alexandercrohde

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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
My own take trying to express this dichotomy of second-hand versus firsthand knowledge https://blog.alexrohde.com/archives/682
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Yeah, I'm curious if he burdens himself with our inane internet opinions (reads it)? Or if people manage to send him emails about it?
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
When I read this type of thing, I try my best to look for some basis to decide if it's fortune-cookie-nonsense or great advice. It's obvious to me that a person can care too much about being/seeming right. But can a person
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Yes there is. What you do is have don't put any IO calls inside your pure functions, but rather pass in their results as parameters. Keep the impure code and the pure code separated.
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
One thing I've learned, is that unit testing seems much much more painful than it has to be when you are using too many classes. When you are writing code as pure functions (i.e. stateless), it's actually much less painful. In the
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
https://blog.alexrohde.com/archives/178
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
I hate this framing too. I don't understand all the hand-wringing over people losing money in the stock market. If you want to be mad about people losing money, be mad about the ones where it's rigged against them -- lotto/ca
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
I would turn down applicants who don't have this mindset. The last thing I need is a dev who never mastered postgres because they were too busy learning mongo.
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
- Don't delete accounts entirely when they are reported, just lock them. If it's not disputed delete them 1 year later. - Add a "reputability score" for every channel which is log((total videos) * total views * total lik
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
I don't know why you're downvoted, this is a pretty important topic. Well, I do know why you're being downvoted -- you're challenging an a very dear orthodoxy.
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Ridiculous. Completely hypothetical argument devoid of any real-world considerations. Reducto ad absurdem -- A single crack-house can bring down the value of every house in the neighborhood by 100k or more. Housing has huge externalities (t
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
I've heard this hypothesis that groups tend to go down in quality for this reason -- 1. Group has an average quality. 2. People who have a much higher quality tend to avoid the group (e.g. that discussion is fallacious) 3. People who h
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
As soon as those metrics are exposed though, people will start hacking them by purchasing older accounts, etc.
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
What are you talking about, that's absolutely a premise. To quote a huge heading "Should violent video games narratively justify their obsession with violence?" My response is that there's nothing to justify. There is no
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
I absolutely reject a premise of this article, which I suppose is that violence in videogames is somehow bad or meaningful. They are best understood as toys or works of art, and their moral implications are the same moral implacations of pl
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Yeah, but this is to some extent just an interesting side-note. At least I know several people who are liberals but don't agree with lacking "political correctness" being sufficient cause for "canceling."
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
According to that article, those vaccines are on track for next year, which I believe is a year too late. >> Whether or not you quarantined, the economy would collapse because you would have a massive death toll and paranoia throughou
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Damaging the economy to the tune of 2 trillion in bailouts, the cost of the war in Iraq, just to have the exact same number of deaths delayed by 4 months is inexcusable. And you should be ashamed of your self-righteous and dishonest argumen
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
>And also realise that what you're saying is that you advocate for a modeled 2 million deaths. So far as I know, there's no evidence that now that quarantine is over the same number of people aren't going to get it anyways
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
As far as I'm concerned, if quarantine is the "answer" then the cure is worse than the disease. In fact, I'd take this as evidence that quarantine might have been a mistake.
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
>> There is no such thing as universal advice. All advice is useful in some context, but no advice is useful in all contexts. The interesting thing is some advice is pretty good for almost all-contexts (e.g. "If you feel like kil
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
>> In your example, try and try again does NOT mean try and try the SAME thing again. Who says? For surfing, "If at first you don't succeed, try try again" may seem to apply. And maybe you get on the board again and nai
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Yes. I'll take it a step further and ask, do adages actually contain any signal at all? If you have a saying "try try again" and another saying "don't bust your head against a brick wall" which one wins? When?
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
For a while I wasn't sure if this was just some "talking point." Then one day, on a hiking meetup, I met a guy who was ranting about his job that was to write "oddly hyper-specific job descriptions that might seem to mak
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
step 1. Psychologist identifies "defense mechanism" preventing people from accepting unpleasant truths. step 2. Psychologist being aware of defense mechanisms, declares with no apparent evidence/testing that they are immune t
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
This is cherry-picked, emotional, and an anecdote. How about some happy stories of all the 20-year-olds who became millionaires from unregulated bitcoin trading to show the other side of the coin? I guess I have a rather libertarian view on
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
shrug And people jump off bridges. Doesn't mean we stop building bridges. The market is rough, them's the rules, sorry not sorry.
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Seems rather cut-throat. If this type of thing becomes the norm, then the market will just end up with a conservative or apolitical github. Progress?
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
>> All corporations are political Almost no corporations are overtly political in who they service.
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by alexandercrohde 6y ago
Sounds like a non-story? I'm not sure what the value is in linking it here, other than to try to provoke a similarly controversial flare.

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