semanticjudo

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by semanticjudo 17d ago
I recently bought a new car for the first time in 16 years. I had all the same concerns - my Acura MDX solved them all. It’s not perfect (has opaque shade for panoramic roof) but the number of physical buttons (dozens) is glorious. And the
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by semanticjudo 2y ago
The author has implied a false dichotomy: positioning the article as “it does 10x or it does nothing” (my paraphrasing) is disingenuous and hyperbolic. My experience is that on several tasks professional devs, including myself, can get to a
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by semanticjudo 2y ago
I try to capture this sentiment all the time in conversations here in America - we are privileged simply to say, “I feel unsafe” and have it taken seriously when vast swaths of the world would simply reply, “you and everyone else, why are y
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by semanticjudo 2y ago
Reminds me of the narcissism of small differences: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differen... Few people will care because only a few are capable of caring and the world keeps on turning.
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by semanticjudo 2y ago
I’ve led the software development at a design agency to build project and client collaboration tools in a web app over the last seven years. The company founders never set out to intentionally run a design agency with custom built software
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by semanticjudo 2y ago
yes, when the odds of winning are in my favor... But I assume you know that so you must be asking, "Is there a situation where somebody can accurately understand the expected outcomes of any particular bet where the odds are against th
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by semanticjudo 2y ago
There always has been and always will be a “tax” on those who cannot or will not apply math to their financial decisions. Of course the degree to which we provide opportunities to collect this tax is a societal decision and we’ve almost cer
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by semanticjudo 3y ago
> Its been proven time and again that these meaningless level rewards are pointless in studies and often even distort/bias the data (people treat it like a board game). Do you have one or two references for this I could take a look
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by semanticjudo 3y ago
Did you bother reading it? “Historically, many studies have involved the easiest people to recruit, who tend to be people who come from advantaged environments. If we don’t make efforts to recruit diverse pools of participants, we almost al
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by semanticjudo 3y ago
Read widely, absorb judiciously, adopt frugally
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by semanticjudo 3y ago
There is one measure of a government that has never failed: are people trying to get in or are people trying to get out? California's government - federal electives, state and many local have been making decisions and putting in place
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by semanticjudo 3y ago
you weren't supposed to notice the similarity to, "standing around outside during your lunch hour".
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by semanticjudo 4y ago
Sounds like a legitimately good application for block chain - both parties can have access to the immutable transaction history. Similar to how Walmart applied block chain to inventory delivery disputes.
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by semanticjudo 4y ago
Brokers (what the author calls "middlemen") have existed for ages and served all sorts of purposes in all sorts of economic activities. They serve a specific and valuable function in the economy. The author muddles the point by br
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by semanticjudo 4y ago
Saving to copy/paste on every [X workstyle] is best thread…
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by semanticjudo 4y ago
We’ll done. I read the autocorrelation post when it came out a couple weeks back and it didn’t sit right with me. But I didn’t have the motivation to figure out why. Your explanation resonates perfectly with my initial (snap) intuition and
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by semanticjudo 5y ago
This kind of shit the CDC has pulled is so frustrating. I just want good information to make decisions on but do not have time to fact check everything everyone says or keep up with the latest research even monthly. I thought the CDC would
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by semanticjudo 5y ago
Because all my passwords in the vault are strong and unique. Because my master password is a massive pass phrase not subject to the vagaries of limits on passwords many sites have and I literally keep it locked in a vault. So it is exponent
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by semanticjudo 5y ago
Depends on a few factors like what task, innate ability, etc. Which is not a non-answer - it is THE answer: in my experience, some things are easier on one than the other and vice versa. FWIW, here's my definition of a "hard"
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by semanticjudo 5y ago
it's a good question - I avoided it in my own response with the clever use of quotation marks. But to answer, I think the term is used colloquially all of the time and of course is open to interpretation. I would suggest it has nothing
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by semanticjudo 5y ago
By just about any measure alcohol is a "harder" drug than marijuana but certainly more broadly acceptable.
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Ask HN: What good books for pros/cons of OOP and functional programming?
2 points by semanticjudo 6y ago|1 comments
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by semanticjudo 6y ago
The problem they're going to have is not whether or not Amazon leaves Seattle. It is that existing or new corporations that may fall into this tax category will not move to Seattle because of it.
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by semanticjudo 7y ago
Learning how to be truly empathetic to another person was transformational for me. Studying meditation, mindfulness and generally seeking to truly understand other humans with an open heart and mind has been a long, ongoing journey but well
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by semanticjudo 7y ago
It appears to me that work environment is a personal preference based on an array of personality traits and motivations mostly opaque to most people until they've had a chance to try a few out. Further, it seems that the preferences fa
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by semanticjudo 7y ago
I argue from position 1 that we should be looking for the next breakthrough, CO2-emission-free power source. I'm extremely grateful that some people are. Wind and solar are highly inefficient, expensive and difficult to scale[1] and ar
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The software dev “process”(semanticjudo.com)
3 points by semanticjudo 8y ago|0 comments
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by semanticjudo 9y ago
Yah, I realized this too a while back when I was doing the "what problem do I have?" exercise... "well, clearly I have a problem finding an idea." :) I had some ideas on how to go about this but I think the major blocker