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I play tictactmux at pomodoro intervals with clock-mode panes representing state. Roll d9 at turn for next move.

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Do you folks even know what gossip is?

Small talk !== Gossip. God, it's obnoxious reading like 98% of you.

You think "stuff I'm not interested in" is gossip, which is even worse than the assumption "Small talk === Gossip".

Look, adding a qualification or narrative component (predicates not strictly quantifiable over the domain) is a mark of conversation.

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

AGAIN:

BUILDING RAPPORT is NOT GOSSIP.

VAGUENESS is not gossip.

It's SYSTEMATIC oppression. A laundry list of "why this, why this" at the end of a post COMPLETELY FAILS to grok what SYSTEMATIC/STRUCTURAL oppression MEANS.

Learn how to more categories of conversation. LEARN what speech genres are. Stop reducing everything to "gossip/actionable". Stop the elimination of human spontaneity. Stop building the ideal language that the ideal person must speak.

Stop. STOP.

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tmux will do just fine. My text editor should do text editing well, nothing more.

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Yea, to "deprivation" thesis. There's always IRC.

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"Inheritance", "Class", "Prototypal", "Prototypical", "Classical".

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"Why you Borklandian yorlix, hasn't everyone been slashed or thwacked with a magic wand or had a morningstar or two broken over their head as a kid? Shit, if that's the worst thing your Mother did, you should consider yourself fate-blessed and smooch the ground she hovers over because you probably deserved it.

Fracking wurtbag..."

Scrape CL, apply a lexical categorizer (porting Syntactic[0] to Python now), pseudo-randomize, apply Tangle[1] as a front end; allow users to scale between language species-norms over categories and submit their creations, apply a speech-to-text tool, there's a voting board involved.

The point here is that I find prescriptive morality to be quite droll. Upon reading this HN title, I immediately dashed over the CL to see if any analogues might exist. The CL in my State took on a characteristic countertone to this HN post. I intuited this immediately. The output post above is a follow-up to the OP [on CL], where the output post is consistent with the HN OP. But there's more hilarity now.

Goal: Use "nerd" activities to diffuse prescriptivism. Now I have a port to consider and maintain.

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[0]: http://syntactic.omershapira.com/ [1]: http://worrydream.com/Tangle/

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This is a bot.

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"Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast, and one pricks up one's ears, and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears for instance the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall."

I repeated this to myself, out loud, 100 times. The goal was to simultaneously maintain another persistent stream of thought as I recited, religiously.

The next day I converted my left control key to Backspace, months after asking myself in earnest the question of what I should do with my left control key now that I had already delegated that role to my caps lock. Days later I learned that a co-worker has worked on a keyboard missing its Backspace for years now.

As a practicing psychonaut one must, in order to ascend the order of skills, learn to master speech in a way that is disorderly from other cognitive functions. But first, what is speech must be recognized.

I think with keyboards, we experience much of them same thing: where Backspace becomes a word or a character of one's textual lexicon. It's just a matter of where you put it (let's say, "in your mind"). It's like the paralanguage of "uhms" and "wells" which litter everyday academic to grocery language, cheerily grows in programmers' circles, and then those pauses to reset the conversation of their weed like proliferation.

We do not always know what we are saying because most of the time the meanings are quantifiably outside of the grammar with which our brains have adapted for the purposes of internally efficient speech. Each of us constructs an idiolect for our use, and the semantic edifice wrapping our words which we use to exercise thought often bears signs of the issues we have dealt with, not necessarily in learning the language, but also building it for our individual purposes. Sometimes the constructs we internally put together are resistant to forms of complexity that are outside of the cowpaths we have paved for ourselves.

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So if a group of kids leverage Twitter to play 140-char D&D for a summer, is that a botnet? How paranoid should data analysts be?

Another spin on Cartesian Doubt — run it through a Hume machine: there's no fact in our mental histories that shows that we are not dreaming.

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Here I say a better model for the Universe is not matter but information, an information architecture of the universe. Matter is buggy, less elegant, event-driven (whereas emergence (acausality) might help).

We're investigating exponentially more if we remain vigilant in preserving the materialist's conceptual scheme.

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LESS/JS/TPL in one module — YES.

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Learn MEANG (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node, Grunt) stack by breaking it down and mapping each section of each technology to pomodoros.

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One answer is in the question: MEAN. Mongo, Express, Angular, Node.

A subset of A is the implementation of the presentation layer, which means you can do that, too — you can take a design and architect it into MEAN, which is one Tech Stack within the Full Stack range of options.

.NET developers, for instance, are "full-stack" by default if they're also building the UI. Python developers writing non-Web products are probably using GTK, and so are Full Stack by default.

Full Stack's meaning is more about the domain of interest, which is historically the Web. It doesn't really have meaning outside of Web Development. Looking at MEAN, we have a delineation of the Web Application Stack: DB, Server, Front end, Tooling. It just so happens that this is a Full Stack in implementable via JavaScript, most importantly: a Web language, the lingua franca of the Web. "Full Stack" is historically associated with JavaScript's maturity, but we can use this delineation of the Web Application implementation to retroactively make sense of non-JS "already existing" stacks that might correspond analogously.

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Companies should give feedback to candidates whom they deny positions.

1. What questions were answered incorrectly/mistakenly/insufficiently? 2. Code review on code quizzes, if they're expected.

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    The rate of information increases.

Hence why

    Information wants to be free.

Parasitic on

    Only information explains its own existence.

Which all, I think, intuitively follows from Spinozist/Cartesian "Conatus" principle. That is to say:

    The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

Some of us rave about this or that: "well, how many folk use X today" or "qualify as X" or "subscribe to X". But these expressions are all within the scope of multiply converging nexuses of increasing correlative potentia. The coffee cup is a simple example — so like Wittgenstein's point: "if a lion could speak, we could not understand him". The lion, like the cup, has restricted correlative powers: these laws apply, these others do not.

The laws of information are laws about the dimensions of proportionality, which give the arrow of time an aspect of curvature (needing to exhaust a universe for exponentially narrowing arrows, so the onion-skinning of properties of a thing "come way may" at "frozen" temporal localities — what happens when we "bend" time at certain family resemblance (physical) properties?).

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    Act according to that maxim whereby you might
    will that it should become universal law.

Active and passive forms are quantifiable, testable under contextual and relational analyses (highly frequent circumstantial virtuous, altruistic behavior versus less frequent) of Self and Other. Kant is providing à la Spinoza a chart for the geometry of ethical behavior, so we can treat ethical behavior in terms of non-locality to specific norms — whereas Spinoza does this in terms of a calculus of the emotions w/r/t Self, or the Ethical Self.

By Bernard Williams's standard, the amoralist cannot even conceivably have an intermittent feeling of sympathy[0]. The person is at minimum embedded within and embodied by sympathetic behavior (to self or to other), but this is not a necessary condition to morality.

At the same time, the kinds of experiments we run, and the types of questions we ask, potentially distill or deauthenticate the model with the widest representation of moral truth — however the narrative of science may belie institutional refactors at meta-ethical descriptions.

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[0]: http://bobnoxiousthoughts.blogspot.com/2013/08/challenging-b...

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I've contemplated suicide off-and-on since age 6. It's just a working part of my language. No successful attempts, or failed attempts, or whatever grammar is being built here.

It might partly be influenced by a Tourette's like underlying structure, which would here make it more publicly, or in terms of a biological profile, a symptom. Usually all we see are symptoms in the narration of science.

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I remember a co-worker inviting to his place, with others also invited. He asked me if I had had sex with a female coworker since, I suppose, that upon first meeting her, we got along very amiably at work.

It seemed like a confession of character moment, though it was expressed in a joking manner. It was a kind of contextual humor.

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vim-spf13, tmux, slate window manager, todo.txt.

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Heh.