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by slx26 6y ago
Haha. I'm always proud of myself when I look at code that I don't understand, and I see some comment clarifying it and making obvious the reason why it couldn't be simpler and why I did something the way I did it. And then I&
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by slx26 6y ago
Standards always generate debate. They almost always can be improved. But hey, they are usually good enough for most use-cases. The price we end up paying, though, many times without noticing, is that layer over layer of "good enough&q
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by slx26 6y ago
I've seen this again and again: good, honest people trying to do their best in their day to day... but unavoidably, whenever we reach a larger scale scenario, everything breaks. And it's not technology. It's people. You can l
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by slx26 6y ago
Kind of a side note, but let's be honest here: games are extremely hard, online multiplayer is extremely hard, and social spaces and organization are even way harder than the previous. You can spend a whole life thinking about any of t
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by slx26 6y ago
> which "single" front have you fought ? That doesn't have anything to do with my argument. I don't owe you any explanation of what I do or don't do with my life. > being blind is one thing, and closing your e
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by slx26 6y ago
No one who actually cares can fight in all the fronts they believe would be worth it. Only those blind to their surroundings can. This is the only cliche here that needs to phase out.
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by slx26 6y ago
I don't disagree with the message, but I'm kinda ambivalent about putting the focus on it like that. > We try to get rid of the complexity, control it, and seek simplicity. Well, not really enough. Complexity is a beast that ta
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by slx26 6y ago
probably out of topic and not too helpful, but lately I feel we spend so much time in intellectual discussion about other intellectual discussion that we kinda forget about the basics. what does people want and why don't we have it? ma
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by slx26 6y ago
Sorry, but I have to be honest: in my opinion most of the replies you got to this comment are extremely misleading. As a user of Go and Ruby I can tell you that: Ruby is an awesome language, and there's nothing else that beats it at
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by slx26 6y ago
pdf without limitations: http://editions-hache.com/essais/pdf/kaczynski2.pdf > 61. [...] There may be disagreement about whether the effort needed to hold a job is “minimal”; but usually, in lower- to middle-le
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by slx26 6y ago
This is a good approach and good advice for better communication in general: you have to listen to both the exact words and the intent behind them. Coming from technical fields, many of us are rather biased to dismiss what others say for te
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by slx26 7y ago
> This won't happen, I know. Ah, don't be so negative. I'm gonna do it or die trying.
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by slx26 7y ago
I find the discussion in the comments very interesting. Yes, we could restructure society. More than hate, what worries me is the many people that can't find a way forward in the current world and the immense amount of wasted human pot
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by slx26 7y ago
I tend to agree with your line of reasoning and wanted to write a blogpost about it eventually. I implemented a "markdown-like" parser, and I noticed the biggest problem is that the edge cases are a mess, the notation is a mess, a
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by slx26 7y ago
Agree with the idea that it depends a lot on many factors, many of them unique to each person. I'm sad that we interpret averaged figures as "data proves that [...]" as if we were trying to win a war of opinions instead of tr
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by slx26 7y ago
Nice, I've also thought a lot about cached values in the same way. In the past I implemented a meta-programmed system in Ruby to deal with cached values so they would be easy to use and automatically dropped when other related state ch
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by slx26 7y ago
I raised the same point about businesses in a comment a few days ago, among other issues https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22025971 [warning, cynic paragraph ahead] We don't have time to socialize, we obviously live
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by slx26 7y ago
With online fingerprinting, big companies seem to have the problem of "identity", bots and spam prevention decently solved, but at the cost of users privacy. There are many opportunities that could really use a good mechanism to u
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by slx26 7y ago
but what if they were 6 mathematicians from the same disciplines, or 6 musicians, or 6 politicians (or 6 sociologists if you prefer that)? might be fun to see what people that share a common background can come up with when they have that m
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by slx26 7y ago
sorry for the tangent, but what has Go turned into in your opinion? (I'd believe it fits quite well your definition)
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by slx26 7y ago
oh, and don't even try to bring important issues to light, some people will perceive that as you creating new problems out of nowhere
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by slx26 7y ago
really engaging article. a couple comments: > treat loneliness as a serious health problem that could even lead to early death italics are mine. I've seen this written a lot of times, and I find it disappointing that we are focusi
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by slx26 7y ago
I find this thread interesting, but I believe many commenters are rationalizing why books are good by focusing too much on arguments around information quality, or trying to draw some differences between the motivations for paper vs digital
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by slx26 7y ago
we all want simple, fast, small programs with clear objectives. but: - economic incentives do not align with common sense - landscape is fragmented, continually evolving and unstable - we are all posers. we all have opinions and morals, loo
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by slx26 7y ago
the title is misleading. sure, it advocates for C++, or Java, or C#, or others above Python, but clarifying the context: "a lot (not all!) of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server.", which I take
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by slx26 7y ago
don't worry, it's not you alone. openGL is only a specification. and there are many openGL versions. and drivers have different implementations. and modern openGL uses shaders. which use another language, GLSL, which also has diff
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by slx26 7y ago
Couldn't agree more, really good advice there. In fact, I think the same can be said about pretty much anything. Sometimes it's hard to figure out how you might find something to contribute to the world. Sometimes we have the tend
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by slx26 7y ago
I write some music and been playing in bands for years, but I can't stand having music in the background (decent OSTs and a few others are excluded from this classification, as they are there for a reason and I'm listening activel
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by slx26 7y ago
I first read about this guy from a link currently on xkcd to another of his medium posts, titled "So you want to reform democracy" [0] (it has been posted a few times here, but it never got many comments). I'm personally very
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by slx26 7y ago
we don't know everything , but we definitely know something about current ML, and we can indeed speculate and make some educated guesses about AGI. for a random comment on the internet, that contained some interesting information. of

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