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by ritzaco 4y ago
This is a bunch of rhetoric dressed up as logic hidden by using long paragraphs. If you break it down and remove the repetition it is basically saying: 1. the other guy made some argument 2. but he was just too ignorant to understand why hi
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by ritzaco 4y ago
that's exactly why it's counter-intuitive! Obviously it can't be right forever, but at any given moment if you need predict the minimum future life span of a book, framework, language, job, country, whatever and you have very
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by ritzaco 4y ago
I guess most HN readers are aware of it by now, but if anyone isn't this is basically the idea of the Lindy Effect [0] -- counter-intuitively, in many cases age is a good predictor of future life span. [0] https://en.wikiped
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by ritzaco 4y ago
yeah opened this in a new tab and by the time I opened it, it was just a popup on a black background. I nearly closed the page before realising it was an article I actually wanted to read.
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by ritzaco 4y ago
wow thank you for the transparency - you literally answered all the questions up front that I care about re open core, for profit, killswitches, etc etc that usually take hours to find from a marketing landing page.
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by ritzaco 4y ago
I was homeschooled, but we used a lot of Montessori principles for that age range. Completely recommend. I can echo the other comments already here about how I think it strongly promoted curiosity, independence and a love of learning, at th
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by ritzaco 4y ago
I'm not a physicist, so maybe I missed the connection between negentropy and some very generic life advice. In terms of actual energy usage, the examples don't make sense to me. It doesn't take 3x as much energy to pick up 3
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The Millionaire Next Door(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ritzaco 4y ago|0 comments
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by ritzaco 4y ago
Of course, it's not a technical problem. They could keep a hash instead of a copy. But I'm sure people who find the 'hidden tool' and request to have their information removed are interested in specific products, so a li
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Migrating from Monaco to CodeMirror at Sourcegraph(about.sourcegraph.com)
5 points by ritzaco 4y ago|1 comments