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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
>Do you think part of this is that Netflix has assumed zero effort from user model? Talking w/a friend who works at Netflix, it sounds like this is a warranted assumption. The way he told it, they were tearing their hair out at one
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
There's something to be said for priors here. I personally know three (yeah, I hang out w/a fun crowd) people who have lost their jobs over social media heresy. I don't know (and have never heard of) anyone getting eaten by
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
He can't do this because of the topic of the essay. If he could, it wouldn't need to be written.
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
perhaps Dynamicland?
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
>These games have affected our military's organization structure at a fundamental level...despite having nothing to do with war. If they really had nothing to do with war, why would they affect our thinking about it? I'm not
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
>This is largely a blogpost about how these games are imperfect at understanding war. But we humans keep using games as war analogies for some reason, despite their imperfections. I mean, there are very good reasons to do this: wars are
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
Two things: - one of the devs of that site, Byron Knoll, was my best friend in kindergarten, though he moved away and we haven't spoken much since - I get a very different vibe from rpscontest --- a sort of "the wicked are punishe
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
Performance in games like this is a child with many fathers. It's more likely that you underestimate the amount of work some people put into improving, and also underestimate the role of luck.
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
I'm not sure what you're implying---that pg is seeing censorship where there isn't, or that he's naive for not intuiting that it's everywhere, all the time. In my understanding, he's worrying that it's e
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
Better to rip off the bandaid, honestly. Rather than old social orders breaking down, I think we'll see some of them strengthened , as the reasons for their institution in the first place get harder to ignore.
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
This isn't class mattering, it's kids thinking class matters, and trying to build themselves up by virtue of it. They are literally trying to convert real class into "cool-at-school" props, which should tell you how
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
To those of us who are far-right, Christian, and have noticed the lack of distinction that seems to be applied between say, David Duke, and Chris Rufo, this is not the takedown-by-association you seem to think it is.
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
Not everything can be chosen.
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
>How do you use lisp style macros when you have 500 developers working on a single product? In general, you don't, or not at the same rate as functions. In big orgs, macros have three worthy uses: - cleanly separated libraries for t
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
Wild (in a good way).
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
Comment from a year ago( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22562344 ): >A story, since in retrospect I think it's worth telling. Some years ago I was at the SF Clojure meetup. Arthur Whitney's daughter worked
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
To an extent left and right are asymmetrical---leftist groups tend to be groups organized around being leftist as their main purpose, while "rightist" groups (churches, police unions, gun enthusiasts) tend to be rightist incident
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
>The question then is whether it was functional programming that actually made the difference, or the people who had enough perseverance and skill to actually learn Scala in the first place running the project. Oof, it may indeed be the
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
> exacerbating the problem Problem for whom?
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by invalidOrTaken 5y ago
What goes into that number? My brother has three kids and is making $50K as a medical resident, what am I missing?
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by invalidOrTaken 6y ago
V. valuable resource, thank you.
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by invalidOrTaken 6y ago
I kind of like it. All the comments saying not to categorize your co-workers are right, but---to an extent, we are what we do. I think it's a useful list of behaviors people can fall into, without making comment on their eternal so
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by invalidOrTaken 6y ago
I had one of the better interview experiences of my career a few weeks ago---the interviewer pasted a bunch of code in my editor and said, "Tell me why this code sucks." (it had credentials in the source code, was mixing different
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by invalidOrTaken 6y ago
First: I am technical, and there are still technical articles (or conversations) that leave me in the dust. I was reading about advanced memory management techniques the other day and it was very apparent I was out of my depth. So it'
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by invalidOrTaken 6y ago
You're depending on being very lucky, People go through three phases: 1. they are too scared to challenge authority 2. they are not scared of challenging authority 3. they realize they can just go somewhere else Mature, intelligent
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by invalidOrTaken 6y ago
I don't get why "Big O" is made out to be this mystical, theoretical thing. It doesn't seem as hard or as important as people make it out to be. I've been giving what you might call "enrichment" lessons
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by invalidOrTaken 6y ago
Only tangentially related, but I quite enjoyed this short film on the topic of interstellar law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8kOzRZK8g
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by invalidOrTaken 6y ago
Sure, but at that point, by their behavior , NYT devolves from "sacred guardians of democracy" to "fucking troll." Sure, it's not "their job" to worry about SSC. But then, nobody's paying me to be
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by invalidOrTaken 6y ago
hear hear
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by invalidOrTaken 6y ago
Location: SFBay, Salt Lake City (very comfortable moving to one or the other) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: A bunch, but I want to target this: Clojure/Clojurescript. If you're having a hard time finding Cl

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