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by lhnz 10y ago
Well, I think you misunderstand me. Subjective facts as-in those with different sources or ways of measuring information. For example, people can choose the scientific studies that they draw attention to, and find an expert that agrees with
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Yes, that is my point. Lies are lies. Facts are facts. The indiscriminate usage of the term by the mainstream media is a strategic mistake since they are giving ground to the frame of all facts being subjective and equally applicable. Remem
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Most egregious example are the 'status' updates by young entrepreneurs on how humbled they are to appear within Forbes 30 under 30, etc. Always written as if they are congratulating their peers (the future world leaders). It'
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> Within two days of Trump assuming power, White House > officials have found themselves embroiled in a > scandal over “alternative facts”. Those weren't alternative facts, those were lies. Actual alternative facts
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by lhnz 10y ago
This really lowers the level of discourse. I wouldn't call Milo Yiannopoulous an 'unabashed' white supremacist. He's an anti-left political agitator, and his behaviour is instrumented towards his personal infamy and prof
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Honestly, I quite like Shkreli. His YouTube videos are helpful [0], and he is transparently offensive rather than secretly so. I'm much more turned-off by people that hide in the shadows. Shkreli might exploit the system, but he'l
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> Cyclic data structures require an Arena or Rc<Refcell<>>. Is there a way of creating a cyclic data structure that doesn't involve these types? I ask because I used the latter recently, after struggling to creat
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by lhnz 10y ago
You think you're talking about staying on top of your goals, but you're actually talking about self-esteem. Fulfilling tasks gives you a socially-understood purpose and a sense of security within your social environment. Failing a
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> not a play toy for people looking to write small scripts. That's actually a reasonable beginner's use for Rust though [0]. It's easy to do and will expose you to enough of the language to be a learning experience, but no
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All but the last point will make your code easier to understand and program with. It's not an appeal to emotions at all - those are exactly the features I liked about Rust, and wish more programming languages had.
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by lhnz 10y ago
I think this really over emphasises the difficulty in writing code with a different programming language. The hard part is generally finding a good solution to the problem you're working on... When I've worked with Rust, 90% of th
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by lhnz 10y ago
This looks great, but unfortunately unless Apple releases a way of exporting notes (including images, styling and categories), I will not be able to use this. I have hundreds of documents within Apple Notes, and as far as I know there is no
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by lhnz 10y ago
Yes. Technical debt rendered it difficult to create features, and difficult to hire. The project dragged on as engineers came, tried to refactor and then left. I didn't stay. My understanding is that it was never released, so all of th
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by lhnz 10y ago
If a package has only one published version with no dependents or real users, the call-to-action should be a button near the top of the screen that should describe the action expected (e.g. "claim package name"). Clicking on this
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by lhnz 10y ago
You're referring to a link buried within 'Legal Stuff' at the bottom of the page, away from all other actionable sections linked to a package. I don't think that's even close to being a satisfactory call-to-action.
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by lhnz 10y ago
I didn't know about this. Perhaps it should be better publicised?
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by lhnz 10y ago
https://www.npmjs.com/package/D Stats 64,840 downloads in the last day 1,360,036 downloads in the last week 4,980,362 downloads in the last month Why is this package so popular ? Shouldn't NPM
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by lhnz 10y ago
The reason he's considered an intellectual is that he has intellectual achievements. It's not posture since one can read his Wikipedia page and quickly realise that he's more intellectual than most other VCs. Likely better at
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by lhnz 10y ago
This was my experience, too. I had to keep checking other crates to see what was expected from me, and managed to finally understand through trial-and-error. The problem with this is that I'm not likely to remember how modules work a f
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by lhnz 10y ago
It sounds like you're working on really interesting things. But I only have recent commercial experience as a full-stack engineer building web apps. Are you looking for this? The bar looks really high!
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by lhnz 10y ago
It's an interesting idea. Will it scale down to running all of the functions within a single process though (aka, like a singular monolithic app)? I admit that I've not done any reading on this, so I am not sure whether I am think
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by lhnz 10y ago
Don't take it the wrong way, I was only skewering it because I thought it kind of erased 'bored therefore angry (or depressive)' developers and because I think 'work is often dull but the people that do it should still b
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by lhnz 10y ago
I actually generally get depressed instead of angry, too... So I was writing about this from a perspective closer to yours, and not of an 'angry developer'. (I'd normally send a smiley emoji here but it feels wrong.)
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by lhnz 10y ago
It's definitely arrogant. I don't walk around telling people that I could do their job easily and only avoid it because it bores me. That's pure arrogance. It takes time to learn to do something well. I know if I sat down and
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> The universe is so structured that most programmers find themselves solving problems of exactly that complexity which it is just barely within their competency to solve. In other words they feel as if they’re solving quite difficult pr
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If I fall asleep at 2am I wake at 9am, and if I fall asleep at 11pm I wake at 9am. The latter is extremely hard, so generally I just try to work around my night-owl body clock. I am most productive in the evenings anyway. It's hard tho
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Ideas which are 'actionable pieces of intellectual leverage' are actually massively underrated, and unfortunately grouped alongside mere daydreams. If you happen to have a collection of design/market/engineering insights
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by lhnz 10y ago
What is there to build out? I guess it could be made more obvious for those that don't get it, but it's already being used in exactly the way you describe by Twitter's power users.
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I think they upset a lot of people back in 2015 by saying that white women are a massive barrier to progress [0], and that white men can't even be taught how to empathise [1]. It's not appropriate to bring up in the way it was, bu
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I think you can be reasonably certain that they are able to see the difference in intention. However, can such a database be misused? Yes. And, that's probably their point. (I agree that it's an edge-lordy comment that seems like

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