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by pmichaud 12y ago
Genuinely curious if your comment is meant to be ironic?
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by pmichaud 12y ago
I've spent a lot of time recently doing a deep dive into all the academic papers in a particular field of neurobiology, and I have a different approach: 1. Read the title and abstract 2. Read the methodology 3. If the methodology isn&#
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by pmichaud 12y ago
I like that idea too, but I suspect that there are pretty much zero non-trivial projects that actually follow best practices like these consistently. Maybe I'm wrong.
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by pmichaud 12y ago
That would probably makes things more difficult to MVP, but it seems doable to create a plugin for Word that's kind of pretty, and handles edits, editors, drafts, etc through git (maybe even distributed, although local would work fine)
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by pmichaud 12y ago
Seems like a shoe in for an editor with git as a backend, and cute, inline diff visualization. Seems not terribly difficult to get an MVP out?
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by pmichaud 13y ago
There's a small picture to the right of the article text near the top of the article that shows how it used to look.
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by pmichaud 13y ago
I tried using it on a github wiki page, and it broke because github wouldn't load the external javascript. So I copied the text and made a local html file. That didn't work because of these errors: Failed to load resource: net::ER
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by pmichaud 13y ago
There are definitely amazing, luxurious aspects of programming. Something came into view for me recently though, that I never realized before: When I graduated from high school, I started my own little (tutoring) company, and did software f
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by pmichaud 13y ago
The thing about pedantic snark (less/fewer), is that it loses its teeth when you're wrong. Even if you go in for prescriptive grammar, less and fewer were never strictly divided. The distinction actually came to us through one Mr.
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by pmichaud 13y ago
I like techniques like this, but the issue I find myself struggling with a lot is that some tasks I have are ambiguous enough to be practically open ended. It's one thing to bang out 1000 words for a blog post, but I might decide that
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by pmichaud 13y ago
The thesis is that everyone is a 10x engineer at certain moments. But that if that same person is put in a more challenging situation, they no longer will be 10x. Also, that's the situation they should consistently be in. Otherwise, a
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by pmichaud 13y ago
Because when anyone else reports a crime, bad things tend to happen [at a statistically higher rate]. Everyone suffers, including you. Or maybe nothing happens at all because first responders don't get there fast enough, or they choose
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by pmichaud 13y ago
It's helpful in most contexts outside of white/middle class privilege. But I don't really understand your question?
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by pmichaud 13y ago
Yeah, but there are second order effects. You've heard the terms "tattletale" and "snitch". They developed in reaction to a police force that is seen as outsiders, and as violent and arbitrary. If you invoke the &qu
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by pmichaud 13y ago
I don't agree with Kevin. It's true that you can function without programming, but it's also true that being able to program could improve pretty much any job. Even a janitor could develop, say, a logistics application to opt
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by pmichaud 13y ago
The fact that this is an interesting article is a huge indictment of CSS. It was developed for a different, simpler use case, and it's obviously the wrong abstraction at this point. Too bad it's entrenched.
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by pmichaud 13y ago
The idea is maybe clever, but it has at least 2 major downfalls. 1. The system is gamable by the trolls. Hurricanes don't care if you're insured, but trolls have an interest in taking troll insurance down. The way insurance works
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by pmichaud 13y ago
I don't think he meant car pools in the sense of multiple people for 1 car. I think he meant pools of cars--multiple cars available for 1 person, depending on that person's needs at the moment.
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by pmichaud 13y ago
I strongly disagree that it's worth nothing. In terms of money, sure, someone paid extra, and someone got free stuff, with the bunch intermediaries. But isn't it true that we collectively spend our lives chasing the ghost of conne
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by pmichaud 13y ago
I don't think you're be fair at all. Young people don't work more because they suck, they work more for a variety of reasons including: they aren't yet jaded or burned out, they don't know how to pace themselves, th
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by pmichaud 13y ago
I love this. When I'm browsing code on github (which I do often), I find myself trying to use my editor's hotkeys to jump around in the source. I've been hoping for something like that, and now that this exists, I think it&#x
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by pmichaud 13y ago
Even if we had a healthy market, which we don't, the people who lost their jobs don't have "marginally less" income. They have zero income. They are not happy.
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by pmichaud 13y ago
You know how we argue about stuff like bracket styles and virtually identical text editors? Other professions have their own Very Important Debates(TM).
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by pmichaud 13y ago
Yeah, I agree with you -- the part I was saying the Luddites were right about is that at some point, technology obviates the need for everyone to be employed. I think that's a great thing, and I welcome it despite the enormously painfu
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by pmichaud 13y ago
No, in fact there are supposed to be safeguards in place to prevent this. The ostensible idea behind H1Bs is that the employer literally cannot, for any price, find the talent they need locally. They MUST hire foreign workers to come in and
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by pmichaud 13y ago
Arrogant, maybe, but there is at least a kernel of truth. I've done a lot of trades. I'm not a master level craftsman or anything, but I can build a house to code using just my current knowledge. The only thing I've never don
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by pmichaud 13y ago
This is a fantasy. There has to be diminishing returns at some point--there has to be a tipping a point where the Luddites are actually correct... it just wasn't 1811.
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by pmichaud 13y ago
"Startups" is plural, so "Startups ruin you" is correct. If it were singular it would be "[A] startup ruins you."
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by pmichaud 13y ago
Maybe Obama is deeply opposed to the whole thing himself, but it's so entrenched he couldn't really do anything about it. Think of how he gets blocked routinely in the public view and imagine what cut throat stuff must be going on
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I'm not so sure. Europeans stopped conquering and colonizing in favor of economic colonialism, which is just as bad perhaps, but now with a veneer of credibility. They are just doing business. Nevermind that the despot du jour was inst

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