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by safek 9y ago
Since you posted the link, can you please share why you think gatekeeping in the sense sketched by those examples is necessarily a mistaken thing?
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by safek 9y ago
I'm disappointed by the downvotes this person is getting. I have a close friend who went through a manic episode, and can imagine how "cute" stories like this might seem. As an observer, the most alarming thing to me about th
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by safek 9y ago
That's super interesting, would you mind emailing me at [redacted]?
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by safek 9y ago
My guess about the project's origins may have been wrong. If so I apologize. I'm not saying you don't deserve pay for your work, or that it's somehow wrong of you to charge money. I'm worried you'll have troubl
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by safek 9y ago
It's a nice idea. I'd appreciate a tool that lets me enter a library and understand its merits along various dimensions. The problem with this tool is that it doesn't give me that understanding, as I have no idea what the gra
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by safek 9y ago
This strikes me as a case where you vaguely perceived a problem, thought "hmm, personal problems are the best source of project ideas," and quickly rushed to create a solution because you're a maker who enjoys making things.
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by safek 9y ago
Are there any efforts to feed an AST into a neural net and see what comes out of it? Like a coding assistant that "understands" what your code does or something?
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by safek 9y ago
I don't have a better alternative yet, but I can't help but think after observing the way things have played out the last couple decades that policing negative speech against minorities isn't the way to help them. I sympathiz
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by safek 9y ago
I feel like the score would look better if "score: " were removed and the score itself were brighter or bolder or otherwise in sharper focus.
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by safek 9y ago
What shows weakness isn't that the protestors are protesting rather than staying home. It's that they're protesting rather than engaging in debate. There seems to be this idea that especially outrageous views ought to be bann
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by safek 9y ago
Thanks. From notgood's comment I thought there was like a committee of them.
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by safek 9y ago
Curious; who are the HN mods?
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by safek 9y ago
I wouldn't feel sorry for him, but I'd certainly want to interrogate the psychology of the people who insisted, wailing and screaming, that he be disinvited. The arguments I've seen on this subject revolve around two poles.
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by safek 9y ago
I never understood why Python differentiates between key access and attribute access. Dig down one layer, and they're the same thing anyway: a.b is just a.__dict__['b']. For all its faults, JavaScript has some pretty sensible