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by sgentle 9y ago
I've always wondered why there aren't more hybrid cafe/coworking spaces. Seems like the traffic patterns could be complementary, so you'd get higher utilisation and more reliable revenue. Maybe customers pay to use the s
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by sgentle 9y ago
I have this conversation with beginners a lot - in fact I usually use the exact same iterative-vs-functional list construction question. I think it's a good place to talk about the generality of computing and what that means. There are
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by sgentle 9y ago
I wonder if that could be part of Tesla's cross-market strategy. You can put fresh batteries in cars where high energy density is really important, then as the capacity drops you reuse them in lower energy density applications like com
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by sgentle 9y ago
I've seen a few comments on this and articles like this to the effect of "so any time you proposition a woman it could be assault?" and I think it's worth responding to that idea in general. Yes, there is generally an ex
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by sgentle 9y ago
I believe impostor syndrome comes from wanting to feel something that it's impossible to feel. When you look at someone successful, you think "wow, that person is amazing, look how great they are!" But do you think they feel
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by sgentle 9y ago
One thing I think could really make a difference would be wrangling the reference data into some kind of semi-structured format with an API/machine readable format like the Node docs: https://nodejs.org/api/events.
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by sgentle 9y ago
This looks like it: http://blog.datomic.com/2013/07/datomic-musicbrainz-sample-d...
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by sgentle 9y ago
> The GPL is a fine open source license that grants all the permissions needed by developer communities that adopt it. There is no sense in which it is not "permissive", so to use that term as an antonym to "copyleft"
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Checking Code Style with Neural Networks(blog.prismatik.com.au)
5 points by sgentle 10y ago|0 comments
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Checking Code Style with Neural Networks(blog.prismatik.com.au)
2 points by sgentle 10y ago|0 comments
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by sgentle 10y ago
My prediction: the manager gets fired, we are treated to a hand-wringing "What We Learned" Medium post, and the cultural disease behind this particular symptom continues unabated. What would be nice instead: A serious and in-depth
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Being vs. doing(samgentle.com)
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by sgentle 10y ago
That's a good thought, thanks. I've added an epilepsy warning that triggers when you have both full-white and full-black rules enabled: https://demos.samgentle.com/automata-by-example/?0=10&1ff=10
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by sgentle 10y ago
Yeah, sorry, some of the patterns can get a bit flashy, especially when they have rules like all black pixels -> white + all white pixels -> black. If it helps, the slider down the bottom controls the speed. Or here are a few patterns
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by sgentle 10y ago
Writeup here: https://samgentle.com/posts/2017-01-14-automata-by-example
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Automata by Example – build cellular automata just by clicking around(demos.samgentle.com)
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by sgentle 10y ago
I'm very excited about improvements to the maturity of the Rust library ecosystem. I'm happy with Rust's syntax, the borrow checker doesn't bother me that much, and the build tooling works well (though more speed would d
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by sgentle 10y ago
One of my favourite reads on politics in a long while. "These were people writing, and you’re a person reading, and the president is a person." But of course the president isn't just a person. The tone in his voice moves the
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Automata by Example – build cellular automata just by clicking around(demos.samgentle.com)
1 points by sgentle 10y ago|1 comments
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by sgentle 10y ago
One thing I think is particularly interesting about this idea is the ways in which it already applies today. Working with overseas-produced chips with no or poor English documentation is a kind of hermeneutics. The ESP8266 is a popular chip
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by sgentle 10y ago
I'm reminded of what Richard Dawkins had to say about the Bicameral Mind book: "either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between!" This website is really rough, the writing is dense and the first rul
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by sgentle 10y ago
I think Cortex ( https://www.relay.fm/cortex ) is particularly interesting. The hosts are Myke Hurley (makes podcasts) and CGP Grey (makes YouTube videos) and they mostly talk about the unique challenges of and strategies for
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Show HN: Markov Contact – a dynamic audio journey(demos.samgentle.com)
2 points by sgentle 10y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Markov Contact – a dynamic audio journey(demos.samgentle.com)
3 points by sgentle 10y ago|1 comments
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by sgentle 10y ago
I find this mindset totally disgusting, but I'm glad it's been summed up in such a concise way. > Being an employee of a high tech company whose product is intellectual means that you have decided that you want to sell your int
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by sgentle 10y ago
I wonder if you could use this technique to make a completely passive wi-fi device. Ie, no battery or plug of any kind, just using the power of the wifi emitter. I guess it would be similar to passive NFC, but at a longer range and driven b
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by sgentle 10y ago
I think the best thing I've read about truth and politics is "Politics is the Mind-Killer" ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/ ), by Eliezer Yudkowsky back in 2007: > Poli
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by sgentle 10y ago
I think there is a missing piece to this conversation, which is about the definition of namespaces. It's easy to conflate "problems with semver" and "problems with semver+the way my package manager handles versioning&quo
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by sgentle 10y ago
The Net interprets anchor strike as damage and routes around it
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So, the argument is let's not go to Mars because we'd have to deal with cosmic rays. Instead, let's go to Titan, which has an atmosphere, but is ridiculously cold and rains methane. Also, we can't go there because it&#x2

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