LanguageGamer

I wonder how difficult it would be to build an app that lists and estimates fares for different local car services.

At the risk of sounding pedantic:

If the statement "culture is built around the game of a meaningful search for eternal truths, timeless values and changeless habits of prowess" is incoherent, how are you able to give a definitive, confident reply?

To paraphrase Wittgenstein, something incoherent can't be either true or false. Personally, I find both of your perspectives on what culture is built around to be interesting but vague.

I clicked expecting a go-the-board-game learning site.

I think I need to learn the rudiments of go-the-programming-language, just so I stop forgetting there's still something to disambiguate when I see the word 'Go' as a noun.

> I'd roughly guess that the amount of time a person had to spend with ads in the 60s in a year is about 1/12 of the time he has to waste (!) with ads now.

Perhaps, but how do we measure that?

I was surprised to learn recently that advertising for the past century has only grown at pace with GDP, i.e. it has continued to be about 1.29% or our economy: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-03-03/advertisings...

But it's still possible that advertisers are buying an increasing percentage of our time and attention. I would love to see a study that attempts to measure that, though it sounds like a tricky task.

I believe reading a book out loud is as difficult of a performance as singing a song, and the talent of the readers on this site varies widely.

For me, the key to deriving value from this site is finding those performers whose work I enjoy.

Since it is volunteer based, would it be obnoxious to start using some sort of rating system for the readers?

Not specific to developers, but this article, The Physical Environment of The Office, reviews several studies of impact of office-type on office workers:

https://lubswww.leeds.ac.uk/fileadmin/webfiles/cstsd/Documen...

Thanks for the recommendation! I will definitely read that. I've no formal education in this area, but have read Hume's "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding", and got quite a lot out of it.

While I agree with your assessment of the comparative merit of these works, in what sense is that assessment objective?

I believe TKAMB is worth advocating for, and even reflecting that worth in our institutions, for example by making one required reading instead of the other. But I can also imagine individual circumstances where ASOIAF is a more important and worthwhile experience for someone.

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The problem is, whether or not interview performance is consistent, we still don't know how or when it's correlated with performance if hired, and that's the sort of thing you would need to actually help people making better hiring decisions.

Does interviewing.io have any plans to collect employee performance metrics from companies that hire via their platform? Is that something companies would be willing to cooperate with?

If money really is speech, than can speech only be free to the extent that we don't have income inequality?

Edit: Honest question. Financing campaigns is a difficult and complicated question.

C++ is a mess, but Java, Ruby, Swift and Python aren't viable options if your software is performance sensitive.

Books have become such an engrained part of our culture, it's easy to lose sight of how divorced they are from "normal" (on an evolutionary time-scale) uses of language. Usually, language is reciprocal, bi-directional - you speak I listen, then I speak and you listen.

But books (usually) only go one way - the author speaks, the reader listens. This allows strong power-laws to take hold, so that a small handful of speakers take up a very disproportionate amount of people's attention.

This is another argument for Alan to make some friends, with whom he can practice the more balanced language-art of conversation.

As an aside, this reminds me of my fantasy of parsers becoming sophisticated enough that instead of books, authors can write chat-bots that allow readers to feel "heard" by the author.

One of the best things a person can do with their intelligence is try and understand the perspective of other people.