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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Oct 2019
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      I really like the design of this HTTP library's API and will probably try it out in personal projects in the future: https://gitlab.com/honeyryderchuck/httpx#httpx-a-ruby-http-library-for-tomorrow-and-beyond … (You get parallel requests "for free" without having to muck up your code a lot or implement promises/event loops/etc.) h/t HN

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Oct 2019
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      When I think of language HTTP design I remember something one of my professors wrote way back in *1997*: If a main task of programmers is accessing the Internet then the language design should support generating HTTP requests about as naturally as it does addition.pic.twitter.com/QrsWD3N7JX

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Oct 2019
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      c.f. https://web.archive.org/web/20130808233953/http://www.wra1th.plus.com/awk/awkfri.txt … for the whole memo, which was designed to convince schools principally teaching Java that their undergrads should be taught scripting languages (for AI specifically, Dr. Loui's specialty, but argument generalizes).

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    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Oct 2019
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      Incidentally, this memo is one of the most salient examples I know of something I have seen many times in life: Some people are called crazy for getting the next big thing about 40% right while the consensus estimate of the rest of the world is less than 1% right.

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    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Oct 2019
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      They're called crazy when they make their call and, when the future rolls in, people say "Anybody could have predicted the future, which was obvious, except for this person who got it 60% wrong."

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    6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Oct 2019
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      After you start looking for this pattern you'll see it a lot, and I think it should inform: a) how to be an instrumentally successful "crazy person" b) interpreting the work product of crazy people c) one's humility on estimates of future d) praise awarded to critics.

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    7. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Oct 2019
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      Being instrumentally effective while being crazy: a) Operationalize crazy beliefs and win with them. Winning reduces the sting of being made fun of. b) Pick what subset of beliefs to share; establish a track record of being right on the lower-risk portion of your craziness.

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Oct 2019
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      Interpreting the work product of crazy people: a) Try to rigorously evaluate arguments, particularly post-hoc, and determine "Was somebody right by accident or did they see something the rest of the world didn't?" b) Know a few more crazy people than seems useful. c) Find the 40

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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Oct 2019
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          c) One's humility on estimates of future The degree of success expertise has versus craziness in any one instance is formidably huge and the track record of success expertise has against all craziness is extremely low. Weight estimates (your own and others') accordingly.

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        3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 30 Oct 2019
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          d) Praise awarded to critics The value created by, and therefore the correct amount of social esteem awarded to, successfully calling the results of an experiment after the experiment has been concluded is, to a first approximation, zero.

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        2. Peter Burns‏ @rictic 30 Oct 2019
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          Related to c) - it's hard to be surprisingly right without being very wrong about some things. If someone has one idea that's odd but promising, don't dismiss it if they have another idea that seems ludicrous. Newton did calculus, alchemy, and science.

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        3. Thiény K‏ @thienyknt 30 Oct 2019
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          Having a sharp pattern recognition ability means that you’ll see things people don’t, but you’re also more likely to see pattens where there’s none (not unlike seeing shapes in clouds). That’s why interesting thinkers tend to have a few quirks

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