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by dgreensp 5y ago
I try to be less judgmental and reactive than the norm about evaluating others’ actions, too, but I question whether the logic you are using to distance them from wrongdoing is really sound or necessary. If they did a bunch of unethical stu
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by dgreensp 5y ago
When I write (including right now in this comment), I am choosing words in a way that will hopefully be pleasant and easy to understand to a large audience. I think design is like that. I would not use a sentence structure that is distast
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by dgreensp 5y ago
Wikipedia is Rolling in Wealth. Then Why Does It Keep Asking Us For Donations? https://medium.com/illumination/wikipedia-is-rolling-in-weal...
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by dgreensp 5y ago
I think the one-sentence version of this is that Workers are meant for small, undemanding tasks (for example, they have tight memory limits and don’t have great performance), so using them to do “serious number crunching” at the edge, which
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by dgreensp 5y ago
It's not a given that "thoughts" are representable, let alone in one particular way. I think if you came up with a particular "meaning representation" data structure and defined "understanding" a sentence
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by dgreensp 5y ago
Having been a dev on EtherPad, Google Wave, Coda, and other real-time collaborative apps with OT, undo, and so on... I think it's correct that, ideally, there would be a framework that handles real-time collaboration, undo/redo, a
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by dgreensp 5y ago
I used Parcel 1 for several months on personal projects before getting frustrated and switching back to Webpack. Having spent all those hours getting Parcel to work for me and troubleshooting it, and ultimately failing to adopt it, I'
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by dgreensp 5y ago
This sorely needs a page describing its features and overall design. I spent maybe 10 minutes reading documentation and gave up. Reading between the lines, it’s statically-typed, compiles to assembly, and I haven’t seen a type annotation y
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by dgreensp 5y ago
Making the names part of the type solves this, like structural object types in TypeScript. I’ve come to the conclusion myself that, with the right language syntax supporting it, positional arguments and tuples should be limited to two, may
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by dgreensp 6y ago
I guess you still need that try-catch for back compat, though? Also note the bulk of the article is about edge cases that are unlikely to occur in practice. It helped me understand what they were talking about when I realized this. You ar
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by dgreensp 6y ago
Jeff’s 2009 argument against HN is a theoretical one, and IMO wrong. He points at a system that works well (HN), and says it “gets it wrong,” for made-up and unproven reasons. Paul’s point about not being Reddit, I think, is you need good
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by dgreensp 6y ago
I tried out Dendron a few months ago for personal note-taking, technical docs, and organizing tasks. I was excited at first, but overall the cons outweighed the pros for me. Pros/exciting things: 1) There's a simplicity in using
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by dgreensp 6y ago
I’m not the parent commenter, but, the same thing comes up with friends and housemates. Even married couples who are otherwise “traditional” sometimes keep their finances separate. You each pay rent. If you go on a trip together or buy s
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by dgreensp 6y ago
There are many forms of consensual non-monogamy, including polyamory and others. I don’t know exactly how common, but I’ve heard 5%.
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by dgreensp 6y ago
There's no browser component. Qt ( https://www.qt.io/ ) is the granddaddy of native cross-platform GUI.
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by dgreensp 6y ago
It's way more interesting to look at the nuance and downsides of how Bitcoin works than to merely marvel, awe-struck at the concept of a distributed ledger. It's been a few years since I was reading in-depth about Bitcoin, and I d
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by dgreensp 6y ago
This is Facebook’s narrative, but if Facebook makes a bit less money, how exactly does that “shift everyone to a paid App model”? Facebook’s annual net profit is an 11-digit number. Apple’s move is bad for Facebook’s stock price and good
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by dgreensp 6y ago
This was new to me. Very interesting and useful, thanks!
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by dgreensp 6y ago
Maybe someone can create technology that explains why some people's tweets, along with essays like this, are tone-deaf -- like Explain-Why-This-is-Tone-Deaf-as-a-Service. The work can initially be done by a combination of software and
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by dgreensp 6y ago
I haven't tried much forcing in earnest, but I've talked to voices in my head that didn't feel like part of me, and I've lurked in r/Tuples for years. It seems pretty common to have "parallel" consciousne
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by dgreensp 6y ago
There’s no “right to tweet.” I feel like this line of thinking takes social media way too seriously. There’s nothing legally or ethically wrong with having something like Twitter that is more of a neutral communication channel. I’m sure i
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by dgreensp 6y ago
There are limits to what kinds of meetings will be allowed to be held in a town square, or a McDonald’s franchise, say, to pick some random giant company that provides a space to socialize. Facebook and Twitter are like giant newspaper comp
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by dgreensp 6y ago
The way to go about a collaboration depends on the reason for the collaboration, and why it's a better idea than not collaborating. I don't think there's a general answer to how you "make" people collaborate. The q
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by dgreensp 6y ago
The first section had me screaming, YES, YES, YES... Now I don't have to write this very article about the difference between actually trusting and empowering your engineers and giving them little tasks to do. A lot of the rest applies
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by dgreensp 6y ago
As others have pointed out, "people" probably don't really value these "wants" that much, relative to more practical matters. I'm not sure how you could show that they do. That's not to say I don't
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by dgreensp 6y ago
If they added TypeScript support and made it about literate programming for code modules, I would use the heck out of it.
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by dgreensp 6y ago
Setting aside the fact that this one comic probably did not have some giant causative effect on Internet culture — it just encapsulated the zeitgeist of a moment, as comics often do — the author is going to have to get more way specific to
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by dgreensp 6y ago
Yup, this is the psychology I’ve seen at work, and it’s weird because my own psychology is the opposite. When I’m coding by myself or on a team with code ownership, I naturally seek 100% understanding of the code I’m working on and worry a
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by dgreensp 6y ago
I agree. Your point that "assumptions hang in thin air" removes the need for the universe to supply us with axioms, including moral axioms, which is an idea the author leans on heavily. We have many thoughts and ideas about life.
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by dgreensp 6y ago
If you are in an abusive marriage or one that permanently prevents happiness for you, get out. If you have kids, that goes double, not least because you don’t want to be an example to your kids of how to lead a resigned or down-trodden exi

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