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by westoncb 8y ago
Another anecdote in the opposite direction: I've had good social skills, made friends with diverse groups of people easily, etc. all my life. When I was working in a grocery store in my mid-twenties, I was a typical person to call on w
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by westoncb 8y ago
I've found myself running into this same thing as well. An obscure sort of problem no one warns you about ;)
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by westoncb 8y ago
It was never launched—still sitting on my computer with along with a pile of other ideas/projects I haven't had time for ;) I don't have a version hosted at the moment, but here's a blog post I wrote on it: http:/&
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by westoncb 8y ago
I think you're right that that has led to people's thinking of rectangles as 'default' (and because they're more traditional, probably for the same reason)—but it's an irrelevant fact now. However you're d
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by westoncb 8y ago
I started something like this a couple years ago, but it allowed hierarchy in the argument for either side, so that particular points could have 'justifications,' and the justifications could have their own, recursively—but a part
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by westoncb 8y ago
> Remember the round cornered buttons? Yeah, I remember too. The only way it's okay for a designer to use them now is if it's #ironic. So keep it functional, not decorative. The round corners were never suiting any purpose. But
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by westoncb 8y ago
First off, I'm crossing my fingers it was actually a drunk Jeff Bezos who posted this :D I hit on a new general scheme for structuring programming tools and languages that doesn't use parsing, and I'd love to try building a l
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by westoncb 8y ago
I've been thinking on similar lines for a while. It seems like the number one thing it comes down to is that more deep thought is required for a number of these 'obviously better' techniques (I think they generally come down
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by westoncb 8y ago
Your description of 'thinking algebraically' is similar to how I think of it. Seems to match something in human brains that partitions thought into subjects/domains which each have their own definitions of which things are fi
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by westoncb 8y ago
Best resource I've found is a book called "Introduction to Functional Programming through Lambda Calculus": https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Functional-Programming-C...
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by westoncb 8y ago
That's s good point. Could definitely be an amplifying factor.
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by westoncb 8y ago
> Beyond these preliminary observations, though, there does not seem to be a well-developed and widely accepted model in the psychology literature to explain how character labeling makes such a difference. Sure there is. The results can
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by westoncb 8y ago
Hehe, yeah, it's been surprising how common that pattern is. I fell for it once when a prospective employer found a demo video of mine on the front page here and sent me an email saying, "I can offer you the opportunity to continu
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by westoncb 8y ago
I think I'm a good bit earlier in my career, but I've been in a similar situation for a number of years now. It was extremely discouraging to me when I discovered that the typical result of my spending years (in some cases) resear
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by westoncb 8y ago
After graduating with a CS degree and a repetitive strain injury, I decided to teach myself mathematics properly (so I could do technical/creative things without a computer). I took the project very seriously, working part-time at a gr
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by westoncb 8y ago
Ha! What's that from?
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by westoncb 8y ago
> While researching her American Studies master’s thesis, Onion noticed that at the turn of the 20th century, children were portrayed as having a particular affinity for animals and the natural world in general, whether they’re catching
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by westoncb 8y ago
Looks interesting but I don't think it will be sufficient (I hope I'm wrong about that though!). The operation data I need has to include 'addresses' where nodes in data structures were modified.
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by westoncb 8y ago
I used ES6 proxies recently to write a program which monitors changes on javascript data structures, and generates operation objects reflecting the changes to send to my data structure visualizer project[0]. You can see the source for the j
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by westoncb 8y ago
I remember reading Asimov talking about his early relationship with Ellison. Ellison was the super smart way too young guy always showing up at the sci-fi conventions, hanging out with the grown ups, who everyone knew was gonna make it some
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by westoncb 8y ago
I've read and enjoyed some Murakami (Norwegian Wood and Hard-boiled Wonderland), but can anyone recommend some (or one) other Japanese authors to check out? This is especially intriguing to me: > ... Japanese stories focus on the in
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by westoncb 8y ago
> And the very notion of motivation — striving to obtain a more desirable future — implies some degree of discontentment with the present, which seems at odds with a psychological exercise that instills equanimity and a sense of calm. &#
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by westoncb 8y ago
Most of the rendering code would be a pretty direct port—I don't think I'm using anything from OpenGL that isn't supported by WebGL. That said, it is a desktop Java application and it would be non-trivial to port it to javasc
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by westoncb 8y ago
Unfortunately, no :/ I should get that together soon, but there are still some rough edges I've wanted to work on before issuing a release.
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by westoncb 8y ago
Thanks! Looks pretty cool. I also found this: http://felsin9.de/nnis/ghc-vis/
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by westoncb 8y ago
Hey mamcx—totally agree. Actually, I've got designs for something very much like what you suggest. I was actually thinking of designing a simple query language for it so that you could search for certain types of relationships etc. too
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by westoncb 8y ago
You are correct, it's very much targeted toward mutable data structures. It'd be interested in looking more into the state monad and considering the possibilities, but I haven't yet. Actually part of how I see the role of sys
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by westoncb 8y ago
There are two clients in progress at the moment. By far the more complete one is for Java; the other is for javascript. Since I've had such a difficult time communicating the potential benefit of the fully general piece of software, I&
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by westoncb 8y ago
Yes, sadly I rolled my own engine directly on top of Java/OpenGL, rather than using something pre-existing. (There were some decent reasons for it considering how specialized the visuals I'm working with are—but it was a big mista
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by westoncb 8y ago
Damn, glad to see this, but they're also kinda encroaching on my territory! :P I've been working on something like this that's language agnostic and works with not only tables but also trees, graphs, lists, hashmaps, etc., an

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