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by Cowen 14y ago
Whenever I see frontpages for these kinds of projects like "a faster X" or "X written in Blub", the first thing I want to see on the frontpage is how this new project compares to X in terms of quality and performance. Even specious benchmar
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by Cowen 14y ago
Nor was I trying to imply that she was. If I did, that was my mistake. But even Taren admits that in his last 24 hours, Aaron did show signs of depression. Obviously that's not a lot of time, but unfortunately it doesn't take a lot of time
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by Cowen 14y ago
It's interesting how often it needs to be restated that Aaron had depression, which probably had much more to do with his final act than the prosecution did. Was Carmen Ortiz a factor? Maybe. But I don't know, because I didn't know Aaron. W
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by Cowen 14y ago
I have no idea where or how I made it sound like someone hijacked these women. That's obviously not the case. They were paid models who likely have no qualms with this work, and again, that's perfectly fine. My issue with the display is it
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by Cowen 14y ago
Do you see nude, painted models at a trade event as being inherently dehumanizing? Because that would be a separate issue from what's being discussed here. The problem -- at least as it seems to me -- is not that there were nude, painted pe
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by Cowen 14y ago
The argument isn't about whether or not they're being degraded, but whether women as a group are being objectified by the people who organized the display. That argument is significantly enhanced by the fact that women were the only "obje
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by Cowen 14y ago
That's nothing but blind speculation. There is absolutely no evidence that it would have been considered that way.
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by Cowen 14y ago
There are very few things that are "universally offensive." As nollidge accurately pointed out, just because women were involved doesn't mean it's not sexist. The fact is that this was widely considered offensive and unnecessary, and the CE
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by Cowen 14y ago
It should be noted that this was a web-based survey, not a ranking by security audits. > Our Web-based research study asked respondents to name up to five companies in 25 different industries they believe to be the most trusted for pro
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Buying the N.Y.S.E., in One Shot(nytimes.com)
1 points by Cowen 14y ago|0 comments
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by Cowen 14y ago
That's actually the problem he's hinting at near the end as he's trying to make his point about optimizing C. The optimizations he needs to make to the C code didn't seem clear to him when he was writing it, but they're very common optimiza
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by Cowen 14y ago
No, he's being punished for lying. An employee that can't be trusted won't be an employee for very long.
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by Cowen 14y ago
It seems to me like Zack Kopplin has the spirit that is so often idealized around here, he's just not applying it to the market. He saw a problem, he saw that no one was fixing the problem, so he set out to disrupt the status quo and fix it
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by Cowen 14y ago
He's mentioned before that he's toyed with the idea of switching to Haskell. That wasn't for functional programming though. It was instead for the built-in static code analysis the Haskell type system and compiler provides.
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by Cowen 14y ago
I actually prefer the idea of using "Don't" instead of "Cancel." When combined with always using a verb instead of "Yes" or "OK", I think it makes for completely unambiguous dialog. "Would you like to format this disk?" "Format" - "Don't" "
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by Cowen 14y ago
It's the difference between solving a 100-piece jigsaw puzzle with the picture on the box, and solving a 100,000-piece jigsaw puzzle without the box.
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by Cowen 14y ago
I don't think going paperless is for everyone, and I even agree that paper just feels better. That said, I'm personally transitioning to mostly paperless for purely pragmatic reasons. I can't keep my papers organized, and I no longer want
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by Cowen 14y ago
Price is a non-issue since I've already bought both, though it is certainly keeping me from upgrading to a newer Macbook Air. Why spend so much to upgrade to a laptop that I'll barely use? With the Chromebook, I get longer battery life, a l
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by Cowen 14y ago
It's now my primary laptop as well. I've gotten 95% of my development tools working properly on it. Granted, most of those tools are command-line based (i.e. vim, git, python, etc.), so it's not really a surprise. The only barriers keeping
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by Cowen 14y ago
I once had an idea for an "app-aggregating app." I realized that a lot of apps that I get prompted to download have effectively one-off usage patterns and I'd delete them immediately after downloading and using them. This app would've essen
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by Cowen 14y ago
NetBSD on your toaster is the canonical example.
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by Cowen 14y ago
Did you catch that afterwards he still wasn't using the JVM? Any time you're serving up gzipped static pages instead of loading any language runtime, JVM or not, you're going to see huge speedups.
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by Cowen 14y ago
Given what's happened with the last two Batman films, I think Christopher Nolan deserves the benefit of the doubt for all of his casting choices. When Anne Hathaway was chosen to play Selina Kyle, everyone thought she would flop. After the
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by Cowen 14y ago
I have a bias here. I love video games and I've never truly believed they have serious detrimental effects on mental health. I'm also not an expert of psychology, but I know of at least two psychologists that are studying this and coming to
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What Social Media Has To Do With Record Sales(blog.nextbigsound.com)
1 points by Cowen 14y ago|0 comments
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by Cowen 14y ago
I don't know a single thing about biochemistry or biofuels, but in reading this I can't help but be reminded of Arthur C. Clarke's first law of prediction: > When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible,
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by Cowen 14y ago
On Chrome OS, Google Docs is the go-to office application. Once you install a different OS on it, you're probably going to be falling back on OpenOffice.
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by Cowen 14y ago
Also, for my specific usage on an internal tool, the fact that it doesn't allow sub-minute (or sub-second) input is pretty annoying.
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by Cowen 14y ago
I've been using the latest Samsung Chromebook as my primary computer for the past week. So far, I love it. $250 for a tiny, zippy machine with great battery life that can do 99% of what I need, especially since it comes with ssh. On laptops
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by Cowen 14y ago
It's a great idea. I'm most interested in how they'll bring the price down though, since development of this product doesn't look cheap. It looks like this would need to be priced similar to a disposable item. It's safe to assume that these

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