neonrider

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by neonrider 1y ago
> That has to be attributed to the newer generations. They are more skeptical of propaganda than ever before. To them, the high production value media outlets are just a quaint legacy variety of content slop. Right. The skeptical newer g
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by neonrider 1y ago
> Is the colour you see the same as what I see? It’s a question that has puzzled both philosophers and neuroscientists for decades, but has proved notoriously difficult to answer. > Now, a study that recorded patterns of brain activit
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by neonrider 1y ago
You might have opened the article thinking that it was going to be a discussion on cognitive load theory in general. It's not and I don't believe it needed to be for its purpose, since it's been well framed: code. Intrinsic
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by neonrider 1y ago
A hacker and a mystic. We need more of those.
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by neonrider 1y ago
Love it. Make code accessibility a first-class citizen. Turn the rule books and their principles into guidelines . A smart coder knows to follow rules. A master knows code is meant to be read and develops contextual awareness for when and
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by neonrider 1y ago
> I think the nuance here is that “the simplest thing possible” is not always the “best solution”. The programmer's mind is the faithful ally of the perfect in its war waged against the good enough. The "best" solution for
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by neonrider 1y ago
> Anyway, I just wish China would just continue opening up, namely to get rid of the great firewall. To become the next Rome, China would have to open up and let itself be infected by the rest of the world. It's a rite of passage, w
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by neonrider 1y ago
> But China proved you can pair authoritarian politics with a market economy. It offers a bargain we thought impossible: prosperity without freedom, development without democracy, safety without expansive civil liberties. And for the bil
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by neonrider 1y ago
The hallmarks of ghost job posting are so obvious that detecting them could probably be automated now. - Recurrent and yearlong ad for the same position, with numerous applicants (sometimes in the hundreds, if not thousands). This is probab
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by neonrider 1y ago
I'm not familiar with the process of passing a law. Is it one of those situations where the ask is open to negotiation? Like, if I want to be given a finger I first need to ask for the whole arm kinda deal? If it's the case, then
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by neonrider 2y ago
Just to note. 80% of recruiters doesn't mean 80% of ads. A recruiter that has posted thousands of legitimate ads in their career, technically only needs to have posted 1 fake one to be eligible for inclusion in the 80%. Although I un
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by neonrider 2y ago
I'd love to go back to times where it was fine for a candidate not to have a LinkedIn. Currently, regardless of your blog, or your multiple StackOverflow answers, or your GitHub, or your posts on any of the other tech-focused communiti
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by neonrider 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie#History,_etymology,_and_p... The idea was independently described in 1960 by Edward Fredkin, who coined the term trie, pronouncing it /ˈtriː/ (as "tree"), after t
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Ask HN: How do you get through to Facebook for help?
3 points by neonrider 4y ago|1 comments
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by neonrider 5y ago
> Or, what all the cool kids do - music festivals and camping. Taking 1 gram of cubensis and taking 5 grams will not have the same effect. Traditionally, strong psychedelic doses tend to be administered for therapeutic/spiritual jou