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by RickHull 14y ago
Obligatory http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html 90s-era
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The state has monopoly on the use of violence, among other things. Just because leadership may change does not alter this fact. Would you deny the fact of a corporate monopoly simply because their leadership may change?
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My immediate reaction: Ugh, all that boilerplate. I have no idea what is going on with all of that, and I'm not sure how I would work it out on my own.
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Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/221/
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> Rule 1: Think of the economy as being more like a cat than a washing machine. This one made me smile, thinking of the classic characterization of a development manager's primary task: herding cats.
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I agree that you can "program" in these environments. But I disagree that they are languages. Perhaps I'm not thinking hard enough.
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by RickHull 14y ago
For what it's worth, Sketchpad is described by wikipedia as a program and not a language, and moreso it "pointed the way forward" to OOP, in that Sketchpad included the concept of "master drawings" (read: classes) which could be instantiate
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by RickHull 14y ago
If it's cold out and you're wearing cotton, you're going to have a bad time. If your socks get soaked inside your boots and social conventions do not allow you to remove them, you're going to have a bad time. If you need to travel more th
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by RickHull 14y ago
I believe some of the earliest religions were essentially sex cults that attempted to appease the gods and goddesses of fertility. More generally, the first shamans and priests were those who had acquired some insight into the workings of
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by RickHull 14y ago
The maxim is that you cannot achieve security through obscurity, where security offers some guarantees (mathematical, physical, etc.). Obscurity, while offering little to no guarantees, can certainly be a quite useful part of your protec
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> Being famous is just as much their job as acting. This seems like sloppy thinking to me. Becoming famous is a potential side-effect of their acting job. With fame comes other opportunities, but that doesn't make being famous a job.
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by RickHull 14y ago
I'm curious how it works. There must be some servo activating the physical lock, right? How can it operate if the power goes out?
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by RickHull 14y ago
I doubt that SDR will ever replace the dollar. From wikipedia: > Special drawing rights were created by the IMF in 1969 and were intended to be an asset held in foreign exchange reserves under the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchang
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by RickHull 14y ago
> If Windows 8 marketplace turns to be too restrictive, game developers will turn to Steam on Linux. Absolutely. I think this is the implication of the article. > Looking at the current technology and lamenting about the end of the
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Google Mars , the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
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It's pretty clear to me that this is an attempt to explain the mechanisms of lambda calculus using familiar metaphors. I think it could be very helpful for introducing the concepts.
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> I've just never encountered the level of non-technical user that would be lost but for those particular touches. They say that economics happens at the margins. In other words, changing the price of a sandwich from $3.40 to $3.25 isn
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by RickHull 14y ago
You should have preempted this thread with more armor.
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Care to elaborate on a few such cases?
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Why do these checks sequentially? I'd be interested to see the opportunities for parallel requests in bash.
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> The argument was rather that the barriers to entry are too high (very high capital costs etc.) Really? You are saying this on Hacker News? Where we gather to assemble and identify our comparative advantages and engage in entrepreneu
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> The problem we are facing is that the producers are have become extremely productive due to capital and technology and are able crush those who do not have the access to the capital and technology. This is a common mercantilist fallac
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> The importance of a project has little correlation with how expensive it is to execute. Right, but it should be the primary factor on whether to undertake it or not.
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The default assumption ascribed to enterprise is that they don't want to contribute to open source because there is no "return" on such an investment. It is a zero-sum mentality which says "I am worse off for having shared my technology".
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Not only that, but when you look at peak prices, you have to take into account the volume traded at that price. Theoretically, for stock X, you could have a single trade for 1 share at $100, while the pension funds bought in mostly at $45.
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by RickHull 14y ago
Heh, I think you're just getting old. This is the new normal of public discussion in the blogosphere. I think it's a drastic improvement over the walled-garden editorials in major periodicals. I found this article in particular insightful
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The Great Brain series was awesome and inspirational. Definitely recommend to any budding young (7-15?) hackers afoot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Brain
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> The fact that it was a post about misogyny that sparked it was probably just incidental. It's the fact that she demonstrated sensitivity to language and had an online presence made her the perfect target for such an attack. Yes, I h
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> It claims that it could “provide 50 times more transportation per kWh (kilowatt hour) than electric cars or trains,” that construction would cost a tenth of high-speed rail and a quarter of freeways Who knows what this claim is based
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I have to think we've all been tempted at some point. This is a succinct and persuasive prophylactic. Bookmarked.

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