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by meredydd 9y ago
Flirting is always an exercise in plausible deniability. You do something legitimately (or plausibly) platonic, while working out what the other person wants. If you forbid anything that might look flirty, by definition you forbid a bunch o
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by meredydd 9y ago
In British terms, the green light temporarily turns your pedestrian walkway into a zebra crossing. You have legal priority, but some drivers are assholes.
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by meredydd 9y ago
Relevant difference between UK and American pedestrian lights: When you see the "Green man" in the UK, the cars will not cross your walkway. Contrast the US, where cars can and do legally cross an active pedestrian walkway (turn
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The Discovery of Apache Zookeeper's Poison Packet (a Debugging Story)(pagerduty.com)
4 points by meredydd 9y ago|0 comments
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by meredydd 9y ago
Because these stories are an object demonstration that this sort of thing can be happening in a blatant, undeniable way - seriously, read those texts - and the men around can never see it . So, "never seeing it" isn't really
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by meredydd 9y ago
Yep. What I'm saying we should learn from this, and Uber, and all the rest is that we should treat "a constant murmur" as much stronger evidence than we currently do. (Not necessarily a slam dunk - but, in Bayesian terms, i
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by meredydd 9y ago
Aside, and not meant at you specifically, but: Next time you hear "a constant murmur" of harassment, racism, or other bad behaviour, _ believe it _. That constant murmur is the sound of a thousand stories like this that don't
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by meredydd 9y ago
It's a means to an end. You can choose - if you think the thicket of Javascript frameworks is strangling accessibility of the Web platform, can either whinge about it on the Internet all day or try to build something better.
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Make the world a better place? Remove some JavaScript from it(anvil.works)
32 points by meredydd 9y ago|24 comments
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by meredydd 9y ago
The Good Judgement Project (for that was its name) is pretty awesome - but if you mechanically connected it to the policy apparatus, I'd expect Mr Goodhart on the next train. You've proposed a few possible countermeasures (play mo
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by meredydd 9y ago
Hanson's "Adventure #1" is the promotion of futarchy, or rule by (prediction) markets. This is one call I fervently hope goes unanswered. It's the most dangerous sort of bad idea - namely, one that produces good results
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by meredydd 9y ago
This is startup-ese for "Every single one of our users is breaking their bank's ToS, and we maintain plausible deniability by telling them to go and read complex legal documents themselves". I can totally understand the motiv
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by meredydd 9y ago
> What other examples are there? Off the top of my head, so all my counterexamples will be British, but here are a few US tech companies who built missing features for major players - whereas in other countries the major incumbents jus
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by meredydd 9y ago
I'm don't think "smaller" matters much in this case. Delivering food from nearby shops is inherently local and can be rolled out slowly. "Denser", however, is often a very good answer. Imagine shoving every per
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by meredydd 9y ago
This deal is Venmo for groceries. A tech company is filling an obvious hole in an established industry - where in many other countries, the incumbents have been flexible enough to do it themselves. Amazon has reached the conclusion British
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by meredydd 9y ago
This is incredibly scrappy, not to mention hair-raising: > A Single PE fed NZ’s primary 911 call center. [We] once moved this PE up 12U while in production without dropping a packet (or the router).
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by meredydd 9y ago
Obligatory plug: We're bringing it back! Check out https://anvil.works - it's like VB, only for this century (the web) and using a sensible language (Python, both client and server). We just took it to PyCon, and the r
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by meredydd 9y ago
What's the benefit? If your tooling already requires lossless round-trips to and from text, why invent a funky storage format that doesn't interoperate and can't be fixed with a text editor when it all blows up? You already h
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by meredydd 9y ago
Thing is, the architecture you just described is a modern IDE with refactoring etc. This is a well-trodden road. It starts with "wouldn't it be awesome if we could manipulate everything as ASTs", then usability intervenes a
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by meredydd 9y ago
> I do believe that a better code editor is possible through non-plaintext programming. (Serialize token trees and ASTs, instead of plaintext.) Funnily enough, this is itself another of those mirages, like visual programming, that have
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by meredydd 9y ago
Old-school VB actually shows you all your code (sorry, best video I could find quickly: https://youtu.be/zmyZCmX2LWQ?t=2m21s ). They were aware of the issue you raised, having tried separate-function editing as far back as Q
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by meredydd 9y ago
And yet, even these luminaries were insufficient to propel significant industrial adoption in the face of a famously hostile/arrogant/condescending community. The same fate befalling Clojure would be terrible.
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by meredydd 9y ago
> specially if one bought the argument that programmers are snowflakes who can't take frustration. I think that characterising a (clearly knowledgeable, well-referenced) account of frustrations - especially ones that do not occur
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by meredydd 10y ago
Interestingly, Visual Basic did it all with absolute (pixel-by-pixel) positioning. Some (not all, but some) of the issue is that we have moved forward in what we expect out of UIs. (The rest, of course, is that the Web front-end is a shits
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by meredydd 10y ago
I would be fascinated to see how they intend to beat the incumbents to market. Airbus has already announced its interest in electric planes: They've flown an electric two-seat trainer ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by meredydd 10y ago
Oops - I misread "several thousand" as "about a thousand". Comment now corrected. The ratio is a bit less eye-popping now, but I bet it's still high by MOOC standards.
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by meredydd 10y ago
10:1 (I'm guessing) sounds like pretty a high contention ratio for a MOOC. I'd be fascinated to see how this compares with the ratios for YC proper (as well as others like the Fellowships). [Edit note: I misread the post original
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by meredydd 10y ago
You really do get used to it. First time I got into a light plane, I had exactly the same reaction as you - it was all gobbledegook. By the time I took my first proper lesson, I'd started reading the textbook, and it was mostly making
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by meredydd 10y ago
In case "hunt the link in a PDF" isn't your favourite game, here are the images: http://download.lww.com/wolterskluwer_vitalstream_com/PermaL...
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by meredydd 10y ago
[Update - Holy Moses, that presentation is amazing! It's a perfect illustration of what happens when you don't have the background of experience that web devs do, and just throw a bunch of smart but inexperienced C++ devs at a h

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