Agathos

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by Agathos 18y ago
a classic Silicon Valley product—it's late and over budget, has gone through loads of redesigns, still has bugs and, at $109,000, costs more than originally planned. Ugh. Is that what we're calling "classic" now? The real classic is still
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by Agathos 18y ago
There's always the implicit disclaimer. Bankers who manage risk poorly destroy wealth, just as manufacturers who manufacture defective products destroy wealth.
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by Agathos 18y ago
If your electric utility is telling you that you can't modify the electricity that enters your home then I think RMS might object. I know I would object if I couldn't convert my AC to DC. My computer wouldn't run!
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by Agathos 18y ago
One-sidedness is one of the legal requirements, but it's not the only one. http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/money_illustrations.shtml
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by Agathos 18y ago
Artists.
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by Agathos 18y ago
And where were they when this was written in the first place?
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by Agathos 18y ago
Here's an answer that's worse than no answer (a classic): http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/4c95766a8b...
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by Agathos 18y ago
I still have my copy of Star Travel somewhere. I loved that book.
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by Agathos 18y ago
(that looks like fun...) Medical research has marginally improved the chance that babies born in the 21st century will live long and healthy lives, assuming their parents have health insurance. Heart disease has become an epidemic as people
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by Agathos 18y ago
Does Andersen have any profitable divisions? Heck, does it have any divisions?
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by Agathos 18y ago
Restrictions on new construction to increase rents count as villainous in my book.
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by Agathos 18y ago
C pointers make sense to me because they represent what's going on in the machine. The syntax and the rules behind it are simple enough that they click, for me. Perl references seem to carry a lot of historical baggage that leads to the exp
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by Agathos 18y ago
When Perl references start making as much sense as C pointers it will be a considerable improvement.
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by Agathos 18y ago
When I hear a hacker say he only wants to work with hackers like himself, I think I detect a faint note of ego and pride.
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by Agathos 18y ago
It has no genes. What's displayed is the genome.
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by Agathos 18y ago
The health care market in the US is severely dysfunctional and will either collapse or be dramatically reformed within the next decade. If your product is dysfunctional enough to make money in today's market it'll be up against the wall whe
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by Agathos 18y ago
Software that could be useful to Zimbabwe's government... that's an interesting challenge. How about a Google Maps mashup that allows government goons to share notes on where opposition leaders are hiding?
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by Agathos 18y ago
And so the question comes full circle: did you have any particular open source projects in mind? It's a big community.
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by Agathos 18y ago
Some of the essays in Beautiful Code argue more or less what you said here, or at least they do to me. What do you think they got wrong?
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by Agathos 18y ago
I like the first one a lot better. You may have unintentionally supported the null hypothesis, that there's just no accounting for taste.
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by Agathos 18y ago
Yeah, I've been grading exams the last two days. It's hard to be diplomatic after a while.
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by Agathos 18y ago
I think edw519's point flew past you. Here it comes again: A resting athlete's heart rate is lower than a resting couch potato's heart rate. What does that mean in the context of what you just posted?
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by Agathos 18y ago
Please explain how it's slavery.
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by Agathos 18y ago
"grandma doesn't need your totally sweet amazon ec3 backup tool, she wants to keep in touch with the family and look at their pictures and such" What, Grandma thinks disk crashes can't happen to her? Grandma's wrong.
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by Agathos 19y ago
"The stats are clean." -- Cedric Daniels
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by Agathos 19y ago
I don't know what he's saying, but personally I'm still not sure why anyone paid money for it.
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by Agathos 19y ago
"the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople" And there we have the reason I prefer to do most of my shopping online.
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by Agathos 19y ago
This really could be cut down to a few paragraphs (the ones under the heading, "The Southwest Airlines Parallel"). Now if you value simplicity, why write 1000 words of preamble?
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by Agathos 19y ago
Look, you're going to be having dinner with Groucho tonight if you don't beat it!
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by Agathos 19y ago
Where did you buy this cute little home on a graduate stipend? There are certainly some places where you can. I heard from several students who did this when I visited Wash. U. in St. Louis. But I ended up in Cambridge, and here there's jus

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