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by jmagoon 11y ago
That was an interesting read. I'm not familiar with Tcl/Tk. To help me understand, are you saying that the "web" should remain as purely a hypertext platform and that any application should be built using something like
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Which sources nobel laureate Philip Anderson in the paper "More Is Different": "The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe...Th
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It's hard to argue your "fact", especially against such an insufferable amount of smugness and causal reductionism. I find it not amusing that people can assume things they don't participate in are simple, stupid, and
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Are you really saying that the internet and web applications (and all their various components) are artificially complex? Or is it just whatever reification of "web dev" that you have in mind?
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And what would that be for web development? Or are you just saying "don't develop for the web"? I've seen people who are great at diving deeply into a narrow field struggle greatly with the broad, changing knowledge need
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Yes, but as soon as you buy one you will want housing prices to go up, just like any investment.
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We are in the same boat. I find myself relying way more on pure ruby classes. It's also dangerous because Rails fits a specific niche, like he mentions--building (potentially) many web systems quickly. We chose to migrate large legacy
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Mindfulness is definitely not meant to suppress thought or even certain types of thought. At its core it is non-judgmental observation of arising mental phenomena. That means thought, emotion, perception (e.g. touch), and even consciousness
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Are you familiar with any specific meditation traditions? Most historical traditions split practice into those two categories--concentration meditation, which is one pointed and object focused, and 'bare awareness', which allows t
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Is this really true of the startup world? What possible business reason could there be for swapping your stack / tooling 3-4x per year? Do you mean learning something new 3-4 times per year that is unrelated to large architectural chan
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It's hard to argue, because you could pick up literally any textbook on Buddhism to see this is a fringe theory. If you are actually curious about this topic, I would suggest you look up the importance of lineage in the Tibetan, Chines
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That's just really not true based on modern research. That's a fringe theory at best, that might be applicable to something like "Mainstream Buddhism". (e.g. what you see in a yoga magazine in the grocery store) There&#x
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I can't tell if you are talking about actual Buddhism or "Western Buddhism". As in, are you dramatically misinterpreting your source document, or are you trying to say that the "Western Buddhism" we experience is no
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The Dalai Lama is the head of Tibetan Buddhism, because Tibet is (was) a theocracy, much like the Pope is the head of the Papal State and the Catholic Church. (Though this is not an exact parallel due to to the distributed nature of the Tib
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by jmagoon 11y ago
Totally the case with cookware. The difference in quality between my $60 cutting board and my $5 cutting board is incredible. The $5 one has already been trashed, while I've had the $60 one for 7 years now and it's still going str
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by jmagoon 11y ago
It could absolutely be considered 'influencer marketing' with the popularity of YC alum posts and the aggressive moderation of opposing viewpoints.
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by jmagoon 11y ago
We're replacing a very nice custom SCO Unix backend developed at my work from 1980s onward (drops users into custom shell, multiple programs execute in the user context, leverages all the nice features of *nix) with a purchased desktop
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by jmagoon 11y ago
Agreed. The internet allows me to follow the NBA, NHL, MLS, Premier League, NFL, College Football, and various tournaments (World Cup, Copa America, Gold Cup, Euro, etc.) around the world. Why would I want to watch an hour of SportsCenter t
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This is a well defined (but somewhat controversial) philosophical topic known as the hard problem of consciousness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
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by jmagoon 11y ago
It's been a little while, but I have modules working using the browserify-rails gem which provides CommonJS support to sprockets via browserify. I use Babelify for ES6 support and then Reactify for JSX support. I add a command line arg
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Drone operators have the same type of psychological pressure and results as ground troops: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/23/us/drone-pilots-found-to-g... In terms of their superiors, isn't that how
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by jmagoon 11y ago
The bimodal distribution that people talk about seems like a dramatic simplification of a series of continually developing sub-competencies. So, the only real weakness I've found is when someone considers themselves to be done learning
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by jmagoon 11y ago
That's not the point of the article--it's not that there aren't some people with insane intrinsic talent, it's just that the majority of people fall on the below-average - average - above average distribution, and that y
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by jmagoon 11y ago
Seriously? You're saying that the only possible use case for ruby/python/php is "not being a computer scientist"?
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by jmagoon 12y ago
So if someone doesn't have passion they can't be a good developer? And if your passions aren't things that people pay you for, you should, what? What other profession do people have this absurd obsession with passion? I'
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I've switched about 50% of our internal applications and all of my side projects completely from ActiveRecord to Sequel and it's an absolute joy to to work with once it's fully migrated. The main reason we started using it th
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Wow, that's such an awesome point. I still remember the rush from reading 2600 and trying to break into systems in middle/high school. That joy and excitement is totally gone now in Bob's CRUD Shop(TM), so it's phenomena
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Personally I (and a few others on my team) have found mindfulness meditation to be enormously helpful in developing focus and not being 'carried along' by thoughts. It's really helpful to observe your thoughts, which begins t
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From the article: >>The long-term solution to the double bind of speaking while female is to increase the number of women in leadership roles.
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The women didn't "allow" anything. They began to speak and their ideas were finished by men, with the rest of the meeting nodding along with them. When there's a female minority and an implicit cultural approval for this

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