nickbauman

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by nickbauman 6y ago
The bitcoin network is much too slow for real economic behavior. I don't understand this, but then I've been ignoring bitcoin for a couple of years. Did they change the proof-of-work requirements? (If they did, they're just c
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Yes, Popper was the original on this thinking. Not Taleb. This is where the phrase "freedom requires we be intolerant of the intolerant"
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by nickbauman 6y ago
I find that the complex syntax of Haskell is something I'll never be able to remember. There's so much implied in the syntax. Lisp is so much more readable and thinkable-inable because there's almost no syntax. No other l
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Your design can look very good yet be seriously flawed when you actually write the code. Designs (blueprints) civil engineers use are based on many years of practice that are enshrined in engineering codes sometimes going back thousands of
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by nickbauman 6y ago
I don't really know what it was trying to accomplish. What needle is being moved here from a "personal computer" perspective? For example: What I really want is an end to the laptop form factor altogether. Take an RPI4 form-f
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by nickbauman 6y ago
The cube was a rehash of the NeXT Cube. Why do that again?
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Much of this is captured extremely well in Fowler's The New Methodology. https://martinfowler.com/articles/newMethodology.html
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by nickbauman 6y ago
I think what you're talking about here is an "intention document" not a design document. Design is about planning. Which implies you define things in detail with steps and techniques. Intentions are about what you want to a
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by nickbauman 6y ago
This is something that should be taught to folks while they're still in school. The "blueprint analogy" has baked in the idea that there's a "design phase" and a "construction phase" and that these ar
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Kuhl has been doing this for years, but they chose a slightly higher place on the pantline than Bleckley did. Wonder why. https://www.kuhl.com/kuhl/mens/pants/rydr-jean/
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by nickbauman 6y ago
What about the unsung blacksmith of Japan who basically created a variant of Damascus Steel to make the swords for Samurai starting around 1100 AD?
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by nickbauman 6y ago
I read somewhere, (I think it was USA Today, no less) that almost half adult children in the US have no meaningful contact with their parents. Many of them have parents who do not even know where their children live.
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Maybe "Harvard is different" but a friend went back to school (Metro State U in MN) a few years ago to get his comp sci undergrad after practicing for over a decade professionally. They were trying out online learning for full tim
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by nickbauman 6y ago
OK so terminology: touchtype to me means that you learn the fingering the keyboard in a specific way. Not just that you can type by not looking at the keyboard. I can do that. I just never bothered with the "correct fingering".
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Where's the datepicker?
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by nickbauman 6y ago
All valid complaints. However when you look at how doctors deal with data and information tech they seem unable to innovate in that space. No medical establishment has the capability to make something like what Apple is doing. It just doesn
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by nickbauman 6y ago
What exactly improved?
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by nickbauman 6y ago
You don't need to know how to touchtype. Programmers are not a glorified typing pool. Furthermore, my father† has worked every job there is in a world class news organization since entering adulthood and never learned to touchtype. He
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by nickbauman 6y ago
The problem with this argument is you're already compiling your JavaScript to JavaScript anyway. You already can't paste ES6 into the JS console. And don't even start if you're using JSX. I think the opposite: nobody s
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by nickbauman 6y ago
It strikes me that I need to be a mathematician to use Haskell. Especially when someone like Rob Pike makes claims that "I cannot read the syntax of Haskell and understand it."
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Bad language design, IMO. The language shouldn't make the writers in it worry about how to organize the code to speed up the compiler.
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Often I do because that's what CI does. This is pretty normal. But the point is having a different view of what compilation means in the developer's workflow as a language designer. Having the engineer have to think about how to o
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by nickbauman 6y ago
Yeah how fast is that compiler? If it's just another compiled language (rather than the kind of wicked fast compiled language like Go), my enthusiasm will be dampened...
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by nickbauman 6y ago
There's a deep problem of all these comparisons of economies with public health policies: Markets and money are vehicles for making agreements. They are all about negotiation. They are imminently and manifold fungible. They are contriv
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by nickbauman 6y ago
I think this is a great analogy. A friend is a pro flamenco guitarist; plays all over the world. He's so good that he doesn't really practice to "improve" anymore. He practices to protect his biomechanics by watching him
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by nickbauman 6y ago
You should be able to revoke the leaver's shared key from the keyring and reencrypt the secrets?
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by nickbauman 6y ago
I have used EJSON and putting everyone's public key in a single keyring. Works but the secrets and keys end up taking up a lot of space.
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by nickbauman 6y ago
I prefer to use it as a rendering library only. That part is good. But much of the ecosystem is a mess. CRA, a fundamental piece, is a trainwreck. If you eject you can see how much focus on local simplicity has been implemented at the expen
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by nickbauman 6y ago
It would be better if it were expressed using Maven instead of Gradle because Gradle is just one more languaged-based build tool that rides on Maven.
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by nickbauman 6y ago
I would change your assertion from "Java" to "JVM-hosted languages"

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