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by jblow 13y ago
This article seems naive. Probably people are being paid to rate apps down.
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by jblow 13y ago
Indeed, such a lousy article. The stock is still net up almost 50% in THREE MONTHS and yet somehow he is writing some doomsday scenario article about it. It reminds me of the crappy articles talking about how TSLA was down and doing terribl
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by jblow 13y ago
It is not that meditating disables anything; rather, meditation consists in observing consciousness in a way that is orthogonal to these things. When meditating, sometimes (often!) you are remembering things, but sometimes you aren't.
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by jblow 13y ago
I am glad this paper has been written, but already by page 3 there are serious problems with it. For example: It is an easily observable phenomenon (e.g. by anyone who meditates) that you can be conscious without remembering anything. In ot
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by jblow 13y ago
The scary thing is how proud they are of their system; it has a cute name and everything. If the person who CTO'd that worked for me, they would not be CTO any more.
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by jblow 13y ago
These guys never heard of shared memory, apparently? Does Ruby not provide a facility to use shared memory? I guess you don't get it by default in a GC'd language because the GC thinks it owns the world.
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by jblow 13y ago
Did you talk to any Korean citizens while you were there? All the ones I walked to wanted us gone.
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by jblow 13y ago
Of course not, but look: you manage the investment arm of a charity fund and your job is to provide more income for that fund in the future. If you put money into stocks, and get a return on that, that return means very concrete things: mor
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by jblow 13y ago
It is the other way around. If you are doing effective altruism, you want to make sure you have money coming in that you can be altruistic with. The bit about Walmart was especially badly done. If the author of this article thinks Walmart e
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by jblow 13y ago
Not a carefully-written article. When you buy stock in a public company, that company is not getting your money -- the seller of the stock is! So if you buy a Pepsi stock or a Shell stock, you are investing in that stock, but not investing
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by jblow 13y ago
I feel like a reasonably successful person at this point, and I don't do "networking". I am not uncommon in this regard; most of the most successful people people in my industry do not do "networking". That's w
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by jblow 13y ago
Networking is for people who don't know what they are doing and who don't have better ideas regarding what to do with their time and energy. So if you go to a networking event, understand that you are automatically putting yoursel
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by jblow 13y ago
Are you kidding? This is well known and the administration even admits it. For example: https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/27-2
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by jblow 13y ago
Left to its own devices, a baby will stick pretty much everything into its mouth. If you believe that evolution generates behavior to maximize survival value, this fact about babies seems relevant.
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by jblow 13y ago
Anyone who could make Minecraft by himself is at least kind of okay. I recommend you build a game of similar scope before saying stuff like this.
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by jblow 13y ago
... And what about the actual action of double-tapping? On some pages it zooms, and on some pages it does nothing, and in fact the first tap fires off a link. How is that simple, predictable, or solid-feeling? It isn't.
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by jblow 13y ago
I disagree with the fact that it happens inconsistently and creates a more-complicated situation for me to internalize; and even if I know the rules (which most users don't), it may not always be clear which are happening unless I enga
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by jblow 13y ago
Not true. I am talking specifically about interaction response, not the rate of animation display. It is about your brain learning responses to its actions so that it can better plan its actions. That cannot happen when the responses are se
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by jblow 13y ago
I don't think "we haven't seen confusion around this" is a good answer. Most users will not even understand what is happening, they will just have an ambient level of uncomfortability with the UI that they don't kno
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by jblow 13y ago
The impact of variable latency is well-known among people who actually study human factors. It makes it hard for your brain to internalize interactions and make them automatic, and it increases the feeling of frustration. In video games spe
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by jblow 13y ago
I agree that latency is terrible, but this is bad design that actually makes the situation worse. Now instead of a constant, learnable latency, you have latency that varies wildly depending on what page you are on. This is the wrong solutio
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by jblow 13y ago
They have an extra space at the end of the name? Paste fail.
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by jblow 13y ago
And then you can cause Google to DDoS someone else's site by sending out spam containing lots of image URLs.
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by jblow 13y ago
I like the broad idea (applications should be very responsive). Yes, this is very important, but I can't shake the feeling that the author of the manifesto has very little experience with responsive software (or even with software gene
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by jblow 13y ago
I am 42 years old and I have never had to change a tire, not once.
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by jblow 13y ago
I would be careful with putting so much emphasis on legality. The fact is that there are so many laws, and some of them are so weird and convoluted, and nobody really understands them all; pretty much everyone does several illegal things ev
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by jblow 13y ago
It is the government's own claim that, for example, the President didn't know what the NSA was doing: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/28/politics/white-house-stopped-w... In the absence of leaks and
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by jblow 13y ago
How are you supposed to deal legally with your government doing something bad, when it is illegal for you to know about the bad things? Just think about your proposition for even ten seconds.
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by jblow 13y ago
I don't know why you think that? a|+-> + b|-+> is a very special-case entanglement. Yes, you'll see that one mentioned in Wikipedia (and quantum cryptography and etc) because it's very simple. The general form for the s
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by jblow 13y ago
You are misunderstanding the physics. Suppose A and B are two quantum entities that result from a collision. They are entangled and moving away from each other. The math very clearly says that a modification of A's state will alter B&#

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