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by pdamoc 6y ago
There is a comparable divide between web-designers and web-developers. People can have both sets of skills and, obviously, there is an overlap BUT, in my experience, very few web-developers have good enough design skills to produce a profes
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by pdamoc 6y ago
> It feels to me like "science" has become something of a religion unto itself. This might be because there is very, very little scientific thinking in the general population. People like doctors who, due to their education, sh
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by pdamoc 6y ago
there are a lot of implementations (some of them obsolete): https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/implementations
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by pdamoc 6y ago
Get Jaak Panksepp's "Affective Neuroscience" OR "The Archeology of the Mind" instead.
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by pdamoc 6y ago
Actually, there is scientific data in the form or the books and articles written by Jaak Panksepp. It documents the source of anger in the RAGE primary affect, complete with anatomical analysis of the nuclei involved. It just happens that t
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by pdamoc 6y ago
Read "Affective Neuroscience" (or Archeology of the Mind) by Jaak Panksepp for a better understanding of where emotions come from (primary affect). Read "Mindsight" by Daniel Siegel for a view on higher level emotional p
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by pdamoc 6y ago
We are more animal than human. In other words, our emotional brain is far larger and far faster than the neocortex. There are far fewer "adults" than you might think. As one spiritual master said: "Most people tell you they w
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by pdamoc 6y ago
This looks very interesting. I wonder how much data would be required in order to imitate a particular handwriting style? i.e. if I know someone with a lovely penmanship and I can ask that person to create such a reference data set, how muc
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by pdamoc 6y ago
Robert Kegan has a constructive developmental model where he uses "Subject" and "Object" to describe the progression in development. Basically, you identify with the Subject and at the next level you become aware that th
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by pdamoc 6y ago
I just finished going through the "De-Mystifying Mindfulness" course on Coursera and they do warn about the fact that "mindfulness" has become an industry and that the people who offer courses are often unqualified to te
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by pdamoc 6y ago
There are places where they are legal and you have the option of planning a vacation around a psychedelic experience. My first experience with ayahuasca was in Netherlands and the afterglow of the experience was a good 3 months. The first m
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by pdamoc 6y ago
> "It's like a stepladder to look over a brick wall that's a little bit too tall for you. You use a stepladder, you get to see this crazy landscape that you kinda had an inkling about every time you walked by this wall, an
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by pdamoc 6y ago
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought." - Basho One of the reasons that the wizards stopped teaching SICP was the fact that the world changed. Back in the 80s, most programming was done from fi
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by pdamoc 6y ago
Robert Kegan's Constructive-Developmental Theory could be useful in understanding this. It basically defines an evolving relationship between Subject (what one is) and Object (what one has). Criticism targeted at objects (what one per
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by pdamoc 7y ago
Something like Elm but that compiles to native binaries. It should come with Material Design level of HIG documentation and a tone of examples. The compiler and the Native/Kernel parts should be implemented in a modern systems programm
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by pdamoc 7y ago
> A "transnational socialistic union" is a bizarre dream. I think the perception of such a dream depends on a series of factors. One of them is the ability of the person to deal with complexity. See: https://www.yout
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by pdamoc 7y ago
Your brain is rewiring in order to expand the domain of analysis. It is rewiring for dealing with higher levels of complexity. Take a look at the bellow video for a short explanation of the evolution of the processes involved. https:/
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by pdamoc 7y ago
I learned Elm and Elixir few years ago. In both case, it took me about a week from "hello, world" to having the feeling that I can program in that language. I did this using only online learning materials and the support forums fo
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by pdamoc 7y ago
The information on that site is amazing, I just wish there was an open source version of it.
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by pdamoc 7y ago
In Romania, we make a clear distinction between Supa, Ciorba and Bors. Supa (Soup) is the un-soured base, Ciorba is sour (usually soured with lemon) and Bors (Borscht) is soured with an wheat bran based fermented liquid by the same name. :)
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by pdamoc 7y ago
Mentioning compilation speed needs solid data to back the claim. This would have delayed the release. To my understanding, there is some work being done on a script that would produce this kind of reliable data and a later post will be made
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by pdamoc 7y ago
To my understanding, derived serialization is in conflict with type inference. You can have one or the other but it is very complex and difficult to have both. Maybe one day Elm will get it but it is not a trivial implementation and there a
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by pdamoc 7y ago
The best idea I found around this topic is https://www.ethicalsystems.org/ If there is a move from shareholder primacy to stakeholder primacy, the environment can be one of the stakeholders and there could be laws preventin
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by pdamoc 7y ago
If you want to learn more about this topic, look at the work of Jaak Panksepp. "Archeology of the Mind" is one of the most interesting books I have ever read. His TEDTalk is a quick overview: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by pdamoc 7y ago
I want something very similar. A language powerful enough to get almost everything done with very few and very well thought through escape hatches in form of DSLs. For example, Elm has a mechanism for writing shaders: vertexShader : S
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by pdamoc 7y ago
What I would love to see is a declarative object oriented language. It would marry the idea of FauxO from Gary Bernhardt's Boundaries talk [1] with the syntax of Elm. Elm already allows for escaping into other languages. I would love t
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by pdamoc 8y ago
If it's easy to remove, then you can think about the thing you can remove in isolation. I think that the ability to partition code in such a way as to think about each bit in isolation is the mark of high quality code.
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by pdamoc 8y ago
Give Elm a chance. It is less complex than Haskell while retaining a lot of the declarative nature. Since it is mainly involved in generating HTML, the declarative nature is a good fit.
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by pdamoc 8y ago
> The easy part is pretending animals are like us, even if there's no rigorous reason to believe they are. You should look into the work of Jaak Panksepp. Watch his TEDTalk [1] for a quick overview but the really mind altering infor
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by pdamoc 8y ago
This has to do with state partitioning. The official Elm Architecture tutorial used to contain some examples of encapsulating functionality into modules that would then be reused. The pattern presented there was abused by some folks and som

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