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by jwilber 6y ago
Stellar example of naming gone right in software.
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by jwilber 6y ago
“ Why should platform owners decide what's right and what's wrong” Because they made the platform. In some light, it’s the same logic that allows businesses to refuse service, or homeowners to defend their property.
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by jwilber 6y ago
Didn’t feel much substance in this, though to be fair I felt the same wait from his aws farewell (maybe I just don’t relate to his writing style?). Anyways, I think all the talk about breaking up google/Facebook etc feels performative
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by jwilber 6y ago
Nginx bad gateway when I visit. Reassuring I guess that I’ll face the same down issues I do now with or without funding.
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https://www.jwilber.me/permutationtest/
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by jwilber 6y ago
One on a highly-used but lesser-known statistical test: https://www.jwilber.me/permutationtest/
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by jwilber 6y ago
Disgusting. Never shopping from eBay again, though I can’t remember the last time I did if I’m being honest. How do current employees feel about this?
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by jwilber 6y ago
I’ve seen a lot of criticism for the NYT as of late, and, sadly, it’s almost all been warranted upon inspection. I’m not sure if it’s a case of the top dog getting all the scrutiny, but it’s crazy to me how a company with so many good journ
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by jwilber 6y ago
4plymag.com A little data-driven magazine for skateboarding. Superfluous? Yes. Fun? Also yes
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by jwilber 6y ago
True. I think the actual cause is definitely multi-faceted, and expect a big cause is education. Both quality of that received (eg state funding), and level attained. Others have also mentioned other salient factors (psychology, etc)
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by jwilber 6y ago
Cool library. I’m not sure if the name adds any value (something more tree-based would make more sense?), but if you’re going to use it you should make a logo with noodles or something. GitHub readme needs some images.
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by jwilber 6y ago
What it really comes down to is these people severely lack in critical thinking, so while it is surprising that they fail to account for other, seemingly obvious externalities, it really shouldn’t be.
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by jwilber 6y ago
Programming is certainly the best way to get better at programming. Some other things may help improve your ability to program, but there is no substitute for the act itself.
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Never used sage but William Stein is a dope skater and I’m always very stoked to have other skateboarders involved in tech.
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by jwilber 6y ago
I think these things are fair points for relationships, but the post is about sex in general, and busy schedules don’t tend to affect hook ups much.
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by jwilber 6y ago
I guess we can wait for their response to find out. I’m genuinely curious to hear about the merciless shutdowns the preview.
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by jwilber 6y ago
Serious answer. Hoping for an actual reply but if feels like you’re just baiting given your “white supremacist” line in quotes (???). If you mean to ask what would happen if white people took it over? Having been through chaz a few times, t
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by jwilber 6y ago
The facet options with the simple “split” arguments look quite nice.
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Here’s something I made awhile back that uses it to generate Bob Ross drawings live from your sketches. (Never wrapped it up into an app but maybe I should): https://twitter.com/jdwlbr/status/1131244682317484032?s=
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by jwilber 6y ago
I used to get Mad magazine as a kid in the 90s. Definitely enjoyed them as a kid, but never realized how cool they were (or considered how much they may have shaped my sense of humor - always attributed that to shows like Chapelle’s show ar
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by jwilber 6y ago
Could also do with cutting police funding. A local city in WA spends 53% of their budget on police[0]. Imagine if just a fraction of that went to education? I’d love to see solid studies on the efficacy/use of police budgeting. At a cu
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by jwilber 6y ago
Multiple people have replied with evidence in this thread. I don’t know your view on the matter, but somehow I doubt that seeing videos will do anything to change your view on the matter anyway. I say this because in a thread about police b
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by jwilber 6y ago
It’s the same here in Seattle as it was while I was in Berkeley during Ferguson. People protest peacefully, and police shoot tear gas into the crowd and attack whomever they can get their hands on. I’ll admit, the outright brutality I saw
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by jwilber 6y ago
Today rent is due, tomorrow a house stays over a family’s head.
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by jwilber 6y ago
I agree that that is a very valid concern. I’d hope the data is anonymized (even though I recognize anonymized data is not perfect).
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Yeah, I’m not so sure about the use case myself... Input: UserInterface.model({ name: "children", method: UserInterface.appendChild, properties: { tagName: "div", className: "model", children: [ {
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by jwilber 6y ago
Love this (and all of Preet’s work). Made a statistics visual awhile back using roughjs[0], seems like the perfect setting with which to add roughnotation :) [0] https://www.jwilber.me/permutationtest/
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Yeah, hence my mention of fatality rates. It shines a light for reason that the magnitude of 100k is massive. It’s easy for us to lose sight of that, as it’s just another statistic to us (I’m guilty of this as well). My point with the compa
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by jwilber 6y ago
100,000 deaths from the Bubonic Plague in Marseille. 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 in America today. Of course, the two have vastly different populations, so 100k in Marseille speaks to a much larger fatality rate than covid19 (obviously, it
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by jwilber 6y ago
I like MathJax and find it quite easy to use, standard. However, I have some issues with sizing the font - anybody solved these easily?

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