A connectivity-constrained computational account of topography in primate vision
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>this is the "i'll quit smoking when i get cancer" philosophy applied to software dev.
This may probably be the worst logical analogy I've ever read on HN.
The suggestion is that when you need an algorithm (cancer) you will look it up (quit smoking); the initial problems that make the analogy rather clunky - the algorithm is something you want whereas cancer is something you don't, and looking up the algorithm is something you start to do whereas quitting smoking is something you stop (smoking)
But of course there are other things that make the analogy inelegant - the longer you smoke the worse the cancer gets, but not looking up the algorithm for years does not make the algorithm any harder (here there is some room to quibble since unfamiliarity with the algorithm for some years may make implementing it more difficult but that is a different level of surety than the smoking worsens cancer level of surety, and at any rate difficulty to implement is not exactly the same as harder)
Finally the extreme nature of the analogy seems more likely to cloud judgement than otherwise.
I'm not saying you're not good at what you do, just saying you are not getting a job in this philosophy department with that level of argumentation buster!
Oliver Heaviside and The Heaviside Layer https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.201...
I may have noticed that there are small holes, I suppose most of the things if they became unavailable I wouldn't notice as I practice the one big playlist method.
So at this point it's no longer just
> Only people who never have to deal with the police say things like this. Their only experience with policing is reading articles about how evil cops are.
but also people who have to deal with the police but never have any positive experiences with them.
Or to put it another way - people who have positive experiences with the police wouldn't ask if they ever do anything beneficial for society.
But somehow phrasing it that way makes it sound like these people are perhaps not so plentiful.
I just assume they are about 5+ years behind most of the population because in this kind of media stuff I tend to be about 4 years behind the population and a little over a year ago I decided ah, this using youtube-dl to download music etc. and rip it with ffmpeg and save it to my iphone is sort of a hassle I guess I will get that damn spotify membership like everyone else.
I mean obviously I am not the last person to make this decision, but I have a feeling that the population yet to do so are vanishingly small.
Non-Hermitian topology in rock–paper–scissors games
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>Is an extra $10k per year worth learning a new org, a new skillset, a new set of expectations, a new set of coworkers, and a new boss?
Not to mention how much effort has to be put into the interview process, my time is worth money, I'm not giving away minimum 6 hours of it for free if I don't need to.
Waterworld. Unfortunately a boat is a big hole in the water that you pour money into.
this sort of implies that the 'ethics' would end up meaning that you shouldn't scrape if it is not wanted, although I suppose there can be ethics or other than commercial requirements that mean that you should.
Favourite Maps of 2021
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thanks, I figured it was something like that, makes sense.
the thing is literature, philosophy, history are trying to tell you something about reality - most programming books are trying to tell you something not much different from a washing machine instruction manual, the machine is just much more complicated.
Have you tried reading the more classical computer science books like Structure And Interpretation Of Computer Programs, I find I can handle getting through those (because at that level they are also trying to say something interesting about reality) but Web Developer Pro or Expert React Design Patterns (presumed fictitious titles that still sound pretty plausible) would probably bore me and make me put the instruction manual aside in favor of some experimentation.
that's true, I guess in that case you do know that people really, really want it. Seems most suited to something obsessive, like games.
I tend to discount it as I have never paid for something on spec.
Ask HN: Spellchecker in Teams just wanted me to use a url instead of an url
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unfortunately you only have the willingness to pay before the product or feature is delivered.
I believe you mean "One shouldn't want" because I do want.
I would say it means that obviously Google wants to track all your personal info but they work really hard and expend a lot resources to be sure it's safe from everyone else, also some attacks are done to not get your info but just to wreck stuff.
also within time constraints, building an electron app in the scenario outlined is probably a lot quicker. Normally building something quicker implies that later maintainability is adversely affected, but in this case the tradeoff is not time vs. maintainability, but time vs. performance.
Performance has generally been getting the short end of the stick since early Windows days anyway when Gates had people build not for what a computer could handle when the application was built, but rather what it could handle a year down the road.
>When you build software, you're not given 10 years, a research team and infinite money.
So actually you don't need all that to identify when there is a bird in the picture anymore, what's the new bird in a picture requirement? https://xkcd.com/1425/
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