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by inimino 6y ago
Don't be naive.
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by inimino 6y ago
I would guess the SK combinators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus
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by inimino 6y ago
> a REST API shouldn't be returning HTML Why do you think so? It might interest you to know that Roy Fielding defined REST before JSON was invented.
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by inimino 6y ago
> the practicality of it is irrelevant if the whole idea is immoral Agreed. I didn't read his post as saying that the payment had anything to do with the ethics of it, and we routinely pay participants in clinical trials for their t
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by inimino 6y ago
Shipping, finance, and industry, man. Sure, asylum for anyone who wants it may be the right thing to do, but you can't seriously say that the geographical location of HK is meaningless, or that having a tiny outpost of liberalism as a
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by inimino 6y ago
> A short walk in a busy hospital You demonstrate utter failure to understand the idea. A controlled, known, small viral load is the idea. Controlled: not from a random walk through a hospital, but administered under controlled condition
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by inimino 6y ago
> if he actually went to infect himself Again: How? He's suggesting a program of trained medical professionals, isolation, observation, and you think he just ought to go off and infect himself in uncontrolled conditions without any
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by inimino 6y ago
The ability to have their own laws, their own courts, and their own government is under ongoing and successful attack. Perhaps you're blissfully unaware of the tightening grip of Beijing over the last 20 years, of which this is just th
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by inimino 6y ago
I know very well what you meant, and yet I still struggle to see what you're actually suggesting that he should have done, besides what he did, which was write a blog post about an interesting idea. Can you actually make a concrete sug
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by inimino 6y ago
A tenant is someone who resides in a building, tenet is the word you want.
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by inimino 6y ago
It's a global pandemic. We all have skin in the game whether we want to or not. Unless you're suggesting that before writing a blog post, he should do some amateur virology and variolate himself, I'm not sure what point you&#
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by inimino 6y ago
Especially if, I would say.
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by inimino 6y ago
Yes. Every child I've ever met is curious about something, and that's what they should be learning. The idea that in year X every student should learn Y during hour Z every day is one of the reasons I said the system was irreparab
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by inimino 6y ago
Of course, it's hard to assign blame without looking at how "extremist groups" are defined and at whether the recommendation tools do good as well as harm.
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by inimino 6y ago
There's incredibly strong evidence that the way to teach mathematics and the only way to learn it is to foster the environment in which you can rediscover the key insight for yourself. Obviously (to the younger students, to me, Lockhar
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by inimino 6y ago
No. The mental model was exactly correct. Their assignment of notation to the model was non-standard when they wrote "+" for the operation of merging the wholes. The confusion of what is wrong with what is correct but non-standa
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by inimino 6y ago
There is no track!!! Of course there is, because what we call mathematics education is broken beyond repair, but that's a crime. Shutting down the student's curiosity about perhaps the only thing of mathematical interest that happ
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by inimino 6y ago
This kind of thing fascinates me. I've always felt that you don't really understand a thing, even a simple thing like fractions, until you can find and resolve all the paradoxes that arise in using it naively. My take when reading
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by inimino 6y ago
The bitter experience is needed to learn that there are no shortcuts, and that the higher-level library that makes everything easy for you will also bite you in the ass sooner or later. We aren't born knowing these things, sadly.
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by inimino 6y ago
Don't forget overcoming fear. SICP helped me most in that I overcame unconscious barriers of fear of complexity. The only way to defeat those is to embrace complexity and fight through it.
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by inimino 6y ago
It's clear to see that you (all) have kept HN as good as it is over all these years, not for cynical economic reasons, but because it's right. It's right for the HN community and, given HN's somewhat unique position, may
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by inimino 6y ago
Ammon's previous venture was Socialcam [1], of which Wikipedia says > Socialcam's popularity on Facebook suddenly increased in the spring of 2012, via unusually aggressive actions to induce contacts to join. It was criticized a
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by inimino 6y ago
Your SO account was also never private, didn't contain "test scores" for job skills, and was never a repository of sensitive information about you that you only allowed them to have because you trusted them to keep it private
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by inimino 6y ago
The fact that this is the top comment and that folks who trusted you are seeing this email first on HN instead of in their inbox means you fucked up. The details of what trimmings you put on the email were not the fuckup.
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by inimino 6y ago
> there is a good deal of functionality and flexibility on that thing. That's also what seems worst about it. Unfortunately there seem to be few other choices these days.
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by inimino 6y ago
When I used my personal machines for everything, then I isolated my work from everything else. Remote servers are perfect for this, then you can just ssh in from any machine and do your work.
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by inimino 6y ago
Being able to run arbitrary software on the hardware Apple has graciously lent me is an annoying level of power that I'm not fully comfortable with either. I'm liable to shoot my foot off if Apple the all-seeing doesn't save
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by inimino 6y ago
Once you have security engineers, security is no longer the responsibility of all engineers equally, and you've already lost at security.
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by inimino 6y ago
Last year I was preaching that if you can't develop in a submarine or a space station (or on the metro), from a fresh git clone to your next git push, then your development environment is broken and you should burn it to the ground and
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by inimino 6y ago
The UX is good. Freedom has always been a little more subtle.

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