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by pgt 6y ago
The Art of Profitability by Adrian Slywotzky: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Profitability-Adrian-Slywotzky/...
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by pgt 6y ago
Those “laws” are honeypots for unsuspecting activists before they become influential and dangerous.
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by pgt 6y ago
Timezones were a Bad Idea™. Swatch tried to push Swatch Internet Time [^1] but it could never take of with the hubris of the Swatch brand and repartitioning the day into 1000 "beats". Base 2, 8, 64 or 256 would have been more usef
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by pgt 6y ago
Functional Composition by Chris Ford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfsnlbd-4xQ
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by pgt 6y ago
Here is what the SDLang example would look like in EDN (Extensible Data Notation), a subset of Clojure: ; Maps are denoted as key-value pairs inside curly brackets: {:title "Hello, World"} ; Vectors are denoted
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by pgt 6y ago
The biggest cultural weakness at Google seems to be the No Human support policy and outsourced regional distribution which fuels a growing divide between engineers and customers. The myopic salarymen who shut down entire product lines based
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by pgt 6y ago
Long Microsoft! Satya is making good decisions. What I've learned from 15+ years of solving problems is that problems have Lindy properties: Problems that have been around for a long time will be around for a long time. And printing is
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by pgt 6y ago
You say you're turned off enough as a user to divest your personal life from Google. Who do you think funds the salaries at Google that feeds the compensation? It's you - the customer. Some of these customers are slow-moving busin
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by pgt 6y ago
Some people are willing to take a principled stance. I have personally turned down significant offers at a cost to myself, including: 1. Building an HTTP proxy that inject ads into open WiFi networks, e.g. hotel lobby WiFi. 2. Forking
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by pgt 6y ago
Generally agree, but building product for a wealthy established company can give you an opportunity to reach a wide audience of users with your work.
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by pgt 6y ago
Actually, let me put my money where my mouth is. Just signed up for Fastmail. Email and privacy is worth way more than than $5/month. I know not everyone is in that position, but I pay more for Spotify and GitHub already.
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by pgt 6y ago
Do you pay for Gmail? I don't think this is an unreasonable concern.
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by pgt 6y ago
Given the growing Google graveyard, why would anyone who is serious about building product consider working at Google? Guys, you are destroying your hiring pipeline. I have stopped using Google search (DuckDuckGo is great), Google Chrome
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by pgt 6y ago
Having built remote monitoring and firmware updating systems for high-current LiFePO4 batteries in Rust for low-level STM32 and ESP32 integrations, Clojure for backend and ClojureScript on the frontend - I can corroborate this. The dynamism
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by pgt 6y ago
Whoop whoop! Borkdude delivers again. Happy to see this shipped. In 2018 I Tweeted about searching Clojure code with Spec: https://twitter.com/PetrusTheron/status/963372454172418048
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by pgt 6y ago
Standards are usually written after the implementation.
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by pgt 6y ago
Standards are just out-of-date documentation.
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by pgt 6y ago
Does anyone have a cached version?
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by pgt 6y ago
It annoyed me enough to put me back into a buying position. I looked at Gitlab pricing after paying Github every month for a long time (hey, Business Guy: we'll switch in a heartbeat) and I started thinking about what it would take to
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by pgt 6y ago
I experienced your comment as snarky. What did you mean?
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by pgt 6y ago
My monastery is Lisp (mainly Clojure) and the ritual is functional programming. It keeps me sane and in software. But today, and for the next two weeks I have to deal with the hell-hole that is the JavaScript/NPM/Webpack ecosystem
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by pgt 6y ago
Nassim Taleb has been railing against SBC and described Borat as "nearly the most racist movie in history, overtly degrading the people of Kazakhstan" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/131997
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by pgt 6y ago
Lisp has only one rule called the Operational Form: (operator arg1 arg2 arg3 ...) The Operational Form is just a list denoted by parentheses. The operation or 'function' comes first, followed by its arguments or operands,
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by pgt 6y ago
By granting Snowden asylum, Russia paints the USA as anti-free speech and pro-surveillance.
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by pgt 6y ago
Bootstrapping is as important as dogfooding. If you make it easy for people to try things, maybe they'll use it - maybe they'll change it. But if it crumbles in their hands, then it was never going to survive.
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by pgt 6y ago
I guess all roads do lead to Prolog. Why risk the naming confusion? Doing a search for "prologue language" yields millions of Prolog results on both DDG and Google.
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by pgt 6y ago
For context, refer to Tonsky's essay on The Web After Tomorrow: https://tonsky.me/blog/the-web-after-tomorrow/ Differential Dataflow + Datomic solves this problem.
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by pgt 6y ago
I'm hedging my bets by using Datalog and the Datomic protocol wherever I can: https://tonsky.me/blog/datomic-as-protocol/ And keeping a close eye on Differential Dataflow: https://github.com/T
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by pgt 6y ago
Would you bet on Google never closing Slides? I wouldn’t.
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by pgt 6y ago
In South Africa you could add your contact details to the Direct Marketers' Association's Do Not Call list, but the list was hacked and the contact details sold.

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