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by sago 5y ago
I'm wondering to what extent social working has to be within a company. A fitness club I was part of a decade ago had this amazing 'cafe' space that was often used by folks with laptops and the odd bit of chat. It felt social
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by sago 5y ago
I don't disagree with your conclusions. But I think it is easy to oversimplify this. Until it is obviously just... obvious. I think reality is more interestingly complicated. > ownership of digital goods which can't be owned? O
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by sago 6y ago
Somehow I think I skim read and didn't retain that paragraph! Thanks. I'm sure that says something about me...
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by sago 6y ago
> I just don’t appreciate the idea that we as software engineers can now sit back and believe we’ve made some kind of positive change, coz we haven’t. Boom. So I'm indirectly asking a black software engineer by virtue of reading the
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by sago 6y ago
> YouTube is the same way I had seen that claim before but I never noticed it. I subscribe to about 250 YouTube channels. They seem to appear in my subscriptions, in chronological order, as they're released. Are you referring to the
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by sago 6y ago
Yup. And DHTML over a Java applet before XMLHttpRequest. 1999 at least, iirc.
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by sago 6y ago
I think there are two slightly different approaches. Your point is completely correct. As is the other comment here at about night and day. The lists are frequent. And not unique to European cultures. But it's also not reasonable to sa
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by sago 6y ago
> The problem is that you're not thinking about the context of the word and instead are using it in a different context to be offended by it. Please be a bit more careful. Please don't assume you know what or how much I'm
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by sago 6y ago
> 'blacklist'.. is as logically coherent ... 'black pudding' Really? Regardless of what you think about racism, I don't want to be funny isn't it obvious that one is a metaphor and one isn't? This is n
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by sago 6y ago
> all I see is white people being shit on I figured that would be the feel of the objection. Maybe I should be grateful as a white person that that's not the world I find myself in. Happy to pick my variable names. I can't help
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by sago 6y ago
I'm disagreeing with this thread. So I guess prepping for the down votes. > it trivializes all this historic pain to some inane game of word association I think addressing one issue does not 'trivialise' everything else. I
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by sago 6y ago
I agree, and definitely what I was hinting at. I can understand why he enjoyed building mathematical models. And why reviews of "Balance of the Planet" praised that. But assuming that was the point, I think missed the point. I thi
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by sago 6y ago
Oh my! "Why have I failed? ... The simple answer is that ... I’m too far ahead of my time... I’m a misunderstood genius. ... the world doesn’t yet perceive a need for the ideas I peddle. In 1885, physicists didn’t perceive a need for s
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by sago 6y ago
If "A Is almost certainly not a hoax, Therefore it is much more important than B." "Why is B a hoax?" doesn't seem to me an unreasonable response.
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by sago 6y ago
Text is important, but its datum is rarely independent. More undo is useful than the text in the current text control. Anything else requires (and rarely gets) more substantial command undo/redo. I'm not making a black&white p
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by sago 6y ago
Is "editing things" (i.e. data) not central in the majority of apps?
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by sago 6y ago
I keep vainly hoping for undo/redo, configurable keyboard shortcuts, cross-app files, app help, you know... the wins of the Windows 3.x 90s. I'm honestly amazed some (especially undo!) were shrugged away so easily.
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by sago 6y ago
I don't understand your reference. It seems negative, but it's hard imho to go down on the success of Minecraft. Or am I misunderstanding you?
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by sago 6y ago
I miss lowsrc. It had a point.
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by sago 6y ago
I found this response surprising. Code that has worked for 30 years is more technical debt than the ability to support 'new languages' or 'pivot' the code? Maybe I am an old fart, but the opposite seems right to me. Larg
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by sago 6y ago
> So not changing a spec for over a decade The problem was there was no _specification_. It was a 'how to use' summary, And each implementation could be (and was) different in subtle edge cases. The point of CommonMark was to d
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by sago 6y ago
> Right, the mirror doesn't actually flip. Isn't the point that it does? It flips front and back.
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by sago 6y ago
A labour of love, I think, rather than extreme functionality (compared to the surely-hundreds of alternative Helveticas). Reminded me of an element of Helvetica that bugs me (that different versions / boldness mitigate but this one has
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by sago 6y ago
I've been reading some Kafka this month. Issues like this article are the 21st century realisation of his pessimism. The Castle, and The Trial particularly. I wonder if there's anyone writing Kafkaesque fiction about the modern wo
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by sago 6y ago
It's great to see some geometric algebra. But I'm not quite sure what the package is for. Is it for playing with geometric algebra? It is really rather simple to implement geometric algebra. As easy as understanding the internals
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by sago 6y ago
There are more than 1500 NT hapax, and epiousios (and others) aren't exactly hapax (they appear twice ['dis legomena'], or more, though often in bits arguably copied from one source). A minority are names (e.g. Epicurean only
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by sago 6y ago
Not the only one in the New Testament, but definitely one of the most juicy. Even Wikipedia calling 'daily' the 'traditional' translation is dubious: 'daily' comes from a particular Latin translation, not the e
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by sago 6y ago
I'm not the physicist (my mother was), but as I understand it the 'came into existence' is not part of the big bang model. Big bang only makes sense to a particular energy/time/space limit. All the energy that came
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by sago 6y ago
Fascinating. Thanks for responding. Can I ask what age-group you/they are? And it sounds like you had to write joined-up at school. Why would you stop? Isn't it so much faster? I went to a snooty high school where fountain pens we
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by sago 6y ago
I love his books. Gorgeous. I think this was more his graphic design style for his books. As you say, the justification shows there's nothing impromptu about it. Here's how he wrote his letters, notes, drafts and so on: https:&#x

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