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by savanaly 6y ago
I was a very loyal reader of SSC and thought I followed the "doxing" incident and fallout rather closely. I read numerous related blog posts about it and followed the discussion on the main remaining discussion space the community
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by savanaly 6y ago
By coincidence the Youtube algrorithm landed me on the very first re:View the other day where they explained the distinction between the type of movies they would feature on Best of the Worst vs re:View. Basically, BotW would be for "s
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by savanaly 6y ago
I haven't seen it but I know it was featured on Red Letter Media's re:View series where they review movies they actually like [0]. Especially at the start they discuss its legacy and why people like/hate it. [0] https:/
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by savanaly 6y ago
Reminds me of the discussion of "tacit knowledge" HN had the other week [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23465862
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by savanaly 6y ago
Also available on Steam which is where I first played them.
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by savanaly 6y ago
If all you're interested in is a list of topics he wrote about, the table of contents on that page serves that function reasonably well. Some of the links in it are even live because they are to places he wrote other than SSC. I. Ratio
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by savanaly 6y ago
Not saying he wasn't very bad, and it's true I wasn't around for the worst of it. But it's almost impossible to believe that it's not outweighed by the good he has done in the last couple decades, the sheer scale of
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by savanaly 6y ago
I mean, the good he does in his later years is far disproportionate to the harm he did before, so that's how it should work right? No one's all good or all bad, you take the bad with the good. In the case of Bill Gates I would hop
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by savanaly 6y ago
Why wouldn't 7. be: a competitor easily enters the market because they can just make the good and charge a markup that's somewhere between what amazon is charging and 0 and still make a profit and get all the business? If what you
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by savanaly 7y ago
I think whiteboard interviews are more about weeding out false positives than weeding out false negatives. While one might think they would be equally damaging, as in either case you are out one good programmer, the former (false positives
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by savanaly 7y ago
Yeah, that's unfortunate. I haven't run up against anything like that and maybe if I did I would share his viewpoint.
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by savanaly 7y ago
I haven't had to yet, my side projects are mostly just for me and my friends.
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by savanaly 7y ago
Elm wasn't the right language/community for this author and that's ok, not everything is for everyone. I use and love elm as something to write my side projects in. It has a zen like appeal for many reasons: - No runtime exce
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by savanaly 7y ago
Don't see it linked in this thread yet, but it's worth noting Slate Star Codex looked at the literature and decided on a weak "yes" [0], assuming your use of a face mask isn't depriving a medical worker of one. [0]
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by savanaly 7y ago
You're thinking of accounting profit, the person you're replying to was thinking of economic profit. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/033015/what-differe...
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by savanaly 7y ago
It's specifically because there are huge numbers of people watching this carefully and trying to do that that it is irrational on the margin to try to do so.
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by savanaly 7y ago
I literally do this with google all the time though (my girlfriend like us to celebrate N * 100 anniversaries). Every hundred days or so I go to google and type "500 days after [date]" or something to that effect and it works. It
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by savanaly 7y ago
The other half isn't random, it's mostly "non-shared environment", in other words the environment outside the home, whether that be school or play with friends or whatever. My source for this is the book The Nurture Assu
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by savanaly 7y ago
None of all of what you wrote addresses how those folks between a rock and a hard place will be better off not having the option to work for a given service at all.
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by savanaly 7y ago
Are we so sure human cognition isn't this too?
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by savanaly 7y ago
As a user of Parcel, I definitely want it. I wrote my Elm program, found myself wondering what the best tool would be to automate the running of elm make, bundling, not to mention transpiling the small amount of ES6 and sass I had in there
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by savanaly 7y ago
Tried this for awhile with my girlfriend who speaks Mandarin as her first language. It does seem to be slightly too picky, often calling my pronunciation third tongue when it should be one of the others, despite her saying it was perfectly
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by savanaly 7y ago
But people who complain about this stuff usually don't frame it that way-- absolutist statements like from the GP: "Anything you use in a critical path you should control." are common. The message is typically "I realize
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by savanaly 7y ago
Un-differentiable output. Take, for instance, writing a program. Change the input by the smallest possible amount, one character, and generally the output changes by a rather large amount (it could, say, go from working to failing to compil
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by savanaly 7y ago
>So I move the cursor...What do you do in vim that is far easier? The part about moving the cursor. Vim users typically don't move the cursor with the mouse but rather with the keyboard. Having to move your hands off the keyboard to
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by savanaly 7y ago
Nothing wrong with that. "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." - Adam Smith
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by savanaly 7y ago
Yes, really. Browsing HN comments feels like I'm good friends with a generally friendly elderly construction worker who for some reason has a real stick in his ass about grouting. Everywhere we go together, houses, bars, museums, whate
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by savanaly 7y ago
Don't be too pedantic. By your definition, what even is unbiased? A list of all the sites on the web, A to Z? Words are what we make of them, and there's clearly some distinction between Google and, say, Baidu that is entirely app
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by savanaly 7y ago
Expanding brain mode : Typescript -> Elm
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by savanaly 7y ago
I'm running uBlock origin and I'm not sure what you're talking about, the original looks normal to me?

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