molteanu

An AI-infused search for hard to find discussions between team members that happened somewhere in the past is nice, I guess.

What I find slack enables though, is technical documentation being stored in such chats instead of something more formal, like an API or an up to date README.

Even more horrible is technical know-how being shared in video calls, as video-calls are easy to make, are interactive, you can draw, you can have fun, "it is easier and takes less time this way".

"Startup job descriptions read more like religious vocations or calls to service than realistic previews of work conditions."

Right. And we still hear voices buzzing around about "propaganda" from the East, how bad the "other side" is with its citizens. While working at a company, I would read their website and job postings for the future employees. And half of it was not true. Blatant lies. And instantly wondered how in a society that puts Truth on such a high pedestal, such companies still exist, are allowed to exist and are even praised.

For a person stepping, unknowingly, into such traps it might be their mental health which is on the line. These are not just innocent lies. They shape lives. Such lives are shaped, twisted and turned in all directions by people with money or greed or just careless with their words and actions.

Good write-up. Short. Straight. And to the point.

That's a good observation!

But then, my criticism of the people's criticism of Tan's free speech is also criticized. And then we only get criticism of criticism and no actual productive dialogue. Or so it seems. Looks complicated. Where does it end?

If the government abstains from prosecution, maybe the people should abstain from the practice too, then.

I thought the US was the land of Free Speech. And yet, when a guy speaks his mind he's burned at the stake. Of what use is that freedom, then? Or do you have to be poor and uninteresting to exercise it? Or only in front of your own mirror? So many paradoxes.

If the reference to Biden is the unacceptable one, I see President Biden daily expressing his thoughts on other world leaders, calling them names, saying who must die and who not, who is a good guy, who is a bad one. Is that Free Speech done right?

Indeed, it is. And yes, Lisp is only marginally relevant to the point beeing made. It's just that the question "if X is the best why hasn't it won" and similar variants of it spring up so often around Lisp and are not quite resolved or even close to being resolved.

The essay is thus attacking the question form a different angle. Thanks for the kind words.

Well, yes, and the discussion about the "factors that specifically involve LISP" has been going on since forever with no end in sight. So maybe there a at least some extra forces involved here. Who knows. I'm just exploring.

Unintentional. Fixed.

If it's a "trouble", then no, it is not "worth it". Use whatever works for you.

Backstabbing is real, for sure. I haven't really learned the "sabotage" thing until I've experienced it too many times to ignore it for my own well-being.

The "relative peace and harmony" is achieved by always being aware of the chasm, even when it is not visible, even when it appears we are all brothers and sisters. It is always there, always will be. I make myself no illusions about that.

But the popular groups is usually where the money is while the soloists are usually the keepers of the technical knowledge. Know the chasm, know each other's roles, don't be fooled by The Team and the nice feel-good words and you'll be fine. Or at least you'll start to put a distance where a distance is needed between the two groups.

Take what is best of any given situation, leave behind what is worst. The popular groups do it all the time with their fly traps. You should do it, too. There is no shame in being selfish and looking up for your own good.

Did you find it reflects reality, though?

My pleasure :)

It's worth taking a shot at it, at least.

Would you consider making a pull request?

Indeed, if it's 50-50 for a name, then there is no solution out of it. If it's close to 90-10, then maybe it is safe to pick the 90%. It depends on the scope of the project, I suppose.

Yes, the street names of US, Australia, Canada and a few other countries contain only the person's last name. Hard to figure out which is which. I agree with you.

Would you consider making a pull request?

Yes, Sweden, Norway, US, Canada, UK and some other countries often times only include the last name on the street sign, it seems. If you're not immersed in the local culture it is quite hard to figure out who that person is. Again, thank you for your time and links.

"Two streets with the same name may easily be named after two different people." - that is 100% correct

It is not (fully) automated. What is automated is the parsing of raw street names from openstreetmap. Figuring out which name refers to which person and adding the wikipedia link is done by hand. The errors are due to the lack of missing the cultural information, for all the 182 countries currently available, needed to make the right choices (or any choice at at all).

I will consider your input and thank you for it. You can also consider opening a PR if you feel some info is missing or is wrongly laid out.

Thank you for your input.

Yes, that is quite true. The most recent example that I could find is with the current conflict in Ukraine,

https://www.wionews.com/world/zelenskyy-signs-law-banning-ru...

But there are countless examples recorded instances in history,

Street Names and Political Identity: The Case of East Berlin (https://www.jstor.org/stable/260587),

Street Names in Colonial Singapore (https://www.jstor.org/stable/215354)

Street names and political regimes in an andalusian town (https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.2307/3774079)

From Classic to Classy: Changing Fashions in Street Names ( https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/870/869)

TRACING THE HISTORY OF TEL AVIV THROUGH ITS STREET NAMES ( https://www.israel21c.org/tracing-the-history-of-tel-aviv-th...)

Naming city streets—A chapter in the history of Tel-Aviv, 1909–1947 ( https://www.academia.edu/download/67078055/bf029655702021050...)

Cultural-geographical aspects of street names in the towns of Israel ( http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/1226/1225)

Street Names in Beirut, Lebanon ( https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/790/789)

Street Names in Baghdad, Iraq (Part I & Part II) ( https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/393/392, https://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/download/405/404)

There are probably more. The study of naming places has, indeed, a long history. From personal experience, after having skimmed through more than 13.000 wikipedia entries for this project, most of the names are, surprisingly for me, of national heroes, political leaders and religious figures. Science and the arts are way lower than I've expected.

Of course there are issues and limitation. I am only 99% confident in my own country and culture (Romania). That's what we've learnt in school, that is what we know. There is also a strong German and French influence so those names I've heard as well. This is still just a one-man project.

I can warmly invite you to contribute to the github project. Feel free to open a PR. I value the knowledge of natives more than my own. I often time can only guess.

Thank you for your comment.

I think you are referring to ""Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn", directly. I've also considered "Jahn" and "F.-L.-Jahn" to be the same as the above. That is why it goes higher. To 1873, to be exactly.

As I am not from Germany, though, I am more than willing to adjust it, if there is consensus on it.

I think you are talking about the problem of considering just one person / city.

Big cities can have schools, squares, streets, etc all named after a single person. But they will all be considered as a count of 1. So one city of, say, 2 million has the same "vote" as a small town of 10.000. If that's is what you're thinking about, then yes, you are correct.

What happens in the osm data, though, is that the exact same street can be tagged multiple times, sometimes with slightly different names by different users. That would result in dozen of occurrences for the same person even though there is just one street named after them. The one person/city is a way to avoid that. With the unintended consequences, as you've mentioned, unfortunately.

Jas Steen goes from 200 to 127, without the equivalent.

Yes, Steen is (currently) considered to be the same as Jan Steen.

That's the kind of info that I'm missing not being thoroughly knowledgeable with each country's culture.

Fortunately, it is easy to remedy from the equivalents.js file, as you correctly noticed. I'll modify it and see what comes out.

Thank you for your input.

The name is just "Jahn" in the openstreet map data.

Can it refer to somebody else?

It depends on the quality of the data coming from openstreetmap and on my ability, in this case, to label the streets correctly.

This is the raw file, including eponyms, for Iraq, https://github.com/mihaiolteanu/ulitza/blob/main/eponyms/ira...

Feel free to add/adjust it.

Yes, adding city names would be interesting. But it would also add tons of extra info to the file. Some countries have hundreds or even thousands of counts for a single name only.

Sure. And when something like Ramda comes along to clean up part of the mess, it's all negativity around here on how hard it is, how weird the code becomes, how team-work is no longer possible (posted two days ago on hn)

Meanwhile, chatgpt steals the show and minds of sw devs.

Oh, well. We'll probably get along with "terrible" for the foreseable future.

"In 1993, amateur cyclist Graeme Obree’s unusual riding position and homemade bike earned him a maverick status, but little success.

'Obree' chronicles his remarkable final attempt at cycling glory that year.

Blocking his path is the establishment darling Chris Boardman, whose eyes are also firmly fixed on the same feats."

This book is gold!

Incidentally, there is a 2nd edition in French, but not (yet?!) in English.

Yes, it is hard, but reading is not a contest of "how many pages can I read per day". With this book, sometimes I just read one/day. Other times it's a negative number. Meaning, I need to go back a few pages. What matters most is the content, and this book has it. No pauses, no cheap humour, just pearls on every paragraph. That puts the burden on the reader. It's a book to be studied, not read.

For mountainbike, yes, I've seen a more "aggressive" approach towards protective gear. But even in that area, the feeling I get is that you get that equipment only if you're really into jumps and high-speed. Other than than, it's just a walk in the park, as the saying goes.