pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

Thanks! I’m still curious about good neighborhoods for chance encounters though.

3 years agodiscuss

Related discussions on HN, pretty old though!

(2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4994459

(2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1455531

(2008) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=296404

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

PG on the problem with fame: “‘The world sucks because of tech, and tech sucks because of Paul Graham.’” lol

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

I don't know if it's possible to build an audience as large as Fridman’s without superficial treatment of wide ranging topics.

(I appreciate his efforts but I don't consider him a geek of any discipline or field, limiting his depth overall.)

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

Yes, agreed. HN archetype usually predicts failure of the introduced product or its irrelevance.

But maybe it goes the other way with clones. (“[Original thing] doesn't stand a chance. Releasing [Clone] will totally kill the userbase.”)

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

Interactions on Meta follow “proximity”-based neighborhood customs (birthdays, pictures of kids, social flexing, vacations). Polite society dinner talk.

You do not need to be followed on Meta, only liked.

Interactions on Twitter follow “rules” of interest-based disputes and discussion (sports, finance, AI dooming, technology predictions).

You do not need to be liked on Twitter, only followed.

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

It is so difficult to write challenging exams that only top-tier (“devoted”) professors do.

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

“Friends”: a group of people who reinforce among themselves a particular worldview and the permissible behaviors that go with it

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

Deliver an approximate or good-enough solution to buy yourself time.

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

Reduce the problem to a simpler one you know how to solve.

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

I would happily welcome a 9- to 10-hour oral history from Paul Graham.

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

> After all, I had no right to chastise him for yelling when I was screaming at him myself. Maybe I had the temper problem, not him.

I don’t know what I want to call this fallacy. Maybe tit-for-tat fallacy.

One person’s bad behavior doesn’t “annihilate” or vacate the other’s. They don't “cancel out”.

The tactic is (reflexively) used to derail the interrogator and change subject.

“Yes, it is true I am also verbally abusive but right now we're talking about your verbal abuse.”

It's not that this line of reasoning works with the abuser but at least it's a reminder to oneself what's being attempted.

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

I like it!

Here's one I use to decide from a list of free-form submissions whether to generate a link or a Google search:

  (fn [pair-of]
    (let [text (get pair-of 1)]
      (cond 
        (clojure.string/starts-with? text "http")
          (list [:a {:href text} (truncate text 60)] [:br])
        :else (list [:a {:href (str "https://google.com/search?q=" text)} text] [:br]))))

Doesn't always work but works often enough! ;)

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

Are you describing a particular experience you had?

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

  (map link-expander list-of-links)

I wonder what it looks like in Arc. Does HN keep any of its codebase public?

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

Related to this thread, generally, is Simon Baron Cohen’s The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Seekers-Autism-Drives-Inventi...

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

> One warning is perhaps in order---this territory we are entering can become a fantastic time-sink. Hours can slip by, people can come and go, and you'll be locked into Cyberspace. Remember to do your work!

> With that, I welcome you, the new user, to The Net.

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

Your argument is still circular.

Why is the function you’re describing better served by government?

For alternatives, see Underwriters Laboratories.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UL_(safety_organization)

Note that it predates OSHA by ~75 years.

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

Four years is a long time. Maybe this was your first significant partner. Those breakups can be hard.

Open yourself up to people around you. Friends. Colleagues you trust or admire. Have and make dinner with them. Be social. Be vulnerable to people who seem receptive.

Keep a good routine. Don't let it get out of whack but don't overwork yourself into isolation.

You'll be okay in time. HN is rooting for you.

pgayed

3 years agodiscuss

The commentary on this phenomenon is an example of itself.

Submissions

Ask HN: Bay Area neighborhoods to meet other startup people?

Vacuum Balloon—A 350-Year-Old Dream (2019)

Listen to Paul Graham talk early internet, web apps and YC

[untitled]

SICP Distilled: Wizard Book in Clojure

Lou’s List

REPL JS: Evaluates as you type

Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide to the Internet (1992)

1-Hour Code: Fast Programming is a Powerful Skill

Guile Hacker Handbook

SVB Races to Prevent Bank Run as Funds Advise Pulling Cash

Shortcuts to move faster in Bash command line

[untitled]

Udacity Linear Algebra Refresher Course [video]

Tag Systems

[untitled]

“Now that's what I call a hacker” (2019)

Connecting Vim to a Foot Pedal

Clojure is a trinity of language, REPL, and structural editor

Clojure Web Apps 101

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