TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Interviewer: I've heard that there was a project where Microsoft started to integrate Haskell on .NET and then it was replaced with the F# project. Is that true? If it's true, why? Don Syme: That's a small part of the sequence. The visional
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
This isn't a fair comparison. The United States has always been able to muster its resources with great efficiency in an emergency. That hasn't changed with time. You'll remember about 9 years ago when we had a similar situation and we m
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
This isn't related to the post directly but if you really want to learn how someone develops skills like those of the fictionalized Sherlock Holmes you might want to check out this biography of Dr. Joseph Bell (who was the primary inspirati
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
This is just dumb. I'll go down his suggestions to point out why... - We need to have codes of conduct in our projects and conferences that specifically ban abusive and sexist behavior: I don't see how a "Code of Conduct" is going to be mo
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
It's a fun read but the whole time I was thinking "If I had the time and skill to pull any of this off I wouldn't be eating at places like Pizzahut and Burger King to begin with"
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I can't speak for New York but the irony in California is that Political patisanship, almost universally considered a bad thing, is now our only hope. Because right now the Dems have all the power. The Republicans literally have no say no
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm sorry but this whole discussion has been beyond obnoxious as far as I'm concerned. It started with people taking one drunk jack ass and extrapolating that to slander the whole male tech community and now we have someone taking one inse
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't think we'll ever get rid of political parties but what I do think the Internet could do is bring the libertarian concept you speak of a little closer to reality. The problem before now is no one has any idea what their local city co
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'd argue that's what makes this type of thing insidious. Take one piece of advice he gives... "Create your own demand. People are always on the lookout for the good. People seek out winners. Therefore be a winner all the time." Now if I w
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Yeah a lot of this is terribly inaccurate and the fact that it's being used to sell questionable advice makes it even more so. For example... Jimmy Hendrix might have loved to play the guitar but his gimmick was playing it competently with
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
As someone who controls the resources for a non-profit I'm often finding ways to stretch money. As such I'd offer this advice... 1. College contests are a gold mine. Rather than pay a designer $1,000 to design your app post up flyers in
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I hate, Hate, HATE this logic. Your comment is what's wrong with the technical book industry right now. Publishers instruct authors to pad their books to increase the perceived value while at the same time pushing them to cover less so th
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
As someone who feels uncomfortable about the scientific basis for anthropomorphic global warming I don't approve of this. Hearings aren't going to solve anything. All they'll do is further politicize an issue that is already too politiciz
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm not even sure it's a good baseline. For example one of the discussions involves EC2 and .Net and the main criticism of EC2 is it doesn't support Windows 2008. Anyone who knows EC2 will tell you that hasn't been true for a while and th
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
You're assuming either/or. I have a mostly in-house IT infrastructure but I use EC2 not only for projects that I need to get up and going quickly but also for traffic spikes. Using a dynamic DNS like Nettica allows you to blend quite easi
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I generally find engineers to be more in favor of standards than anyone else but that's anecdotal. The point I was actually making is the engineers are told to "catch up as quickly as possible" which leads to standards compliance because yo
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I think you're remembering things from a Netscape perspective. For example you cite vbscript which was introduced a mere 8 months after Javascript (which was called livescript at the time to match Netscape Livewire). So they were competin
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't think that's really true. Microsoft only tends to push incompatibilities AFTER it achieves dominance. For example, Internet Explorer was by far more standards compliant than Netscape (at least through version 5). Microsoft's probl
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
For the record it isn't like the Canadian health care system is all smooth sailing: http://www.economist.com/node/16542808?story_id=16542808&#38... I certainly think the U.S. should try to learn from some of the things Canada has done but
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Again this is getting into the actual debate which I think is more complicated than people make it out to be but I think it is possible to provide baseline care and I think the U.S. should do that. Where you see a constraint on resources i
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm sorry but your argument boils down to you not wanting to see the other side of the debate. What you're saying doesn't change the fact that the resource is limited. The question is can the limited resource be stretched to accommodated e
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
In general. At least in the terms most people define Universal Healthcare. The problem with Universal Healthcare is you're taking a limited resource (doctors, medicines, equipment, etc...) and trying to treat it like an unlimited resource
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The problem with his thesis is most rational disagreements in government revolve around things that are either impossible or can only be done by the government. So inefficiency isn’t really the issue. Take health care as a perfect example.
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Your biggest problem right now is you don’t know where you want to go. Until you can figure that out you’re better off dragging yourself through school so you have some kind of credential to live off of. You can always chase your passion
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I think this might have something to do with the ineffectiveness issue: http://www.jigsawhealth.com/resources/myth-multi-vitamin As far as the supposed dangers I find their argument hard to swallow. If the increased chance of breast canc
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'll admit there is something troubling about surveying only Climatologists in that they've built an entire industry around Global Warming. If someone could prove man-made GW didn't exist you'd probably see 2/3 of the available Climatology
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't think remembering everyone's name is the point in that the professor doesn't say "in your life you'll meet many people" he says "in your careers". I think the point is realizing there are people who might be lower in the org chart
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I actually like your terminology more but I've generally heard the term Hi-REST and Low-REST in this context http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=0df3b4...
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I debated adding that to the list because I knew someone was going to post this :) In fairness 37 Signals also means something just not a specific concrete thing that someone would search for

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