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Languages Google Cannot Translate

barce — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 03:00:09 +0000

Article URL: https://barce.medium.com/3-languages-that-google-cannot-translate-4c005c55c7f1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39323141

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# Comments: 1

New comment by barce in "Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming"

barce — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 15:35:58 +0000

There's lack of proof to back up the 10k hours. I get that he has worked 15 years at prestigious companies but I have to take his word on it. Some aphorisms jelled with me but other's didn't, so we're again at a "he said; she said" impasse.

New comment by barce in "Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy"

barce — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 18:36:27 +0000

It's still difficult to export very unique tangibles and intangibles from Silicon Valley. The intangibles: a high tolerance for risk and a high degree of insatiable curiosity unfettered by local religious and cultural customs found elsewhere. And these both fostered at the universities. Tangibles: Capital as a result of the largest growth of wealth in human history & the only port in the United States to export more items than it imports - I'm referring to the port of Oakland. The light manufacturing sector is wholly responsible for this and is always underestimated. This sector is always the first to try on Silicon Valley innovations despite such innovations being readily available on the Internet. If anything, these souls leaving are merely setting up satellite bases for Silicon Valley's continued hegemony.

New comment by barce in "Coinbase Pro Disables Margin Trading"

barce — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:05:04 +0000

Yeah, created a bot that just trades the 1D MACD on Ethereum on a point & figure chart crossing up. Ridic how profitable this is. Proof is backtest on tradingview.

New comment by barce in "Why Military History?"

barce — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 18:22:39 +0000

Which historians is he referring to here?

It is no real secret that as a discipline, military history is sometimes held in low regard by other historians.

The crux of his argument is that military history needs to be studied so that we can have less wars. He throws shade at other historians for looking down on military history. But as a total outside to this debate, who am I to trust?

New comment by barce in "Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (2014)"

barce — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 05:36:00 +0000

Yeah, let's just ignore the 1.2 billion Muslims in the world that don't drink and assume they're untrustworthy. What a sophomoric article! الله اكبر

New comment by barce in "Nicomachean Ethics"

barce — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:15:52 +0000

In different senses. Socrates prefers philosopher kings. Aristotle, a mixed polity, e.g. a government with checks and balances.

New comment by barce in "Nicomachean Ethics"

barce — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:13:32 +0000

I'm truly baffled by this. Was it an attempt to display marketing prowess?

New comment by barce in "Nicomachean Ethics"

barce — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:12:46 +0000

Great suggestion, and it also does fill in the chronological gaps in anyone's history of philosophy education. All those years ignored by uni aren't with this podcast. The companion books are excellent, too. Currently reading the one on Islamic medieval philosophy, which got us the word for algorithm.

New comment by barce in "Nicomachean Ethics"

barce — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:10:49 +0000

How did this end up on the front page? Hacker News has always struck me as anti-philosophical and anti-literature.

This was one of the book that I read on my own after reading Bloom's "Closing of the American Mind."

My reading of the book was tinged with melancholy, for if virtue is a skill necessary for happiness, and if only a few can master a skill, then only a few can be happy.

I was 17 at the time and thought, "What an awful world that would give happiness to so few!"

New comment by barce in "We Only Hire the Trendiest (2016)"

barce — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:33:22 +0000

Why node? 2 reasons: async which C# has too, and coding in just one language. And no, writing backend JavaScript doesn't mean you're better.

New comment by barce in "The Fall of WeWork"

barce — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 02:37:41 +0000

What a missed opportunity for developing new tech with all that capital! Brilliance should always be needed and welcomed.

New comment by barce in "End of a Decade"

barce — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 06:27:14 +0000

You mention gatekeepers going away, but aren't the barriers to doing information warfare held by the same gatekeepers (the monied and the state)?

New comment by barce in "The Fall of WeWork"

barce — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 06:19:30 +0000

All the firing of brilliant coders at WeWork makes sense now, after reading that Adam is dyslexic. These coders were asked to make something awesome. Given that vague direction, some of the probably did TDD, and tried to show kanban or project management burn lists or something like that. These coders would say the awesome was in the code, and the summary of features for product spec. He should just read it. That probably triggered Adam to no end. And that's why in the end he just bought Meetup.com, but even that didn't work. He ran into the same problems again. Reading about Adam is like reading about Hitler. The German high command was suckered into thinking a hateful person who couldn't stand people more brilliant than him knew it all.

New comment by barce in "قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic"

barce — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 19:47:04 +0000

It's possible but all the tools, the author of the language notes, have a 50 year head start in English with English language assumptions baked in, e.g. reading left to right vs right to left. What Qlb shows me is how hardcoded ASCII is in hardware and software.

New comment by barce in "Hydra: A framework that simplifies development of complex applications"

barce — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:59:28 +0000

I work on the backend so I have a de facto boycott. On the front end I'd probably be forced to use it until something better came along.

New comment by barce in "Hydra: A framework that simplifies development of complex applications"

barce — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:57:40 +0000

All, too, well aware. After Facebook bought Instagram was the last time I saw Kevin and Mikey (IG's co-founders). You're right to point this out, but I'm very ambivalent: a tool that I value from a company that does reprehensible things.

New comment by barce in "Estonia is running its country like a tech company"

barce — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:54:08 +0000

Ordinary citizens: Even in a US presidential state of the union, the Presidents (Trump included) will quote ordinary citizens about how the country is doing.

New comment by barce in "WeWork 'Accepts Takeover by Softbank'"

barce — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:38:41 +0000

In a world where QE is used to fund everything, this is the result. Incentivize rather than penalize saving and this goes away.

New comment by barce in "Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?"

barce — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:37:01 +0000

Anything that goes from Zero to 1 (Peter Thiel). An example, pre-airplane civilization to a jet set civilization. I'd say that in 2016, that was the year for ML to seriously influence world events. In 2019 I'd give a serious look at this list https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs and chances are the next big thing isn't on it. Personally, I'm shorting credit card companies since 50% of millennials have maxed out credit cards.