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Am I the only one who finds the VSCode icon generally ugly as sin? This is most striking on OS X, where it sits in a tray alongside a bunch of other meticulously designed icons.
x is text editing style, y is efficiency.
If jobs of all levels of difficulty are to be compensated the same, what then counts as a job? Would I be able to get paid for sitting around thinking? It also sounds like you're basically proposing we give people free…
I like how it takes them six paragraphs to say "VR is underperforming." I really need to learn how to speedread...
This started out pretty good (and on the whole was fair and measured), but then at one point included this: > Then you seem to make a giant leap from group differences between men and women on such measures as interest…
What about first time entrepreneurs who want to become unicorns, or serial entrepreneurs who don't?
>recent years >2004 :)
People say that most of coding is thinking, but I'm not sure that's even true, and even if it were, it's still possible if you typed faster and stayed in the flow you'd also end up thinking faster. My friend used to…
I used bash/tmux/vim exclusively for development for about three years. The whole time I felt very pleased that I was minimizing bloat in my toolchain, understanding everything I used, and getting amazing speeds. Six…
If getting 30 days shaved off your sentence is such an appealing offer that an optional bargain involving sterilization is considered coercion, surely it's putting people in prison that's inhumane here?
Is it taking in raw pixels or reading from game memory? How did they gather data to train for this? (Did Valve give them an API?)
To be clear, not stating the people thing as my own belief, just stating the premises of the argument. Grr, too late to edit now. (I read your entire comment, but don't have anything meaningful to add on.)
I always enjoy reading your thoughtful comments on this topic. What do you think about the indirect rebuttal to some of your points made here — http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger... — in…
This is the sort of convenient take on things that incites immediate curiosity. Forced to its conclusion, you're arguing that people who code for fun in their spare time don't see any substantial increase in their…
There's a real problem where people see the social context in which a document is being discussed before the document itself, and the two become inseparable in their heads. From the start the discussion was framed…
Oops, I missed your point. I still think your summary is not what people are fighting as the threshold issue, but, I agree with your last sentence.
His claim: across various traits, men and women have distributions that differ in mean but still largely overlap. This is a possible non-bias cause of the gender gap in tech. Specifically to ward off the concern you're…
You want to lump (a) people who simply think, as a technical opinion, that there are population statistical differences with (b) people who desperately want an excuse to cleanse society of black people. They are not the…
This is unfair. You want to call people white supremacists based on the literal, objective content of their views, i.e. using the phrase in a narrow, technical sense, while knowing full well that calling someone a white…
This is an interesting point. A harsher way to phrase this is, judging by empirical evidence thus far, it takes controlling, illiberal attitudes in order to hold the gap closed.
How is that "being cruel to strangers just to enjoy their suffering"? Also, you've commented in this thread about six times now with snarky remarks, unsubstantiated vitriol, and essentially "Martin Shkreli is a…
That's technically true, but the Patreon CEO has claimed that they're committed to free speech, which is false if they're going to kick out screaming lunatics who are protected under the definition of free speech. If so…
I've followed Maciej Ceglowski's advice to moderate success at work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14033638
"CEOs should be honest. That seems obvious enough, but it turns out “be honest” is easy to say, but amazingly hard to do. Let’s look at some scenarios to understand why." I don't really see a paradox/conflict here. All…
https://web.archive.org/web/20060211013646/http://www.paulgr...
Am I the only one who finds the VSCode icon generally ugly as sin? This is most striking on OS X, where it sits in a tray alongside a bunch of other meticulously designed icons.
x is text editing style, y is efficiency.
If jobs of all levels of difficulty are to be compensated the same, what then counts as a job? Would I be able to get paid for sitting around thinking? It also sounds like you're basically proposing we give people free…
I like how it takes them six paragraphs to say "VR is underperforming." I really need to learn how to speedread...
This started out pretty good (and on the whole was fair and measured), but then at one point included this: > Then you seem to make a giant leap from group differences between men and women on such measures as interest…
What about first time entrepreneurs who want to become unicorns, or serial entrepreneurs who don't?
>recent years >2004 :)
People say that most of coding is thinking, but I'm not sure that's even true, and even if it were, it's still possible if you typed faster and stayed in the flow you'd also end up thinking faster. My friend used to…
I used bash/tmux/vim exclusively for development for about three years. The whole time I felt very pleased that I was minimizing bloat in my toolchain, understanding everything I used, and getting amazing speeds. Six…
If getting 30 days shaved off your sentence is such an appealing offer that an optional bargain involving sterilization is considered coercion, surely it's putting people in prison that's inhumane here?
Is it taking in raw pixels or reading from game memory? How did they gather data to train for this? (Did Valve give them an API?)
To be clear, not stating the people thing as my own belief, just stating the premises of the argument. Grr, too late to edit now. (I read your entire comment, but don't have anything meaningful to add on.)
I always enjoy reading your thoughtful comments on this topic. What do you think about the indirect rebuttal to some of your points made here — http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger... — in…
This is the sort of convenient take on things that incites immediate curiosity. Forced to its conclusion, you're arguing that people who code for fun in their spare time don't see any substantial increase in their…
There's a real problem where people see the social context in which a document is being discussed before the document itself, and the two become inseparable in their heads. From the start the discussion was framed…
Oops, I missed your point. I still think your summary is not what people are fighting as the threshold issue, but, I agree with your last sentence.
His claim: across various traits, men and women have distributions that differ in mean but still largely overlap. This is a possible non-bias cause of the gender gap in tech. Specifically to ward off the concern you're…
You want to lump (a) people who simply think, as a technical opinion, that there are population statistical differences with (b) people who desperately want an excuse to cleanse society of black people. They are not the…
This is unfair. You want to call people white supremacists based on the literal, objective content of their views, i.e. using the phrase in a narrow, technical sense, while knowing full well that calling someone a white…
This is an interesting point. A harsher way to phrase this is, judging by empirical evidence thus far, it takes controlling, illiberal attitudes in order to hold the gap closed.
How is that "being cruel to strangers just to enjoy their suffering"? Also, you've commented in this thread about six times now with snarky remarks, unsubstantiated vitriol, and essentially "Martin Shkreli is a…
That's technically true, but the Patreon CEO has claimed that they're committed to free speech, which is false if they're going to kick out screaming lunatics who are protected under the definition of free speech. If so…
I've followed Maciej Ceglowski's advice to moderate success at work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14033638
"CEOs should be honest. That seems obvious enough, but it turns out “be honest” is easy to say, but amazingly hard to do. Let’s look at some scenarios to understand why." I don't really see a paradox/conflict here. All…