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by ohduran 4y ago
Nothing to comment about the framework per se, but, just pasting the Powerpoint slides comes across as lazy. Why not write something down? This reminds me of Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint". Highly recommended.
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by ohduran 4y ago
I've been asking myself *this* for the year-ish I've been working with Ruby on Rails. The idea of encapsulating any piece of logic into a class function in order to call a single method is very weird, given that you can do the ver
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by ohduran 5y ago
What I miss from these conversations is an emphasis on memory. I know it has a bad rap, since it's not the same as understanding. But I have the feeling that most of our work relies on things that we've done so many times, they&#x
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by ohduran 5y ago
> Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, in which citizens are manipulated into an intelligence-based social hierarchy. This is by far the WORST one line summary I've ever seen about that novel.
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by ohduran 5y ago
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "The Secret of Our Success" by Joseph Henrich yet. It discusses this line of research in more detail, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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by ohduran 5y ago
> You only need to spend only a few minutes watching or reading the news, in any country, to hear and see victimhood raging. Isn't here the true relationship, rather than a made-up "sickness" called TIV (sounds a lot like
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by ohduran 5y ago
At some point we have to reach the conclusion that most of the time products fail because they are of lower quality compared to their competitors. The only way I can see psychological safety effecting the eventual outcome of Google+ is some
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Humane Web(alvaroduran.com)
2 points by ohduran 5y ago|0 comments
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by ohduran 6y ago
Arguably, reasoning why to go to university feels more like rationalization rather than supporting evidence. It's definitely not physics. On the other hand, believing that your actions have consequences, and that you will pay for your
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by ohduran 6y ago
Well, this makes perfect sense. Why on Earth does someone go to university? Because there's a strongly held belief that the sacrifices made are worth the rewards in a future state of being. That is not too far from believing in the aft
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Art Direction for Gatsby Sites(alvaroduran.com)
2 points by ohduran 6y ago|0 comments
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by ohduran 6y ago
Japan is hardly the first country that comes to mind as "functional". They've been stagnant for several decades.
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Simple Sindication(alvaroduran.com)
1 points by ohduran 6y ago|0 comments
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Reading Is Too Easy(alvaroduran.com)
1 points by ohduran 6y ago|0 comments
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by ohduran 6y ago
Haven't this people read Seeing like a State?
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by ohduran 6y ago
Allow for the possibility that you have something important to contribute to the world.
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by ohduran 6y ago
"You get the commenters you deserve" is a common joke on Marginal Revolutions.
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The Future According to Ted Kaczynski(alvaroduran.com)
2 points by ohduran 6y ago|0 comments
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The first beer is free(alvaroduran.com)
2 points by ohduran 6y ago|0 comments
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by ohduran 6y ago
Agile is there for the convenience of managers. The language of its manifesto has been essentially weaponised, in my opinion. The idea was to give more power to expert programmers that cared for the user without the constraints of bureaucra
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Beyond Minimalism(alvaroduran.com)
1 points by ohduran 6y ago|0 comments
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Europe Is Failing(johnhcochrane.blogspot.com)
4 points by ohduran 6y ago|2 comments
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by ohduran 6y ago
Oh wow, perhaps I was too terse and left too much room for interpretation. I meant that there is no way for a for-profit company to eventually sell personalized segment data once it has it, even if there were initial promises not to do so.
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by ohduran 6y ago
because the underlying assumption is that what they'll tell you is the truth, and that's not necessarily the case. Think of a Firefox plugin in, AdNauseam style, that always says NO.
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by ohduran 6y ago
You can't have one without the other. The economic incentives are just too intense.
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by ohduran 6y ago
It's a good point. I'm no expert, so take this with a grain of salt, but assuming that it's just a matter of infrastructure, then Bing wouldn't suck so much. Microsoft has the means, the engineering power and the incenti
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by ohduran 6y ago
100% this. There is a glass ceiling to the quality of a search engine if it's free; it starts with G. The paid option hasn't been explored yet, and for good reason I think: in principle, you need training data for it to be any goo
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Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better(gwern.net)
1 points by ohduran 6y ago|0 comments
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by ohduran 6y ago
I have to say, it's one of the funniest homepages I've ever come across.
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by ohduran 6y ago
I wish people bragged about reading ONE book. "Heard that you read a lot, what are you reading lately?", "Well, I've been at it with The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the last five years, highly recommended&qu

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