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by stdbrouw 11y ago
But assuming that a person really does have superior intelligence, how strong do their study habits really need to become to succeed in college? Stronger than they were in high school for sure, but if the difference is astronomical, then wo
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
I'm sure you don't mean it that way, but this always feels like such a humblebrag to me. "Oh, I was actually a lousy college student, and you know what, my superior intelligence is what did me in." I can imagine that hav
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Certainly, some enrichment programs have been shown to work, but others, like the track system in which students are grouped into different classes by ability, has in many cases been shown to be not particularly beneficial for either less o
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
I'm reminded of the first industrial products. Handmade meant crummy and for poor people, whereas something from a production belt meant precision-engineered. But now that everyone can afford, say, a quality solid-state amplifier, sudd
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
We cannot read what does not get written. We cannot discuss the merits and demerits code that is not public. I'm in full agreement that HN is an informational bubble. I'm not so clear on exactly what HN is doing to aggressively ex
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Virtual DOMs were pretty much invented while searching for a way to get higher rendering speeds. Just google "virtual dom speed".
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
> Imagine being able to use a laptop, or a phone, for days without plugging in. A Kindle has a battery life of a couple of weeks (30+ hrs active use), but it's actually a mixed blessing. Daily charging is a nightly routine you get u
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
I'm sure everybody thinks about their code in different ways, but that doesn't seem to bother people when they use syntax highlighting. Similarly, Victoresque "code interpretations" can be just another layer, to use when
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Yeah, sorry, that was confusing. I guess I was just trying to point out that for behavior to arise that is beneficial to a species (like the eusocial behavior in bees), it has to increase fitness for everybody, otherwise that kind of behavi
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Evolution doesn't optimize for the species, though.
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
That's not the definition of an A player, that's the definition of a unicorn. There are very few talented people who remain productive if they don't feel they're valued / doing valuable work.
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
I see what you mean. Generally node libraries are very small and do just one thing, which is why almost any project ends up having a large amount of (small) dependencies, or alternatively, like PostCSS, a whole bunch of plugins that have to
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
I usually partake of the "faster, lighter, less bloated" kool aid, but I have to say I don't really see the bloat in less/sass/stylus. They're fast, you can just ignore the features you don't need, and the
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
I dunno, people use the same kind of argument to say that nobody's really done anything new in philosophy since Kant or even Aristotle. The KISS principle is not the same as a distinction between simplicity and ease. Accidental vs. ess
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Do you really believe that the only reason "it's my car and I can run over whoever I like" is ethically wrong is because there's a law that says you can't run over people?
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Because the US is the only country that is relevant in this context. None of the major software or web services in use in Europe come from Russia or Nigeria or Australia so there is nothing for trade protections to protect against.
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Protectionism and xenophobia are different things.
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
I don't see any anti-American sentiment in the OP's message. He's just making an economic argument that may or may not be correct.
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
But that's not what the author is saying! He's not saying "here's how I feel", he's saying "this is the state of Apple software".
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Hadley Wickham has done a lot of really cool stuff, but how would you know whether he's exceptionally productive? You're probably thinking "well, what we see in terms of visible artifacts must only be the tip of the iceberg,
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Not dismissing anything, just pointing out that the author's standard of evidence is somewhat lacking.
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
The article is not about index funds competing with alternate investment opportunities and whether or not the competition is fair, it's about what index funds do to the competitiveness of the companies they invest in.
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
The article also explains that this is only true when a few large players control the market. E.g. an index that includes all of the major pharmaceutical companies. Indexes generally don't invest in startups taking on the incumbents, s
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
I dunno. I've never experienced any of the problems described in the post. Always kind of dangerous to extrapolate from n=1. It also feels somewhat myopic to claim that people don't like apps like Notes or Calendar because there&#
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Why not just invest in an index like one of the Dow Jones sustainability indices? You don't have to bet to do the right thing.
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
I think you might be misinterpreting the meaning of "should" in these discussions. Nobody's claiming that a CEO is ethically obligated to adhere to a certain remuneration strategy or that employees with certain skills legally
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Hardly any changes at all, and the things that did change didn't actually make a clear difference in productivity or the clarity of your code. The ability to make breaking changes wasn't really used to improve the language, maybe
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
And some people, mysteriously, seem to be especially fond of the flavor just around the time they're struggling to wake up.
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Because "running things just fine" across production, continuous integration and on dev machines is actually quite a hard thing to do. But then, if you don't feel like you need it, that's probably because you don't
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Peanut oil can be somewhat nutty, but it's a very, very mild tasting oil. Precisely on that account, peanut oil is actually great on salads too, because it's not as overpowering as olive oil can be. No idea about avocado oil.

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