mindless_solips

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by mindless_solips 4y ago
"Grove giveth, Gates taketh away"
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by mindless_solips 4y ago
Kent Beck's Test Driven Development by Example and Xtreme Programming Explained are delightful books that deserve a place on this list.
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by mindless_solips 5y ago
"I'd say the friend effect is able to elevate people who have 'mediocre' skills on paper to be efficient enough and start learning at a rate that sees them performing well above their qualifications." Any sources fo
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by mindless_solips 5y ago
What?!? Russell literally developed Type Theory. Even discussion of Platonic Forms ultimately goes from "lesser" abstractions like the Ideal Form of a Bed to "greater" abstractions like Beauty, Justice, Good. Please, rea
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by mindless_solips 5y ago
You may want to review Russell's A History of Western Philosophy. Bertrand pretty effectively shredded most of the fantastical precepts Platonism relies on in his analysis in the chapter on Theory of Ideas (15 in the Audible audio book
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by mindless_solips 5y ago
I hope the asutute reader is recognizing the classical Western European thinker mentality of "in going through this particular contextual situation where a variety of forces have conspired to create a situation. From my limited view an
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by mindless_solips 5y ago
What an incredible link and story I hadn't heard of at all. Reading that Lenovo literally knowingly installed self-signed certs on their laptops to send encrypted traffic to ad bots is one of the more horrifying device manufacturer fin
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by mindless_solips 5y ago
A serialization format is more than just how things are described on the wire. It's also about how both sides are expected to receive and transmit it. Naive processing of JSON in certain situations can run into sharp edges like this:
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by mindless_solips 5y ago
Thank you for this. The Love of Complexity is Real in this field. While I encourage and support the goals of anonymity and security everywhere, everything has its design envelope. This is an e-zine of public content. Sure, "SoMeOnE cOu
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by mindless_solips 5y ago
What we're seeing is essentially the Death of the Free Flow of Information on the Internet;coming concomitant with a pervasive social slide towards Elitism when the whole point of the original revolution was to break down the siloes of
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by mindless_solips 5y ago
What?!? BREH, read Effective Java on Serialization. Every serialization format has security implications . Some try to make this explicit and probably fail in capturing all conceivable holes. Some leave this implicit to give you "fun
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by mindless_solips 5y ago
These are the monsters who told us "XML is too bloated" and "who'd ever want a self-describing, self-transformable interchange format anyway?" The more I see things like JSONSchema and JSON5 get away from Crockford&