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by weeksie 6y ago
If you’re interested in kindle self pub, there’s a pretty vibrant community on the kboards (kboards.com) forum. Tons of info on producing volume as a marketing strategy but people are definitely making a living. It’s not my approach but I’v
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by weeksie 6y ago
That's exactly why I limited it to twitter comics, the form relies heavily on non-sequitur.
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by weeksie 6y ago
The medium is the message. This is the equivalent to amazon kindle self-pubbers needing to crank out 3-5 books per year to make a living.
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by weeksie 6y ago
I understand the thought, and if you are unfamiliar with the process of writing a novel it makes some intuitive sense. If that method were effective, we would not have to wait for a machine learning algo to make use of it. There has rarely
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by weeksie 6y ago
I like the idea of using generated dialog for NPCs in those kinds of circumstances where dynamic dialog makes sense. As an author I can assure you that writers block is a different animal. Being blocked on fiction happens because you don&#x
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by weeksie 6y ago
Soon machines will steal all the copy-pasting from Stackoverflow jobs. But really, this is super impressive for ML. It's not software development, though. It's analyzing a corpus and performing a search. The nasty bit is that if t
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by weeksie 6y ago
Passes the sniff test. I spent a good deal of time in SLC when I was 18/19. This was the 90s and I remember even back then that almost all of the classified job ads were setups to entice you into a MLM presentation.
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by weeksie 6y ago
Which is fair. These can be good jumping off points. It would be wonderful if Perell credited (for example) the book The Goal for his reference to the Theory of Constraints, etc.
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by weeksie 6y ago
This is a listicle of context-free ideas distilled into bon mots. Great for going viral, especially among the VC twitter crowd. The problem with these lists is that they give the impression that you're learning something when you'
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by weeksie 6y ago
So far the best solution I've seen to this sort of thing (other than building a taller bridge) is the waterfall approach. Probably a bit spensie for some rando railroad bridge but it's clever nonetheless. https://www.da
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by weeksie 6y ago
Fair go. I'll reel in the grumpy old man-isms.
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by weeksie 6y ago
You can find out for yourself, if you're curious. Grab some vernacular fiction from the time period. Watch some movies. Even better, drop by a library or used book store and pick up some popular humor magazines, you'll be pretty s
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by weeksie 6y ago
It's like you people think the world began in 2010. We've been through a drastic shift in what popular culture considers polite in the last decade. Nothing was weird about that metaphor in the nineties, it would have been seen as
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by weeksie 6y ago
I took one of their dev quizzes when they launched just for the hell of it and entered my name as "Die in a Fire" which gives me a giggle every time I get an update from them. This time around, it was even funnier. I have such a d
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by weeksie 6y ago
I didn’t forget to answer anything, you are just treating this like a debate. While I understand why, it would do you some good to be more humble. You’re pretty junior and you still have a lot to learn.
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by weeksie 6y ago
Completely agree. Back in the before-before time when I would go to an office, the walk in to work was always a great chance to consume some interesting content.
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by weeksie 6y ago
A few big problems: * They're a pain in the ass to maintain once you have more than a few async calls * They are a poor abstraction because async messages often need to do a lot more than just call/response/error. Sometimes y
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by weeksie 6y ago
Redux is fantastic and it's quite a simple library. The rest is what gets you into trouble. Hardly anybody has a problem with redux until they have to deal with async actions but all the tutorials use thunks or sagas when the correct w
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by weeksie 6y ago
I'll never understand the drive to bury so much good information inside video and audio. Consuming info that way gives the impression that you're learning something but without organized text it's quite difficult to contextua
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by weeksie 6y ago
If that works with your model of the world that's great. Wouldn't kick it out of bed for farting. For me, the easiest way to handle async and effects in Redux is to write custom middleware for each context/entity. That's
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by weeksie 6y ago
I've been working with React since 2014 and I've never had a good experience with an app that relied entirely on component state. To each their own, perhaps you've discovered something I haven't. For me, Redux works very
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by weeksie 6y ago
That's awesome. Best of luck going forward!
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by weeksie 6y ago
I've never had my bottlenecks end up being because of Redux, but that could just be me. I'd love to take a look at a larger project using Recoil though, just to get a sense for how it looks with a relatively complex state setup. M
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by weeksie 6y ago
I'm not seeing how this works with more complex state flows. Doesn't seem much better than useReducer. Frankly, for state management I still haven't found anything that beats Redux on its own without thunks or sagas or any of
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by weeksie 6y ago
Maybe I’m missing something but the reason why the concept behind unison is so neat is that identifying libraries by AST allows for the kind of code re use that Joe Armstrong was talking about. It’s not about urls as identifiers, that’s sup
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by weeksie 6y ago
This is super effing awesome. You know what would be extra amazing? Incorporating (at some point in the future) all of the very smart stuff that the unison people have been doing. That would be _tremendous_ for code re-use and guarantees ab
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by weeksie 6y ago
I just gave it a shot and it was pretty tasty, but i wonder if it's stable enough to be strained like yogurt. Might give that a shot next time.
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by weeksie 6y ago
"If technology continues apace, we'll have steam powered flying machines before the turn of the century!"
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by weeksie 6y ago
That's the EFF. It exists. Donate to it.
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by weeksie 6y ago
So wild. I was there with some friends back in 2006. We didn’t go into the big orb because they were charging and we were cheap. What a random memory to relive. Lovely :)

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