softatlas

I play tictactmux at pomodoro intervals with clock-mode panes representing state. Roll d9 at turn for next move.

Do you folks even know what gossip is?

Small talk !== Gossip. God, it's obnoxious reading like 98% of you.

You think "stuff I'm not interested in" is gossip, which is even worse than the assumption "Small talk === Gossip".

Look, adding a qualification or narrative component (predicates not strictly quantifiable over the domain) is a mark of conversation.

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

AGAIN:

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

VAGUENESS is not gossip.

It's SYSTEMATIC oppression. A laundry list of "why this, why this" at the end of a post COMPLETELY FAILS to grok what SYSTEMATIC/STRUCTURAL oppression MEANS.

Learn how to more categories of conversation. LEARN what speech genres are. Stop reducing everything to "gossip/actionable". Stop the elimination of human spontaneity. Stop building the ideal language that the ideal person must speak.

Stop. STOP.

tmux will do just fine. My text editor should do text editing well, nothing more.

Yea, to "deprivation" thesis. There's always IRC.

"Inheritance", "Class", "Prototypal", "Prototypical", "Classical".

"Why you Borklandian yorlix, hasn't everyone been slashed or thwacked with a magic wand or had a morningstar or two broken over their head as a kid? Shit, if that's the worst thing your Mother did, you should consider yourself fate-blessed and smooch the ground she hovers over because you probably deserved it.

Fracking wurtbag..."

Scrape CL, apply a lexical categorizer (porting Syntactic[0] to Python now), pseudo-randomize, apply Tangle[1] as a front end; allow users to scale between language species-norms over categories and submit their creations, apply a speech-to-text tool, there's a voting board involved.

The point here is that I find prescriptive morality to be quite droll. Upon reading this HN title, I immediately dashed over the CL to see if any analogues might exist. The CL in my State took on a characteristic countertone to this HN post. I intuited this immediately. The output post above is a follow-up to the OP [on CL], where the output post is consistent with the HN OP. But there's more hilarity now.

Goal: Use "nerd" activities to diffuse prescriptivism. Now I have a port to consider and maintain.

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[0] http://syntactic.omershapira.com/ [1]: http://worrydream.com/Tangle/

This is a bot.

"Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast, and one pricks up one's ears, and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears for instance the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall."

I repeated this to myself, out loud, 100 times. The goal was to simultaneously maintain another persistent stream of thought as I recited, religiously.

The next day I converted my left control key to Backspace, months after asking myself in earnest the question of what I should do with my left control key now that I had already delegated that role to my caps lock. Days later I learned that a co-worker has worked on a keyboard missing its Backspace for years now.

As a practicing psychonaut one must, in order to ascend the order of skills, learn to master speech in a way that is disorderly from other cognitive functions. But first, what is speech must be recognized.

I think with keyboards, we experience much of them same thing: where Backspace becomes a word or a character of one's textual lexicon. It's just a matter of where you put it (let's say, "in your mind"). It's like the paralanguage of "uhms" and "wells" which litter everyday academic to grocery language, cheerily grows in programmers' circles, and then those pauses to reset the conversation of their weed like proliferation.

We do not always know what we are saying because most of the time the meanings are quantifiably outside of the grammar with which our brains have adapted for the purposes of internally efficient speech. Each of us constructs an idiolect for our use, and the semantic edifice wrapping our words which we use to exercise thought often bears signs of the issues we have dealt with, not necessarily in learning the language, but also building it for our individual purposes. Sometimes the constructs we internally put together are resistant to forms of complexity that are outside of the cowpaths we have paved for ourselves.

So if a group of kids leverage Twitter to play 140-char D&D for a summer, is that a botnet? How paranoid should data analysts be?

Another spin on Cartesian Doubt — run it through a Hume machine: there's no fact in our mental histories that shows that we are not dreaming.

Here I say a better model for the Universe is not matter but information, an information architecture of the universe. Matter is buggy, less elegant, event-driven (whereas emergence (acausality) might help).

We're investigating exponentially more if we remain vigilant in preserving the materialist's conceptual scheme.

LESS/JS/TPL in one module — YES.

Learn MEANG (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node, Grunt) stack by breaking it down and mapping each section of each technology to pomodoros.

One answer is in the question: MEAN. Mongo, Express, Angular, Node.

A subset of A is the implementation of the presentation layer, which means you can do that, too — you can take a design and architect it into MEAN, which is one Tech Stack within the Full Stack range of options.

.NET developers, for instance, are "full-stack" by default if they're also building the UI. Python developers writing non-Web products are probably using GTK, and so are Full Stack by default.

Full Stack's meaning is more about the domain of interest, which is historically the Web. It doesn't really have meaning outside of Web Development. Looking at MEAN, we have a delineation of the Web Application Stack: DB, Server, Front end, Tooling. It just so happens that this is a Full Stack in implementable via JavaScript, most importantly: a Web language, the lingua franca of the Web. "Full Stack" is historically associated with JavaScript's maturity, but we can use this delineation of the Web Application implementation to retroactively make sense of non-JS "already existing" stacks that might correspond analogously.

Companies should give feedback to candidates whom they deny positions.

1. What questions were answered incorrectly/mistakenly/insufficiently? 2. Code review on code quizzes, if they're expected.

    The rate of information increases.

    Information wants to be free.

    Only information explains its own existence.

    The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

The laws of information are laws about the dimensions of proportionality, which give the arrow of time an aspect of curvature (needing to exhaust a universe for exponentially narrowing arrows, so the onion-skinning of properties of a thing "come way may" at "frozen" temporal localities — what happens when we "bend" time at certain family resemblance (physical) properties?).

    Act according to that maxim whereby you might
    will that it should become universal law.

By Bernard Williams's standard, the amoralist cannot even conceivably have an intermittent feeling of sympathy[0]. The person is at minimum embedded within and embodied by sympathetic behavior (to self or to other), but this is not a necessary condition to morality.

At the same time, the kinds of experiments we run, and the types of questions we ask, potentially distill or deauthenticate the model with the widest representation of moral truth — however the narrative of science may belie institutional refactors at meta-ethical descriptions.

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[0] http://bobnoxiousthoughts.blogspot.com/2013/08/challenging-b...

I've contemplated suicide off-and-on since age 6. It's just a working part of my language. No successful attempts, or failed attempts, or whatever grammar is being built here.

It might partly be influenced by a Tourette's like underlying structure, which would here make it more publicly, or in terms of a biological profile, a symptom. Usually all we see are symptoms in the narration of science.

I remember a co-worker inviting to his place, with others also invited. He asked me if I had had sex with a female coworker since, I suppose, that upon first meeting her, we got along very amiably at work.

It seemed like a confession of character moment, though it was expressed in a joking manner. It was a kind of contextual humor.

vim-spf13, tmux, slate window manager, todo.txt.

Heh.

You need to understand the scope of surveillance, its primitive basis:

    Magical Combat should be differentiated from psychic attack,
    with which a large proportion of 'fringe' occultists concern themselves 
    with, and is largely a product of self-delusion and varying degrees of 
    megalomania. True magical combat has its own rules and boundaries, 
    which are known to the skilled, while the trainee must quickly learn 
    them if trauma is to be avoided. Caught up in a situation which s/he 
    finds incomprehensible and alien, the trainee only knows confusion 
    and terror. Stripped of the smug self-assurance of "it can't happen to 
    me" s/he learns to perceive the environment with clarity, to give attention 
    to the rhythms and pulses of the world. Truly, Death is a great teacher. 
    If you can reach forwards and see the moment of your 'death', then that 
    moment will give you a glimpse of your potential.[0]

Now imagine that these features of a society become more widespread — where you have {J1, J2, J3, ...}, then imposters, {I1, I2, I3, ...}, and then of course randoms, {R1, R2, R3, ...}. This is an oversimplified model, but it captures the problem well enough.

Surveillance becomes a psychological management strategy that naturally emerges given the task of ruling out true adepts (altruistics) and delusionists (potentials who cannot manage their own psychic powers).

"Psychic powers" does not amount to some belief in the supernatural. If I mention the word "chair", this will not sit with you as mental residue (surely, contextual and relational analysis apply, but on the whole it will not) — but if you take recourse to JL Austin's "How to Do Things With Words" — you will certainly need to shake off words like "preapopstaticontinentalism". The first point is that a speaker has produced the word, then it comes that decision procedure of whether or not it has literal meaning. The brain has to do work — which is the basis of "psychic forces" (reducible to behaviors of neurological substrata).

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[0] http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/texts/apikindx.html

I believe Brian Cantwell Smith should be mentioned here.

    Which leads me to say something about computing. I have repeatedly
    mentioned computation as one of the intentional sciences. Some of you will
    know that for almost 30 years I have been engaged in a foundational inquiry
    into the basic nature of computing—trying to figure out what it is, where it
    came from, what its intellectual importance is, what it augers for the future. I
    have spent 30 years, the project is largely complete ... and I have failed. Or
    rather: I have succeeded, I believe, in coming up with the answer. But the
    answer is: there’s nothing there.[0]

    Prove all things. Hold fast to that which is good.
    1 Thessalonians 5:21

    Life is a mess[0]:
        Don't work.
        Avoid telling the truth.
        Be hated.
        Love somebody.

[0] http://interesting_posts.quora.com/Don%E2%80%99t-Work-Be-Hat...

"12,000 line method?"

Saying it hurts...

Firefox's PixelPerfect for Manual Visual Testing. There are some great tools for grunt to do automated visual testing[0] — and CSS unit tests are viable strategies[1].

Jasmine specs in Karma/Protractor for overall functional testing: of code/calls/functional groups, of functional flows, and of behavior specifications: so, Unit Testing, E2E testing, Behavior Testing (BDD). Search for headless versions of the browsers you're interested in, and integrate into grunt — but here's a Stack thread on mobile: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/464089/simulators-emulato...

There's a great tool in Firefox to record actions in Selenium, though WebDriver probably isn't adequate for tech like AngularJS templates or even Semantic HTML (which is a moving target, since W3C Standards enable richly complex "pears"[2]).

Semantics[3]; use Fangs-to-Audio[4] to get a "subjective" feel for how your copy sounds to people on screen-readers/assistive tech/devices. Use http://wave.webaim.org/.

Follow schema.org as a normative guide to what Search Engines will likely look for. You can probably automate diffs between semantic markup structures and Web Scrape schema.org to determine how "meaningful" your markup is overall.

As always, believe in Unicorns[5].

[0] https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-screenshot-diff

[1] http://prezi.com/piifihs2ohet/test-driven-css/

[2] http://pea.rs/

[3] http://www.w3.org/2002/08/extract-semantic

[4] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fangs-screen-...

[5] http://validator.w3.org/unicorn/

$1,000/wk* is enough in Belarus.

I once stumbled upon a YouTube video consisting of a woman who received ~$1,400/mo entirely supplied by Government Assistance Programs.

I once saw a job posting for a Web Developer/Python position where the client stated: "$1,000/mo is enough in Belarus."

I stopped to think for a bit: "I hardly made $800/mo when I was freelancing, and I was happiest when I was not working."

I think the biggest argument for Basic Income is to normalize what is already an existing systemic exploitation of a broken system. Professional exploiters and accidental/system-justifier exploiters need to be cut off, which might motivate professionals and invalids to assess our system as more just. I'm sure a positive network effect will follow.

Why not just try it? Why not stop arguing these speculative points and just try it?

It only works if you test.

It isn't merely words that have "great power" but the speaker of certain words at given points in history.

Language at its base is a set of conventions and agreements. Witty would say this.