mattchew

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by mattchew 9y ago
Best article I've read this year. (Haha, but it's very good, if a little burdened with weird terminology.) I have been through some similar experiences myself. Not as bad, but enough to find OP's story not-really-remarkable.
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by mattchew 10y ago
I agree. After watching the Go developers push back against noisy changes, I'm much more appreciative of determined simplicity in language design. > If I see c# code today I don't understand what it does. I am not surprised. Th
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by mattchew 10y ago
My kids are teenagers now, I'm looking at this too. I'm pretty sure that going to college with only a fuzzy idea of why you're there and what you're expecting to get out of it isn't a smart move any more. Me and a w
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by mattchew 10y ago
We can't be sure, and they won't always be perfectly honest, but if you're billing yourself as a fact checker, you're trying to appeal to people who are interested in the truth in the first place. You can apply some spi
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by mattchew 10y ago
Underrail. Shadowrun Dragonfall is reasonably close. From one angle, Fallout New Vegas.
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by mattchew 10y ago
Yup. "And by advancing, I mean retreating!"
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by mattchew 10y ago
This is indeed the worst. By itself it is enough to make me want to switch. It's not the only thing, though. Win 10 is a decent OS in most ways, but there are too many places where it does things that I don't want and I can't
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by mattchew 10y ago
I see "free speech" with scare quotes around it from left leaning people fairly often. Much of the left is pretty happy with the idea of blacklisting and no platforming people now. (They weren't so happy about it in the McCar
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by mattchew 11y ago
You might check out Sil, which is set in Middle Earth and is supposed to be truer to the spirit of Tolkien. I've also heard it is good as a game. Haven't played it myself.
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by mattchew 11y ago
Perhaps your idea of socialism, but not many others' ideas. That's the problem. A lot of people who cheer for socialism believe capitalism, in the sense of private property in the means of production, is a problem and should be ab
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by mattchew 11y ago
I would say all 10 are clearly capitalist. All have strong recognition of property rights including private property in the means of production. It is unfortunate that political terminology is muddy enough to allow for this sort of confusio
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by mattchew 11y ago
Another thought about ADD/ADHD in the olden days. I'm inclined to doubt that these traits could have been a serious handicap in earlier times if we didn't really notice this as a template of behavior until recently. People ha
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by mattchew 11y ago
At least sometimes kids with ADD symptoms are capable of very focused attention on the things they're actually interested in.
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by mattchew 11y ago
We did also get some hundreds of thousands of immigrants (boat people) in the 1980s, I think mostly without suitcases. My impression (casual) is they have done fairly well.
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by mattchew 11y ago
The kind that has prior experience with what forced institutionalization actually means. (Hint: it's not about "helping" people.)
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by mattchew 11y ago
Location makes a big difference. I live in the Midwest and there aren't many $125K positions out here. But a 3 BR house in good shape in a decent neighborhood can be less than 100K. Freelancing at $~60/hour * ~30 hours/week c
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by mattchew 11y ago
Nice writing. "When you’re young, you want things: work, love, children. When you reach middle age, you want to want things."
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by mattchew 11y ago
Thanks for sharing. I'm only a Go novice myself, but it doesn't look bad to me. Doesn't need to be perfect for me to learn something from it.
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by mattchew 11y ago
I'm interested.
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by mattchew 11y ago
Don't think this is the one you're thinking of, but I do like Mary Rose Cook's intro to fp using Python: http://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/a-practical-introduction-t...
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by mattchew 11y ago
IIRC the previous article I read on this, the Dutch are at least attempting to set up a control group.
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by mattchew 11y ago
> Just look at people who inherit or win large sums of money - a few of them end up just enjoying themselves, but most use the money to follow a cause that they think is something worthwhile. Can you link to the source you're talkin
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by mattchew 11y ago
> But the poverty IS effecting the ability for these parents to feed their kids right, even if technically money isn't the limitation. > my argument is that the effects of being poor are preventing these parents from the tools, t
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by mattchew 11y ago
It is worth distinguishing between first world poverty and third world poverty with statements like this. They're different things. I can easily believe third world poverty causes permanent IQ deficiencies. First world poverty, I'
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by mattchew 11y ago
I've known some homeschooling families that were flat out poor. Plenty that were lower middle class-ish. Only a few that seemed wealthy. I'd be surprised if there were many people who really wanted to homeschool but felt they coul
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by mattchew 12y ago
I'm sure you're not the only one, but you're pretty unusual. Eating meat doesn't bother me, but if I imagine myself attaching more moral value to nonhumans, I would rate insects a lot lower than chickens a lot lower than
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by mattchew 12y ago
There exist related bugs in bugzilla, frex https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=825578 . The css invert filter was very recently added to Firefox. Haven't played with this but sounds like it could make the job
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by mattchew 12y ago
I'd like to switch back to Firefox, but they do not support inverted colors like Chrome does. Hacker Vision on Chrome is sooooo good. The closest I've found for Firefox is Color Toggle, but it fails in a lot of places, enough that
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by mattchew 12y ago
I agree with this, mostly, but I am also optimistic about what we'll see in the future. There are lots more little studios making niche games and trying out new ideas than there were just a few years ago. I bet we'll see some RPGs
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by mattchew 12y ago
Roughly speaking, it looks to me like younger people do not want to get married, and are in fact choosing partnerships that are expected to be only semi permanent instead. The idea of traditional, permanent marriage is taking on stuffy and

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