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Languages Google Cannot Translate(barce.medium.com)
2 points by barce 3y ago|1 comments
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by barce 5y ago
There's lack of proof to back up the 10k hours. I get that he has worked 15 years at prestigious companies but I have to take his word on it. Some aphorisms jelled with me but other's didn't, so we're again at a "he
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by barce 6y ago
It's still difficult to export very unique tangibles and intangibles from Silicon Valley. The intangibles: a high tolerance for risk and a high degree of insatiable curiosity unfettered by local religious and cultural customs found els
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by barce 6y ago
Yeah, created a bot that just trades the 1D MACD on Ethereum on a point & figure chart crossing up. Ridic how profitable this is. Proof is backtest on tradingview.
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by barce 6y ago
Which historians is he referring to here? It is no real secret that as a discipline, military history is sometimes held in low regard by other historians. The crux of his argument is that military history needs to be studied so that we ca
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by barce 6y ago
Yeah, let's just ignore the 1.2 billion Muslims in the world that don't drink and assume they're untrustworthy. What a sophomoric article! الله اكبر
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by barce 6y ago
In different senses. Socrates prefers philosopher kings. Aristotle, a mixed polity, e.g. a government with checks and balances.
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by barce 6y ago
I'm truly baffled by this. Was it an attempt to display marketing prowess?
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by barce 6y ago
Great suggestion, and it also does fill in the chronological gaps in anyone's history of philosophy education. All those years ignored by uni aren't with this podcast. The companion books are excellent, too. Currently reading the
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by barce 6y ago
How did this end up on the front page? Hacker News has always struck me as anti-philosophical and anti-literature. This was one of the book that I read on my own after reading Bloom's "Closing of the American Mind." My readin
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by barce 7y ago
Why node? 2 reasons: async which C# has too, and coding in just one language. And no, writing backend JavaScript doesn't mean you're better.
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by barce 7y ago
What a missed opportunity for developing new tech with all that capital! Brilliance should always be needed and welcomed.
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by barce 7y ago
You mention gatekeepers going away, but aren't the barriers to doing information warfare held by the same gatekeepers (the monied and the state)?
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by barce 7y ago
All the firing of brilliant coders at WeWork makes sense now, after reading that Adam is dyslexic. These coders were asked to make something awesome. Given that vague direction, some of the probably did TDD, and tried to show kanban or proj
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by barce 7y ago
It's possible but all the tools, the author of the language notes, have a 50 year head start in English with English language assumptions baked in, e.g. reading left to right vs right to left. What Qlb shows me is how hardcoded ASCII i
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by barce 7y ago
I work on the backend so I have a de facto boycott. On the front end I'd probably be forced to use it until something better came along.
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by barce 7y ago
All, too, well aware. After Facebook bought Instagram was the last time I saw Kevin and Mikey (IG's co-founders). You're right to point this out, but I'm very ambivalent: a tool that I value from a company that does reprehens
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by barce 7y ago
Ordinary citizens: Even in a US presidential state of the union, the Presidents (Trump included) will quote ordinary citizens about how the country is doing.
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by barce 7y ago
In a world where QE is used to fund everything, this is the result. Incentivize rather than penalize saving and this goes away.
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by barce 7y ago
Anything that goes from Zero to 1 (Peter Thiel). An example, pre-airplane civilization to a jet set civilization. I'd say that in 2016, that was the year for ML to seriously influence world events. In 2019 I'd give a serious look
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by barce 7y ago
This piece is shocking in that nobody was interviewed. Not one single source anonymous nor named. This fails journalism 101 for me.
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by barce 7y ago
It looks like configuration management for devops. If I have an app and want it run in 3 different environments that each have rapidly changing configs, I might use this. But I won't b/c Facebook.
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by barce 7y ago
The same reason a real estate company needs data science. To find correlations that no human can find given their vast stores of data for co-workers.
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by barce 7y ago
The article never explains why Wittgenstein is overrated. I've read it twice. All I can gather is that Moore felt he didn't really understand W's philosophical method enough to use it, and that Russell felt that after W, he c
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by barce 7y ago
IMHO, the politics has created an industry of homelessness. SROs or other business are created by political fiat to cater and keep people homeless.
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by barce 7y ago
I'd say that factual thing to focus on is density of people. If you apply Metcalfe's law to IRL connections of people you just meet out and about, it's very appealing for those working on a startup and being stuck on a proble
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by barce 7y ago
You addressed the overpriced issue, which I agree with, but what about how closed systems ultimately caused the self-combusting laptops of 1990s prior to Jobs' return?
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by barce 7y ago
You rent a desk, and they get the money. I can assure you, the desks and the wifi included are real.
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by barce 7y ago
I totally respect what they've done to build such a large company. But tbh, they've never built any tech. My guess is they had such a hard time building the systems they needed that they acquired Meetup.com to address those needs.
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by barce 7y ago
Let's cargo cult the advice on this ftw. Also let's piss off our managers by saying, "Yeah, I heard this on Hacker News." Here for the downvotes to get back to 666.

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