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by picometer 6y ago
Counterpoint: this will force developers to find new tricks that more efficiently use the lower resources. It also puts demand on UX development, since it's targeting more people, and because it's needed to balance the hardware de
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by picometer 6y ago
Thank you for this metaphor - it brings clarity and refocuses the discussion on the dynamics of the whole system. Of course there are a few key differences between cells and modern humans: (a) we have empathy, and (b) we are are much more
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by picometer 6y ago
Remember that design is about making choices that actually limit the possibilities in design space, rather than extending them. Building something “generic” to anticipate “future use cases” is not design; it’s the postponement of design. If
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by picometer 6y ago
Can we make any comparison between programmers' "useless inventions" and the scientific endeavor? As Marie Curie puts it: > The story of radiology in war offers a striking example of the unsuspected amplitude that the appl
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by picometer 6y ago
The essential, underlying problem here is that YouTube is a corporate product, just as you say, and yet still has a major influence on the population's aggregate belief, due to its scale of adoption. This is an emergent phenomenon,
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by picometer 7y ago
Reflections from Marie Curie on the value of basic research: "The story of radiology in war offers a striking example of the unsuspected amplitude that the application of purely scientific discoveries can take under certain conditions.
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by picometer 7y ago
This point is really about incentives: since we know that our fellow humans are held accountable, we know they have the incentive to make high-quality decisions that will not impact the world negatively. Therefore, it's easier to trust
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by picometer 7y ago
Apparently typing latency doesn't annoy me at all. I think I just queue up what I'm going to type "in my fingers"; it's a one-directional process, and in general I don't have to see the letters before I keep ty
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by picometer 7y ago
On the contrary, I think the author addresses this via the "cancer" metaphor: > It's a malignant mutation of an idea that efficient markets need a way to connect goods and services with people wanting to buy them. > Ove
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by picometer 7y ago
First off, I agree; this is the attitude of the ideal future, the one that we aim for when we make "progress" as a society. But. As a programmer and as a founder of a digital (non-physical) company, DHH is in a bubble. He's l
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by picometer 7y ago
My friend made an app for this, and it's live in Seattle - https://www.jointhaw.com/
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by picometer 7y ago
To add another decibel to this crowded chatter: to succeed at something like this while dealing with ADHD, you need a lot of support, and after that it is still very hard. Behind each of these success stories is a lot of people in the bac
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by picometer 8y ago
A while back I was experimenting with something akin to "syntax highlighting" with sound instead of color. The idea is to play different tones/noises depending on where your cursor is located in your code. Rough proof of conc
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by picometer 8y ago
Is it possible to visit Dynamicland as a random interested person? I'm on their mailing list and couldn't make the open house last spring - maybe they'll have another one at some point.
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by picometer 8y ago
If at any point you find yourself looking for parser generators, Nearley JS is a fun tool for experimenting with lightweight grammars. (Emphasis on lightweight - it's a javascript library.) It has good docs as well. If you're inte
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by picometer 9y ago
It's possible that the confusion comes from the weirdness of non-inertial reference frames. Switching from [rotating bucket] to [universe rotating around the bucket] is not an intuitive operation. To build on the atom-level view, ima