nickbarone

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by nickbarone 14y ago
He doesn't use the phrase, but this is basically talking about taboo trade-offs and value conflicts - and what really strikes me is that this isn't problem, rather, these technologies make it so we can no longer ignore the questions that va
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by nickbarone 14y ago
+1 for awesome, I really like the added line ...but, AFAIK, a Koan tries to thwart understanding in order to communicate an otherwise impossible to describe concept. By preventing understanding yet asking for investigation, a koan communica
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by nickbarone 14y ago
+1, but I think you want to keep the column width shorter. Took me a bit to figure out why browsing was harder than on Slashdot, but I think that's what it is.
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by nickbarone 14y ago
"Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled." (Howard Stevenson) 'Course, cut out man in the link isn't pursuing opportunity, he's whining about not having them.
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by nickbarone 14y ago
Sticking my foot out - Panopticons are not a bad thing. They're actually a really good thing, because they, theoretically, let you get a lot more security without losing a lot of liberty (instead, you lose privacy). The problem people have
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by nickbarone 14y ago
(Jumping ship from the other link to the same story) Success metric fail . Then again - What is the success metric for education? Attendance is (IMHO) pretty terrible, and standardized testing hasn't worked out the best - so what is it? A
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by nickbarone 14y ago
What I'm saying is that using attendance as the metric to determine funding sucks and we should find a better way. Success metrics are how you determine whether a change has worked, and they are how you determine where to put more resources
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by nickbarone 14y ago
Huh. An interesting illustration of privacy / security trade-offs.
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by nickbarone 14y ago
Success metric fail . Then again - What is the success metric for education? Attendance is (IMHO) pretty terrible, and standardized testing hasn't worked out the best - so what is it? A classic answer (but still, probably not all that grea
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by nickbarone 14y ago
Seems to me that the problem you're describing is one of confusing the tool for the task, rather than the tool being over-hyped.
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by nickbarone 14y ago
Ah! I am, sorry, and thanks.
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by nickbarone 14y ago
Do you remember EA Spouse? Although it looks defunct now, the spouse, Erin Hoffman, went on to found GameWatch[.org], which aimed to address these issues. AFAIK, they at least curbed the worst offenses, like those that led to the scandal, b
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by nickbarone 14y ago
I'm going to be honest - It's never occurred to me to /practice/ programming, particularly in the way that you might practice, say, juggling. I've always worked to learn some new technique or technology, instead. So - What are the other met
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by nickbarone 14y ago
Sounds like a baby out with the bathwater kind of case, to me. if comments are the problem, why aren't they playing with alternatives to the standard thread format?
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by nickbarone 14y ago
Interesting. Are there any that are the other way around - dangerous when eaten, but not when inhaled? I'd imagine it'd have to do with the digestive ecosystem, if there were any that worked that way.
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by nickbarone 14y ago
Well, but then your problem is religion, not coding standards. And then it'll be over this or that design pattern, coding paradigm, version control commit logs.... If you name the problem "coding standards" and it's "religion", you'll solve
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by nickbarone 14y ago
Seems to me that what you need more than the standards are the reasons behind the standards - because yeah, the person coding that particular problem knows more than you about that problem, and should /teach you what they know/, particularl
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by nickbarone 14y ago
Woah @ prefunding-treatement. Brilliant! I hope it scales - It can, I think, if you keep momentum.
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by nickbarone 14y ago
So, could we start a listing of things learned through the application of extremist programming? Or better yet, a listing that shows where a given principle hasn't been extremified, so we can go try it out and see what happens?
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by nickbarone 14y ago
The post may be about programming over politics, but the post is essentially recommended exploring the consequences of extremes, and that operation is valuable in (heh - taking it to the extreme!) all places. For example: 1984 - extremes of
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by nickbarone 14y ago
There's something missing from the summaries: An indication of how much there is to read when non-summarized / how wrong the summary might be. Two of my favorite examples for this are the DCA cancer treatment news and those people who don't
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by nickbarone 14y ago
My question is what kind of contaminants (or none!) this process picks up - If you're getting your water from a polluted atmosphere (say, LA), what kind of pollutants end up in your water? Or does it produce "ultra-pure" water, leading to w
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by nickbarone 14y ago
My read is that the coating doesn't need a manufactured flow (after all, the beetle that inspired it doesn't) put it's very possible they'll make a bottle with a surface that requires it, say, a conch shell.
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by nickbarone 14y ago
I generally think of this strategy as "engineer the situation instead of yourself", but then I often times find a way around the trick, end up with an unintended consequence, or am in a non-engineered situation. Have no cookies at home? End
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by nickbarone 14y ago
I also wonder what happens if you sit with laurax for an extended amount of time - are you more able to make out the differences? There's many cases where our senses are "designed" to notice changes, either over time or from the norm - whic
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by nickbarone 14y ago
Let's bring back the Renaissance-era model of the Art Patron. Instead that twenty-something pull out a roll of bills to buy a scalped sports ticket... get them to pull it out to fund the creation of a sculpture, a song, a painting. Connect
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by nickbarone 14y ago
There's an old SF short story about a writer who, after wishing he never had to wait again (for the bus, in line, to hail a cab...) realizes that those interstitial moments were his most creative. Also seems to me it's like those nights you
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Analytics as part of Internet Radio Royalties(zoekeating.tumblr.com)
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by nickbarone 14y ago
What I find really interesting about the PaaS world is that it's basically DRY with design-by-composition for hosting - but if doesn't continue in that direction, I can definitely see the noise failing to lead to substance.
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by nickbarone 14y ago
I'd say - Look to what it takes for a local currency to succeed, and then consider the effect of crowd-funding and the Humble Bundle model. The former is what allows the system to sustain itself, and the latter is what allows an influx of r

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