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brett40324··on How AI based programming could work
#3 on HN for the moment is very relevant to some of the discussion in this thread pertaining to websites.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12198572

brett40324··on How AI based programming could work
You're gonna have to make a clear distinction between web dev project configuration, and AI for making good choices that optimize meeting sales and marketing goals.

How is your 'project codebase markup' any different from filling in some radio buttons on a template generator or a CMS?

brett40324··on How AI based programming could work
I feel dumber after reading this article. So much, that my own human net of neurons can't figure out or explain why.

A partial explanation is that I dont like the assumption that once work is being performed at higher and higher abstracted layers, that machine hardware, OS kernels, compilers and linkers, package and dependency managers, and all other systems software supporting high level programming paradigms (including AI based methods) are going to fall in line at the application layer.

brett40324··on Ask HN: What are you using D (language) for?
Higgs is a JavaScript JIT compiler written in D.

https://github.com/higgsjs/Higgs

brett40324··on WebAssembly Specification Prototype
Cool, i appreciate the link.
brett40324··on WebAssembly Specification Prototype
Where can I learn more about this basic support?

There's the next full stack paradigm right there. I give it two years, and it will be called rustic-asm framework...

brett40324··on Judges Rely on a Flawed $2 Drug Test That Puts Innocent People Behind Bars
I agree. The responsibility should be that of the defender, prosecuter, and judge to verify additional chemical tests prior to a plea or trial. The state prosecution should be required to back up any substance tests in order to press charges.

This way, the police can still do their job (although a certifiable training should be required and regulated for the field tests), while having an AGILE turnaround on immediate test verification analysis - which should be done by a court laboratory technician within days of initial arrest.

brett40324··on Amazon software engineer interview
Very helpful write up, thanks.
brett40324··on Judges Rely on a Flawed $2 Drug Test That Puts Innocent People Behind Bars
"74 percent of the convicted didn’t possess any drugs at the time of their arrest"

Whats the solution here?

This is an embarassing failure of the justice system and all involved. Why is it so acceptable for them to do such a bad job?

brett40324··on Show HN: I Design with Code
>Whats code? Patterns.

Im not trying to insult your work, but this is so grossly generalized and false that it's absurd.

brett40324··on Show HN: I Design with Code
I dont see how this is even slightly novel, or interesting. I say this because there's endless examples of cool svg and css driven animation and interactive art that is 'coded'.
brett40324··on Languages Which Almost Became CSS
Thanks! That IS great to check out. It took him many rounds of proposals at CERN to finally be able to realize his ideas. The details of it all is an epic read.
brett40324··on Facebook uses location to suggest new friends
Nice:)
brett40324··on New Cities
Yes, thank you. I moved from Chicagoish midwest to central Kentucky two years ago, and everyday I still experience cultural shock at the overall compassion and friendliness of most people here. True community-based values and socioeconomic success start with human goodness toward one another, not statistical or engineering research.
brett40324··on New Cities
Nope. I got the point just fine.
brett40324··on New Cities
My so called vision is not based on notions of anti corporatism. It is a method to actually fund such a massive undertaking of a new city, without turning it into a huge shopping mall dystopia owned by the top 1%.

Im sure the research will confirm that its a bad idea to put walmart, mcdonalds, and starbucks on a spaceship. The research will also confirm that if xyz company wants a spot on this (spaceship city?) The price will be the same as in my vision.

To conclude, it is a waste of resources if they dont realize the need for distributed power, wealth, and health amongst the people. A huge waste. But its not wasteful if we colonize space one day..youre kidding me.

brett40324··on New Cities
This research is a waste of resources unless most basic needs of citizens becomes free as in freedom and price. For that to happen, global retail franchises, as well as the major players in countless other service industries are going to have to be rejected by our newly realized cities. They should be rejected unless they are willing to donate extremely large proceeds and services to the city. If they comply, they still arent allowed to come to our city, but we as citizens will purchase from them online. We will purchase the things we want from them and have them delivered. We wont have to purchase basic needs. They will be provided to us by the corporations who want us as customers. One of endless examples: Im definitely ordering my mega awesome television from walmart, best buy, costco, etc. because they pay for our electricity and daycare.

This is what they should provide us in order to do business with our city:

Energy, water, trash, recycling, food centers, construction materials, police, fire, EDUCATION, housing, healthcare, EDUCATION, farm and agriculture equipment, construction equipment, manufacturing equipment, internet and basic mobile phone service, and housing for newer citizens who dont yet own their residence. Note: everyone should own their place, tax free without the lifelong cruft of mortgage and property value flux. Im serious. If you want us to buy from you, you buy from us, or you give to us. The people will own and run such a new city. Not the corporations that are ruining human values, health, and economies for cities all over this earth. The people will have to have the best hand, and the buy-in to our game is extremely high.

In addition to this concept, we wouldnt have a mayor, chief of police, or other forms of a single person running any one show. Even schools shouldnt have a single Principal, but more like 3 to 5 awesome 'lead educators'.

Totally aside, how do you keep out the drug cartels? How do you instill an attitude of giving a shit about your neighbor? How do you create resources that eliminate the need for acts of crime and violence for less privelaged to 'make it'?

brett40324··on New Cities
I agree with this approach. Whos gonna pay for 100,000 outlandish salaries? If they all only earned 10 usd an hour....You do the math.
brett40324··on New Cities
Tornadoes love it there too :)
brett40324··on New Cities
Note: a mm or .040 quality tolerance for large pieces of a building is not good enough.
brett40324··on Advanced programming languages (2009)
I am still stuck on why this is titled Advanced Programming Languages. Wait, so anything other than the most widely adopted robust language technologies used in enterprise systems is 'advanced'? Language compilers, interpreters, database engines, and runtime implementations are advanced. Who says, "we need an advanced language for this solution", as opposed to "this problem requires an advanced solution"?
brett40324··on The State of SourceForge Since Its Acquisition in January
This is a win for the Web, whether they gain market share or not.
brett40324··on High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user”
Is this resolved or able to replicate on windows 10?
brett40324··on Response to “The Hidden Workforce Expanding Tesla’s Factory”
Go Tesla
brett40324··on Arrested by Undercover Officers After Trying to Sell His Laptop Online
I hope she and her son get justice. Theres another story here somewhere. Those agents were looking for someone specific. Perhaps even a specific macbook. Who? Why?
brett40324··on That'll do, pig, that'll do
What parent really wants to complicate the fundamental lessons and experience that chore assignment and reward teach their kids?

Every thing, process, or task out there isnt always improveable by an app. Maybe all that wasted capital could of gone to kids who wont ever be given an allowance?

brett40324··on Ask HN: Is there a reasonable, actually integrated Web IDE out there?
Ditto. I naively ignored netbeans for years, and I regret not using it sooner. Its impressively robust for web development.
brett40324··on Hidden Microphones Part of Government Surveillance Program in the Bay Area
Stalking.
brett40324··on Dream Machine: The mind-expanding world of quantum computing (2011)
There is so much more quality content on quantum computing than this sham of an article.
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