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by 100k 17y ago
You should watch Fog of War if you haven't. It is an unflinching look at the man and what he did (with a big impact because of the camera that Errol Morris to get direct on shots of interviews). McNamara tried to systematize warfare like a
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by 100k 17y ago
It sounds like you're a bit burned out on working. You've been doing it for almost a decade already, so no surprise. I recommend traveling until you get tired of it. Explore the world. It's cliche but you do learn a lot about yourself and y
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by 100k 17y ago
Comment on taxes in 3...2...1...
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by 100k 17y ago
It has nothing to do with this article but I suggested the name "Quarterlife Crisis" for my company's kickball team, and it stuck. Perhaps appropriately, they did not win.
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by 100k 17y ago
This is a total fallacy. Medicare costs are rising astronomically, but no more than private health insurance. It is a symptom of the broader health care problem. This needs to be fixed, along with the rest of the health care system. Social
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by 100k 17y ago
Good point. Life expectancy was much higher for those who survived childhood.
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by 100k 17y ago
People with privileged jobs are always writing crap like this. Why shouldn't people retire? Journalists, programmers, scientists, executives...we have jobs that can be interesting and fulfilling and are not physically demanding. There's no
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by 100k 17y ago
This is his extraction of the JavaScript code from his Dali Clock port to the Palm Pre, which uses WebKit. jwz writes about the Palm port here: http://jwz.livejournal.com/1057786.html
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Jwz ports Dali Clock to JavaScript(jwz.org)
5 points by 100k 17y ago|3 comments
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by 100k 17y ago
Symbolics LISP machines were pretty awesome, you're right. People are writing real software, right now, in Clojure. In my book, that's a win for LISP and beats wanking about what could have been any day.
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by 100k 17y ago
Wow, that was the most fappish programming rant I've ever read. "I don't care if people are more productive! It's not the pure genius of Symbolics LISP!" WTF?
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by 100k 17y ago
This is what I was looking for on the site. I think the site should explain why people would want to use scripty2 versus the original.
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by 100k 17y ago
The site has no explanation as to why this was needed.
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by 100k 17y ago
Having read Catcher in the Rye later in life (in my 20s rather than as a teenager) and rather enjoying it, I find this interesting. I do think the millennials are more integrated into society than the Gen Xers or earlier Gen Ys who were mor
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by 100k 17y ago
Cool idea. It's like you took the problem Basecamp is trying to solve and went the exact opposite way. 37signals says "We hate email! Collaborate on the web!" Tgethr says "We love email! Just archive it better!"
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by 100k 17y ago
I need an automatic Ross Douthat filter. He knows so much about women. One successful foray ended on the guest bed of a high school friend's parents, with a girl who resembled a chunkier Reese Witherspoon drunkenly masticating my neck and
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by 100k 17y ago
I haven't used Basecamp in a while, but I was distressed to discover this when screwing around with HTML in todo lists a while back. I could put arbitrary JavaScript in the todo element, and I verified that it would execute when run by anot
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by 100k 18y ago
The best part about the singularity is that it's always 20 years away!
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by 100k 18y ago
As an AIX user/victim for a long time I was hoping/fearing to see that as well. :) Ah, AIX isn't too bad if you get the GNU utilities installed.
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by 100k 18y ago
I was also surprised by the interview process. I'd read and been told that it was likely to be confrontational and we would be expected to defend our idea, explain our market, and why we could beat our competitors. But they mostly just want
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by 100k 18y ago
It is often difficult to find good (easy) questions to answer quickly because they get answered so fast. One solution is to ask questions - you can get reputation for that as well. Once you have reputation, you can down vote stuff. Another
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by 100k 18y ago
Good list of other cool things. (Rack is sort of implicitly in my presentation due to the Rails Metal thing.) I had to really narrow it down to get 10 things. I wanted to put ActiveSupport::MessageEncryptor in there for sure but I couldn't
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Cool Things in Rails 2.3(railspikes.com)
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by 100k 18y ago
The battle has been joined. ;) Seriously, though, it's probably a good fit. Mercurial is written in Python, after all.
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by 100k 18y ago
"But also expect Washington to take some heat if it simply bail outs out California, especially now that we have governors like Mark Sanford of South Carolina pointing out that the federal aid to states amounts to a subsidy by citizens of f
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by 100k 18y ago
When acts_as_solr was abandoned by its old maintainer, there was a lot of confusion about what to do with the code. Unfortunately, no one was named as the maintainer of the project, and no one could push to the official repository. It didn'
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by 100k 18y ago
Great post with obvious real world experience behind it. I think it's a fantastic point that you should focus on optimizing your database before you start adding caching. If you can tune your DB with the right indexes and give it enough RAM
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by 100k 18y ago
I think it would be better if git had decided to model its commands on Subversion, yes. However, I am mostly complaining because certain very common operations are way more complicated than they need to be.
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by 100k 18y ago
If you have a choice about what SCM to use, I would just learn Git or (my favorite) Mercurial because as others have pointed out, they are just better than Subversion, even for single user access. Both git and hg are easier to set up, faste
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by 100k 18y ago
Agreed! But I already know SVN, and Linus intentionally made git different than the other SCMs because he thinks they suck. I think that's annoying. And there's no way you can tell me that the git command set is more discoverable than, say,

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