antigonemerlin

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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
There was a Vox video called "Who made these circles in the Sahara?" that really showcased the investigative powers of journalists once they have the budget to bring in the big guns. Budget cuts and the gutting of profitable newsp
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
Add it onto the list of "falsehoods programmers believe in". https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
Counterpoint: part of how I learned from smarter people was to copy their habits, and part of their habits was to read good books with good practices. Learning how to read non-fiction books, as I discovered, is actually a skill that needs t
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
Reminds me of "ye", pronounced and meaning "the", in English, because medieval printers imported from Germany didn't have that letter "Þ' and 'Y' was the closest substitute.
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
Trust only answers from domain experts. I think it is unreasonable to expect that hackers are expert assyriologists, material scientists, or sociologists, despite what we may think about ourselves. Some of us are fortunate enough to know ma
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
It occurs to me that metaprogramming looks awfully familiar in JavaScript. function process_item(item, action) { item[action](); } (Also similarly forgetting the guard statement). Probably not great code, but still.
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
The lathe is honestly one of the most underrated inventions of modern civilization. Though I can't recall of the top of my head, there are certainly more than a few inventions which were simply not practical to build before the inventi
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
I like the meme of the personal webpage, which has sort of fallen by the wayside with the rise of social media. It's one of those ideas that spreads because you see other people doing it: You get the OG blogs still up with 90s styling,
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
For the past few decades, Americans, and especially college-educated professionals, have been sold a distorted view of politics that essentially amounts to watching sports. Most of us have never seen a working example of democracy. We have
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
It's articles that these that remind me of how much we English-speakers are missing in the full breadth of human literature. For every Shakespeare, there is a Jára Cimrman, and for every Jára Cimrman, there is another who goes unnamed.
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
A company I used to work for used react to build the app, and Wix for the site.
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In one sense, parts of the old internet hasn't died; dwarf fortress forums seem to be still going strong, as are other forums, if you know where to look, while new forums are springing up using different models. On the other hand, site
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
Speaking as someone else, I go on reddit because there are occasional domain experts. It's 99% repetitive drivel (I myself am guilty of the same) and 1% person who actually knows what they're talking about. That number is proporti
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
I think at the end of the day, it's because the modern way of designing things is just easier for developers. I remember when that started taking off; it was honestly kind of a godsend because one of the laziest way of doing things sud
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Yes, but I miss ctrl-f in real life.
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Let's address the root of your argument: At the end of the day, people have to eat. We're going to have to pay people somehow , either by buying a product, buying merchandise, paying taxes / donating to fund grants, or throu
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
Discoverability is an underrated feature in software. I like how in Microsoft Word (off the top of my head), all shortcuts are displayed when you go to the file menu. Redundancy is also an underrated design feature. In Word, if you want to
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
God bless the good reporters who put a one paragraph article into one paragraph, unlike some reporters who insist on stretching it out into an entire essay that says nothing. And they use bullet points! Bullet points! Edit: Not AP News, o
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Personally on Firefox since I got into an open source. In my relatively short experience developing an open source browser extension, Firefox users are far more active than Chrome users, which makes sense given that for most users, Chrome i
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
You're absolutely right. I think the problem is that connecting everyone to everyone is a mistake. As John Oliver (I think, I can't find the source of the original quote now), puts it, "Facebook is the Walmart of social media
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
Chomsky notes that language was evolved not for communication, but for thinking . Murphy (of Murphy's law fame) notes that you're not really thinking if you don't write the thought down: you just think that you're think
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
I mean, there are badly designed brownfield projects with tight coupling, bad documentation, and, where you have to spend half an hour to figure out why a simple change broke everything. Funnily enough, personally, I can handle badly design
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
Something that's particularly interesting; on Pod Save America, they referenced a study (which I forget right now) that tracked protest effectiveness vs size, and right around the time that twitter/facebook started taking off, pro
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by antigonemerlin 3y ago
I remember when I was a kid, writing an essay on a laptop for the first time, and realizing that the reason the page was blank was because I had nothing to say. At the end of the day, writing isn't scratching graphite onto paper. It&#x
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It's exactly what my father did. He took parenting classes at the library, because he wanted to learn more and didn't think that just because he considered himself successful in business and life, he would necessarily understand p
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I think there are also some connotations associated with the idea of Empire that implies greater centralization and control. One thing that's fairly interesting is how the British did not allow their monarch to become an Emperor, bec