Estragon

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by Estragon 15y ago
Spread seems high.
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by Estragon 15y ago
I feel the same way about spreadsheets. Why would I fire up a clunky app like libreoffice to quuery a csv file I can have in a python data structure in seconds. But spreadsheets weren't made for the likes of me, and neither was this.
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by Estragon 15y ago
This is actually a common eating regime for Buddhist mmonks, who have been doing it by the millions for millenia, because the Buddha is believed to have eaten that way, and recommended it as conducive to health and longevity. I've done it
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by Estragon 15y ago
Corresponding blocks are already in the EasyPrivacy list. https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt
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by Estragon 15y ago
Unless you're doing regular integration testing on an alternative platform, you're bound to inadvertently introduce some painful GAE-specific dependencies.
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by Estragon 15y ago
I suppose it would be a good start, but the self-interest in this proposal stinks a bit. What's the distribution of employee numbers in companies in which Y Combinator has a stake?
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by Estragon 15y ago
Americans don't have a monopoly on using bogeymen to justify unpopular and stupid policies.
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by Estragon 15y ago
They're playing to their audience. This is a way to get a nice little schadenfreude fire burning in the hearts of all their readers who think their MBAs actually contribute in some essential way to their business acumen.
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by Estragon 15y ago
The really scary thought is that when these are available as consumer items, and can be coupled to visual processing software which can recognize people's ethnicity, the resulting industrialization of ethnic oppression will make the Holocau
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by Estragon 15y ago
This is simply a consequence of the fiscalization of academic values, and doesn't just apply to libraries. Professors need "high-impact" papers to justify their grants so they can get more grants. The fiscal imperative to acquire grants i
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by Estragon 15y ago
I hacked around with 6809 assembly when I was a kid. Implemented the huffman compression algorithm in it. Sometimes I wonder whether I should learn a more modern architecture, because they have change so much.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Same thing works in emacs. Incremental search sets the mark at point of initiation, so you get the same effect with C-s foo C-s C-w.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Oops, I meant that as a reply to one comment higher.
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by Estragon 15y ago
If you have any pointers to evidence that rents are increasing in the US, and of a historical positive correlation between rental prices and house prices, that would be very interesting.
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by Estragon 15y ago
...I have been hearing the very same claims for almost 20 years by now. Not sure where you're coming from with this.. Five years ago, the received wisdom was that you should buy now to avoid being priced out of the market.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Why don't you ask someone who bought their house in 2006 about price stability? And then look at how far about historical norm prices still are. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/04/case-shiller-100-year-c...
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by Estragon 15y ago
I expected this to be about the wisdom of buying a house in the current US market. It is an interesting article even though it doesn't address that question. But for most people, financially speaking, buying a house at the moment would be
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by Estragon 15y ago
Not sure what you're referring to. Could you elaborate, please?
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by Estragon 15y ago
What an irritating post, basically saying nothing but, "Hey, look, I saw this coming!"
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by Estragon 15y ago
Not working for me. What version of org-mode?
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by Estragon 15y ago
That's plausible, and actually a pretty nice design. Thanks.
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by Estragon 15y ago
At one point, I saw a huge switch statement comparing the value of "col" to a list of twenty or thirty long hexadecimal numbers and returning objects like "LockedDoor". Is that kind of thing common in game development? It looks like a nig
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by Estragon 15y ago
His overall criticism fairly explicitly targets the common MBA value of maximizing short-term profit. That's what he's being diplomatic about.
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by Estragon 15y ago
"Doublethink" is a bit harsh. It's probably diplomacy on the part of the author, rather than active self-deception.
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by Estragon 15y ago
There's a con based on this: send half your marks a prediction that the stock market will go up next week, and half a prediction it will go down. Repeat next week, restricting to whichever set received the correct prediction. After five w
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by Estragon 15y ago
It's a shame that Google hasn't chosen to address this in the empirical fashion they're famous for: why not have two google+'s for a while, one which enforces the "real names" policy, and one which is free for all. See which results in th
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by Estragon 15y ago
Yes, I'm very grateful to Peter for writing about this so candidly. He really made himself vulnerable, and is even publishing comments from jerks who are taking advantage of that ( http://geekstack.com/blog/geekstack-postmortem/#comment-19
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by Estragon 15y ago
It's not just inflation, though. Compare the history of platinum prices with those of gold. There is definitely a psychological component to the run-ups in gold which has nothing to do with immediate economic pressures.
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by Estragon 15y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted. "info screen" at the command line is exactly how I learned about all of screen's features.
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by Estragon 15y ago
I think these moves are S&P's aattempt to come back from the massive hit their credibility took from rating toxic MBS as AAA. They're trying to prove they still have some market utility by making some predictions.

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