noema

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by noema 2y ago
Shame that it is (basically) a Windows exclusive application.
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by noema 3y ago
I take it you have not been to Amsterdam or Berlin. I live in the latter and, while there certainly are homeless people, it is absolutely nowhere even close to SF per capita.
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by noema 4y ago
> “Importance” is subjective No, not really. "Importance" is a rough proxy for legacy and influence. This is why one can say without any trace of subjectivism that Shakespeare is the most important writer of the English languag
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by noema 4y ago
An easy solution to this is to give point-based weights to achievements and cap the max total "points" any given game can have, allowing a developer to have many small achievements for their game if they wish. But really, none of
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by noema 4y ago
In Search of Lost Time (Proust) -- the definitive portrait of life, memory and experience Phenomenology of Perception (Merleau-Ponty) -- groundbreaking analysis of "the thickness of things" implicit within perception Labyrinths (B
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by noema 5y ago
His work is often read as an archaic, pre-verbal poetics of the classical world: https://www.bastian-gallery.com/ausstellungen/cy-twombly-a-m... The scribblings draw from the walls of Pompeii, soft whites and blood re
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by noema 5y ago
Google WW2, the Berlin Wall, Crystal Pepsi, Walmart, Donald Trump and then you may understand why Warhol reflects the contemporary zeitgeist and academic neoclassical art does not. (By the way, Twombly is totally unlike those other two arti
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by noema 5y ago
Unpopular opinion: “singularity” is empty marketing hype masquerading as eschatological theology. The stark reality is that AI technology is inextricably tied up with market dynamics. Future innovations will continue to be largely funneled
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by noema 5y ago
The author clearly has not tapped the goldmine of world cinema (or American film history for that matter) if Superbad is their paradigmatic case of a challenging film.
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by noema 5y ago
Hubert Dreyfus's critiques of AI systems (particularly, their all but total inability to bodily engage with a social world) still remain relevant.
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by noema 5y ago
Why is Pong a lesser work of art than Journey? I think games like Pong, Tetris, Asteroids etc are more ideal for making a case for games as a unique medium, because instead of deferring to cinematic or literary elements (as most art games a
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by noema 6y ago
SCSS isn't a methodology, it's a tool for reducing repetition and capturing syntactic complexity in CSS.
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by noema 6y ago
(Responding to now defunct comment claiming that conservatism is correlated to age because of life experience blah blah) Age here is a proxy for wealth, of course.
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by noema 6y ago
Have to disagree - personally found those films to be too heavy-handed with their "message". Koyaanisqatsi maintains a certain ambiguity throughout, conveying both awe and fear at modern civilization.
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by noema 6y ago
At my job we use Quip strictly for collaborative design docs (i.e. architectural design, project scope, tutorials etc). Personally I don't think it can be a true wiki platform since it lacks robust indexing -- this is without doubt its
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by noema 6y ago
The main intent of Builder isn't performance, but to avoid a combinatorial explosion of constructors for every possible set of parameters.
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by noema 6y ago
For mainstream labels, sure, but independent labels still serve an important curatorial role.
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by noema 6y ago
Probably because most are doing glorified CRUD, but with an absurd barrier to entry (the interview process).
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by noema 6y ago
Arguably a social engineer.
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by noema 6y ago
Try ambient and drone music.
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by noema 6y ago
This is a terrible logo by any objective visual design standards -- the shape, proportion, weight are all decidedly unappealing. Honestly, three simple circles would have been better. As for the "3D ellipsis" concept -- I think th
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by noema 6y ago
It is no hyperbole to say that Eno is probably the most influential producer of the latter half of the twentieth century. You may know him indirectly via his collaborations with Talking Heads and Bowie. His legacy permeates all electronical
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by noema 6y ago
This doesn't conform with any of my experiences in non-trivial JS codebases. Migrating to TS tends to reveal previously overlooked implicit typing issues. Also, I find the "upfront productivity loss" of TS to be overstated: a
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by noema 6y ago
Funny enough, this is another obvious feature that they get completely wrong -- lists are publicly editable, with no (apparent) way of restricting adds to the original creator. So inevitably any niche curatorial effort slides back to the lo
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by noema 6y ago
I find Kotlin more readable than Java in most cases -- less noise to drown out the actual logic. Could you provide an example of a language feature which requires you to "hold context in your head"? It's possible that you hav
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by noema 6y ago
Purely anecdotal, but pinterest is the only social media network that my mother has ever signed up for. She and her friends use it for recipes and animal photos. I reckon the platform has managed to capture those for whom Facebook is too mu
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by noema 6y ago
Testing and debugging vary from site to site. Most of the ones I've used run your code against a hidden suite of tests to check all possible edge cases. This would otherwise take up a very non-trivial amount of time in the session. Act
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by noema 6y ago
From talking to some people who give out these interviews, most of those points really don't matter at all. What matters is A) getting a correct solution and B) being able to explain how you arrived at the solution. Tests, idiomatic co
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by noema 6y ago
SEEKING WORK | San Francisco | Remote Software developer with 3 years of experience across enterprise, startup and freelance contexts. I'm at the tailend of an Android development contract for a FAANG company where I was tasked with as
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by noema 6y ago
Isn't the whole point of pseudocode that it's a language-agnostic description of an algorithm? Pseudocode written in the 1970s still stands up -- imagine if a COBOL block had been in its place.

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