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tyingq wrote: post #404
i336_ wrote: post #370

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Here's an odd, tiny, somewhat controversial/dangerous-sounding yet possibly interesting idea I thought of a little while ago that you might like to play with: a road-crossing simulator/trainer (and related concept areas). My house fronts onto a small but fairly active 4-lane regional/suburban highway which I need to cross whenever I get the bus home, and also sometimes when I leave depending on which direction I'm he…

Have you ever played the old "Frogger" video game?

No, I've vaguely heard of it though.

To clarify, the centerpoint of what I was describing above was that VR would provide the ability to repeatedly watch a car approach from a distance and learn what speed it was going at at the same time. If I had that I could do a lot of things.

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foota wrote: post #341
computerex wrote: post #310

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You could test the front-end before react though? Also, one can still have a God component. I don't think React changed anything from a testability point of view. Well written modular code is well written modular code.

I would argue that the case that React makes for testability is abstracting DOM manipulation in a way that is highly testable.

Frameworks like Knockout have been around for quite some time now. You don't have to use React to not depend on the DOM. There are many alternatives to "jQuery based front-end development" that's not React. Aurelia, for instance, happens to be an amazing framework in my opinion that's also highly testable and that's not React. Like I said, modular code is modular code. You can write good, modular code with just require js modules, and you can also write terrible monolithic React components.

Testability isn't the domain of the view layer.

Abstracting the DOM into a declarative DOM is great for performance, but doesn't lead to necessarily more testable code.

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Post by code777777 »

computerex wrote: post #306
aabajian wrote: post #110

I'm entering radiology residency, and I'm very pro-automation / machine learning. There's a contentious debate in the field about whether radiologists will be replaced: https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/will-ai-replace-rad... HackerNews is very developer-focused. If you guys saw what a radiologist does on a 9-5 basis you'd be amazed it hasn't already been automated. Sitting behind a computer, looking at images…

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3372692/ Machine learning is already used in Radiology. Chances are eventually Radiology will be the domain of machines. But it's going to take some time to get there. Healthcare is extremely regulated and closed minded. Most of the people in the thread you listed above are clearly biased towards medicine and against computer science and machine learning. But machine learn…

Agreed, in theory it's possible to create a tricorder-like system. Basically, radiology and advanced diagnostics in a box.

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Post by Can_Not »

uranian wrote: post #187

Most annoying is the need to write in ES6/Babel today, and all these js hipsters that really believe this is the future of web development. I totally hate Babel with it's dozens of Webpack patches/plugins to make it work. Oh, and don't forget your (Airbnb style) linter if you want to be politically correct. No one needs Babel to write stellar code IMHO. Unfortunately it is not about the quality of the code you write,…

>>Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?

>Complains about everything in the last 4 years that makes JavaScript not suck.

Sorry that all of these optional features and optional addons ruined your day.

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Post by wlx »

charlieflowers wrote: post #406
bitshaker wrote: post #332

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Most certainly. This current work I am doing builds upon the mountaintops of huge amounts of work built by two men who base their work on yet more huge foundations. Igor Ledochowski - http://hypnosistrainingacademy.com John Overdurf - http://JohnOverdurf.com As far as context-free therapy goes, that's a bit of an advanced subject, but can be learned and mastered through some of their programs. The key tenets are simp…

It seems like the missing step, right between 3 and 4, is "and then a miracle occurs." That's why I made my original comment. Maybe you're not a charlatan, in which case I'd have to conclude you're thinking irrationally and have been deceived by some form of magical thinking. You have not proposed any mechanism by which these steps can form a consistent treatment for problems that individuals have struggled with for…

I come to changework (coaching) from a slightly different direction; I'll share what I see as underlying mechanisms in case it helps.

Basically, what we do is based on how we see things. If we can change how we see things, then new actions & results become available.

Then the question just becomes, how can we change how we see things.

If how we see something comes from what we've experienced, then introducing a new experience can have us see it differently.

If how we see something comes from what we think about it, then we can introduce a new thought about it.

The point being to change the internal mental model related to the thing, so that we see it differently, we experience it differently, it occurs for us differently than it did before.

In the case above, step 3 introduced a new thought and internal experience related to the thing, and thus the step between 3 and 4 is, "their internal mental model, connected to the thing, changed".

Again, the mechanism (and the missing step) becomes, "change how we see & experience something, change our internal model relating to it". And then, some possibilities for triggering that include having a new thought about it, having a new experience about it; and various techniques can exist for introducing those experiences or thoughts.

At least, that's how I see it (how it occurs for me, how I've experienced it).

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