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by noema 6y ago
Personally I like having separate installations for each language-specific IntelliJ flavor just to reduce confusion when toggling between different windows. The slight GUI differences also help to "code-switch" (in the linguistic
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by noema 6y ago
Inheritance can be clean and expressive when used diligently. If you wish to express a tight cohesion between classes with default functionality (especially when it pertains to instance variables), an abstract parent class can keep the shar
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by noema 6y ago
IntelliJ / Android Studio / other JetBrains IDEs. Maybe a little too resource intensive, but the UX and context-sensitive intellisense is light-years ahead of the competition.
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by noema 6y ago
I haven't used Xcode much personally, but it automatically shoots up to the top of my hate list on account of the fact that it's a mandatory 20GB hog just to use the iOS Simulator. In my particular use case (React Native + Expo de
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by noema 6y ago
>hasn’t it been suggested that the internals of google translate and similar systems have effectively constructed such a meta-language? No, Google Translate and other state of the art machine translation software rely on large corpuses o
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by noema 6y ago
I think ultimately this endeavor would run into the same issues which befell the efforts of the GOFAI research program. A translation layer would need to "understand" embedded higher-order contexts of language making implicit refe
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by noema 6y ago
>What I've wished for instead, for years, is actually an underlying "metalanguage" that expresses the vocabulary and grammatical concepts in all languages. We've been down this road before... https://en.wik
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by noema 6y ago
And if you're going to read Derrida, make sure you know your Husserl first...
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by noema 6y ago
Wasn't the "Gang of Four" book written entirely in C++?
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by noema 6y ago
Leetcode interviews are more of a sadistic entrance ritual than anything approximating a fair gauge of skill or experience. I see no other reason to make proven developers study textbook problems during their free time (they sure aren'
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by noema 6y ago
Any non-reference book which can be "read" in this manner probably isn't worth engaging with anyways. This reminds me of that "Lamborghini in my garage" guy who claimed to be able to read a book in five minutes, and
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by noema 6y ago
Are they named after a very large tropical rainforest?
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by noema 6y ago
Looked this up and saw the promos. Anything endorsed by both Steven Pinker and Alan Sokal is bound to be bad faith, intellectually dishonest hackery.
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by noema 6y ago
"Best practice Android development" is soon to phase out XML (for the most part) with Jetpack Compose. Working with two way data binding in XML seemed like a good idea, until you had to debug it.
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by noema 6y ago
Cool stuff but what's with the logo? The branding is a bit too Affliction-esque for something usually associated with elegance...
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by noema 6y ago
There are many people who would claim that he isn't a real philosopher ;) Don't skip Max Weber and Georges Canguilhem, two of his biggest influences.
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by noema 6y ago
Yes, you can't beat the classic essayists. Sir Thomas Browne too. Melville draws a lot from these writers in Moby Dick.
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by noema 6y ago
You would definitely appreciate Intelligence and Spirit, which employs game theory, linear logic, and Hegel towards a theory of artificial general intelligence.
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by noema 6y ago
I think there is a distinction to be made between information in the ontological sense and information in the pragmatic sense. The former does not have any purchase on "meaning" or "use", only a metric of informational e
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by noema 6y ago
I didn't claim Wiener founded it, only that his popularization of the term is more ubiquitous than Shannon's formulation.
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by noema 6y ago
Probably one of the dozen or so most important publications of the twentieth century. Ironically though it would be Norbert Wiener's interpretation of information (exactly Shannon's times minus one) that would cement itself in the
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by noema 6y ago
The opacity of contemporary humanities texts is overstated. Yes, the general academic style tends to be verbose and baroque. But it bespeaks a certain hubris when a layman to a given field claims an absence of meaning to its work. The topic
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by noema 6y ago
More resources ARE being shifted to those "practical" (read: revenue-generating) programs, to the detriment of students. The purpose of higher education is edification, not securing directly applicable job skills - that's wha
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by noema 6y ago
To this I would add a couple of classic mid century studies on perception: Arnheim's "Art and Visual Perception" (which imo should be mandatory for any UI designer), and Merleau-ponty's "Phenomenology of Perception&
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by noema 6y ago
Go for an Onyx Nova Pro. Runs on Android, has a large screen (perfect for PDFs) and ability to take notes with a stylus directly on the text.
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by noema 7y ago
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust and the short stories of Borges
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by noema 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE or ON-SITE (Berlin, DE) Software developer with 3 years of experience within enterprise, startup and freelance contexts. I'm a software generalist comfortable working across the stack. I write clean code combining