stuartjohnson12

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by stuartjohnson12 4y ago
I don't think these upvotes are organic.
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Everything in javascript except primatives are objects. Classes are objects, functions are objects, the runtime environment is an object. Not only is everything an object, but everything is mutable in an unlimited way.
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My least favorite part of Hacker News are the folk who complain about the invention of slate tablets because it means people will no longer remember things because they can write them down. Not automatically wrong, but the top comment on ev
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I liked the first half more than the second half. I think you establish the problem very effectively, but in the second half your own indignation shines brighter than inquisition. I've yet to see an answer that satisfies me here. Many
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Read most of the content here. You have a soothingly simple and brain-to-paper writing style I enjoy. Your essay called "Age of Questions" stuck with me. It's a similar frustration to one I've had with the world recently
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In my experience, the developer tools that really catch on do so via word of mouth. For example, our whole team recently adopted https://sourcery.ai/ (not an ad) because one developer tried it and hyped it up to everyone el
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I think names don't really matter that much in the grand scheme of things, short of being catastrophically bad. Bonus points if you can get the single word .com at some point, bonus points if it's memorable, but you can always reb
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by stuartjohnson12 4y ago
Chesterton's Fence strikes again - every so often, someone has the bright idea of uninventing all the rules for just long enough that all of the reasons the rules were invented in the first place can regress back into existence.
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What exactly are you expecting Cloudflare to do?
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Mintlify are probably the guys who will close on this one first. Great team, moving very fast.
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Anecdotally, it seems like companies advertising data + AI capacities are the worst offenders when it comes to buzzwords and grift. Also anecdotally, I know the founder of a small agency that does rapid prototyping of predictive models for
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https://joinef.com is a good place to start
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The solution to kitten punting isn't to stop punting kittens because the kittens are clearly not strong enough to avoid being punted. This is brutal, I know, but kitten punting is unfortunately the reality of life on earth. No reason w
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I'm no historian, but I think we do something similar (although probably not to the same extent) in the status quo regarding the sexuality of the elderly. Of course we know some old people have a sexuality, and we implicitly know that
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Why would that be considered transphobic?
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If normativity isn't real, it's also not problematic for him to claim that harming gay people is objectively immoral, because there is similarly no obligation to apportion one's beliefs to the evidence.
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The joke is that corporations do performative political acts to appear socially conscious. They are using hyperbole based on this stereotype to joke that Applebee's (a relatable family diner) has done something incredibly minor (limiti
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This reads as meta-contrarianism ( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9kcTNWopvXFncXgPy/intellectu... ). The obvious position is that people can believe whatever they want. The contrarian position is that religion is b
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Hacker News is interesting because I think it's also pretty troll resistant through virtue of... being boring to non-trolls, I think. The web 1.0 design scares off a lot of the teenagers.
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It's a flavour of social darwinism. The argument essentially goes that you encourage darwinian evolution of society where the weak are indeed weeded out, and that we should encourage people to "evolve" and become "strong
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Usually that's the goal of people that suggest this kind of treatment of children. It's usually backed up by a circular is-ought that the kids who are the victims in the bullying and faults are culpable and ought to become stronge
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by stuartjohnson12 5y ago
Right, but we don't oppose their existence on that basis.
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Ah yes, ruining things by exposing them as being hives of extremely shady material. I'll stop at Pornhub since it's easy to be specific - there were widely proliferated videos of people literally being raped on the website. It t
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As far as I'm aware, visual scripting runs into one of two unavoidable problems: 1) Either it is very limited in scope. This is probably most of the times where it can be applicable, but that also makes it unsuitable for building anyth