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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
This primary source provides better details on YouTube's policy: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en. It includes concrete examples of content that is banned under this policy.
Comment · 6 years ago
Can you elaborate on your experience?
I have great respect for Rich Hickey and I recently saw a cool talk about a financial startup using Clojure in production [1]. I have kept track of the language for some time but have never had the chance to use it in any serious capacity.
Comment · 6 years ago
I like to watch talks by programming language designers. Some that readily come to mind are Rich Hickey, Joe Armstrong (RIP), and Stefan Karpinski.
Some of my favorites are:
- Simple Made Easy (Hickey): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oytL881p-nQ
- The Mess We're In (Armstrong): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch (Karpinski): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY
Comment · 6 years ago
They do not just show ads. They also display content.
Existing in a filter bubble has a strong effect on your perception. Perception has a direct influence on your actions. Couple this with interfaces which are purposefully addicting ("high user engagement" is a euphemism), and you can very directly influence behavior.
The pervasiveness of smartphones means that these apps are only a few clicks away for virtually the entire world population. And worse, once these apps are installed on your phone, they relentlessly pull you back in with and endless stream of notifications.
It is not only Facebook. Applications like Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok all follow the same basic patterns.
It is not an overly dramatic description. If anything the public has been frightfully unaware of the influence that these companies can exert on the world. I am glad that this film has brought these issues into the spotlight.
Comment · 6 years ago
There was a huge discussion shortly after Julia 1.0 was released regarding scoping [1]. Beginners intuitively think of scoping in a manner different from the way scoping should work in production projects. There was a lot of tension between seasoned programmers and educators (who had to constantly interact with beginners).
The community exhausted the entire design space (along with some full-blown prototypes). Eventually, the core Julia team chose to use more forgiving scoping in the REPL (virtually always the first point of contact for beginners), while actual projects enforced stricter scoping rules.
My key take-away is to consider how the language interacts with its ecosystem, not just how it should ideally operate in isolation. I have found the Julia team to be consistent in this pursuit. If the first point of contact is intractable for beginners, the project is dead on arrival. A technical tool should be tailored for experts, but you don't want to kill adoption along the way. Engineering is tradeoffs.
This article goes more in depth along the same lines: https://pchiusano.github.io/2016-02-25/tech-adoption.html
[1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/another-possible-solution-...
Comment · 6 years ago
Yep Microsoft has the good habit of dogfooding its own products. All of Office 365 uses Azure AD for identity management.
Comment · 6 years ago
I love how easy it is to view the machine code for a function. Julia actually ships with a handful of these introspection macros: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/reflection/#Interme.... They are invaluable when it comes to optimization.
Comment · 6 years ago
"Language agnosticism" is an ideal I have never been able to attain. Sure, I can hack together a solution on the first week of learning a language. But, am I able to write elegant, idiomatic, efficient code during the first few months? No way.
A language is not just the basic control flow operations, but includes package management, performance gotchas, correctness gotchas, standard library, library ecosystem, data representation, etc. Then there are details and edge cases that you just don't hit without months or years of hard work with a language.
My experience tells me to take choose a reasonably robust language, then stick to that language until you have an overwhelmingly compelling reason to switch.
Comment · 6 years ago
Vice made a mind-blowing series on this if anyone wants to see with their own eyes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw613M86o5o7a0FGlPRdt...
Comment · 6 years ago
People seem to focus on the volume of cars. But traffic is not just a matter of volume but of friction between cars. Reducing the friction (naively) appears to be a simpler problem. You wouldn't even need full self driving, only enough tech for cars to merge/switch lanes without slowing down.
Not requiring a central point of control is an additional benefit. The reduction of traffic would be an "emergent" behavior.
Comment · 6 years ago
I feel compelled to restate how wonderful this book is.
> it has also helped me think about my feelings
The book focuses on communication with others, but effectively fosters constructive inner dialogue as well. I know of at least one other person who claimed it helped them avoid destructive habits.
> it has helped me put more structure around tough conversations
I deescalated a nasty dispute between two people close to me after reading only the first few chapters. I was impressed because I wasn't the type of person to emotionally connect with people so effectively.
I believe the world would be a better place if more people read this book.
Comment · 7 years ago
There is a very cool Julia library: https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl
Comment · 7 years ago
One way is to show that, given a state of the universe, it is possible to determine the next state. From what I understand, this does not seem to be the case.
https://github.com/moby/buildkit