Only ~15% of the stories on HN are interesting to me. It's a little higher on lobste.rs and subject-specific subreddits, but still <50%.
Is it worth building an ML based RSS reader/aggregator? This seems like a classic classification problem, but I worry about filter bubbles.
miniblog.
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Individuals and interactions over processes and tools => Competence trumps process
Working software over comprehensive documentation => Minimize time from program launch to deployment of simplest useful functionality
I really like the DoD's phrasings of classic agile maxims:
I've been playing with 'sliders' in difftastic, the classic diff problem where you highlight an adjacent value that is correct but weird.
I've taught difftastic to penalise sequences across newlines. This largely works, but it hurts perf (another degree of freedom to solve).
A classic syntactic debate: do you prefer types before or after parameters? Why?