mattgreenrocks

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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
Low latency + adequate bandwidth + well-designed sites make for a pleasant web browsing experience. If any one of those aren't present, it somehow seems less professional. Plus, the time between clicking a link and the next page coming up i
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
It's not just the work; I've come to accept (on some level) that I need to keep moving when working on projects and not fixate on a single detail to get it exactly right. But there's also the nagging feeling that programming is just, well,
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
Well, I'd wish they'd measure it by the quality of their writing and the discussion it generates instead of hits. But it's up to them how to measure success. I'm only concerned with how that perception of success affects HN. Presently, it's
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
Have you noticed how many articles are about C around here? As I said in another thread, there's too many benefits to discussing C/Lisp/Git: strong opinions (thus, traffic), karma, and illusory in-group status. If we want to fix Hacker News
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
The author seems a bit too proud of Facebook. (Actually, it creeps me out whenever someone blogs passionately in defense of a product.) Maybe abstainers just don't want to deal with it? I know several people like that. They don't think they
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
Thank you. One of the implicit assumptions of user-generated content sites is that every user should be given a voice. Unfortunately, this creates feedback loops around certain topics (around here, it tends to be Linux/C/vim) because there
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
Wouldn't a process-based architecture be more suited to what he's doing (running arbitrary code)? It'd give you the chance to lock it down tightly if you wished within the OS itself, on top of the JVM security.
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
I find the trends offensive; as they seem to suggest that it'd be better if I talked about a certain topic, which is often terribly banal and uninteresting. Mostly because I believe the last thing the world needs is yet another mechanism
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
I'm not sure I'm really qualified here :). I've beentrying to limit intake of processed substances as much as possible. For most of my life, they were the norm, and I'm slowly phasing them out. This took the form of not going out for lunch,
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
> Now if you want that thats perfectly alright, but I at least only want to spend as little time as possible caring about my body and as little time as possible with normal people since both things are utterly boring. You do have a poin
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
How edgy.
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
This also puts developers in a position where they're told to expect high piracy rates if they have the gall to write desktop applications and charge for them. This is more apparent the more you target the, ahem, 'power' user crowd, who is
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
And what determines what is important vs. what is not? Certainly something like spam is pure noise, but what justifies the repetition? I'm trying very hard not to see it as consensual groupthink, but coming up short. I see this in every com
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
Possibly because the system as it exists now might be perceived as near-optimal for the average user: some people fund creative works that others enjoy for free. Thus, the discussion is consistently trainwrecked into one of semantics (somet
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
> I don't have much experience in that area, so I can't judge if it's as cool as I think it is. Will anyone help me out? It is quite cool. Strictly speaking, it doesn't have to be in standard library, but Python has always had a batteri
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
You're not insane. I think the near-victimless nature of this crime makes it easy to compartmentalize away. Arguments such as "zero distribution costs," "it's just numbers," and "don't call it stealing!" tend to oversimplify the discussion
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
My meta-commentary was on the fact that the issue of semantics seems to serve as a all-too-convenient cognitive escape hatch in these discussions, diverting them from the harder topic at hand: that of intellectual property rights. I find it
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
I find it amusing that second-rate grammar (loose/lose) and spelling is the norm for some communities, but the second this topic comes up, everyone turns into a armchair semantic guru.
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by mattgreenrocks 16y ago
It isn't meditation, but it is similar. I've started journaling as a sort of auto-psychotherapy, and it seems like it can really work if you start digging into issues. I'm not sure I'd recommend it to people if they don't already know somet