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by urthor 5y ago
> IRCs had associated mailing lists & bugtrackers That's kind of the thing. I don't see Reddit's Wikis, IRC Mailing lists, Usenet FAQs as "integrated" into the core experience particularly well. Reddit Wikis
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by urthor 5y ago
Large private communities are just as valid a form of communication. Corporate intranets for example, are exactly this. Nobody wants those to be publicly indexable.
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by urthor 5y ago
Machine specs? I think you'll find that Discord is lightweight, relative to the majority of users. Building for low spec machines has an incumbent cost upon it. Performance optimization is challenging. Many projects I know build for t
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by urthor 5y ago
> There is a strong culture of keeping topics focused I think you're mistaking the type of content on Discord/Facebook as a byproduct of the design of their platforms. Upvote oriented forums are the internet's equivalent o
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by urthor 5y ago
Out of curiosity, why? Seems fairly simple to perform simple keyword searching, just like Slack.
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by urthor 5y ago
Discord never promised, to anyone, it'd be an indexable source of information. Funnily enough, neither are electronic mailing lists. Great effort was required to publish them for search crawlers. Electronic mail is fundamentally priv
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by urthor 5y ago
Increasingly less so over time I presume. Sneering at C++ is rapidly overtaking insulting Javascript as the world's conversational standby.
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by urthor 5y ago
Most of the meta performance skills and knowledge can be found in psychology textbooks. Consult with a someone in the field.
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by urthor 5y ago
In contrast, a prominent thread about Adobe currently sits on the front page.
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by urthor 5y ago
I think if computer science degree weren't about industry, there'd be far fewer terminal undergraduates floating around the world. If people came for the science, everyone would ride off, discover something, and get a PhD. I just
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by urthor 5y ago
Valve's principal line of business right now is utterly eradicating Epic Game Store from existence. Its tool for doing that is consumer sentiment. This all plays into Valve's business strategy. They're fighting to justify ye
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by urthor 5y ago
How often do proofs come up in industry though? Usually I find proofs are what you bring in the consultant for. I'm not going to hand on heart vouch for anything like that as a generalist. Combinatrics, Big O and set theory absolutely
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by urthor 5y ago
Oh definitely. I'm not saying it doesn't happen.
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by urthor 5y ago
Fair point.
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by urthor 5y ago
Generally speaking, the second you're running tricks to "jam" something that's overly large into a single machine, yeah you should just give up. The issue becomes when you reach the scale of compute needs such that you c
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by urthor 5y ago
Distributed system probably isn't precise enough in of itself. But I was very much thinking of multiple leader distributed systems. Anecdotal. But dealing with clock errors and multi-leader issues are of far greater complexity than ca
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by urthor 5y ago
> 20 years of insane coupling and complexity makes it pretty difficult to move away from that architecture which is where most companies seem to end up with from experience. Pretty much. I don't want to generalise for legacy contex
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by urthor 5y ago
Well yes exactly. That's kind of why I brought up the idea of clock errors. Single leader distributed systems are honestly an entirely different paradigm to multi-leader. You have a main node, the main node controls routing and which
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by urthor 5y ago
Whilst not making light of the complexity of the field. Distributed systems, it honestly is just a toy for the tech monopolies. Nobody I've ever heard of in a company with less than a billion dollars of revenue is bothering. Who ever t
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by urthor 5y ago
If neural networks have shown us anything, it's that not all neurons are born the same. After all, even in nature there are multiple types of neurons. I imagine it's 100% dependent on the cardinal rule of neural networks: "Ch
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by urthor 5y ago
Speech Interfaces for Information Access By Low Literate Users I presume?
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by urthor 5y ago
"What Does Any Of This Have To Do With Physics" is an absolute blessing. Thank you for the link.
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by urthor 5y ago
LA: Spent about two weeks in LA, don't remember having any significantly deep and meaningful conversations. They're probably all stuck in traffic. Seattle: people are just like Europeans. Except Europeans have excellent food and
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by urthor 5y ago
If you're a first time reader of this stuff and liked this article, I'm happy to be the thousandth member of Hacker News groupthink to tell you to go off and read Designing Data Intensive Applications.
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by urthor 5y ago
God we need data in education.
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by urthor 5y ago
For one thing, I wasn't really addressing career preferences. Matriculating to higher education isn't really preferring one career over another, other than white collar blue collar. But with absolute surety women are going to co
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by urthor 5y ago
Apple's primary moat isn't hardware, it's software. Their software moat with IOS is everything. Software itself is innately a hugely monopolistic industry.
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by urthor 5y ago
Has more to do with innate economies of scale than any individual market abuse. Which isn't to say that there is some, but even if you stripped out the market abuse, Apple would still be fine. Apple is a machine that is fueled by cros
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by urthor 5y ago
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2763720 36% higher lifetime income for joining a college fraternity. The numbers don't lie.
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by urthor 5y ago
There's a huge body of education research about this, this has been the case for of years. There's even data from the pre-1900s, especially in the primary school years. Only recently have we stripped away a lot of the sexism how

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