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Many great writers tell and don't show, if that is what the situation calls for. Read a couple of pages of Tolstoy and you will notice.

What is the reason this mantra became so engrained, most notably in creative writing courses? I think the reason is that it is very hard if not impossible to teach people how to write beautifully, but it is relatively easy to teach them how to write acceptably. The main trick is to teach them to avoid common pitfalls and mistakes. Among this is the basic stuff like: don't switch perspective or time midsentence, be wary of adverbs and adjectives, etc. It also includes the tricky stuff that can easily go sideways. A fledgling writer had better stay away from sex scenes, to mention an obvious one.

"Show, don't tell" fits this category as well. The idea is that "telling" done badly is a sure way to bore the reader out of her skull. And it often is. It invites lazy characterization. "Amy was nervous," does not sound very exciting.

The problem however is that "showing" can get quite boring as well. There is, for instance, this whole hackish vocabulary of observations that signal emotional states, which has become a drop-in replacement for telling. Instead of nervous, Amy is now fidgetting, her heart is pounding and her palms are sweating. These are the worst examples of course. Better writers go out of their way to avoid cliches like this, but they are still beholden to the idea that Amy shall not be described as nervous. That can become problematic if working around it ruins the pacing of a text or diverts the attention from what the writer is getting at. Tolstoy often feels so wonderfully to the point because he dispenses with the obvious stuff by just telling it.

Showing and telling are tools. Like in many other endeavours, you should use the best tool for the job.
Honestly, if accessibility like this was one of the higher scoring mechanisms for SEO in web sites, not only would screen readers work better, but any kind of automated parsing would be orders of degrees easier.
Learning to play an instrument requires dedication; thousands of hours of hard work, before you get the payoff. This demonstrates desirable personal qualities like self discipline and willingness to work hard. Skill at playing video games just shows that you play video games a lot.
Can we get the top leaders in tech to say something about the situation in Hong Kong? I feel like with enough public pressure, this should be doable. For instance, have Paul Graham or any of the YC partners expressed any support for democracy and freedom in HK?
While I agree on the content, I think the word "Expert" in the title is misleading. All of these habits are better attributed to Generalists. "Experts" I know are often too focused on certain fields. More power and wisdom comes by connection of experience from different, even orthogonal, domains.
That is extremely incorrect analysis. Nationwide homelessness used to be extremely rare and limited to mostly middle aged men and older women. Now in America homelessness has become common everywhere and we have homeless working families which simply didn't happen before. Back in the 1970s minimum wage would support a small family and modest homes were available in most markets. Blaming San Francisco for this major nationwide change makes no sense at all.

As recently as the mid 1970s simply being black or in a homosexual relationship could get you beaten up and thrown in jail. People rejected this arrangement because it was unfair, unreasonable, and extremely expensive. Then the drug war turned the whole nation into a kind of gulag. Go ahead and object to Chinese treatment of minorities, but we have more in jail here.

Neoliberal economists said that if we just lowered taxes enough there would be plenty of opportunity, but modern capitalism runs lean and fires fast. Even basically competent middle aged men can have trouble, so the larger population which includes people of various genders, ages, and capacities is not doing well. Labor markets are as brutal in America now as during the depression. You can't shred labor markets and leave them in tatters and then whine about how society isn't fixing itself like before.

The appeal to dominance and laws and enforcement is a silly delusion that we will have to get over if we ever want to make progress with this problem for real.
Where's the parallel between doing something illegal (10 years ago) and being able to comment on the political climate without fearing for your life/livelihood?
> You should be able to watch a movie with no sound and follow the plot.

As universal advice, I don't think this is true. This is essentially saying "sound in this movie is merely window dressing, it plays no essential role", and while this can be true of some good movies, it can't be true of all good movies. Surely sound plays a vital role in at least some movies, a role which is essential to understanding the movie...
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I think a lot of the issues you've brought up regarding AMD CPUs are no longer relevant with Zen 3.

Inter-core communication latency has been much improved with the larger caches and architecture improvements in Zen 3. Single threaded performance has always been within a stone's throw of Intel CPUs with Zen and Zen 2 and now the gap isn't even worth talking about with Zen 3 since you get more cores for less money.

I'm not sure about the Linux story, but this is the first I've heard of issues with Zen on Linux.
> and his name is Token

Thank you, it just clicked...
Modern cinema is not just visual storytelling. It also has sound, which is just as vital.
Hasn't satire always served as a biting reminder of where our truths should be?
> It's an alternative 'UI' to Git

Also known as a porcelain, as opposed to the low-level commands known as the plumbing.
You seem to be under the impression that all blindness is exactly the same. There are people who have serious difficulties reading at normal screen distances, but still have enough sight to appreciate a painting.
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You can cut down exposure to microplastics
Oh please spare me the narrative that America is somehow above this.

Look up the history of government censorship of TV, court decisions that limit speech, people getting fired from AMERICAN companies in America for comments on personal social media accounts, how quickly one gets shutdown here even for suggesting that our culture is chasing ephemeral economic models to the point of destroying our environment for the benefit of billionaires and you’ll get scolded about not understanding economics and how smart people have been discussing this for years and the economics keep coming out just so that they benefit the elite. Oh yeah and non-whites in cages. Again.

The brain washing to protect American power is just as strong. The gentlemen’s agreement is wrapped in a warmer narrative.

You’re being Machiavellian and not having a raw look at the reality.
The End of Sex – When evolution, human sexuality, and the Western world collide
In 2008 some people were against gay marriage without saying any of those things. At the time some arguments against gay marriage didn't involve being against gay people. One example would be the people who saw marriage and its attendant privileges as a reproductive subsidy. Yes, there are many reasonable ways to disagree that, but I'm not saying Eich was right - only that we don't have clear proof of any inner hatred. A nice, rational person can believe something that is realized to be untrue a decade later, that's just how science works. Even if you're 100% convinced that every argument in 2008 against gay marriage was false, that's still not sufficient to demonstrate that everyone who was against it was evil.
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Pretty decent, actually. I'm in my apartment (Norway) looking out the window at the bus stop, the difference between actual buss arrival and the one on map was only 30 seconds. During rush traffic.
Hey thanks a ton for all the work in these last 25 years. The account is https://twitter.com/soapdog
> While we stand by one’s right to express individual thoughts and opinions, players and other participants that elect to participate in our esports competitions must abide by the official competition rules.

Laff.
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They became a successful company by producing amazing games. Games like Warcraft 1, 2, & 3, Starcraft, Diablo 1 & 2 were straight-up fantastic games. The fact that they borrowed heavily from existing fantasy art and literature does not have anything to do with their gameplay merits. Fantasy is a genre that is always borrowing heavily from previous material. Did Warhammer invent Orcs and Dwarves?

To your second point: I agree. They’re not at all the same company that they once were.
Incredible work! I'll be sure to check it when I use trains and give feedback
The ADA law actually doesn't make sense to me. I get they are trying to stop discrimination, but the means they take is misguided and an encroachment on peoples rights.

If you have a business and are offering a service, you are doing so at-will. Your not obligated to provide anyone with any product or service, if you were, how is that not slavery? The law forces you to provide a product or service without allowing you use your own judgement.

The law itself is unconstitutional. How did it even pass?
This is great advice if you are early career and anxious about your CV and job security. I don't believe side-project-as-portfolio is the ideal strategy for career building for most people (though it may be for some).

However...

> you're early career, I get the idea that you are anxious about your CV and your job security

From reading the article, I didn't get this impression about the author at all. I strongly got the impression that the author is mid-career, and that they feel their career has benefitted from side-projects (I still don't necessarily believe this will be the case for most people, but certainly can for some).

What about the article gave you that impression?

Side note: I think outside of career progression, side-projects have many ancillary benefits and are very worthwhile.
Building a mixed-data neural net in Keras
Developers having hard time to master GIT after so many years is just a good argument to "Why we need GO more than Scala" and a very disappointing reality at the same time.
Robinhood: Cash Management
Gravity Model of Trade
This is false. There are many laws preventing different types of speech. For example death threats. Or sexual harassment. The list goes on.
Maybe you mean 1940s? The Bay Area benefited from fairly massive government subsidies to the Military Industrial Complex in California. WW II shifted military attention to the West Coast and San Francisco Bay was a major Naval Base. The Atomic Energy Commission took over and expanded Lawrence Berkeley Lab and established Livermore Lab. The aerospace industry moved to California due to the continuous availability of good flying weather and proximity to aluminum sources based on hydropower. This was mainly to southern CA, but a lot of aerospace electronics came from the Bay Area. NASA also established Ames Research Center. Plus, as its congressional delegation grew in size and influence, and during the Reagan years, Federal money continued to flow into the state.

In the 1850s there was the Gold Rush, which was unplanned. Around 1900 the southern CA oil boom made it the largest oil producing state in the US.
Please tell us that tankie sloganeering was sarcastic.
I don't think so, unfortunately. I think that that sort of thing says something (positive) about a person that the traditional hiring pipeline misses.
Yeah, it works with the official Bitwarden clients. I'm using it with the iOS client personally.
You are moving goalposts here, are we now debating whether any ADA-related lawsuit ever has been frivolous?

I also have a hard time answering for an anonymous group of people, as I am not HN.

You seem very eager to assign very clear and simple intentions to large and complex groups of human beings. Blind people don't like this kind of stuff, these lawsuits are frivolous, HN had this collective opinion on X but has now changed its mind.

For the record, I think it's fine for someone to sue UC-Berkeley and other private businesses for not following the law. Do you have a labeled box for me?
Move on. It is just a popular rant.
use spacemacs and it's much more accessible. magit is phenomenal software and it's both a blessing and a curse that it's tied to emacs... it probably wouldn't exist as easily outside of emacs and it's a small pain to use for people that don't use emacs already.
No, building a side project is fun. Camping, family, and trips are work.

Professional programming sometimes diminishes the passion, I have to have side projects to keep it alive.
I did a lot of development outside work, but then I had a kid. Something I realized a couple weeks ago (my son is almost two, so surprising I hadn't realized this before, but I think that shows my brain power) is that as a parent you learn to split your attention among numerous things.

I rarely watched TV, preferring to either do development or play video games (RPGs, action games with stories, as compared to FPS games). However, when you have a child you realize that, unless they're in bed for the night, you can't plan how much time you'll have to yourself. That's with one child and two parents.

When development, to me, is at least 30 minutes to remember where you left off and start being productive (unless you're monkeying around), and you don't know if you're going to have a child climbing on top of you in five minutes, even though he's totally into what he's doing now, you (or at least I) decide whether you want to try getting into the groove, likely to fail and then get frustrated, or find something you can do to be semi-productive.

After nine hours at work, plus helping get someone ready to go in the morning, plus getting him situated when he gets home, you're also mentally exhausted.

If you're doing your job right, your child is also on a schedule, which means that you're still getting up early in the morning, so staying up a few more hours is going to mean either being exhausted the next day (compounding issues) or wasting your weekend since you've been running yourself on empty all week.

I used to think the same thing as you. Then I had kids, and an expanded group of family and friends. And while you can say 'these three nights are times I need to focus on my needs,' realistically life doesn't always work that way. I wish it did, though. :|

Real life example: while typing this my son was in the other room. When I started to proofread my son had made his way into the kitchen and needed my hands. Now as I type this he's fine again. ~10 minutes of time, with a minute and a half break at about the 7 minute mark. Doesn't make it easy to keep my attention focused.
Saskatchewan too. We have a mixture of First Nations-derived names and major streets named after people. Some of them are hard to grok where they went wrong; a prominent example is "Lewvan Drive" (a major thoroughfare here). It's pronounced "Loo-van", but Google somehow spits out as "Lew-chin". Regina Ave (Reg-eye-na) comes out as Reg-ee-na, which, ok... but that's the name of the city!
I’m 38 and I doubt I’ve ever seen a “cha-ching” style cash register in active use either. Didn’t those get phased out in like the 60s?

Maybe when you say “kids” you’re talking about me though!
> One wonders if there is an entire revolutionary class within China sharing South Park videos for freedom.

Oh, there certainly is, especially among the richest of the rich. The whole point of censorship is for control.
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i think you are conflating fake accounts supporting china or pro china people from people who are liberal democrats. they are mostly different.
You're providing counter-arguments against the correctness of the argument the parent suggested, but otherwise good people can believe incorrect arguments. You can't assume that someone was aware of all those studies, some of which have been conducted in the years since, and none of which are taught about in elementary school. It is not sufficient to demonstrate that the Mozilla CEO believed something incorrect, you also have to demonstrate that evil was the only explanation.
Book Review: “Programmed Inequality – How Britain Discarded Women Technologists”
It's crazy they got categorized as "acceptable". They are among the least acceptable ads I regularly see.
> The idea that the Holocaust deniers will "create a new oppressive government" seems extremely paranoid to me.

Suuure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally
why don't you like git diff. git diff --cached in particular is nice to review your staged changes prior to commit.
Sewer is usually twice the price of water, so 33 water and 66 sewer.
For your information, Mr Hitler killed over 5 million people.

Mao killed way over 30 million. Absolutely incompetent, he manage to remain in power just using terror.

The other day there was an 70th anniversary of the founding of PRC and this criminal's gigantic picture was at the hotspot.
All the other stuff doesn't matter I guess (nba, hollywood, apple, blizzard, etc)? But since techies love south park for some reason we suddenly care? HN are full of hypocrites. In any case, I need to go rewatch the episode with chinese translations. Watched it on hulu and CC didn't show for the chinese speaking parts :( .
> Statistically, averages work only if distributions are symmetric.

I'm not really sure what you mean by that but I don't think you're correct. The law of large numbers applies to any distribution with finite first moment.

You're probably right in that factors like wealth (and wealth distribution rather than per-capita wealth) affect a country's scientific output. But your stats argument is a bit wobbly :)
I'm glad I got out of playing games like that when I did. Having diablo 2 when I was young was bad enough. I wasted a good amount of my teenage years on that game. It pioneered a lot of those Skinner box mechanics that those pay to win, I can't even call them games, scams have refined to a tee and use heavily. I'm glad I never grew up with games like that everywhere. At least I see them for what they are these days, I'd hate to think how hooked I might have gotten on those things.
I find myself more productive on the command line. It just feels "safer", esp. for anything that changes state. And I always prefer not using the trackpad if I can avoid too.

I know without hesitation all commands I use daily. And then I keep a note with the few commands I use less often. An exception is when I want to display changes between version, or conflict resolution.

That being said, I'd like to rely just on my IDE (VSCode) for better consistency, and I tried a few times, but I always return to the command line which is a great tool. For the same reason, I prefer to `CMD-tab` to terminal and `make` rather than build from the IDE.
American pop culture entertainment is by far the most dominant worldwide.
They probably don't care or see it as a way to keep newspapers in business.

I'm running an adtech platform for newspapers (I do price comparison and I believe that I add value to the product review articles) and newspapers need to generate revenue. They usually have loads of staff from decades ago when people were still buying paper journals and magazines.
> ...too many juniors will read this and think they need more abstraction.

Yes. And that's a good thing.

The way you become "an expert" is by making ALL the mistakes yourself, seeing the results, and doing it over and over again in different contexts until you understand and can do it right (most of the time).
It's a spiral to the bottom
These studio's should not stop publishing their games in China. The issue lies that these studio's happily comply with whatever restrictions a govt is willing to oblige due to possibly playerbase loss. Think lootboxes, forbidden skins in regions, exc... exc..

Companies as big as Blizzard should be prepared to lose 5/10/15% of their playerbase to defend free speech, the thing is they do not care about free speech. All these companies care about is revenue.
The footer in the article.... if the voter doesn’t read the article I think it’s plainly obvious that they didn’t bother to open the article with the intent of reading it...
If we're going to repeat the same cycle with Vietnam and India, we'd do well to encourage democracy this go-around.

If we elevate authoritarian countries to our level, democracy may be in for a rough future.

We should be learning a lot from the China situation. Modern China proves that authoritarian capitalism works and that you don't need freedom or liberty for your citizens. And that's incredibly scary.

Imagine if that meme spreads to democratic countries...

We need to be handling this situation with urgency. As bad and as pressing an issue as climate change is, this is much more terrifying.
Expert Software Designers read. And do it continuously. Not only HN and medium, but big "essence" ideas that you do not get usually on day to day tasks, and mold the perception of problems and solutions.

People familiar with Wirth, Kay, McCarthy, Iverson, Moore's (and pals) works have a fundamentally broader vision of problems and their solutions.

It's obvious, but all those points are not learnt in a discrete manner but they work as a whole and grow on you during the journey.
I really enjoy using Magit, since it makes partial commits a breeze. Unfortunately, it's notoriously slow on Windows, so I ended up migrating to Git's interactive-mode commit utility.
This 'knip' idea is exactly what my town needs to implement. We're a small town with a small population of folks who actually live there, but our two main roads connect the freeway and large towns south of us. From about 3-7pm, the town is just one giant thoroughfare.

One or two knips would solve the entire issue.
Nicely done, I remember learning about tessellation [0] in middle school and the marriage of math and art completely fascinated me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessellation
Taboola and Outbrain are like the Mossad in your livingroom. They spy on your browsing habits for who knows what reasons
This sounds like it's great for web developers like myself. We'll have jobs for years to come!

And it will force companies to really think about their functionality and ensure that it's easy for common use.
Please note that according to the benchmark in this blogpost, CPython's builtin JSON decoder is faster than ujson.
That 40 second intro to Where The Streets Have No Name that the article mentions was probably only on the album version and not the single, I'll wager. Songs that wanted to be played on the radio a lot also had to get to the point quickly.
Brainwashing millions of people is a terrible thing to do, but I don't believe it is on the same level of atrocity than genocide and mass murdering.

Nazis did not try to "assimilate" Jews by forcing them to reject their religion and traditions, and by forcing weddings between aryan and jews (could you imagine that ?).
How Is Operating Margin and Ebitda Different?
Hey, about algodaily, when are you guys planning to add Java?
There is an easy test for wrong abstractions.

A right abstraction makes everything smaller. Most wrong abstractions make everything bigger (in the name if "flexibility", etc).
You likely pay more than $100/month for water, but if your bill is only $20/month or whatever it's just because your local government is subsidizing the cost in one way or another.

Socialism in action.
I've wondered about this. Are there sourceable numbers in this? Is it the case that a couple newsworthy departures are giving the impression that everyone's leaving? Or is it the case that these are exceptions in the statistical noise?