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by zubat 9y ago
A realpolitik view of tech only holds under the assumption that any new technology is good technology. It allows nothing to balance or sustainability, and I believe the trajectory of the Web is unsustainable and therefore fundamentally doom
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by zubat 9y ago
Or to put it in other words: browser technology is asked to do so much that they had to go invent a new language to keep up. So that they could serve ads. For us ordinary folks trying to write good applications that can be maintained by one
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by zubat 9y ago
Dynamic types, OO with some extension for functional style, inherited Algol syntax with some homegrown innovations, batteries-included design. Where they differ, it's largely in whether they bend towards consistent style(Python) or mor
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by zubat 9y ago
Get yourself into a classroom again. It doesn't have to be an ambitious course. It's a familiar structure and you've been out of it long enough that it'll seem refreshing. While you do that go hit the gym if you aren&#x2
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by zubat 9y ago
Or in other descriptive terms, Forth could be called "point-free" or "tacit". There is no structure given by the code's context, no named arguments to describe what is in scope - all you have is what is on the stack
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by zubat 9y ago
I've cottoned on to the idea of focusing on feedback loops instead of "practices" lately as a way to deal with the kinds of evolutionary changes projects tend to go through. Practices tend to emerge within a specific project
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by zubat 9y ago
The two common BTC loss stories: 1. I left in the hands of other people 2. I failed to keep it accessible to myself It's easy to lean too far in one or the other direction by leaving stuff on a commercial service or forgotten on a sing
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America's First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by zubat 9y ago
I believe the main size optimization here comes from having only teletype and batch processing interfaces. When you do that, the surface area of the UI, and hence the amount of supporting code, drops tremendously. These early tools also ski
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by zubat 9y ago
Dreaming up new analogous phrasings to easy != simple now. Fun > easy > simple?
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by zubat 9y ago
I keep a minimal form of journal for all life events. I briefly describe a thing I did or a thing that happened, and how much energy it took me to go through it on a 0 to 4 scale, where 0 is breathing and 4 is major life crisis. If I think
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by zubat 9y ago
Fix ordinary problems. That is to say, there are probably hundreds of things, off the top of your head, that bother you and probably bother others. To the best of your ability choose one that you have a clear "thread to pull on" -
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by zubat 9y ago
Just wanted to say that I admired GalaXynth when it came out. I still have the demo and mean to give it another go sometime. As you're probably well aware the justifications to buy a synth are hard to pin down and if you made a second
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by zubat 9y ago
For clients, JS runtimes offer a more polished experience on average than Java. That's not because of anything really intrinsic to the languages or platforms - it's just worked out that there is a lot of Java server code and a lot
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by zubat 9y ago
My number one piece of programming advice is that you can always find a simpler way - and if you have R&D time to sink into simplifying your problem, doing so is a good idea - but actually simplifying is a very hard task and there is no
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by zubat 9y ago
I think the main point to focus on is not the relative condition of liveliness, but the mechanism of its generation - which is to have and engage with difficult life problems, struggling against them each day, even while knowing that there&
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by zubat 9y ago
It's a tough nut to crack. Open source contributors tend to want to dive in and make the one patch they want without engaging in any design or feedback process. Installing that process means someone has to take up managerial duties. Mo
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by zubat 9y ago
What else is "scripting" but that act of making a very small automation of a business function? Is a customized spreadsheet a tool? There's always going to be demand for tools of many kinds, so whatever you're offering h
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by zubat 9y ago
It barely registered for me at the time that Python had changed. But using it back then, it felt quite a bit similar between late 1.x and early 2.x, just with creature comforts gradually appearing and bulking up the language: No decorators
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by zubat 9y ago
Python, because it's the rare combination of "wildly popular" and "keeps you out of trouble". Ruby has always had a one-framework-town kind of feel to it, with Rails being the one thing people automatically associat
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by zubat 9y ago
I ended up making a custom data structure and query language around this kind of notation. Not in Python(am working in Haxe) but easily generalized. The structure is either array or string map or ordered string map with a dynamic data field
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by zubat 9y ago
No, with the sole exception of interviewing for a research position where new algorithm variants on the sliding window might be developed. What an interviewer focusing on specifics can pick up on is near term familiarity with a topic. But s
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by zubat 9y ago
Now imagine the world where Microsoft became Adobe's direct competitor and cut their oxygen supply.
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by zubat 9y ago
Will it kill bug infestations?
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by zubat 9y ago
All the distinctive elements of LA have been packaged and sold to you through Hollywood films, to the point where it's actually a bit shocking to see some of the landmarks in person for the first time, because you didn't think of
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by zubat 9y ago
This isn't anything new to how the business is structured. Note the elision of the 50+ employees in-house: even if it's one artist and one programmer, you really need them to be full-timers to run the main production cycle, or at
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by zubat 10y ago
The implementation of Project Oberon. It is so sensible that it can be hard to notice the magic. http://www.projectoberon.com
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by zubat 10y ago
Google has had some cases like this which (so I've heard through the grapevine because how else) were settled and NDA'd. It's a jungle out there...
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by zubat 10y ago
All the falsehoods texts discuss the same kind of issue: the domain doesn't match the model. And computer models are imperfect a priori for modelling empirical data(natural language, human identity, relationships, continuous functions
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by zubat 10y ago
There is no life without struggle

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