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by lukev 10y ago
No, inclusivity is not about banning speech, it is about making sure that people can feel comfortable in an environment. Sometimes that means enforcing certain standards of speech and behavior. Which you already agree with , if you are at
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by lukev 10y ago
Governments might not be immune from a sustained majority attack, but that's the point... governments are large entities that (hopefully) operate at large timescales and have some degree of inertia and stability. In turn, governments p
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by lukev 10y ago
I have been and remain intrigued by Ethereum, but there's one element that always struck me as impractical. All its advocates get very excited about all the complex automated things it can do, which is admittedly very cool. But for the
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Frameworks, Libraries and Templates in Arachne(arachne-framework.org)
17 points by lukev 10y ago|0 comments
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by lukev 11y ago
This is even more true of the comment section of HN than it is in the media. For several domains I know something about, the comments here are painfully misguided and just bad, with the possible exception of some programming topics.
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Arachne Web Framework for Clojure(kickstarter.com)
8 points by lukev 11y ago|0 comments
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by lukev 11y ago
Yep. I certainly disagree with that conclusion. There are a wealth of awesome talks by awesome people out there. If Yarvin was excluded, his slot would have been filled by an equally interesting, equally informative talk not by a racist.
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by lukev 11y ago
I do not vet the politics of all my co-speakers. That said, if my black friends are dropping out of a conference because they feel deeply uncomfortable even being near someone, that's as clear a signal as I'm likely to get that so
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by lukev 11y ago
Not at all! I can disassociate myself from Yarvin, and even "no-platform" him while fully acknowledging that he's a legit functional programmer with interesting technical ideas. But I can't engage with him as a peer, in
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by lukev 11y ago
Of course, LambdaConf has every right to define its community in the way it sees fit. While their explanation does have a lot of logical appeal (see: https://www.facebook.com/notes/satnam-singh/dr-spock-vs-dive...
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by lukev 11y ago
My CV1 just arrived. Resolution is adequate for gaming, but it's a long, long way off from being usable for text-based activity. In a world where moving from a standard-resolution to a retina resolution for programming was a major eyes
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by lukev 11y ago
Isn't it more likely that the opposite is true, and Ko is the kind of thing where it is possible for a computer to play flawlessly? I am very very very far from a Go expert, but Ko did always seem to be "first person to make a mis
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by lukev 11y ago
Definitely. I want to understand what's going on here and be able to apply some creativity to the process, not just use existing tools without understanding.
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by lukev 11y ago
If I wanted to get into generating this kind of image, as an art project, where would I start, assuming I'm a component programmer?
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by lukev 11y ago
I think this says more about node.js than it does about the proper way to secure a password.
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by lukev 11y ago
I agree it's not rigorous, but it's not necessarily bullshit. We know the placebo effect is quite strong (stronger than we can fully account for, in fact.) Postulating that it is possible to engage the placebo effect voluntarily
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by lukev 11y ago
If I read the methods correctly, then how does this fall into the category of "learned behavior"? Exposing the body to these temperature extremes, which are far outside the norms most of us experience and which must induce borderl
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by lukev 11y ago
If you can provide links to the relevant portion of the documentation or a relevant google search result, I think that's fine. But merely telling someone "read the manual" without adding anything else serves no purpose whatso
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by lukev 11y ago
Why? Why is that? Say you encountered a local situation where you meet someone in real danger, and for some contrived reason only you are able to help them (say, they knock at the door of your remote house during a blizzard or something,
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by lukev 11y ago
A really great book about this concept, applied specifically to software, is The Phoenix Project ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Phoenix-Project-Helping-Business/d... ). I recommend it highly.
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by lukev 11y ago
Except that there are strong social incentives for anyone who is capable of getting a paying job and going off welfare to do so. If it were socially acceptable for an artist, scientist or entrepreneur to fall back on "welfare" f
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by lukev 11y ago
Sure, if you buy into a bunch of NLP pseudoscience. Or, you could accept the much more straightforward and believable explanation that Trump has unique appeal for racists, xenophobes and those who are extremely frustrated with the conservat
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by lukev 11y ago
This is laughably wrong. They aren't converting that matter to energy - they are just utilizing Newton's third law. Throwing the matter really fast exerts an opposite force in the other direction. As far as human energy production
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by lukev 11y ago
I'm not an aeronautical engineer, but the fuselage/wing size ratio on that is way bigger than anything I've seen that actually flies. Is something that looks like that even a little bit possible?
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by lukev 11y ago
Heh. "correctly implemented." Heh.
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by lukev 11y ago
No, it's because ebooks flow the text and images dynamically to accommodate different screen and font sizes whereas a book can be statically typeset.
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by lukev 11y ago
This is absurd. Spending time with one's child instead of one's job is a massive priority for any neurotypical human. Just because someone cares about something more than their job doesn't mean they don't care about thei
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by lukev 11y ago
Or if you can't run ethernet cables, I've had quite good success in my house with a powerline adapter (like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Netgear-Powerline-Extra-Outlet-PLP1200... ). Couldn't vouch for how w
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by lukev 11y ago
It's still not engineering. I mean, I can't stop you from defining engineering to include software, but there is a critical difference in the actual activity performed by engineers vs programmers. Programming is cheap enough tha
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by lukev 11y ago
Real autopilots, sure. Most people are exposed to autopilot systems only through movies where the autopilot not only can fly the ship in combat, but make cappuccinos and (more likely than not) has a sexy female voice.

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