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by gambler 8y ago
It won't. But it will limit effects of bad actors, give users a bit more control over their environment and probably stop some emergent behaviors.
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by gambler 8y ago
Thank you! I've actually started learning Squeak/Smalltalk recently, and the possibility of using actor model is a great additional motivator, since I'm interested in agent-oriented programming.
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by gambler 8y ago
What if things really are subpar and you simply don't have the frame of reference to see it?
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by gambler 8y ago
Seconded. Took me about 5 long videos and some Google searches to get into his frame of reference, but it was well worth it. The amount of useful ideas I got out of his talks is absolutely astounding. He really changed the way I think about
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by gambler 8y ago
Thank you for compiling this! All of the ideas in the text are incredibly powerful and important, but they are buried under megabytes of OOP trivia centering around C++ and Java. I think at some point I will try to write an article "tr
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by gambler 8y ago
Most of the benefits you ascribe to Twitter aren't exclusive, are far more likely to take place on other media and are, in fact, slowly being eroded by the global and noisy nature of Twitter/Facebook. On the other hand, Twitter cr
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by gambler 8y ago
>I think Twitter's move to 280 characters led to a massive improvement in overall quality 280 is a far more reasonable limit than 140, but it's too little, to late. The Twitter "mindset" has already settled and it&#
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by gambler 8y ago
>I’ve always found forums to be really helpful when searching for a topic but these days when compared to a voting system, forums feel dead or slow to update. Voting systems create a lot of bad incentives. They encourage groupthink and
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by gambler 8y ago
Pretty much. Their design isn't just bad, it's perfectly bad. No content structure. No context. No sense of "discussion spaces". No way to post longer, more nuanced messages. Encourages garbage in messages. (Tags, emoj
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by gambler 8y ago
>Are there still some places left on Internet for high-quality discussions? Web forums. There are good ones. They are independent of one another. Most forums I visit are centered around some subject, so people are bonded enough to be r
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by gambler 8y ago
>We didn't reach the full potential of neural networks We didn't reach the full potential of random forests or rule-based systems either. That's the problem with AI "seasons" and hype. Research being driven by
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by gambler 8y ago
Not sure what this has to do with modeling. On the other hand, this could be useful for generating NPC/character portraits in RPGs.Fat chance this will ever happen, though. No one wants to deal with Python mess of libraries and no one
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by gambler 8y ago
>What Latour and others are discussing is not the idea that there isn't an external reality, but that what we know about reality is inevitably filtered by our perception, which includes our social, economic and institutional contex
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by gambler 8y ago
Any thoughts on OMeta? Or do you consider it to be completely different in terms of goals?
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by gambler 8y ago
>Video hosting has always been expensive comparatively. Torrents seem to be doing it perfectly fine for free. People keep speaking about YouTube as if its main function is video storage, while if fact the main thing they bring to the t
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by gambler 8y ago
I feel most people who trust social media for news are super-late Internet adopters who don't quite understand how any of this stuff works. I know some older (but not old, really) people who use Facebook without understanding the bound
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by gambler 8y ago
What could possibly go wrong? False flagging, FUD based on groupthink and cognitive biases, accidental suppression of newly created websites in favor of older ones. Just to start off a list. Not everything is solvable through algorithms. Es
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by gambler 8y ago
SOLID is mostly a bunch of over-confidently stated opinions. Here is my over-confidently stated opinion: if a principle is not applicable to Smalltalk 74, it is not essential to OOP. The only rule in SOLID I would say someone should follow
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by gambler 8y ago
>If you were hiring, can you tell me why you might not even do a phone interview? Ph.D. in AI will probably scare off anyone who has a typical business app development or integration job. It's just hard to imagine someone with thi
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by gambler 8y ago
>I don't know of any such ubiquitously implemented open standard for automatic encrypted backups Here is a question for the parent poster and anyone else. Do you think it would be worthwhile to gather some people and try to design
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by gambler 8y ago
It's hilarious how solvable most of these problems are, and yet they aren't even closed to be solved. Like, backups. Everyone knows how this can be done. Have automated scheduled backups. Encrypt them. Send to offsite storage. Thi
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by gambler 8y ago
Simplification of systems should be a an actual college course, mandatory for all computer science grads. Too many people these days manage complexity through ever more complex sets of tools instead of simply getting rid of it. They use c
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by gambler 8y ago
Microsoft didn't force anyone to use Windows/Office/IE in the 90s. There were other choices. And yet they were hit by anti-monopoly lawsuit. Why? Because they had enough market captured to undermine any serious competition. G
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by gambler 8y ago
It's easy to forget that the same "dumbass (monoculture) agricultural and (monoculture) development methods" are responsible for century-long world-wide decline of abject poverty and hunger in the face of unprecedented popula
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by gambler 8y ago
There is an old lecture that draws this exact parallel: "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O133ppiVnWY
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by gambler 8y ago
>I hate DOM manipulations in the browser What exactly is so difficult about DOM manipulation? I honestly don't get why people see it as a problem that warrants zillion badly written frameworks, while other critical language issues
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by gambler 8y ago
Also, Firefox dev tools cannot capture Web Sockets frame and the add-on that used to do it is currently broken.
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by gambler 8y ago
>There are known state-level actors actively pushing propaganda through the internet. The last group of people who will be thwarted by lack of anonymity on the web are "state-level actors". Literally. > There are compan
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by gambler 8y ago
Reading Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman is a great start. There is a whole track on design at Coursera, but I only watched one course from it, so can't say anything about its quality. https://www.coursera.org/sp
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by gambler 8y ago
>No one can predict the future. He wrote Digital Maoism article at the peak of Web 2.0 hype. That's pretty darn good demonstration of foresight. https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-digital-maois...

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