floverfelt
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah fair point.
Comment · 3 years ago
What's the alternative if not based on commercial activity? Lottery?
Comment · 4 years ago
This post crops up enough and annoys me enough that I wrote a full response to it: https://floverfelt.org/posts/it-is-your-responsibility-to-re...
It's pretty sad that we've reached the point of spamming close friends just to get their attention, though I understand exactly what he's talking about. I just don't think it translates at all to a knowledge work setting.
Comment · 4 years ago
Shameless plug, but I used mermaid.js to create a pom visualizer maven plugin [0] and it was honestly pretty great.
Like some of the other comments say (and after working with it quite a bit) it definitely has its warts. It's not super well documented, it's not as feature rich as I'd like, and the syntax can be a little wonky. All that said, it "just works" for creating simple visualizations and fit my use case near perfectly.
[0]: https://github.com/floverfelt/pom-visualizer-maven-plugin
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah that's a good point. The randomness is introduced by the opposing player and is not intrinsic to the game itself.
As opposed to Sudoku or something where there's only a single player and thus no room for randomness to be introduced at all or games where's it's intrinsic (poker, backgammon, etc.)
Comment · 5 years ago
> cognitive science, linguistics, and anthropology.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this, esp. the linguistics and anthropology piece.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yeah, I'm actually a pretty big fan of Java programming. It gets a lot of hate on HN for things that have been mostly solved or can be solved if you implement it a certain way.
The closing paragraph was more to point out that if you do want to encourage development of domains and prevent squatting and overcharging - regulation could be a way to achieve that. I’m not endorsing the view just commenting that that’s a way real estate deals with the problem.