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by unabst 10y ago
Waiting for web standards, let alone advocating them while you wait is a HORRIBLE business plan, and is a disservice to your users who could be getting a better experience NOW. The history of web standardization alone provides ample proof t
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by unabst 10y ago
> in it's essence philosophy is about how you approach and solve problems, and more importantly how you think about them This. This is what helps. > how you think any post Frege philosophy helps If it doesn't then that expla
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by unabst 10y ago
There is a simple antidote for hype. It doesn't require questions, and it will mute it completely. Just ignore the hyped word and see if there is anything there. The author does this throughout the article, but the business plan argume
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by unabst 10y ago
Is it just me or did the author just provide the perfect argument for pattern matching in function calls as seen in Elixir? One can easily split/fork the functionality of the same abstraction depending on the arguments. This preserves
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by unabst 10y ago
Less is not arbitrary. Be it fewer assumptions, variables, bits, rules... And these are all abstractions. Abstractions can be counted, so all simple really means is fewer abstractions. Theories tend to refine themselves because ultimately w
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by unabst 10y ago
More specifically, > two hypotheses for which the evidence supports both If they are supported by the same evidence, then the truth that is being supported must be the same. The simplest hypothesis is therefore the smaller nutshell that
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by unabst 10y ago
Right. Except either way, the length of the page hardly ever corresponds to the amount of content. With pagination we are left counting the O's in goolge for example.
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by unabst 10y ago
Maximize order. Order is the lubricant for information. And if you back your reasons with guiding principles (aka philosophy) the specifics will remain obvious as well as sort themselves. These are the only ways to reduce cognitive load and
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by unabst 10y ago
> you only know in hindsight whether you were practicing or not You are always practicing. It's only in hindsight whether you know you were doing it right. If you're late for work, you've just practiced being late for work
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by unabst 10y ago
All I stated was the scrollbar is a non-issue with wheels and touch. And it isn't. I sympathize with any health issues, but to be fair, if we were discussing accessibility then RSI is just the beginning. Also, maybe you're not abl
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by unabst 10y ago
I don't think the author is particularly against infinite scrolling. He provides a great checklist of do's and don'ts, and is basically calling you out if your page sucks. If your page eats memory, needs finer analytics, and
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by unabst 10y ago
Passion always comes. It's what you're doing when it comes, whether you can recognize it, and whether you can run with it. Choosing to be gritty first is not a requirement. Chances are, you'd have still found passion elsewher
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by unabst 10y ago
For the most part we are all unabstractable, and if anything, we should strive to be. What I means is, we can give ourselves names, but who we are is mostly a black box. Any black swan event can change our definition, and the shock doctrine
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by unabst 10y ago
"There are no actors, only actions." -- Nietzche It's all practice. So if you practice being a new you, you will become good at being that person. And it so happens that's how we become good at our first selves. We just
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by unabst 10y ago
His distinction reminded me of what I wrote in a comment regarding Dissipative Adaptation and its relationship with language [1]. If Alan Kay is right, and Wittgenstein is right, and Prof. England is right, then we should be focusing on the
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by unabst 10y ago
Indeed. Not to mention that content swapping fraud is also incredibly rare.
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by unabst 10y ago
At the bare minimum, they should help . They don't. They can't because they don't have the capacity to, but that is no excuse to profit over a platform they themselves have built that is being openly utilized by criminals to
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by unabst 10y ago
Right they wouldn't buy at all using these stupid cards . Which is the whole reason the entire industry has had to lobby and tilt the law in their favor. Same with not passing these fees to the buyer. People will always find ways to b
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by unabst 10y ago
The police and the law should protect consumers from fraud. One major root of the problem is the liability shift from police to the cards and banks. If you're a buyer, you're suppose to file a chargeback, not call the police. If y
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by unabst 10y ago
tl;tr Fuck these cards. Go team Depot. Walmart is suing too. [0] As someone with one foot in retail, I can honestly say these cards are not doing anyone any favors. Fraud is rampant and there are shoppers that travel the world [0.5] with st
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by unabst 10y ago
If you have an idea, the chances someone is already doing it are actually quite high: https://www.withkash.com/
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by unabst 10y ago
Family and community and culture happen organically so long as we are all humans. The company is what is structural and functional, with its existence depending solely on the performance of its functions. The problem is that the structure t
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by unabst 10y ago
I think it would be more pragmatic to say philosophers should find ways to make unfalsifiable claims falsifiable, and that way the scientists could work on them. But 1) this is actually what scientists already do when confronted with new pr
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Unfalsifiability was a philosophical breakthrough first, and it is now the de facto test to see if an idea has any real world consequence. To say philosophers should focus on unfalsifiable ideas is to say philosophers should be antipragmati
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by unabst 10y ago
What world? Streaming was not created by Netflix. Netflix could be gone tomorrow, and we'd stream our way around them just fine, just as us cable-cutters stream our way around cable or around HBO to get Game of Thrones, top downloaded
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by unabst 10y ago
The TSA does not block terrorists. It blocks idiots. Some terrorists are idiots, but it has also blocked idiots that were not terrorists. Of course, not all terrorists are idiots, and not all threats are terrorists. Which begs the question,
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Insurance. There has to be insurance, and it should be part of BI. So Basic Income & Insurance. BII. If someone keeps making claims, then they should be investigated for insurance fraud, and processed accordingly. As for people wasting
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by unabst 10y ago
We need to flag it, not delete it. Pretending this stuff doesn't exist isn't doing anyone any favors. It's far better to have a public record of who is posting this stuff. Let them advertise themselves, and let's deal wi
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by unabst 10y ago
Why do we even need to finish it? Finishing a project is in itself a choice. I mean, like the article says, you might end at a ton of research and you might not get far on your new OS per se, but if that's what you want to work on, the
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by unabst 10y ago
> You discount the notion that... I don't. > I suspect the driving factor here is the size of the unemployed workforce, not the need for money And the difference is? Fundamentally people work to pay bills. > aren't policy

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