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by jka 5y ago
I'm not sure it's the perfect solution, for reasons that relate mostly to the (necessary, useful) ability to modify and adjust rewards on a long-term and after-the-fact timescale, but I'll offer one reason why this could be a
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by jka 5y ago
This is probably a bit pithy, and off-topic from the thread regarding conflicts-of-interest, but the phrase "no installation without representation" occurred to me a few moments ago. I think that's a neat way to counteract an
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by jka 5y ago
Thanks - I think I'll have to puzzle over this one for a little longer (so I don't have much to add here), but wanted to acknowledge your response (it does help in understanding your top-level comment).
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by jka 5y ago
In approximate terms, I think that I feel this way because large companies currently seem to have significant influence over the way that people conduct their lives. If we're shifting to a situation where companies essentially regulate
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by jka 5y ago
Wordle has been remarkably popular for a free app without any marketing effort behind it. By my reckoning it crossed the International Adele Line on 2022-01-04: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=wordle,adele
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by jka 5y ago
> Would this have been considered a "malicious" act as well? Price increases can cause a loss of customers; that's fairly well understood, I think. I don't think it would be seen as malicious, because: - People could
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by jka 5y ago
Maybe controversial opinion, hold onto your mojitos: if board members, executives and founders can buy individual stocks, then congresspeople probably should be able to as well.
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by jka 5y ago
I must have experienced this article completely differently from you a couple of hours ago when reading it - I thought that it claims that the origin of the blue links was user experience research from the 1980s?
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by jka 5y ago
To rearrange into a (more-or-less-sargable) extension of your tuple: (Time, Target, Channel, Message) This is an elaborate form of what advertisers call a "campaign" -- a sequence of information unravelled in front of an audience
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by jka 5y ago
Yep - it's the kind of situation where if you had ten teams designing a product like this, probably nine of them would realize that the colourscheme could be improved, isn't it?
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by jka 5y ago
This seems unlikely, but if you thought that the site that you believe is github.com might be responding to you with tampered data, and you wanted to allow an independent third party to view the bi-directional traffic flowing between you an
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by jka 5y ago
Yes, it's an awful and unacceptable situation. Different people have different ways of responding to harassment based on their risk acceptance and resilience: some people respond and fight back, some people hide, and some people seek
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by jka 5y ago
Setting a notification for empty GitHub search results on "filename:package.json modified-ago<=1h"...
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by jka 5y ago
Hrm. Generally what you're saying sounds reasonable, although I wonder if there's a chance of a false dichotomy there. What about human errors introduced by non-rogue developers? (a reasonably common occurrence, probably?)
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by jka 5y ago
Thanks - it's easy to forget after working with basic datatypes (char, string, ...) for a long time that the individual symbols themselves have their own history and encoded meanings; some retained, some implied, some likely debatable,
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by jka 5y ago
To boost this: it's worth reading about the difference between "npm install" and "npm clean-install". The "ignore-scripts" flag/configuration setting can also be valuable.
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by jka 5y ago
It's a challenging and complex topic so I don't know how much to respond in a short text-based reply. In the context of this article, you're correct, I shouldn't have called this mere awkwardness (although depending on
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by jka 5y ago
Thank you; and is tic-tac-toe really effectively the same as pick-15 (including winning conditions)? That's cool. (I believe it, but will have to do some work to convince myself of it) The concepts you mention on that page sound us
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by jka 5y ago
Thanks - your site led me to your GitHub profile and communicating sequential processes. JavaScript async and promises do seem a little tricky to comprehend, that'll make for some good reading.
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by jka 5y ago
That makes sense: perhaps "abstraction" is the word? An n-ary operator with a well-understood conceptual effect, and a reasonably small number of arguments linked to it (enough to fit into a person's point-in-time memory as
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by jka 5y ago
Thank you very much - looking at the demos, a lot of the ideas in the Dion Systems demos resonate (code as graph, graph transformations, ...). And that's a good example re: JSON and railroad diagrams too. If I remember correctly the J
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by jka 5y ago
Refactoring other people's messages into terminology that makes (concise) sense locally.. it's translation, I suppose. Nice to offer back any corrections or improvements to the author where possible so that they can improve their
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by jka 5y ago
Thank you - I struggle to have a more meaningful mental model of matrices than "int[][]" but I'll read up on this. There are a bunch of cases where I've felt intuitively that "this should be solved with numpy using
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by jka 5y ago
Is it better to learn by making a mistake and experiencing the awkwardness of the results, or by having a computer flag it before the interaction takes place? (perhaps they're equivalent, if we step into the belief that we're havi
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by jka 5y ago
In some cases equity and share grants could muddy the waters a bit there (salary isn't everything), but yep, I think that if salary transparency commenced, then total compensation transparency would likely follow shortly afterwards. Th
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Lots of reasons no doubt, as with many other of life's questions - it's expensive though, for one. The best individual metric I'm aware of as a way to compare costs of different types of energy production is called "Leve
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I've had some similar experiences; it's tricky to keep up with what's going on in some environments. It's easier when you and the team have regular communication and build up a shared set of interpersonal experiences and
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by jka 5y ago
I hope most engineers would be able to empathise with Marak. He's built some very useful and now very popular software, and has made it open source, which perhaps we can debate the merits of, but that I would strongly suggest is a pub
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by jka 5y ago
Do you have any favourite examples of situations where notation has enhanced intellect? (one of my ongoing software-related frustrations is that communicating in text about software behaviour can be a challenge - I don't know whether b
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"The consolidation in the climate intelligence space threatens to lead to an asymmetry of access to information. If you're a wealthy investor or large real estate firm, you can pay to find out which companies or regions will be sa

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