs I’ve adopted or invented on previous such occasions. Want to stand next to me and do that too
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Exactly. Someone who doesn’t see the value in a GC-less language is not going to see the value here. I personally think “functional persistent” data structures, as a language default, trade a lot of runtime performance in order to achieve
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by dgreensp 9y ago
From what I understand, Tesla is working its way towards this. And there are already lots of sophisticated robots used in car assembly.
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I actually think it owes to the fact that it was never reasonable for any worker to work “overhead” all day, unassisted; the human body can’t take it. Working with your arms outstretched in front of you, Minority-Report-style, has been dete
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I used both Flow and TypeScript extensively at my last job (coda.io), and through a series of thoughtful discussions and debates, we chose to migrate to TypeScript, even though we had already started using Flow in parts of our codebase. Mic
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Exactly. It doesn’t make sense to talk about this topic without reading and understanding that spec first. The “px” unit has already been virtualized. It’s already based on visual angle (or the idea of visual angle), and notably not
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I would write “aritied.” The article also uses the word “simpliest,” and there are a few other language oddities.
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Crystal looks like a cool language, but I think it only runs on the server. So after saying Elm is front-end-only, the “holy grail” is back-end-only? It’s not obvious which is preferable.
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Agreed, this seems like a very realistic possibility. I can see it now, researchers claiming that computers are actually now 1% better at warfare than humans, on the standard corpus of example scenarios. And then someone decides it would b
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by dgreensp 9y ago
It would take a lot for a computer to write a beautiful novel, say. But not to appreciate and create beauty in other ways. And I really think computers could write some excellent jokes along the way to becoming more human. Pretty much an
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Also, what does it mean for intelligent computers to “leave us in the dust,” when we are “like fleas to them”? 1. They are so much more intelligent than us as to render us insignificant — because we all know that intelligence is what makes
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by dgreensp 9y ago
“Embodiment” is most important for 2, and to fool humans into thinking you are a real human (as in the Turing test), able to talk about the human experience and relate to other humans. Animals (including humans) are born with a version of 3
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I think it’s really important to distinguish 1. pure problem-solving (chess, go) from 2. competency of behavior in the world (vision, navigating a maze), from 3. universal cognitive-emotional life (getting frustrated trying to accomplish a
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Makes sense. There is a route you can go that doesn’t use contenteditable, except as a small box at the cursor position to handle IME; it’s what Google Docs does. At my most recent job (stealth start-up) we built an editor like this, paint
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by dgreensp 9y ago
It still uses contenteditable, though, like Quill and ProseMirror, which also use a custom data model and ops. It sounds like CKEditor has caught up to have this kind of architecture too. Not to trivialize this accomplishment. All three
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Can you comment on what you figured out? Was it about making functional/persistent data structures performant enough, or something else?
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by dgreensp 9y ago
At one level, “idea person” is a misunderstanding of the founder’s role; founders must execute, all day long. It’s not just the programmmers who “implement,” either. At another level, I’ll admit that most founders I’ve worked for have exce
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Yes, I agreed with the entire article as well. I didn't see anything controversial or exaggerated about it. Edit: Ok, maybe I could have predicted that lines like "HTML 5 is a plague on our industry" would ruffle some feathe
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by dgreensp 9y ago
These approaches assume you have access to the trained neural network weights, i.e. that it's a "white box".
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by dgreensp 9y ago
The arguments don't pertain directly to writing CSS in JS, in my mind. Writing CSS in JS doesn't force you to couple your styles to your components, or reuse code or not reuse code, or be consistent or inconsistent with your styl
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I have a (color) Laser Jet Pro at home. It jams fairly often, and if I don't turn it off it'll wake me in the middle of the night loudly "calibrating." Other than that, it's been quite a good workhorse for several
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Indeed! I didn't know Plan 9 was behind UTF-8. :) We've come a long, long way since the 90s and even the 00s. It's shocking and gratifying how well emojis work online. A great motivator for Unicode support, too. :)
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Exactly; a string is not conceptually a "series of bytes" -- yes, there are languages that have a series-of-bytes type called "string" for historical reasons, but that's irrelevant to how to think of the string type
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by dgreensp 9y ago
There are plenty of countries whose power is 100% or close to it "made without CO2", usually with help from hydroelectric (e.g. Norway). Solar panels are becoming cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. The situation is closer to free
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by dgreensp 9y ago
The space sail idea is already designed for a scenario in which global warming becomes an even clearer and more urgent existential threat, causing countries to get together and devote a trillion dollars and a team of scientists to a radical
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by dgreensp 9y ago
It's not that file-watching APIs (and libraries that abstract over them and try to clean them up) don't exist, it's that they are complex and unreliable, with weak semantics. Typically an "event" is basically a not
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by dgreensp 9y ago
I love it, especially using structured data instead of text for the CLI and pipes, and replacing the file system with a database. Just to rant on file systems for a sec, I learned from working on the Meteor build tool that they are slow, fl
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by dgreensp 9y ago
Actually, stoners are probably consuming a lot of processed food. Hmmm....
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Just because consuming something regularly for 12 years raises your blood pressure doesn't mean it's a danger to the public that needs to be illegal. You might as well criminalize junk food. In a context of overblown fear and st
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by dgreensp 9y ago
We’ve found that people from big companies with a slower work pace and unclear project owners often find it difficult to adjust to a culture that expects them to personally drive their own deliverables. This doesn't sound very compas

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