timscott

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   by timscott 13y ago

   Wow, very powerful stuff. This article rapidly expands from indictment Noam Chomsky as linguist to indictment of modern academia. As a parent about to pay large sums to one of these institutions for my son's education, it depresses me
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   by timscott 13y ago

   Engineers, of which I am one, tend to see the world in pure dialectics, so they often have very difficult time understanding why accomplishment is not purely evaluated by some rational universal force and recognition made manifest commensur
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   by timscott 13y ago

   I've recently been learning all this the hard way. 1. Documented API. Failing that... 2. HTTP client fetching structured data (XHR calls). Failing that... 3. HTTP client fetching and scraping HTML documents. Failing that... 4. Headles
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   by timscott 13y ago

   What caught my attention was the use of "analytic tools" as a euphemism for "surveillance tools." One could dismiss it as corporate-speak or techie-speak, but it rings in my head more like newspeak, and you know the purp
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   by timscott 15y ago

   I agree with almost all of what you said. I'm a coder, agilist, craftsman, blah, blah who has worked on a startup more than once. On the last one I wrote almost no unit tests. The whole thing was so experimental from the start that I never