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The American gentry's fortunes, in other words, are in substantial part, a policy artifact.
America’s Gentry Élite: TUESDAY TRENDS & TURMOILbraddelong.substack.com
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Pure Class A amplifier design produces a richness and sweetness that other amplifier designs cannot fully replicate.Their words
A pure Class A amplifier delivers a certain richness and sweetness that other designs cannot quite replicate, as hard as they may try.
Luxman L-100 Centennial Review. Class A Returns.stevehuffphoto.com
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26 August
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The language now is English. It's a cliche, but it's also true. Like I've been programming in English for the last three months. I've been reading a lot of code, but I'm programming in English. I'm telling the computer what to do, and I'm using natural language, and it is shockingly even more delightful. If there is one programming language more beautiful than Ruby, it is the English language.
24 August
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there are some people who have pure apathy, no depression like David. And there are other people who can be depressed, they can be sad, they can be hopeless about the future, but they don't necessarily lose motivation. They can have pure depression.
22 August
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsTheir words
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) by Gerald Jay Sussman and Hal Abelson. SICP is my all-time favourite programming book. It's also where I learned about the power of wishful thinking when coding. SICP uses wishful thinking as a design tool: write code as if the abstraction already existed. Pretend. Then, once the ideal abstraction has taken shape, you go ahead and implement those functions. This meta-level is what made SICP so valuable. Ultimately, it's a book that teaches how to think about code and problem solving. I'm tempted to even say that SICP is more a work of art than a pure coding book, but I won't go there. A beautiful book.
8 August
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there are people who are really big on road maps and there are people who are really big on iteration. I I think the honest answer is you've got to do both. You can't over-index on either.
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Unfortunately, no, because politics is about people who disagree with you. If you’re working with computers, or robots, or pure math, you don’t have politics.
9 July
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So if you do a pure chronological feed, the incentive for everybody is to just post as much as possible uh because it will always be at the top of everyone who follows you's feed as soon as you post.
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The assumption is everybody sins all the time. There is no such thing as purity. Everybody sins every 5 minutes.
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AI marketed as a pure augmenting 'tool' will end up automating jobs anyway, since firms control how it's used.Their words
Unfortunately, I think building "tool AI" is basically cope.
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But I have come to realize that as a web developer, Linux is just better. Linux is just better. It's closer to what I deploy on. The tooling is actually phenomenal.
Their words now
anyone who's working with the web, who's working with Ruby, who's doing DevOps, they should be on Linux because first of all, that's closer to what we deploy.
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The joy of a programmer, of me as a programmer, is to type the code myself. If I elevate myself, if I promote myself out of programming, I turn myself into a project manager. A project manager of a murder of AI crows as I wrote the other day.
Their words now
I have been hyper accelerated as a programmer. It's a different kind of programmer, but it still has the same affinity to aesthetics, at least when I'm producing Ruby code.
20 March
From one piece Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I mean, some problems have been basically solved by pure brute force. The four color theorem is is a famous example. Um, we have still not found a conceptually elegant proof of this theorem.
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Um we are seeing a lot fewer sort of pure AI solutions now where um they are just one shots the problem. Um so so there was there was a month where that happened and and that has stopped.
14 March
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players who are also commentators give better commentary than people who are just commentators. Stock analysts who never invest have zero skin in the game.
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28 December 2025
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Jonathan Livingston SeagullTheir words
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach is a beautiful fable about a seagull who wants to fly for the pure joy of flight, rather than simply to find food, as most gulls do. Ostracized from his flock for his eccentric behavior, Jonathan embarks on a quest for aerodynamic perfection that doubles as a moving spiritual allegory. You've never read a book quite like this one before, and it'll stick with you long after you reach the end.
15 December 2025
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The aim of a story is to be so complete that once it has been told there is nothing left to say.Their words
I want to give something that's good and pure and true and is like is like the thing that will once it's said there's nothing else to say. It's like done.
31 October 2025
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Tetris on the Game Boy is perfect game design, and from a pure puzzle perspective nothing else comes close.Their words
And when you link two together with the cable and if I got four, it would push yours forward. It was like the perfect game design. So from a pure puzzle perspective, nothing comes close.
22 October 2025
20 August 2025
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Any pretense of the pure or organic is undercut by a kind of willful alchemy; everything is an admixture.
13 August 2025
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I’ve rarely seen a more capitalist society than China, from the pure economic side. I’ve rarely seen companies that are as competitive as Chinese companies. People as ambitious and obsessed with making money as Chinese people. Kind of ruthless actually. And look, consumers shop, firms invest. If you invest well financially, you’ll get great returns. What is not capitalistic about the Chinese economy? At the same time, the social fabric is highly socialist.
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Ruby must never get static typing: dynamic duck typing is the essence of what makes Ruby Ruby.Their words, before
static typing is the one thing I will literally die on the hill for for Ruby
Their words now
It's the essence of what makes Ruby Ruby. This is why I don't fully understand when people call for Ruby to add static typing. 'Cause to me, it's the bedrock of what this is.
28 May 2025
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You should not try to create a ladder that functions as a pure checklist or scorecard that guarantees promotion if people check enough boxes; promotions are as much about the needs of the organization as the skills of the employees.
19 January 2025
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And Friedman advanced a policy that was really abstract and really it was devoid of judgment. It was pure and beautiful in that way but utterly impractical.
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Your growth problem is not unique, and treating it as unique is a pure opportunity cost.Their words
but I'm very sorry to break it to all of you, but your problem is not unique. I'm 99% sure of that. Your problem has been felt by somebody somewhere and probably many, many places
6 August 2024
2 June 2024
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And for a long time, I thought that's what had worked. That this was why Ruby on Rails took off, became one of the most popular full-stack web frameworks of all time, inspired countless clones, and created hundreds of billions in enterprise value for companies built on it. But I was wrong. It wasn't the crusade that did it.
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31 December 2023
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most macros don't actually do anything other than pure transformation of their arguments. It's almost always safe to run them during static analysis, except you don't know for sure
10 December 2023
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Starter VillainTheir words
These are blasts of pure fun, with razor-sharp dialog
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The Kaiju Preservation SocietyTheir words
These are blasts of pure fun, with razor-sharp dialog
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Ruby Under a MicroscopeTheir words
Ruby Under a Microscope helped me when I was writing a Ruby profiler
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25 May 2022
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Pure discovery learning, where students are never shown instructions or examples, fails miserably.
21 February 2022
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One of the reasons I've never cared for crypto currencies is that the associated utopia of trustless society had zero appeal to me. I don't think the world is better off by erasing the need to trust in our transactional counterparts, so turning these transactions into pure computing always struck me as a regression.
Their words now
But wherever this leads us next, it's clear to me now that I was too hasty to completely dismiss crypto on the basis of all the things wrong with it at the moment. Instead of appreciating the fundamental freedom to transact that it's currently our best shot at protecting.
24 April 2021
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Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.comTheir words
If you're looking to understand the basics of building and scaling a sales process and team, this book is a great primer. It also goes into great detail in how the author built a better, more reliable method than pure cold-calling to generate leads beyond the marketing team at Salesforce's efforts.
18 September 2020
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