kolektiv

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by kolektiv 14y ago
kolektiv on GH too.
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by kolektiv 14y ago
Sigh. I don't know whether I'm alone in being saddened that many of the excellent thinkers of our time, who once might have spent their lives probing the the very limits of our comprehension in their field, now end up comfortably turning th
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by kolektiv 14y ago
Ah! Thanks for clarifying, that makes significantly more sense. I hope you didn't take my querying as too unkind!
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by kolektiv 14y ago
I'm trying to work out what you'd want this for. I suppose as a quick "yes this does actually work" but I can't think of many less efficient ways of spidering things - whole headless browsers? Ouch. If you needed to do this, you'd use somet
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by kolektiv 14y ago
Laziness does not have to equate to being a slacker. Lazily (or inventively) pursuing your employers goals is not a problem - generally if you find a way to satisfy them with less work, everyone's happy. Slacking would be following your own
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by kolektiv 14y ago
Quite. "I'm giving up everything in exchange for huge stock grants, a 7-figure base salary and industry wide recognition" does not allow you to say "you should give up everything in exchange for 100k and very little job security". If they w
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by kolektiv 14y ago
> Marissa's gesture applies to Yahoos who been doing lots of personal and "side projects" away from premises at Yahoo's expense and not necessarily for Yahoo's benefits Does it? Because from all the information provided publicly it seem
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by kolektiv 14y ago
Encouraging to hear, it turned up from Amazon earlier! Coincidental. Also arrived is Connectome by Seung - anyone read it yet? Opinions?
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by kolektiv 14y ago
For the same reason that there should be jokes about pretty much everything. They're a form of human communication and expression which can be very valuable to group dynamics. It is perfectly possible to joke about horrific things without i
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by kolektiv 14y ago
That's very cute. But the pedant in me will not let this pass without noting that many of what you've found are in fact gloves. Mittens do not have fingers. I'm sorry to have to point that out :) On the other hand (groan) you are helping th
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by kolektiv 14y ago
Just to point out that the House of Commons voted that way - that's the combined vote of all parties eligible. The Conservative party was rather split on the issue, I think only a (largish) minority of the Conservative party itself voted in
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by kolektiv 14y ago
I'm partially only writing this reply as a slightly more "+1" than a simple upvote, but from my experience employing and leading people (programmers, generally) this certainly applies in the UK as well. Not only at elementary school age eit
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by kolektiv 14y ago
You have a typo in your subline: "Pledge money and vow to mediate for 30 days straight." I am assuming mediate should be meditate, unless you really want my help in a peace process (not wise).
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by kolektiv 14y ago
Couldn't agree more. There's this odd implication, after listing a load of usually pointless make-work tasks and tedious process, that geeks are somehow odd for disliking this. In reality, you're just dealing with a group of people who, bec
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by kolektiv 14y ago
I should never comment after a fine and bibulous meal, but... I'm not sure how appealing I find the idea of a society where people thought in that way. Perhaps Bacchus is distracting me from the nuance of that point however.
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by kolektiv 14y ago
Heh, well, I've just got back from a lovely restaurant, and I have to admit that they had a wonderful cellar and a well-matched sommelier, so this will be brief, as I'm having to re-read quite diligently! I don't really think I'm being elit
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by kolektiv 14y ago
God I'd hate this. Restaurants are places of relaxation, company, discovery, beautiful foods. I want to order something which sounds good and then see whether it is - I want it to come to me as a surprise - "Oh Tuscan Rabbit? I wonder how
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by kolektiv 14y ago
I know what you mean, and if I thought this article was actually targeted at students, and with any intention of enlightenment, I would agree with you. I just don't feel it deserves that credit. It's wandering, poorly researched hearsay. I
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by kolektiv 14y ago
Good grief, what a vast amount of supposition backed up by very little evidence or insight. "People often write bad code." Yes, we know that. "There's more than one reason for this." Yes, we know that too. The rest of the article is just ra
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by kolektiv 14y ago
It seems like a horrible mangling of syntax. I don't see why you wouldn't simply say "...another whole year of experience..."
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by kolektiv 14y ago
Seconded. Surprising how distracting something so trivial is given recent (unrelated) context. My mind immediately sprang to the conclusion that perhaps this sentence is partially applied - a legacy of an evening spent writing some interest
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by kolektiv 14y ago
Haha, seconded. That list got expanded as well to allow for multiple byte (segment) IDs, and the expanded list still feels like a blast from the past! The only thing about MIDI is that the official standard doc is still only officially avai
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by kolektiv 14y ago
I'll go for qualified agreement to some extent :) You're right in saying that, for example, exactly once delivery is a symptom of a business requirement. I do agree, but even something like message de-duplication has issues with scaling in
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by kolektiv 14y ago
My commiserations on the train journey, I don't miss the Brighton <> London commute one bit (assuming it's the same Clapham, of course). Guaranteed delivery is indeed easy if your messages are idempotent, but if they're not then lif
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by kolektiv 14y ago
A little OT, but it does make me chuckle when you read this on a blog with little to no visual affordances. The title and the date are both permalinks, but there's no indication until you mouse over to check. That's fine - for the sake of c
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by kolektiv 14y ago
I genuinely don't know much about this question. What makes them more capricious than DUI limits for alcohol for example? People vary in their metabolism and intoxication levels there - is there much greater or less predictable variance wit
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by kolektiv 14y ago
"If we met the utopian ideal we toss around in blog posts, we’d still have lots of middle-aged women in this field. We’d have black people. We’d have Asian people – not a smattering, but a majority, cause the world is mostly Asian people."
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by kolektiv 14y ago
Looks like an excellent project, with a really clear and simple approach. I'd love to see more of these approaches for other languages, but I'm looking forward to working through this one.
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by kolektiv 14y ago
It feels like a fairly passive aggressive message. Kicking off with a "blame the victim" jibe in the homework line (I'm not commenting on whether they are actually the victims here, merely the phrasing), it strikes an initial tone of "thi
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by kolektiv 14y ago
The question isn't "is there utility" but "is there sufficiently more utility than alternatives to justify their use". I don't think I've come across a situation where the answer to that is yes. The barriers are high. Most people a) don't h

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