In the clothing-optional hippie spa my wife and I go to in Santa Cruz, cell phones are banned. In the Korean spa we dropped by on the Peninsula last weekend, there’s a hangout area where some people bring laptops.
The jury’s out on whether this language aids or obstructs understanding, net. It becomes natural after a degree of practice, but is a big barrier to entry. What I like most about it is that its monosyllabic-ness. Maybe that’s the Chinese in me.
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32. To be more succinct about this point: bilingual people have a head start on being metasystematic https://twitter.com/levity/status/1207009909306351616?s=21 …https://twitter.com/levity/status/1207009909306351616 …
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33. The concept of parallax is useful here. It’s a generalization of “adding dimensionality.” Even if it’s not a “proper” dimension, a second point of view is useful. https://twitter.com/levity/status/1090329907819761664?s=21 …https://twitter.com/levity/status/1090329907819761664 …
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34. Unit testing creates parallax, because it requires the programmer to show the code’s behavior explicitly, in addition to having an internal model of why it works. It’s no guarantee of correctness, but two “eyes” are better than one.
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