nick_urban

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by nick_urban 15y ago
I'm not sure what you're thinking of in particular, but I'm guessing that most talk about cybernetics in modern philosophy is derived from Heidegger's claim that in modernity, we lose any an ultimate referent for our chains of signification
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by nick_urban 15y ago
Thank you for this essay. I understand that it's not, as some have already pointed out, particularly disinterested, but it set me to thinking, which is enough for me. This essay calls for a return to hard problems. The "problem" with hard p
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by nick_urban 15y ago
Unless people are actually interested in web typography. Why should the person submitting the link (unless it's pg) make so much difference?
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by nick_urban 15y ago
I see this sort of advice a lot, and frankly, it bothers me. There's nothing wrong with doing programming projects in your spare time, but it's hardly the most impressive thing you can do. For a variety of reasons, there are many one-dimens
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by nick_urban 15y ago
I don't think this is meant to be serious. Maybe on a quantum computer...
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by nick_urban 15y ago
I wonder what effect this will have on HTML5 app development. Would the Ruby developers who are considering building HTML5 apps go for native Ruby instead if given the option?
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by nick_urban 15y ago
This is the first time I've heard about Foreman, and it looks like it could be very convenient for development. I appreciate the attempt to abstract from process requirement details in the same way that Gemfiles do for gems. I think there's
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by nick_urban 16y ago
If you don't have any savings, and don't have any income other than from working, how do you expect to live anywhere without working? Are you staying at home right now? The bay area is expensive, but it varies a lot depending on where you a
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by nick_urban 16y ago
I don't particularly object to the idea that we hold some of our intelligence in our environment. I think it's true, and actually forms the basis for my objection. What I object to is that we should naively allow that environment to be chan
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by nick_urban 16y ago
Does it strike any one else as at least a _bit_ disturbing that he thinks his "mind" is in his smart phone, and finds no problem with this other than that service providers are greedy? An obvious way to avoid becoming beholden to service pr
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by nick_urban 16y ago
Is this different from a VPS? Looks like Linode has Debian 6 available too: http://blog.linode.com/2011/02/08/debian-6-squeeze/
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by nick_urban 16y ago
The term "The man" may be glib in many cases, but if we understand that "the man is us" then we reach some place more fundamental. Heidegger has a fascinating analysis of this phenomena, which he calls "Das Man" or "The They". Most of the t
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by nick_urban 16y ago
Interesting. Sometimes we speak metaphorically of life's inertia. If the part of the brain that controls our actual movement also controls our habits of thought, I guess we are not far off! Nietzsche said that all great thoughts are conceiv