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The UX Fund: Investing $50,000 in 10 companies, 10 years later(medium.com)
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Nick Yarris: 'How I survived 22 years on death row'(bbc.co.uk)
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
I bought Sipser for this very purpose. I found it very difficult without being able to discuss it with anyone to clarify my understanding of the ideas. I would love to work through it, but would need a CS tutor to help me... any takers? ;)
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all tho
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
>> I don't want "diversity" or a bunch of people from other countries to move to the town I grew up in. Yet you have moved to California? Can you hear the irony? >> It's very hard to see the merit in one cult
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
It's totally not. One thing I think this conversation has highlighted is the way we think about risks to us as individuals and risks to us as a species. So whilst in the past, the thing that worried most people was illness, predation,
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
I agree. There are some really shitty things going on in the world. I'm talking from a Western perspective. However, objectively, and globally, most people, most of the time are way more better off.
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
Exactly.
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
i don't understand your point. I'm not discounting any range of horrific tomorrows. I'm just reading The Periodic Table by Primo Levi (an Auschwitz survivor) and the future that worries me is the rise of fascism. But you are
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
In a comment thread on a forum I am offering a non-nuanced binary view. How economically secure does a hunter gatherer or subsistence farmer feel, with no medicine, lots of superstitious practices and complete dependence on the crops/w
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
It's better in every way. Racism, sexism, apartheid, LGBT, corporal punishment...
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
Yet you have enough food, shelter, health. My comparison is about the whole of human history.
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
It's odd, the world is the safest and most stable that it has ever been. There has never been a better time to be a human being, and yet, the media and certain politicians would have you believe that there is disaster after disaster, t
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Kidlington Chinese tourists attracted by 'quiet houses'(bbc.co.uk)
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
Love it. But I love Enterprise mode even more. What does that say about me? ;)
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How to Pick Music for People on LSD, from a Scientist Whose Job That Is(motherboard.vice.com)
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Rwanda begins Zipline commercial drone deliveries(bbc.co.uk)
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
I second that - I'm mostly a book kind of guy, but he is entertaining, informative and funny.
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
Surely that's a parody. If it's not...
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
This is quite timely. I was looking at a library the other day which had IIFEs preceded by '+'. I wondered what the purpose was. Now I know!
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
This is a great idea. I love it. Well done!
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
> a buttery smooth animation engine. Looks great, would love to know how it works.
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
If we are nit picking... What I am talking about is free market capitalism. The definition you quote talks about trade and industry - which we can reduce down to calling the means of production. Capitalism is about ownership of the means of
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
Yes it is. Capitalism doesn't mean an absence of government or make any distinction between private or public ownership, it simply means that the way resources are distributed is through a market system. In order for the market to oper
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
> Besides, banks aren't special. They're businesses like any other. They need to go bankrupt if they make stupid business decisions. I disagree. Banks form the foundation of the infrastructure of the capitalist system. Failure
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
I quite like that definition. It's based on the ability to independently deliver value.
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
Nice to see someone use the word 'interwebs'
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
As long as you're interested in software development and that's why you get up in the morning, it doesn't matter how old you are.
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
I've been building a O365 add-in and using ui fabric. It looks like the documentation site I was using for reference has completely changed to focus on react components.
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Office UI Fabric – Site now focuses on React(dev.office.com)
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