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"Apps like Instagram have a standard carousel for photo albums" Yeah, but that only applies to users who are used to Instagram. It's definitely not an INTUITIVE feature. I've had f…

Scott Alexander recently gave a good summary & review of that book here. A _very_ interesting hypothesis: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/01/book-review-origin-of-...

Object orientation is not really about making use of structs - many (most?) functional languages also use structs; it's just a grouping of related data. Object-orientation is about…

For those wondering what I mean: To support backwards-compatibility, Java could not simply introduce functions as first-class objects. Instead, it works like follows: Syntax for a …

Luckily Java 8 introduced streams and functional interfaces - the latter of which is admittedly very object-oriented way of passing around functions.

In addition to this, mark them clearly as out-of-stock - fade out the preview image and prepend [out of stock] to the item description.

I wasn't only thinking of computer simulations. The word "simulation" is very vague. It could potentially mean one of: - Computer Simulation - Pen & Paper Mathematical models - Pen…

I was confused what they meant by "simulation". But they basically mean like a role-playing game. Like, they acted out how they would respond in that particular situation. This sit…

Yes. A better name for "the speed of light" might actually be "the speed of time" or "the speed of information transfer". It's a mathematical limit and you can derive it using pret…

It sounds like they're using: - "severity" as level of importance the tester assigned it when they found the bug and - "priority" as level of importance a developer assigned to it …

That's example 6 on the list.

The previous commenter was not saying that machine learning didn't exist 10 years ago. They were saying that "many of the TOP CONTRIBUTORS TO THAT FIELD were not doing machine lear…

Yes. Taking into account gut feelings has been a part of the rationalist community's strategy for as long as I can recall. The rationalist community's "Rationality" is not about us…

I think it could potentially work! Consider someone with little to no experience with programming trying to build a single app and planning it out and refactoring and refining it c…

Do they start them at $1'000 and let them bid down from there?

My goodness, would you look at that! Luckily the paperback is only 1% the price, so solid deal there! I thought it's a data entry error, but no, it looks like that's the legitimate…

This point is made in the book "The Soul of the White Ant" by Eugène Marais, and is perhaps the primary thesis of the book. It is a fascinating book, and I can recommend reading it…

I used to think that if something is done twice, it should be abstracted. Now, I'm a bit more careful. There's a pretty famous quote by Sandi Mentz: "Duplication is far cheaper tha…

Ah! I understand your comment now, by > obsession with 9-5 and whatever else it takes You mean an obsession with "working 9-5 ALONG WITH whatever else it takes", not an obsession w…

Maybe I misunderstand your comment, but aren't "9-5" and "doing what it takes to get the job done" contradictory? The one is having fixed working hours and, as in the parent commen…

People may call it "stupid" but as a meta-strategy or species strategy or whatever, it's actually pretty effective. There are actually plenty of adversarial situations in which it'…

Oh, okay... are you referring to fuzzy logic where statements have a partial truth value? I'm (mostly) referring to the case where the truth value is either true or false, but wher…

Yeah, love this! I hate when I can't figure out what a software or service does from their homepage. Looking at oxide.computer... man... what DO they do? Do they sell servers? My o…

Indeed! I was speaking somewhat imprecisely - I was referring to logic in the sense of Bertrand Russel's work. I should rather say the major shortcoming of CLASSICAL logic is its i…

I'm all for using types, and pre- and post-conditions where applicable, but I don't see how they would be a useful replacement to the situations in which probabilities would apply.…