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by Calamitous 17y ago
HN's interface is not so bad... the only thing I'd like are larger/padded "# comments" links, since that's typically the first thing I look at anyway.
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by Calamitous 17y ago
Wow... do we have such an epically failed understanding of economics that "behavior incented by money increases" merits a headline? Seriously? Now whether they're incenting the right things (test scores) is debatable, but why is this newsw
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by Calamitous 17y ago
I went there, and the first thing I didn't see was any code. In fact, after clicking around, I failed to find anything that excited me as a programmer. The closest I got to a look at the actual product/language were a couple partial screen
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by Calamitous 17y ago
This is the most civil and reasoned discourse I've ever seen on global warming. Just incredible.
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FCC Chair Genachowski declares himself Top Cop of the Internet(reason.com)
3 points by Calamitous 17y ago|1 comments
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by Calamitous 17y ago
Which is precisely why competition is so important. With no drive to innovate, they could saturate the market and park the technology where it is for decades (think Microsoft). By being forced to innovate, they (or a competitor) can drive
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by Calamitous 17y ago
Except Mr. Polo doesn't have to spend ten hours a day staring straight into his car's finish.
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by Calamitous 17y ago
"can he touch my laptop screen?" Absolutely. As long as he doesn't mind losing the finger he touched it with. Of course, I'm assuming you meant with his finger...
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by Calamitous 17y ago
When pairing, my recommended approach is to switch who is driving for every new test or method being written (sometimes called 'ping-ponging'). I can attest that, done correctly, this is extremely valuable when learning an unfamiliar techn
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by Calamitous 17y ago
7. Commodore Vic20.
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by Calamitous 18y ago
I don't see unions ever becoming necessary for hackers. Such organization might become for someone with highly-specialized, non-transferrable skills, such as operating Ford auto plant equipment, or engineering Amtrak trains. If you've devo
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by Calamitous 18y ago
I have. Of many bugs, the random irretrievable code deletion feature was my least favorite.
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by Calamitous 18y ago
"thigh-speed" users? I've dealt with some unusual users, but this sounds like it could be interesting... :)
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by Calamitous 18y ago
"But really, the most damaging thing isn't someone's degree of incompetence but their exaggerated idea of their competence." Exactly. The only more damaging person is someone who is openly poisonous and negative. The two in conjunction ar
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by Calamitous 18y ago
Same here. about:blank has been my homepage for years-- one of the few holdovers from my IE days.
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by Calamitous 18y ago
Apparently not :\
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by Calamitous 18y ago
If it isn't about people, who or what could it possibly be about? What other data are you looking for? What do you think is moving the money around? The economy isn't some magical system that randomly shuffles dollar bills around, it's p
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by Calamitous 18y ago
Free beer at work.
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by Calamitous 18y ago
Awesome! So when/how can I view Obama's records as well...?
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A Rails Developer Spends One Week With Merb (and HAML and JQuery and DataMapper)(calamitylane.com)
1 points by Calamitous 18y ago|0 comments
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by Calamitous 18y ago
hehe, http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2008/11/28/whos-the-addict At least he practices what he preaches :)
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by Calamitous 18y ago
There's a new startup, BarterQuest ( http://www.barterquest.com/ ), that aims to do the same sort of math trades, craigslist-style. Sounds like a really neat idea if you could get enough people involved...
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by Calamitous 18y ago
Can't. They're full. http://www.thetubesarefull.com/