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by irq11 7y ago
Maybe the fact that Houston isn’t 49 square miles, surrounded by water on three sides, might have something to do with it. When Houston wants another housing unit, they just sprawl out into the plains to make it happen. (Not incidentally, t
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by irq11 7y ago
Author lists may (again: evidence required) be growing, but that’s not at all the same thing as per-capita publication rate, and doesn’t support the GP claim. A priori , long author lists indicate collaboration, which is generally a good t
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How in the world is this not an accurate title?
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Uncanny Valley: a GitHub employee’s memoir on silicon valley.
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”The number of publications per year per academic seems to me to have increased over the last 50 years. I don't have a citation.” Yeah, that’s not evidence. The absolute number of papers is growing - along with the number of workin
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Whomever changed the headline should change it to something that accurately reflects the content, like it was before. Nobody who doesn’t already know Anna Weiner or Uncanny Valley would understand the meaning of the headline.
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If you want to claim that “publish or perish” (which, btw, has been a part of academic life essentially forever) is somehow recently affecting the volume of papers being produced, you should be able to provide evidence of that in a straig
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by irq11 7y ago
Science is not politics, nor should it change in response to political forces. The root problem is not that science has changed, but that you’re seeing political attacks on science.
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“it's also true that publish or perish is creating ever-growing mountains of worthless papers.” Is this true? Prove your claim. ”This is a real problem, and drags the quality of everything down.“ Let’s assume your first assertion i
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”One day the public is going to cotton on to all of this. I cringe every time I hear extremely authoritative lectures on "what scientists say" about highly politicized public policy matters....I'd exercise some humility.” Y
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This is not terribly dissimilar to the kind of language LARPing that you encounter regularly in Japanese learning communities.
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Yes, it is. I corrected my post around the same time you replied. I’ve colloquially used the term I originally cited, but the correct term is progressive enhancement.
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This is called “progressive enhancement”, and is, in fact, the way that you’re supposed to write webpages: they should come pre-rendered, and only if the client has JS enabled do you enable more dynamic features. You fall back to full pag
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by irq11 7y ago
Nonsense. You haven’t experienced a slow connection recently, or you’re just loading the same sites over and over again. People keep asserting it’s impossible to do all of the stuff we were doing on a daily basis in 2012, without the magic
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I’ve been writing software for over 30 years. The distinction absolutely exists, but most devs don’t realize it, and are writing terrible software.
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Yes, at perhaps five of the world’s most elite software companies, they have pay tiers that theoretically scale with experience. Setting aside the fact that most companies don’t have this, here’s a protip: count the number of engineers at e
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by irq11 7y ago
There’s nobody making you choose to stop being an IC. If you want (and you stay up-to-date with the latest trends) you can continue doing it indefinitely. You just can’t do that and also demand that you be paid the salary of someone who i
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” Your argument that current legislation doesn't offer him protection in this situation only further strengthens my own argument.” That’s not my “argument”. That’s the opposite of what I’m saying. He had the ability to pursue offic
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First, those three links all describe the same Vanity Fair interview. One cite, not three. The Vice link attempts to find the emails he claimed to send. Second, emailing NSA lawyers is not the same as filing a whistleblower complaint. The V
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You are wrong: http://www.dodhotline.dodig.mil/programs/whistleblower/icwpa...
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I’m not wrong. He didn’t file a whistleblower complaint [1]. It’s interesting that you confidently assert that I’m wrong when you admit that you don’t even know what you’re saying is true. [1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/edwa
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”So instead of talking with customers and growing your business you are busy wasting your time installing a web server, database server, configuring build tools, etc.” Oh come on. It takes maybe an afternoon of work to do everything you
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Rails works really well for single engineer projects. It’s just not the hotness of the moment. It’s pretty cringeworthy to see someone parroting the “use boring technology” line, then immediately running off and making an SPA for something
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Exactly. I’ve been saying for years that the key to greater density in SF is transit. Trying to force developers to build high density housing is pushing on a string; make the place desirable for commuters, and density will follow the deman
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by irq11 7y ago
This is such a sophomoric take on a complicated issue. Speaking as a long-time renter who is now a property owner, I almost never think about things in terms of “limiting supply”, and as far as I can tell, my neighbors don’t either. They d
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Right, so one programmer says features are confusing and shouldn’t be done because they’re in the user’s face. Another says that it’s confusing to hide them. Sense a pattern here?
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Lived in SF for a decade. Beautiful city, and I loved it (before tech), but it’s not even close. NYC has half of the US TV and film industry. Pick a random movie or TV show, and it’s probably set in New York, if not filmed there. Turn on a
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Anti-science denialists use pearl-clutching to slow down truth while their lies zip around the world. It’s gotten to the point on HN where the “highbrow lowbrow” is dominating all discussion, because you can’t outright call a lie a lie here
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Thank you for an intelligent comment. There are people downthread who are arguing that because numerical instability bugs exist and climate models are complicated, climate models can’t be trusted. Literally any flimsy pretext is used to dis
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This is not a rebuttal to the parent. They’re talking about stability of prediction of aggregate properties, and you’re fixating on numerical precision errors and algorithm bugs in particular implementations. The one has little to do with t

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