benjaminjosephw

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The Atlas of Ownership(atlasofownership.org)
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
Tools are often objects that "exceed the average human's capabilities" in some respect or another but assigning the quality of intelligence to tool itself is like calling a hammer strong or a chisel brave. It maybe true in a
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
Would injustice exist in an alien society if that society didn't recognise it as such?
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
Here's a Strange Loop talk where one of the authors covers some of the content of the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxINoKFm-S4
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Structure Editors(github.com)
2 points by benjaminjosephw 4y ago|0 comments
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
This project wraps `inotifywait`[0] which I didn't know about until just now. Really useful utility, thanks for sharing! [0] - https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/inotifywait.1.html
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Random answers about what the term Web 2.0 means (2006)(web.archive.org)
1 points by benjaminjosephw 4y ago|0 comments
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
Ah, the boiling frog strategy. Effective but definitely evil. Is "don't be evil" still part of the Google's official ethos?
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
> langcc is general enough that the tool is self-hosting: that is, one can express the "language of languages" in the "language of languages" itself There's something deeply satisfying about recursive tools who&#
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
I think we're still in the experimental phase of lots of novel types of social information exchange. Building in public is very much an experimental form of communication. It's a new way to think and operate and it's not some
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
So it turns out that when you outsource auth, you also outsource some of the governance on who can access your platform. Isn't access control a set of patterns rather than a service? When did it stop being a core competency of web appl
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
Is ROI in this case a measure of comprehension? What about the enjoyment and playfulness of metaphor and expressive language - do these have a negative ROI if they aren't sufficiently terse? How far do you take efficiency as a measure
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
> No matter how much well-intentioned user research these companies invest in, they'll never be able to produce software that fully meets the needs of individual users and culturally distant communities. Domain experts being able to
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Fusion tech is set to unlock near-limitless ultra-deep geothermal energy(newatlas.com)
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
> To comply with DNT, we pledge to delete user personal information such as IP addresses in server logs after no more than 10 days. We do this regardless of whether you set the DNT flag in your browser or not. EthicalAds does not comply
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
> We need to stop admiring those smart enough to understand how the software works, and start making the software easier to understand in the first place. Yes, I agree. But I think it does take a lot of design skill to achieve the latter
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
> It's not what people truly wanted in the first place. The transition towards "a nonstop amusement drip" has been gradual and effective but it doesn't mean that the current situation was what people always wanted fro
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Education on the “Funtier”(daily.stoa.com)
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
> The reality is that software is extremely expensive, especially polished software with a good user experience that's usable by non-experts. I get your point here and I think this has been the case for so long that it seems like an
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
This is exactly why I think FOSS has become irrelevant for end-users. An open source client for a proprietary API only gives superficial freedoms and doesn't guarantee those freedoms will not be taken away. The software landscape has c
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
You don't often see such clear examples of where industrial design impacts the evolution of human practices. It seems like the feedback loop works both ways - the available paddles inform paddling style and intended paddling style info
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
It's a sign that you intend the company to survive.
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by benjaminjosephw 4y ago
I think the thing to remember here is that inputs should only be `type=number` where the semantic value is best represented with a numeric scale, not just where it is a number only field. > A simple way of determining whether to use type
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
Is this not just describing a community of people who have vivid imaginations? How is this an "uninvestigated emerging phenomenon"?
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RMS' Review of Two Bits(twobits.net)
2 points by benjaminjosephw 5y ago|0 comments
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
Text is definitely a more versatile, low-effort, high-value and ubiquitous medium that will never be beaten for human information exchange. It's perhaps not the best medium for all context but it is the best generic medium for interope
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
> “She didn’t know how basic stacks worked,” wrote one Facebook engineer, referring to a term used by the engineering team to describe how data is structured in computer programming. He said all of her testimony should be disqualified. I
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
> The web browser product is a loss leader and the team's relationship to developers and users is not altruistic; it’s complicated! This sums up exactly what has happened to the Web over the past decade or so. It got worse because o
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
> Trust is about people and community, not automatic scans, arbitrary metrics, process, or bureaucracy. You can't replace a human judgment with an algorithm. Tools can only help make such a judgment. Given the extent of the the Open
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by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
Currently we know for a fact that there is a category difference between deep learning methods and human cognition. We know this because they are fundamentally different things. Humans have the capacity to reflect on meaning, machines do no

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