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by maegul 4y ago
No, I think they’ve won this cycle in the same way that Windows and Google did theirs. The only issue for them is that it’s still text editing under the hood, which is a fundamental enough of a tool that there’ll always be alternatives scra
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by maegul 4y ago
Yea, the prospect of domain specific AIs and even workplace/product/family/personally specific AIs that are learning/re-learning on the full history of interactions feels rather formidable at this point. I've alread
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by maegul 4y ago
In line with this, something I feel like I’ve observed is that you can split people into those that like/need to hash things out with others and those that either don’t or aren’t good at it. It’s more than rubber-ducking. It’s collabor
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by maegul 4y ago
Yea, and I wonder how much our need, at a cultural level, for progress will factor into this. If we feel like we need to progress and can't go "backward" with our energy technology, there may just be an irrational impetus to
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by maegul 4y ago
> But choosing the right team is part of being a successful business man. Sure, but it becomes hard to distinguish luck from talent. How would you know that an up and coming but talented PR person didn’t pick him? Or that was random? It’
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by maegul 4y ago
> I am a big Musk critic, but I think his rise demonstrates a genius for hype and PR. The amount of free media and cheap capital that Tesla got was extraordinary, and I think that was down to Musk. A big falsifying hypothesis from this w
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by maegul 4y ago
A bit wishy-washy, but the general point holds. Since the 90s, I’ve been somewhat surprised to see the PC technology fail to really learn from how well humans have leveraged printed information that is embedded in our environment. I figure
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by maegul 4y ago
Huh, I’d forgotten about this. Makes me think of Onivim 2 running out of steam. Have we just gone through an era-ending moment with text editors with VS-code coming out on top along with a few old survivors (vim, eMacs and sublime come to m
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by maegul 4y ago
So this is the thing I've been thinking about the most in this AI wave ... people like you in your position. Depending on how fast AI transforms the economy (which I'm in no position to begin to predict), but presuming some degree
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by maegul 4y ago
Underrated take IMO. Something many haven't learned ... these things are ephemeral. In the same way they are made new they are made old. If you care about your online presence and the branding "value" it has, then work to s
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by maegul 4y ago
I've seen enough behind closed doors to believe wealthy+successful+powerful people are given every opportunity to go down dark paths of personal "development" and that statistically some are likely to turn out "bad"
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by maegul 4y ago
Hard agree! The reactivity is a killer feature. That it hasn’t come to jupyter is my largest criticism of that ecosystem and the developers behind it. It’s like they have never used excel and seen what it’s good at or something, or are too
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by maegul 4y ago
Also, tangentially ... I just went on to https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock for old time's sake, knowing full well that Observable is your new home, and got a Heroku error. Presuming it's because the bl.ocks are no long
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by maegul 4y ago
Nice! Thank you! The tooltip example in particular strikes me as a convincing demonstration that there's a fairly coherent vertical stack of tools in D3->Plot around which a useful and flexible ecosystem of plugins and extensions c
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by maegul 4y ago
Thanks! And examples would be appreciated!
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by maegul 4y ago
Nice work! Two questions. 1) Do you have any thoughts or insights having now made both a low level graphics library (D3) and now a higher level library with “Plot”, on the nature and utilities of such tools it even data vis in general? For
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by maegul 4y ago
> Outside of possibly a small handful of fields (computer programming), we don't know how many people can actually learn an academic subject in any depth on their own. I'm not sure solitary self-learning is the only type of lea
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by maegul 4y ago
So I’m just going to throw this out there … words are deeper than dictionaries. Especially in intellectual conversations concerning abstract or complex concepts, the synthesis of “new” words is pretty fundamental. The line between sentence
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by maegul 4y ago
Absolutely agree. And because of this, any fantasies from tech of easily disrupting education look rather naive … almost like they’re still in the mindset of the student trying to prove their intelligence. It seems then that the technical c
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by maegul 4y ago
From my memory of the popular talk in which he used “complecting”, he was quite open about how silly it is or might seem as a word.
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by maegul 4y ago
My rough take is that the internet as we know it (web 1.0 or 2.0 depending on your taste/age) is over. It ended for me when I found myself in the uncanny valley moderating a Facebook group (while not personally being on Facebook). A us
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by maegul 4y ago
I never used Atom, but I suspect all of us not within the orbit of VS Code that use any of the other not quite IDE text editors can appreciate that sometimes with text editors it's not the one you use but how you use it. Getting to kno
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by maegul 4y ago
True! I remember "upgrading" from ipython as a terminal REPL to ipython notebooks when it was a shiny new thing. Since though, I've more or less joined the anti-notebook camp and use the ipython REPL almost exclusively. My w
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by maegul 4y ago
Yea. The comparison with the Python REPL makes me distrust this post a little. Any Python user who’d be interested in using Julia is or should be familiar with ipython. (If you’re not, it’s a better REPL originally made to make iterative sc
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by maegul 4y ago
> If I had to make a prediction, it's that this will make experienced developers more productive, but it won't turn juniors into seniors. This is my take away too in the short term. Thing is, this isn’t harmless. Seems like a n
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by maegul 4y ago
I have some familiarity with people who work with animals. From what I've seen, for most, the nature of what they're doing never really ceases to haunt them to some extent, however justified or comfortable they feel about it at a
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by maegul 4y ago
Well it may be a poor metaphor! The idea was that an influencer doesn't (AFAIK) have to really apply for their job. They have a profile and platform and are their own brand (again, AFAIK), and apart from whatever advertising contract
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by maegul 4y ago
> The is needlessly condescending and an over generalization. I take your point, and clearly my tone was intended to be somewhat strident. I'm not sure it is needless, though. The university and academic systems, IMO, are problemat
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by maegul 4y ago
Thank you for asking this. I stated something to the same effect here too and think the same way as you. From what I have seen, the answer is that academics are more or less like teachers’ pets that kept going all the way into tenure. Their
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by maegul 4y ago
All of this yes. Additionally I’ve been wondering what blame falls on the academics themselves. They’re the “credentialed” ones in this and allegedly hold and are committed to high values, and are, in the end, the final guardians of the vir

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