maxbendick

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by maxbendick 5y ago
Male suicide and depression is a big problem. I recommend some Bell Hooks (rest in peace) if you want to dig deeper into the problem (link below). But I think you as well as I know that the problem isn't slurs against men. Great passag
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by maxbendick 5y ago
Category theory, type theory, and HoTT are all a joy! Worth checking out, especially if you didn't enjoy math in school.
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by maxbendick 5y ago
Bitcoin demonstrably has value. In fact all value is socially determined (I didn't say "arbitrary"). Whether bitcoin is a "fraud" or not is obviously a different issue.
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by maxbendick 5y ago
Excellent recommendation. I'll add Designing Freedom by Stafford Beer as a great intro. Available as a book and a series of free lectures here: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-...
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by maxbendick 5y ago
Subversion: Functional programming is popular because it's intuitive! Perhaps "immanent" or "diagrammatic" is a better word than functional. I mean that a function _is_ what it does, but not so with a procedure. One
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by maxbendick 5y ago
Would love a short explanation/link to your MA thesis, that seems very interesting!
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by maxbendick 5y ago
Love to see Bataille and Heidegger on hn :) The concept of the accursed share seems pretty applicable to space races of the present. Maybe it's a sign the flux of capital is saturating?
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by maxbendick 5y ago
We have so much to learn from cybernetics, especially in the infancy of blockchain. How does one design a flourishing economy and maximize outcomes for its members? I recommend checking out Stafford Beer's lectures on cybernetics: htt
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by maxbendick 5y ago
What's hilarious about auto-generating the GPL license is that it's provable Copilot is trained on GPL code, but it's essentially impossible to tell which code it came from. Any legal battle will be strange... Is it enough fo
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by maxbendick 5y ago
Incredible! I have a toy webaudio livecoding project that I've been dying to get working efficiently in VST-form. Looks like Elementary could be a great way to do this.
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by maxbendick 6y ago
Commodity fetishism, what an example! I expect NFTs to be a trend. It's much easier to fetishize a physical commodity than a digital one. What you're paying for is the imagined blessing imbued by the creator and access to the cont
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by maxbendick 6y ago
I wish the music community had more mainstream open source DAW adoption. With so many incredible and portable VST plugins, an open source core is such a great fit.
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by maxbendick 6y ago
With regards to SoundCloud's future, their revenue is growing, they're profitable, and they've recently raised. I'm also one of the developers working on it. Can't speak to fraud as it's not my area + NDA, but
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by maxbendick 6y ago
I recognize that you understand it as an act of charity. That by giving much more than necessary to employees, he is pro-employee. He is legally entitled to the profit, after all. I see it as: his employees created the vast majority of the
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by maxbendick 6y ago
pro-employee? who made his billions?
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by maxbendick 6y ago
I've found xstate invaluable for multi-step flows on the front end. Redux and similar libraries are a bit hard to read when making these because representing sequential distinct states is implicit. I.e., have an enum for the "page
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by maxbendick 6y ago
I think another term for that is "time theft"
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by maxbendick 6y ago
Something I love about advanced TypeScript types: they're easy to consume given some documentation, even when the programmer doesn't understand them. Defining the types is another story. Editors give great autocomplete suggestions
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by maxbendick 7y ago
LA Times has an incredible live California fire map. Please consider supporting them! https://www.latimes.com/wildfires-map/
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by maxbendick 7y ago
It looks like you put a lot of thought into this! Connective allows users to create graphs between sources and sinks flexibly (i.e., not only source to sink ala typical RxJS), without needing to worry about multicasting. Is this a fair way
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by maxbendick 7y ago
No, not at all. Incentives aren't alligned in politics, industry, or in the home for real change to happen. It's a tradgedy of the commons.
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by maxbendick 7y ago
André Staltz's writing is always a pleasure to read. I still show people his intro to reactive programming https://gist.github.com/staltz/868e7e9bc2a7b8c1f754
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by maxbendick 8y ago
This is such a great idea. Would love more practical targets (text, borders, grids, animations, etc.)
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by maxbendick 8y ago
I've had a lot of success using observables for side-effects in Redux and NGRX. It's flexible, testable, and reliable. I can map, filter, etc. my app's actions to perform any side-effect I want, possibly sending a success or
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by maxbendick 8y ago
No mention of self-driving?
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by maxbendick 8y ago
Here's a silly definition: A number is a sequence of 1 or more digits, optionally beginning with a '-' and optionally followed by a '.' and one or more digits, where digits are the characters {'0' '1&
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by maxbendick 8y ago
It's declarative in the sense that the instructions are set in text. But what goes inside a Dockerfile might be imperative, like running apt-get to install packages (i.e., running steps in order).
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by maxbendick 8y ago
This is great! Docker feels imperative to me, and using this could help mitigate that. Also looking into Nix to help my container workflow more declarative.
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by maxbendick 8y ago
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