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by Jd 19y ago
A request for PG - links like these seem like they would be better with (subdomain.domain.com), which in this case could be (blogs.nytimes.com) or (freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com). The link as it stands is slightly misleading since this is
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by Jd 19y ago
An even scarier thought: Not everyone bullshits to get the grade. Some people actually care.
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by Jd 19y ago
I wrote two papers on Kant in uni, neither of which received an A. My take is that intelligence follows a distribution curve for which graders at any decent college are only able to effectively evaluate the upper quartile, minus the top 1
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by Jd 19y ago
Pacing was very important for me too, especially coming from an educational background which did not emphasize test-taking (homeschooling).
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by Jd 19y ago
I got a free course in Pascal!
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by Jd 19y ago
"The common failing of programming groups today is too little management control, no too much" -F. Brooks in the mythical man-month A-kill-ease, Is this still true today? True in your experience? Would it have been corrected simply by
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by Jd 19y ago
Absolutely. My comment was more directed towards those that evaluate/hire ivy-league/equiv. grads. Yours is correct re: why people attend such schools.
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by Jd 19y ago
It was a risky joke. Looks like I am losing some karma for it. Like I fucking care! :P
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by Jd 19y ago
Analogue: no one ever gets penalized for upvoting comments that have already been upvoted several times. Same basic idea.
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by Jd 19y ago
This is stupid fucking shit. (I think the implicit message of the article is that the addition of 'fucking' to any statement makes it inherently more honest, hence the above).
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by Jd 19y ago
Don't know if anyone has seen this, but this was one of my favorite blogs for awhile: http://xooglers.blogspot.com/ A lot of illuminating stories from the early days of Google. If this link ever starts working, it should display posts c
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by Jd 19y ago
"We tend to associate with people who have similar tastes and views to us" There has to be a better word for this than 'homophily.'
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by Jd 19y ago
The evolution of my own methods has largely been due to my own self directed education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeschooling
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by Jd 19y ago
Title is a bit misleading. The 'junk' DHH refers to is the baggage of enterprise apps generally (which everyone knows), not a specific diss against Java.
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by Jd 19y ago
Does zAgile make any money? The product page on their website has a scant two paras and no screenshots. I'm much more inclined to take the advice of people who have made something work...
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by Jd 19y ago
"Hang in there. Stay plugged in. Oh, and in case you didn't get it the first time, don't give up." The most influential, well-written paragraph I've ever read!
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by Jd 19y ago
Better trust networks, healthcare, public safety are all reasons I would consider making the move permanent. In the United States even healthcare is an industry. If you can't trust your doctor, who can you trust?
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by Jd 19y ago
Probably no more so than selling 'incense'
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by Jd 19y ago
Are you serious? I am literally moving to Japan in 1 month.
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by Jd 19y ago
preach it brother!
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by Jd 19y ago
I'm not sure why this is inspiring. Have you seen the site?
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by Jd 19y ago
'A bit more difficult' ?!? What kind of relationship do you have? An asexual one?
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by Jd 19y ago
This is a simple case of specialization of labor. While a hacker may be able to hear the voice of the customer, it probably makes sense to have some folks that do more hacking and some more customer hearing. If you have two co-founders, i
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by Jd 19y ago
I know you find it hard to believe. Otherwise you wouldn't be asking yourself a rhetorical question.
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by Jd 19y ago
From reddit: language agnostic books: http://programming.reddit.com/info/1y0ux/comments language specific books: http://programming.reddit.com/info/1y9cj/comments
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by Jd 19y ago
Is this a rhetorical question? The answer seems obvious...
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by Jd 19y ago
May be easier than a whole facebook app: http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/07/23/i-cans-be-bracelet/
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by Jd 19y ago
Maybe 'in June' ?
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by Jd 19y ago
Yes, you're right. I was thinking the same thing this afternoon as I was driving around. However, one problem that continues to present itself is the cumulative nature of karma accretion. Only if there is a completely separate scaling m
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by Jd 19y ago
Love the idea. Very curious to see how it will play out. One concern is that the trolls will upmod all stories that are already upmodded (for instance, automatically upmodding all comments and links posted by PG) in order to increase their

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