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by gdubs 6y ago
Zooming out above the vitriol, a few thoughts: 1) There’s a deep irony in calling yourself Robinhood - literally a guy who stole from the rich to pay the poor - and taking a move like this. 2) The 2008 financial crisis continues to have dee
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by gdubs 6y ago
Haven’t gotten a chance to dig in in-depth: how confident are they that the initial prevalence study was solid?
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by gdubs 6y ago
Excellent article. One slight adjustment would be to use a color calibration chart for the photos [1]. When the whole thing is about color, it’s a bit of a bummer to not see the color represented accurately. On my iPhone it looks like the c
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by gdubs 6y ago
I feel for this guy, but as someone who takes climate change seriously — and has read plenty a paper that has kept me up at night - I believe we live in the here and now. It’s so important to live compassionately today, in our own circles.
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by gdubs 6y ago
This reads like it’s straight from “The Art of Plain Talk”, 1946. [1] I picked up that book over a decade ago, and it had a big effect on the way I write. There’s a temptation to use big words to sound more professional. Part of it is under
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After Climate Alarmism(nymag.com)
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by gdubs 6y ago
Since I don’t see any other comments mentioning it: wow, Bell Labs was preserved as a kind of public multi-use space? That’s wild, I had no idea. I’m glad they didn’t tear it down for McMansions as the article explains was the plan before p
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by gdubs 6y ago
Seconding the author’s recommendation to check out “Understanding Comics”. [1] It’s one of the most brilliant books I’ve ever read, and should be interesting regardless of what field you’re in. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by gdubs 6y ago
I will forever associate Larry King with the movie “Spin”. [1] It’s a rather brilliant indie documentary about the 1992 (Bill Clinton / HW Bush) election based on a fascinating technological element: back then, Satellite TV feeds would
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by gdubs 6y ago
[BradCox release] RIP. I owe so much to Objective-C. My early love for the language is what launched my own career, and inspired a love for programming in general. Thank you, Brad Cox.
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by gdubs 6y ago
This is a great thread, thanks. Familiarity is a powerful thing. It helps explain why excel remains the most widely used “programming language” in enterprise. Part of it is habits, which are not easy to change. And the fact that when they a
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by gdubs 6y ago
The two hardest things in computer science are cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors.
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by gdubs 6y ago
“The radio was a clue. You can’t really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn’t see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling. If you can twiddle
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by gdubs 6y ago
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when aw
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by gdubs 6y ago
Came here to say the first point: fix a bug! Usually a team with a good lead will have a bug that’s not too hard, and will help the newcomer learn the codebase. It’s easier to learn something when there’s a purpose than in the abstract. And
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Covid Epi Weekly: Could Covid Kill 1M Americans?(threader.app)
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by gdubs 6y ago
This is the magic that HyperCard provided, and I’ve yet to see anything approach it. Regular people made stuff in HyperCard. Side point: if you’re here because you’re interested in building solutions for people at scale, then maybe don’t te
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The Covid-19 Death Toll Is Even Worse Than It Looks(wsj.com)
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Atmospheric river wallops Pacific Northwest; flooding, landslides, power outages(washingtonpost.com)
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by gdubs 6y ago
A while back I put a lot of work into doing 3D implicit surfaces in Swift and Metal (Apple’s low level graphics framework). I put together this video to show what’s going on in the process: https://www.instagram.com/p/B
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by gdubs 6y ago
It’s the US capitol, it’s incredibly surprising. It’s outrageous. There’s no lack of adjectives.
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by gdubs 6y ago
This is an outrage, and an embarrassment. The world is watching. They need to stop this, now.
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by gdubs 6y ago
That part made me sit up in my chair — I remember that era, the anthrax scare, and yet never heard about that scientist!
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by gdubs 6y ago
This article does a really good job, IMO, of addressing the controversy inherent in the title and the implications therein. But rather than just reading the headline, it’s a really well written article on “Gain of Function” research, and
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by gdubs 6y ago
I feel like people discount how much the “weird” contributed to the success of SV. You had The Grateful Dead in Palo Alto, Clifford Stoll types in Berkeley, etc. [1] Monocultures aren’t very conducive to creativity. 1: https://en
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by gdubs 6y ago
Aside, it’s always a good time to check out “Halt and Catch Fire” — set in 80’s Texas “Silicon Prairie” [1] 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Prairie#Dallas–Fort_...
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by gdubs 6y ago
Saville is a generally brilliant graphic designer. These New Order covers are wonderful, but he’s perhaps best known for his Joy Division cover for the album “Unknown Pleasures”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment&
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by gdubs 6y ago
Thanks for catching that. No, just an early morning typo before coffee has kicked in :) I meant to write “last spring” not “last year” - though I guess in about two weeks either would be correct.
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by gdubs 6y ago
This book has been a favorite of mine for a long time. L-Systems have always fascinated me. Last spring* quarantine I splurged and finally got a Houdini license. (There’s also a free learning edition with watermarks.) Houdini has a full fea
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by gdubs 6y ago
I’m not hostile to this point of view — I understand it. But ultimately there will have to be some sort of middle ground. Carbon emissions stick around a very long time, and we can basically assign our name (speaking from the USA here) on t

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