#Abstraction

Post-moral

JohnFMiller86

Many people struggle to "learn to code" due to abstractions. Everything in scripting is an abstraction, but when you must delve six or seven abstractions deep to find out how

John W Kloetzli, Jr

JJcoolkl

A 'programmer trap' is something that feels productive but in practice adds very little value to a project. Refactoring can easily become a programmer trap.What are some others? Creating "the

Professor Fleming

alwaystheself

Personally, I find that I have to write and express the same ideas in different registers and with varying levels of abstraction in order *for me* to understand what *I*

Zero HP Lovecraft

0x49fa98

Wittegenstein said that all problems in philosophy are mere problems of language. This is not true, but certainly many problems can be reduced to that. In particular, most problems in

Robert Haisfield

RobertHaisfield

Just to make this easier for #roamcult people who are hearing a lot about Algorithms of Thought and have no idea what people are talking about...They’re essentially thinking workflows you

Chris Constantine-Armstrong

DrCDArmstrong

Hang on, got one...No, "everything" is *not* "a chemical".https://twitter.com/ChemistCraig/status/1311743131814068224 Let's go through it. "Is 'law' a chemical?""No. Of course not!""O

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

Over 1,000 COVID deaths per day!Why so little outrage? Well we all know Stalin's famous quote about one death being a tragedy and one million deaths being a statistic.But how

Mathias Verraes

mathiasverraes

There are many ways to become a better programmer, and many concepts that can help you, but if I have to pick one, start by mastering TDD and learn how

Jason Blakely

jasonwblakely

What I wish for Trumpist Catholic intellectuals in America today?More moral simplicity. Less theory. 2/Understand I write this as a theorist: they are over-theorized & captives to abstraction.They lack the

Marcus Cunningham

MarcusC31391111

The difference between Derrida and Deleuze I think ultimately can be found in their different attitudes. You can see this in how they wrote books on other philosophers. Deleuze always

Michał Stęchły

mstechly

I always hear how many problems in QC are open and we're working on them.But what are the problems that we've definitely solved already?Especially from the algorithms/software/design side, but hardware

Nic Freeman - QA/Art Contractor at Plastic Fern

NicRNack

Alright I have a lot of feelings about Silent Hill (particularly SH2) and how I feel like many people who are inspired it...don't nesc. take the 'wrong' lessons from it,

Kristen Hanley Cardozo

KHandozo

The weird animacy of "the economy" and worse, "the free market," has led some people to forget that economies are people.https://twitter.com/RepJayapal/status/1336008330280484864 I'm not going to boost Adam Smith, pe

nicholas⛱

nnnnicholas

i waste so much time convincing professional technologists that computers are actually cool and not evil tempted to say i'll curtail these conversations in future. "oh, sounds like you don't

Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych

Nick_Carmody

…the Us-vs.-Them dynamic created by Christian identity politics…..becomes exacerbated by an ever-increasing level of dysfunctional competitiveness….that is driven by American individualism……which is fueled by “American Exception

Post-Liberal Pete 🇬🇧

post_liberal

One of the clearest disjunctions between online & the real world is the obsession with class. Online there are many heated discussions about what class Andrew Twentyman/Jess Phillips belong to.

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