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by madrox 5y ago
I get that you're following the "once a day" wordle model, but you're going to lose a lot of people who go in blindly (like me), don't understand the game, and then discover they're locked out because they went
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by madrox 5y ago
But that was because security and not speech. Close but a different issue. We've shut down a lot of stuff for that reason.
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by madrox 5y ago
I wonder if a day will ever come when a "X major site banned in the USA" headline crosses HN for speech reasons. We've been surprisingly tolerant of a lot of nonsense from a top-down perspective. The closest we get is a grass
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by madrox 5y ago
By definition, you can't deal with these kinds of people. You can't change the mind of someone whose mind is made up. At best, you can wait until they fail and are replaced. However, you'll likely waste a lot of time waiting
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by madrox 5y ago
At first I was surprised that these stores had survived this long, and then I remembered these were probably great write-offs to have around when the real goal was probably data collection on how people navigated certain kinds of physical s
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by madrox 5y ago
I don't think that's where it comes from. It comes from the same places as Google, where people know the value of this community's attention. Posts at the top of HN are designed to get to the top of HN.
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by madrox 5y ago
That inauthenticity comment really hit home for me, too. I realize that I do not trust the internet at large, and haven't for a long time. That's been the real trigger for my retreat from mass social media into smaller, tigher onl
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by madrox 5y ago
I used to share this view, but bitter experience has taught me that people do not change in the aggregate. Individuals may change, but that doesn't affect society at large. There is virtue in expanding knowledge and abilities, such as
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by madrox 5y ago
I've used these a few times in my D&D games. They're great!
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by madrox 5y ago
While I agree with the author in principle about human processes, as someone who has done a lot of virtual interviewing lately, I think it's worth rethinking the virtual interview and hiring process from first principles. Much of the v
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by madrox 5y ago
Going through the same journey and hitting 40 this year, I've learned problems are an illusion. It doesn't get systemically better. Nothing ever is really solved, and the industry is constantly seeing an influx of people in their
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by madrox 5y ago
I suspect there's a third outcome within crypto many are quietly pursuing. Looked through the lens of "what if the internet were its own country" a lot of web3 makes a bit more sense. Or maybe I've read too many Neal Ste
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by madrox 5y ago
I'm not sure if it's a broad definition of dark pattern or a narrow definition of game. This site probably considers sudoku, wordle, and crosswords to be games, but would probably not consider, say, Witcher to be a game...at least
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by madrox 5y ago
I wouldn't expect this to happen. It's like hoping software will shift back to writing C++. Everyone moved on for a reason, and the people that make up the industry as a whole simply don't have the skillset (or willingness) f
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by madrox 5y ago
Between electron, webassembly, and other technologies, I don't think the line between web app and native app is as clear as it used to be, especially relative lift and performance. In the end, the only difference may be "one is la
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by madrox 5y ago
“Self perpetuating emergent behavior” is the best summary I’ve ever heard of this phenomenon
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by madrox 5y ago
After reading Dune and also being an engineering leader, I’ve come to view power as multivariate. In some ways you have less power when you’re in charge. To go with your example, many other countries didn’t see a choice in getting involved
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by madrox 5y ago
A recent thread went around twitter discussing the need for artificial wombs to address the inequality between men and women. Huxley is the first place my mind went. https://twitter.com/molly0xfff/status/1483831201
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by madrox 5y ago
This may be a generational thing, but most IT security even a mere 20 years ago focused heavily on the human elements. Networks were different back then and people were far easier to dupe. You usually had to be on site to gain access to any
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by madrox 5y ago
I don't believe the message here is to ignore the lesson, but to consider rethinking your responses if your responses are leaving you less than fulfilled. Over time, people develop rote strategies in response to lessons learned. We for
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by madrox 5y ago
When Walmart started taking over consumer goods, everyone thought small business was dead. All that was really died was the general store, and we saw a rise in boutique storefronts. Depending on their niche, people craved more than the lowe
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by madrox 5y ago
I've been thinking a fun game would be a very simple 1v1 first person shooter where you play locally against a neural net AI whose only source of learning is playing you, and you can have it fight online against other player's AIs
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by madrox 5y ago
> The Americans gave us Cartoon Network. If the Germans had better cartoons we probably would be speaking German a lot better. It wasn’t until you said this that I considered my motivation to learn Japanese as part of this conversation.
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by madrox 5y ago
Lots of people on HN have clearly never worked for a cost center. If you work in a cost center like IT, employees never see the benefits of improved efficiency unless they do what this person is doing and not disclose their process. If they
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by madrox 5y ago
First off, I'd like to point you to Richard Feynman talking about burnout [1].: While taking time off isn't a bad idea, you may find you immediately burn out again on returning to work. The goal should be figuring out how to work
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by madrox 5y ago
I'm willing to concede this, but I find it incredible that this is true and yet users have very little control over how their timeline is filtered.
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by madrox 5y ago
Unfortunately, his solutions are non-starters. Openness and oversight of data and algorithms won't do anything without clear ethical requirements. All it will really do is slow down iteration. Prioritizing tools to shield against of ha
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by madrox 5y ago
I think the irony is that newness is irrelevant once it's being used at a certain scale. You can battle test more in an hour than you could a small scale project in ten years.
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by madrox 5y ago
I don't know how surprising it is, considering ease of use and "just works" beats all other considerations every time. If it didn't, we'd still all be using Novell.
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by madrox 5y ago
The short answer is...there are many universal data formats for resumes [1]. Longer answer is that actually coming up with a universal data format that encompasses all the nuances of all fields that use resumes is actually HARD and no one

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