willurd

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by willurd 8y ago
Grant (the 3Blue1Brown guy) has an uncanny ability to explain difficult concepts and the fundamental intuition behind them. In many of his videos, he explains topics from the perspective of a person inventing that topic (such as in his firs
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by willurd 8y ago
The author of this article either didn't actually read 12 Rules for Life or already made up their mind before going in. > Jordan Peterson appears very profound and has convinced many people to take him seriously. Yet he has almost n
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by willurd 11y ago
Way to ignore the article completely and dismiss an entire class of people in one sentence. Bravo.
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by willurd 12y ago
I wouldn't even go this far. An amateur can have tons of experience, and even be an expert in their field. It's true, many people use the word "amateur" to mean unskilled, beginner, etc, but in actuality it's simply
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by willurd 12y ago
An amateur isn't really someone who knows nothing about a particular subject. On the contrary, every amateur by definition knows at least something about their subject matter. An amateur is simply someone who engages that subject in a
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by willurd 12y ago
> an excess of analytical thought, particularly when applied to "what if" scenarios. > This leaves me usually exceptionally well prepared for most situations life throws at me, through my incessant internal roleplaying, howe
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by willurd 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback! If you have any ideas about how you would change the syntax, I'd love to hear them. And that overloading helper function is cool :)
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Variadic.js - A JavaScript library for expressive variadic functions(github.com)
3 points by willurd 13y ago|2 comments
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by willurd 13y ago
> Books aren't like software where you can release often and iterate. That's not true at all. Check out https://leanpub.com/ , Manning's MEAPs, The Pragmatic Programmers' Beta books, Apress' Alpha
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by willurd 13y ago
I don't agree with you. Therefore you lack the mental wherewithal to understand my point of view. I mean just look at all these connections I make between unrelated things. I also have all these cool statistics I made up to prove (not
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by willurd 13y ago
If any law would make suicide illegal, or any government would exert any control over you should you fail, then it stands to reason that those people making those laws, and those people in those governments, own your body.
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by willurd 13y ago
It's a toy, that looks like a gun, and shoots plastic balls filled with air that afaik wont break skin. Toy gun is not only not weak, it's accurate.
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by willurd 13y ago
Until things change, this is arguably the most important US issue we are facing right now, and is thus always relevant. So no, there are not too many NSA stories on HN.
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by willurd 13y ago
Please redirect your shock toward the US government. And by the way, at the time of writing 27 of the top 30 articles don't mention Snowden in the comments, so...
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by willurd 13y ago
No problem at all :) Glad I could help you out.
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by willurd 13y ago
Maybe that's where the confusion was. I was talking about browser development. Thanks.
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by willurd 13y ago
Does whoever downvoted me care to explain why or offer another opinion?
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by willurd 13y ago
Not that this invalidates what you said, but NPM and Grunt (and just enough Node.js to use them) are required learning for JavaScript developers nowadays IMO.
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by willurd 13y ago
I think I can explain how to get started with require.js pretty quickly. I've attempted to do so with a short gist: https://gist.github.com/willurd/6054834 (much shorter than the OP and a higher code/text rat
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by willurd 13y ago
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there aren't people out to get you.
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by willurd 13y ago
I was actually going to suggest $1099. Can I pay that instead?
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The Road to World War 3(youtube.com)
2 points by willurd 13y ago|0 comments
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by willurd 13y ago
Invited. Thanks!
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by willurd 13y ago
I've come to accept that HN is the place I go to satisfy my "intellectual curiosity" and more focused lists are where I go to get my learn on. For example, for JavaScript stuff: * http://reddit.com/r/java
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by willurd 13y ago
I'd like one! william.bowers@gmail.com
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by willurd 13y ago
How many tigers have you repelled? Which species? I'm particularly worried about bengal tigers in my apartment complex. Can it handle those?
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by willurd 13y ago
I agree, as I stated above in another comment. When asked whether the burden of proof is on them, I replied: "It is. That doesn't mean we have to marginalize people who have theories, even if they don't have any evidence to b
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by willurd 13y ago
It is. That doesn't mean we have to marginalize people who have theories, even if they don't have any evidence to back them up. My approach is to entertain all possibilities until they are proven to me to be false. In that way I a
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by willurd 13y ago
This is the first I'm hearing of it, and I imagine the first a lot of other people are hearing of it. Two things: 1. Just because it's old news, doesn't mean it isn't news for a lot of people. 2. My point still stands: s
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by willurd 13y ago
Has it? Examples? (I'm not saying it hasn't; I don't know) I don't deny that some people do actually have paranoid delusions. But there's a big difference between a paranoid delusion and a (conspiracy) theory. The p

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