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Designing Effective Communication(medium.com)
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by dj-wonk 9y ago
First, a question for you: What values would you like your "social decision system" to embody? Second, I advocate for increased awareness because awareness is the first step towards rational thought. Many psychological manipulatio
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In standard / common usage, selling and marketing an umbrella to someone is not "manipulation". Your definition of "manipulate" is not what most people mean in these contexts. Your use of "manipulate" in s
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I am glad to see more people caring about long-term effects of their use of social software. More of us are mindful in how we engage with technology. Now that I've said the positive, let me talk about the negatives. I bet things will g
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Besides CMake, Bazel, and Conan, what build system or related project(s) are worth looking at? Which one(s) would you recommend? (See other threads as well)
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I also like Nix. Can you share your particular workflow? Also, how does your workflow handle ‘snapshot’ / temporary dependencies?
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For what it is worth, every time I hear the phrase "working toward financial independence", it sounds like Newspeak to me. Let's call it what it is: almost everyone wants to make money because satisfying our various needs is
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Re: "This case is the one that proved to me..." I wonder if you are overgeneralizing here. Sure, there are cases of corruption involving the government. Did you intend to say something broader? Proving systemic or structural corru
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This is a notoriously difficult topic to pin down. For people that genuinely want to tease it apart, there are useful ways to do it, such as: http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/six-categor... A bit o
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This reminds me of something I want to share with HN. I've put a lot of thought into how technologists seem to forget to think about how their tools will be adopted and used in a collective sense. They seem to not design their tools
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This reminds me of an essential but overlooked truth examined in this paper: "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened". It builds a simple system dynamics model and shows the long-term effects of working sm
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My read on the quote is the problem comes from the "being stuck" part, not the "problem solving" part. For example, finding a corner case bug in a library you rely on is generally unpleasant. Sure, part of problem solvin
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I remember having these kinds of discussions with coworkers in a previous job where I did Clojure daily. I don't necessarily want to comment on the particular details here. You may agree or disagree with elements of any one particular
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You say "1-5 high schoolers" based on what population? Students you've taught in your school? How many students? What's something comparable you've tried teaching? I tend to think students are capable of learning ma
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by dj-wonk 10y ago
Studying Arrow's work encouraged me to think about the complexities of aggregating preferences. I look forward to reading more of his other work. With economics there is more than meets the eye.
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I would like to get good answers on this question: What are the U.S. Government data retention policies and rules? > As I understand it, the most applicable overarching law is the Federal Records Act. More information can be found on the
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by dj-wonk 10y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. Here's a snippet about it: > This is a comprehensive account of the semantics and the implementation of the whole Lisp family of languages, namely Lisp, Scheme and related dialects. It describes 11 inte
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by dj-wonk 10y ago
I read most of the paper. For the most part, it struck a nice tone as being mostly descriptive and not too promotional. However, the final paragraph in the conclusion section differs: > "For those in other organizations who are advo
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by dj-wonk 10y ago
The results from the "Compiler-Construction" are not good. You'll find better results from a search engine, Q&A site, or bookseller: Here are the top 10: #1 Design Patterns - Ralph Johnson, Erich Gamma, John Vlissid
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> As a whole, Movio hosts a much broader and diverse set of opinions, so the “we” in this post accounts for Movio Cinema’s Red Squad only. Scala remains the primary language for some Squads at Movio.
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Yes, some companies prefer / require / demand self-hosted installations. Some do it for logical, financially responsible reasons too. Numbers-wise (measured on a 'per company' basis), I would tend to disagree with the &#
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I'd highly recommend checking out alternatives. The one that impressed me (for a particular situation) the most recently is Clubhouse. Compare based on your needs. Enterprise needs with established products are not the same as a startu
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The general topics I'm talking about quite interesting: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve * https://en.wikipedi
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I think you would agree that learning is not only about adding more information to your brain. Concepts must be reconciled. For many people, feeling some internal inconsistency (call it cognitive dissonance if you like) is strongly associat
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Your examples are glossed over too quickly. So far, I'm trying to see what you are saying, but I don't get it. In short, I'm open to being convinced, but you aren't making your points convincingly. Want to make a detaile
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I understand that new things can be hard. But valuable skills pay back in more ways than one. Yes, getting comfortable with Rust takes time. I'm still on that journey. However, I am encouraged the simple maxim: "Discomfort is ofte
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To answer my own question, without the Digital Service, I would estimate that: * Existing agencies would struggle to assemble a talented, motivated critical mass of software developers. Why? Attracting these kinds of developers requires cul
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When I hear questions such as "what did person P accomplish with X?" I like to reframe them. To assess the value of intervention X, one may want to compare the actual effect (E1) with some estimates of what would have happened (E2
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Why do you say "balkanization" and what do you mean by it? Why might it be bad? Why might it be good? There are so many factors. For one, I'd rather have someone in government who understands technology. So many parts of gove
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I, for one, would not put limits on the ability of politicians to pander in ways that I would find implausible. But in the case of religion (even Buddhism), I find it plausible. Demographics and expectations about religion are changing. Rel

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