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New comment by its_the_future in "James-Lange Theory"

its_the_future — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 16:39:18 +0000

Reminded me of this one which should be interesting if you think OP interesting.

Also grounds emotion in the physiological. Published recent years.

The Emotion Process: Event Appraisal and Component Differentiation

Annual Review of Psychology

January 2019

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-psych-1222...

New comment by its_the_future in "Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable"

its_the_future — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:16:40 +0000

They're talking about bird noises, the article said, among other things.

That's called ambient noise.

That's not white noise.

New comment by its_the_future in "Fast machines, slow machines"

its_the_future — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 17:04:26 +0000

"it's my daily driver."

I think you somehow don't have any idea what a "driver" means in a computer hardware context like this.

New comment by its_the_future in "‘No One Saw a Thing’: When a Midwest Town Banded Together to Kill the Town Bully"

its_the_future — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 23:32:32 +0000

Are you sure socioeconomic status is not a better fit and that race is not just a proxy for it?

New comment by its_the_future in "Picat – a logic-based multi-paradigm programming language"

its_the_future — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 10:52:39 +0000

I won't know who Hakan Kjellerstrand is, but if you quote him you should either put [sic] following "suites" or put [suits] instead of it. Gives a bad impression straight off the bat. You could argue language is different from programming but to my subconscious mind it speaks of a lack of attention to detail and excellence.

New comment by its_the_future in "[dead]"

its_the_future — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 01:41:32 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elision

Maybe we did, maybe we didn't.

If I hear "One small step for a man", I also hear "One giant leap for a mankind".

New comment by its_the_future in "Ask HN: Is it too much to work AND play with tech?"

its_the_future — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 07:05:20 +0000

I find that if the angle of my forearms is downward, I get a creeping RSI brewing on top of my hands. Adjusting my seating and/or sitting position so my forearms are horizontal and my wrists are resting and my hands can relax gets rid of the constant tension and creeping pain. YMMV

New comment by its_the_future in "Ask HN: How do you personally learn?"

its_the_future — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 04:50:17 +0000

Take this... it may help you on your quest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYKrWW8wyjQX6qmL94zNLg

New comment by its_the_future in "Unsupervised word embeddings capture latent knowledge from scientific literature"

its_the_future — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 12:10:43 +0000

Link for the curious https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-11478645

New comment by its_the_future in "Microsoft, Keep Your Hands Off My Keyboard"

its_the_future — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 09:31:42 +0000

I don't know why it happens, but it seems to be "all the time" sometimes. Like if I lock the computer. I've grown a habit of peeking near the clock for the language and resigned myself to hit Alt+Shift whenever it's the wrong one.

New comment by its_the_future in "Bernie Sanders to unveil plan to cancel all $1.6T of student loan debt"

its_the_future — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 18:45:08 +0000

The plan is part of a more comprehensive "college for all" program that Sanders has already released in pieces and includes free tuition at all four-year public colleges and universities, as well as community colleges. The broader proposal also includes subsidies to reduce the cost of tuition and fees for low income students at private colleges that historically serve underrepresented communities. "We will make a full and complete education a human right in America, to which all of our people are entitled," Sanders said on Monday. "This means making public colleges, universities and HBCUs tuition-free and debt-free by tripling the work study program, expanding Pell grants and other financial incentives."

New comment by its_the_future in "Bernie Sanders to unveil plan to cancel all $1.6T of student loan debt"

its_the_future — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 18:41:46 +0000

"We will make a full and complete education a human right in America, to which all of our people are entitled," Sanders said on Monday. "This means making public colleges, universities and HBCUs tuition-free and debt-free by tripling the work study program, expanding Pell grants and other financial incentives."

New comment by its_the_future in "Observable’s Not JavaScript"

its_the_future — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:24:16 +0000

IMHO call it something other Observable? Observables in JavaScript and development are something else, only reason I clicked the headline is due to the confusion, and I'm slighly upset and baseline hostile to the product. This hostility is probably because I suspect the confusing name is intentionally confusing.

New comment by its_the_future in "The Golden Scale: A Collection of Norwegian Folktales"

its_the_future — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 18:16:35 +0000

Haven't verified that http://folkeeventyr.no/ has all of them, but seems to have a lot and at least the first one and plenty of Ashlads, kings, princesses, trolls, foxes, men, old ladies, etc.

New comment by its_the_future in "Collection of quotes on interesting notations and how they affect thought"

its_the_future — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 20:57:10 +0000

Working link is http://www.kameli.net/~raimu/rnd/ted-chiang-story-of-your-li...

Ask HN: Are custom languages defensible as a business strategy?

its_the_future — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:21:17 +0000

I commented on a 2 day old post on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/845s2c/how_graphql_replaces_redux/dvrcqs9/?context=3) but I think it might be more of a HN question

someone said

>> I'm.telling you guys : fuck frameworks. Fuck graphql. Yep. This is why I prefer my custom languages that cover my specific needs.

and I said

If you're not being sarcastic, can I ask what you use to create them?

I've been looking at MPS, but I also need to consider whether it will be possible to get people who have MPS competencies, -- seems there are not many MPS developers, so it seems like an infeasible business strategy to depend on it.

I would think if an organization uses its own special language it might be difficult to find developers willing to work with it -- and so a custom language could be an infeasible business / development strategy -- better to build a framework in a hireable language.

https://i.imgur.com/Z3TQTwj.jpg

Or are the advantages of custom languages so great that it doesn't matter?

I guess what I'm saying is, -- yeah sure don't get hung up in frameworks, but if you're an organization that wants to be able to hire people in the future to deal with your code base, maybe you don't want to construct some arcane language.

Maybe a custom language is not really feasible as a business strategy if you aim to be scalable and to scale, which is critical for investment.

Maybe the better strategy is to be able to attract developers.

Developers want to evolve skills relevant to their future hirability, or to future projects.

If you're a lone dev on some indie project that's never gonna be worked on by anyone else -- sure -- do what you like. -- but is it a decent long term strategy? And so ultimately, is it a good investment?

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New comment by its_the_future in "Horrible Things I Found Out When I Made A Video Game"

its_the_future — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 16:44:46 +0000

Couple of interesting points, slightly ruined by the guy excessively mentioning that he's writing hilarity while actually not making you laugh at all.