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by musesum 4y ago
> Sell high and buy low at the same time Maybe there is a damping function in that. All I've read is the rumored short. Either way, playing a zero-sum game still seems at odds with value creation. Blue shift versus red shift mindset
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by musesum 4y ago
Not sure how shorting Tesla stock creates value. Yes, Danny Hillis demonstrated how introducing parasites can drive an evolutionary algorithm past a relative maxima [1]. Is Tesla at a relative maxima, or still scaling? Moreover, why is Gate
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by musesum 4y ago
> negatively correlated with eudaimonia wow, eudaimonia is my word for the day.
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by musesum 5y ago
I was fortunate enough to visit Jef Raskin while the Cat under development. In his office was a fold-out futon chair and electronic piano. He even played a piece. Humane indeed! He recommended "The Psychology of Human-Computer Interact
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by musesum 5y ago
> Ackermann function Perhaps quantum neurons?
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by musesum 5y ago
> entry level with 10 years experience This sounds like a toxic work environment. Get out while you can!
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by musesum 5y ago
> Now a lot of programmers have started to see Apple as evil. Well, not until 2016 when Apple began to offer ads in the AppStore -- as though that was a good thing for indy developers. And a couple years later, when Spotify keeps getting
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by musesum 5y ago
yes, this! So much easier than asking each person their preference.
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by musesum 5y ago
Prior to covid, was coming in a couple hours before everyone else and get most of my coding done before standup. After standup was lunch, so got the camaraderie. When we started WFH, meetings started to drag out longer and longer. It got to
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by musesum 5y ago
> there should never be more than one button ... which you have to look at, because the position and function changes. There is no muscle memory with dynamic UI. I recall a visually impaired woman who couldn't hail an Uber. I could
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by musesum 5y ago
I've been working on three projects, from short term to long term: 1. Visual synthesizer to synch with popular music to share and jam 2. Wearable thought recorder to predict your future intent (on hold) 3. Anonymous Collaboration to so
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by musesum 5y ago
I wonder, if ever interviewed by the Police, I could just say: "No thanks, search on YouTube for 'Don't Talk to the Police' for why. Or maybe, giving that reason why I won't talk means that I'm actually talking
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by musesum 5y ago
I wonder how inter M/F/T? friendships are affected by the DRD4 gene? https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/news/20101201/is-inf... .
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by musesum 5y ago
I've gone through two burnouts in my career. The first time around, I tried CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy), with limited results. Recently, I followed the Huberman protocol for sleep [1] and daily tools [2], with profound results. Re
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by musesum 5y ago
This reads like a prequel to E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#:~:text=%22T... .
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by musesum 5y ago
> some Space Bro who'll offer to refuel it for likes / tax reasons Maybe a new kind of blockchain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26117587
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by musesum 5y ago
A relevant read is "The Molecule of More ...", which explored the function of Dopamine in great detail [1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/38728977
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by musesum 5y ago
> color theme of the site Uses `A SiteOrigin Theme`, which is significantly improved by the `Dark Reader` plug-in for Chrome. I booked a flight and AirBNB to Lviv for last October and then delayed due to Covid. Motivation is more about s
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by musesum 5y ago
Oh yeah; burnout was reversible. In my case: sleep, ketosis, senolytics, and yoga. YMMV
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by musesum 5y ago
Depends on team size. With larger team the technical debt turned into a positive feedback loop. Not good. Cyclomatic complexity increased. Methods became a black box. A junior coder would copy and paste a method and change one parameter to
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by musesum 5y ago
On a program called 20/20, John Stossel punked Astrology. He asked adult night school students to provide their birthday, gave them an astrology chart, and asked them how relevant it was. Many said the description was uncanny in its ac
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by musesum 5y ago
> I've been a professional software interviewer (600+ interviews) and have seen most very experienced software developers do quite poorly during interviews. It seems that -- to use some old AI jargon -- the difference is between &qu
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by musesum 5y ago
Have been writing code since the mid '70s. But, that has been mostly with startups. YMMV Two years ago, I ran out of money. So, I started interviewing. One example was interviewing for the Apple Watch team. My experience included the d
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by musesum 5y ago
At its peak (1990s), Microsoft was allowing engineers to moonlight. It was regarded as a retention tactic.
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by musesum 5y ago
> Prof Erik Demaine of MIT ... Coincidentally, was searching for David Huffman's Origami paper on origami and found Prof Demaine's paper: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/86200/
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by musesum 5y ago
How is software growth like a plant? What are the nutrients (revenue/volunteers)? The positive feedback loop (commits). The negative feedback loop (deprecations)? Prusinkiewicz & Lindenmayer modeled the growth of plants[1]. Each ha
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by musesum 5y ago
Has anyone tried to do global sentiment analysis for nation states? China's exploits related to Canada [1], Australia [2], and Sri Lanka [3] makes me wonder what happens, should China go into recession? [1] https://www.nytim
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by musesum 5y ago
I had a 4 letter domain name. A stock photo company trademarked the name and then threatened to sue to force transfer. However, I registered the domain before they registered the trademark. I looked up the ICANN rules and saw I had priority
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by musesum 5y ago
Maybe problem with safe area insets? Have been experimenting with SwiftUI DragGesture to replace UIKit's UITouch gestures. Have been getting false negatives and SpringBoard false positives on everything from iPod touch through iPhone P
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by musesum 5y ago
Scott Dickson is a RAGBRAI OG and has won PBP a few times. Some like both levels.

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