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As a human who’ll be writing X, I sometimes enjoy the perspective of other humans who write X.

Excerpt from the preface:

So, what is a system? A system is a set of things—people, cells, molecules, or whatever—interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time. The system may be buffeted, constricted, triggered, or driven by outside forces. But the system’s response to these forces is characteristic of itself, and that response is seldom simple in the real world.

When it comes to Slinkies, this idea is easy enough to understand. When it comes to individuals, companies, cities, or economies, it can be heretical. The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior! An outside event may unleash that behavior, but the same outside event applied to a different system is likely to produce a different result.

Think for a moment about the implications of that idea:

• Political leaders don’t cause recessions or economic booms. Ups and downs are inherent in the structure of the market economy.

• Competitors rarely cause a company to lose market share. They may be there to scoop up the advantage, but the losing company creates its losses at least in part through its own business policies.

• The oil-exporting nations are not solely responsible for oil- price rises. Their actions alone could not trigger global price rises and economic chaos if the oil consumption, pricing, and investment policies of the oil-importing nations had not built economies that are vulnerable to supply interruptions.

• The flu virus does not attack you; you set up the conditions for it to flourish within you.

• Drug addiction is not the failing of an individual and no one person, no matter how tough, no matter how loving, can cure a drug addict—not even the addict. It is only through understanding addiction as part of a larger set of influences and societal issues that one can begin to address it.

And an initial definition of a system on chapter 1 page 1:

A system is an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something. If you look at that definition closely for a minute, you can see that a system must consist of three kinds of things: elements, interconnections, and a function or purpose.

edit oops, I misinterpreted what you meant by “some of those words”, didn’t take it literally... Will leave this up anyways I suppose, sorry!

DrRacket IDE [0] + the SICP compt language [1] and you can start writing it instantly in a well built and maintained environment that’s racket based and pretty fleshed out library wise, certainly nothing compared to Clojure but among the rest, it’s the best (imo), I recall Carmack writing a server in Racket for fun and praising the experience a few years back.

[0] https://racket-lang.org

[1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/index.html?q=sicp#%2...

Additionally, if SICP proves too slow going or difficult math wise [3] you can always use drracket for HtDP [4] and it’s corresponding misnamed edX course(s) [5] and later on, PLaI [6].

[3] http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/fffk-h...

[4] https://htdp.org/2018-01-06/Book/part_preface.html

[5] https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-simple-data-ubcx-htc1x

[6] http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/

Italy, che!

From the article: ““One of them was scheduled to leave but GABed [ground aborted] after an issue prior to taxi. The other three were jets that couldn't be spun up in time to fly.” Two had been cannibalized for parts, he said, and the others had “issues that couldn't be fixed. They were in hangars that [they] are usually put in according to hurricane plans.””

What a great UX decision green usernames are

Yes, I’ve read 1491 as well :)

It’s also fun to think about the scenario where the Americans practiced husbandry when contact was made, we could have had a two way “genocide”!

You’d be very much wrong about that, though development certainly seems to have accelerated once it was taken to Europe.

This was the link that got me back into reading long form journalism regularly again, it’s more movie than article.

As a hypothetical user who doesn’t post on niche tech forums, I totally prefer a native app over a web app

It’s pretty

It’s fast

It’s not stuttery-stoppy

I can swipe back and forth between pages without waiting 4 seconds for everything to display, and then inevitably move around right before I fucking tap

It’s on the app store

I can use it instantly.

I can remove it instantly.

I don’t know what sandboxing is

I don’t care about privacy

There are convenient share buttons

I can use it on the single device I use regularly

I can screenshot it

I can unfortunately change the style by updating

It can use my battery when it’s closed? Wait wha-

ooh notification

...

I’m gonna go use facebook now like a normal person, later nerds

I’d do just that but I’m not sure if it’s legal in Europe either ;)

Jokes, full article: https://outline.com/CrmCSK

What is missing in this picture is that this Directive gives affordable enforcement muscle to all copyright owners*, including the smallest ones.

Not particularly imo, no.

A great (albeit maybe not as great as OCaml ;) alternative for web usage would be F# with .NET Core, which has become a joy to work with over the past year or so on macos.

that is the expected baseline

I don’t know what world you’re living in, but that is absolutely not the expected baseline for consumer facing software in 2018 (unfortunately).

Perhaps you should move somewhere cooler anyways? 60F year round in Texas is absurd, and borderline appalling.

Oooooooh, have you heard of Reason[1]? It’s an algol-ish interface for OCaml, supported and used by FB as well!

Also interops with JS (and has superb bindings for React) so immediate results/learning are very easy to get.

[1] https://reasonml.github.io

Tila Tequila is Vietnamese, and features in the majority of the sample images shown.

How pedantic would it to argue a difference between standards like USB and mandates in discussions like these?

I've seen a worrying conflation between the two in online discussions about this topic for the past day or so. Negative takes towards this are met with at least one "without standards we would have a thousand different chargers, remember what it was like in 2000?"?

Am I off base here? This will come across as a concern troll but I'm genuinely curious about other views on this.

They might have meant ReasonML, both it and Elm interop w/ JS

https://github.com/facebook/reason

It's impossible to copy and paste that link on mobile Safari fwiw, fixed width scroll area.

They mention plentiful motivated job applications, how is the market from the perspective of a developer looking to focus on Haskell?

The EU isn’t the US, and the US isn’t New Zealand.

It’s been legal for recreational purposes in California since January 1st

Pro tip: if you’re near the border or a Mexican grocery store, Mexican Vanilla is absurdly cheaper!

IIRC, EU citizens helped defeat ACTA by taking to the streets and influencing parliament.

Would I be mistaken in believing it can be done again, even without the additional anti-US/trade treaty attitudes that helped against ACTA?

I’m addressing:

media emasculates/villifies minority men while fetishizing minority women.

Black men face issues of fetishization and hyper masculine caricatures, while black women are villified and systemically unwanted by other races, intermarrying at lower rates of any other group save Asian men. It is quite literally the opposite of what you’ve stated.

Hispanic men and women don’t have any significant differences in intermarriage, and at that have the highest rates of intermarriage (because >50% are white probably).

I do hope you’ll note the absurdity of preaching Amerikkka while lacking a basic understanding of the racial dynamics within it. It’s reminiscent of JS only devs decrying strong typing, and carries about as much weight!

Don’t lump minorities together under that single banner, it’s gross and shows ignorance.

The situation you’re talking about applies almost purely to Asian (south/east) Americans. It’s the complete reverse in regards to black folks, and nonexistent in Hispanic Americans (look up intermarriage statistics).

It is way nicer (in my opinion)*

Diamonds are beautiful, and in my opinion much nicer than a boring solid gold ring. Still a scam, but a pretty one!

Cant see a reason not to honestly, especially if it’s valid. Swings and roundabouts innit