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by aggronn 14y ago
i couldn't tell if he was trying to assert something as truth and contribute, or if he was just venting his graduate student frustrations.
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by aggronn 14y ago
I don't mean to try to sum up the entirety of academia in my post, just some issues relevant to the topic at hand. Your experience, much like my post, isn't exhaustive. Have I said something wrong that should be debunked?
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by aggronn 14y ago
I recently did some copyediting for a chinese econ PhD student in the US. She isn't a student at my university, or even a research assistant. She's just a guest, who is being partially supervised by professors in our econ department. Why is
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by aggronn 14y ago
I don't intend to jump into the ring, but as an observer, I don't think we're at that point yet. Here's the progression of the current anti-PHP flare up: Jeff Atwood says PHP sucks |- Says we should make other languages fill in on wh
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by aggronn 14y ago
He shouldn't get a lawyer--he should change the name. The gain for getting to name it pandora exists exclusively in his ego. A prudent person wouldn't hire a lawyer for the sake of his ego.
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i was also disappointed by how certain he seemed to be about what caused those changes to his character. All four of those points, in my mind, are characteristic of someone growing up, not living abroad. I don't think his opinions are at al
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by aggronn 14y ago
If whats around 5-10 years from now represents the same improvement RoR has made over PHP in the last 5 years, we better be mad when developers working on team projects try to perpetuate RoR's use.
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by aggronn 14y ago
I think he's implying that if there was a question about it being shared with other organizations in the government (or other governments or defense contractors), they would use that to justify not re-releasing the code.
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by aggronn 14y ago
I don't think the UX is too complicated. Its smart, though somewhat troublesome because its not something your users would be familiar with (bookmarklets?). To be clear, its unfamiliar, not complicated. If you're getting the users to instal
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by aggronn 14y ago
codeschool has a fairly profound introductory course
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by aggronn 14y ago
Most doctors are entrepreneurs. They basically operate consultancy firms, either through some kind of partnership or independently. They may not be innovators, but innovation isn't necessary for entrepreneurship.
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by aggronn 14y ago
It sounds to me like he loves windows 8, but doesn't like the metro UI. Literally, despite how he repeatedly said "Windows 8 is a totally failure", his only complaint was with the ribbons. Everything else was about metro. What does he even
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by aggronn 14y ago
But the article wasn't about cheating. It was clearly an allegory to support what he said he was going to talk about in the opening statement. You're entitled to your on interpretation of course, but I think its disingenuous to look at a le
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by aggronn 14y ago
I think you glossed over the deeper meaning of the letter, which addresses exactly what you're describing. Its not a how-to on the various problems you may or may not face, written during a time when the only problem with marriage was male
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by aggronn 14y ago
This type of 'noise' is easy to weed out. Its not really even noise--its just a question of how he wants to define his population. With a good team of people who know SQL, he can pull data from any population he chooses, and can make any st
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by aggronn 14y ago
A statistic estimates a parameter of a population. If you have the population, you don't need statistics because you already know the parameters. Having 'all the data' sidesteps any possible need to use statistics outside of forecasting, wh
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by aggronn 14y ago
I'll be even more bold and declare that the top 1% has no more ability to effect the median than any other 1% of the population. Using the median isn't strange at all for this kind of calculation.
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by aggronn 14y ago
That was, in an antiquated sense, the premise behind the US being born a republic. Not macroeconomics in particular, but insofar as it is a compromise between technocracy and majority rule and self determination. Philosophers and political
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by aggronn 14y ago
from my main post edit: edit: Some people have asked why I didn't like XAML. My pragmatic concern has to do with the workflow and design of UI elements. You shouldn't need blend to edit validation styles efficiently. I know you don't need b
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by aggronn 14y ago
This is the first time I've heard raving reviews about XAML from people familiar with HTML. XAML has just been total let down since I've had to learn it for an ongoing Silverlight project. edit: Some people have asked why I didn't like XAML
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by aggronn 14y ago
that alone is not something worth fussing over. it happens a lot, and to people much less and more interesting than this guy.
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by aggronn 14y ago
We don't really know what questions he asked. For all we know, the developer has a bone to pick and is grossly exaggerating his claims. Guard: "What do you do for a living?" Dev: "Software developer on a secure chat app" Dev later claims he
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by aggronn 14y ago
honestly, as a poorly informed IT manager, i'd be more afraid that java costs money to use, and would end up either wasting a lot of time researching licensing information or straight up trying to move away from java FUD is the only kind of
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by aggronn 14y ago
The technical term is 'inferior good'. McDonalds, Ramen, and nail polish remover as a beverage, would probably all be inferior goods.
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by aggronn 14y ago
Just a comment about definitions for the uninitiated: the term "luxury good" is a technical term in economics. We use something called "income elasticity" to compare goods which is simply the ratio of (% change in quantity/% change price).
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by aggronn 14y ago
Certainly it does. Perhaps I shouldn't have emphasized academics so much. Anyone who does in-depth statistical analysis can use R. It is equivalent to SPSS, SAS, and matlab in its applicability, plus its free. People involved in 'big data'
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by aggronn 14y ago
Unless you're doing in-depth statistical analysis, there's not really any reason to know anything about R. It isn't a useful general purpose language. That is to say, while your suggestion is certainly valid and appreciable, the reason why
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by aggronn 14y ago
Your perception of the US is a bit off.
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i wanted to say digg might be an example, but myspace was such a massive development that i didn't want to draw the comparison. digg's death was certainly quicker.
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by aggronn 14y ago
to be fair, i think HN is pretty much the only place that the comparison is being made, and most of the support comes from DDG's support for 'hackers' and because a lot of people here really don't like google and microsoft.

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