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Off topic but I love how this site is designed. It's unique without being wild, minimal but stylish. I really dig it. Edit: It also looks good (better maybe) on mobile. Props.

This is in my opinion actually a decent interview question. If you know JS in detail, if you know how the "+" operator works, it's a super easy question. If you don't know JS in de…

FWIW 100m * 100 = 10bn

This is basically how I hope to tackle the problem. I’d like to try and fill my own life with more practical endeavors and then weave in intentional/intellectual/thoughtful moments…

My intuition tells me this is the crux of the matter: If I spend my time in the kitchen and the garden and wrenching and cutting and repairing, then my kid will be drawn to like ac…

> One big realization I’ve had is that children really grow when their parents aren’t around. Schools may suppress agency, but so do parents. This sounds like a good point, I'm goi…

My first child is due any day now and I’ve been thinking a lot about the central problems presented in this article. But I don’t know what to do about them. Should I keep my son ho…

Without context, sure, but when we're talking specifically about the precision of expression, I don't think so. Some philosophers operate closer to mathematical precision than othe…

You say you don't think it's "full on sophistry" then you go on to describe a full on sophist.

Maybe that's true but tbh I'm kinda over Hegel, I don't imagine there will ever be a time in my life where attempting to seriously understand Hegel will be worth the time.

Hegel was quantum before quantum was cool.

I would definitely not say "Reasons and Persons" is clear. It might be precise (I personally don't think so, I think he makes tons of subtle mistakes), but it's at least not clear.…

> Every time I've looked at philosophy in my life, I kept searching for this promise - where intellectual giants grapple the truth and discover their secrets. This expresses an app…

Thanks for the detailed response!

Could you expand on this idea a bit more? My curiosity has been piqued, but I'm not sure I really understand the system you've described.

Yeah I guess not technically face down, I turn my head sideways.

Oftentimes when I'm working on a problem I lie on the floor face down and think about it for hours. In terms of what you might call "mentally detoxifying contemplation", physical w…

It’s about a million times easier today. Open a browser, open dev tools, open console tab, console.log(“hello world”). It’s even easier than that though. Open chrome, type “how to …

And it's much, much rarer but equally as important corollary: UTFM (Use TFM). UTFM means: when you're designing a system, adhere your design so f**ing tightly to standard usage. RT…

On the flip side, it wouldn't be entirely surprising if mathematical constructs that we have thought of are in fact very good models of fundamental reality. We should remember that…

This is one of those books I’ve always meant to read but never have. I guess the time is now. Thanks for the suggestion.

I'm thinking of a book like Working Effectively With Legacy Code but that deals more with things like documentation, specification, code review, etc. I'd like the book to help with…

Too close, in my opinion. If I said "Communication is a part of physics", it would be clear that I don't mean "all of communication is a subset of physics" and that I do mean "doin…

Life’s too short to not learn how to write bash code.

> iMessage combines text messages and its own messaging system in a more-or-less opaque way to the end user I don't really know what to say about it, but I just wanted to point out…