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by ap22213 14y ago
Ok - but, here's where I get lost... Some of these people are high-net-worth individuals. I sometimes ask them why, instead of trading, they don't take that money and invest it in new research or technology or product development or servic
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by ap22213 14y ago
I know several people who make a lot of money in trading, and I hear the liquidity argument constantly as the justification for their behavior. They describe the millions that they make as payment for all the 'value' that they've given to
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by ap22213 14y ago
I agree. If I spend a week doing more than around 20 hours of work, then I'm usually doing something wrong. The following week, I will spend some time trying to figure out what went wrong. There's usually always a better way. Programming
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by ap22213 14y ago
Agree. I worked in-the-office for 12 years. Then, the past 2, I've worked almost exclusively remotely. It's been really good. Just as when I started my first job, I had to learn new skills. As a diligent, good employee, I tried to learn
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by ap22213 14y ago
This could be useful. (Though, to be honest, it faintly reminds me of a suped-up version of cgi-bin circa 1996 with a lot more dependencies.) Anyone know if it can asynchronously handle long-running processes?
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by ap22213 14y ago
He's got a point. If you believe the singularity people (like Kurzweil) Human technology has always advanced exponentially. And, is there any evidence that copyright and patents laws have changed this much? Inventors will invent, and cre
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by ap22213 14y ago
Not allowing remote work seems as out-of-touch and inflexible as the types of companies that impose 3-year minimum laptop leases. It smells of an organization that is run by manufacturing MBAs and not creatives. These are the companies tha
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by ap22213 14y ago
Well, they have a hip looking office space near the Whitehouse, in downtown DC.
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by ap22213 14y ago
I've thought about doing this. But, why bother? Most of the time the answer I'm looking for is just one or two more searches away.
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by ap22213 14y ago
Given the audience of this site, it's interesting that this topic has even floated toward the top. And, it's also interesting (but hardly surprising) that most of the comments are blindly for meritocracy. Yeah - meritocracy sounds great in
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by ap22213 14y ago
Yeah - Play 1.2.5 is still pretty awesome, too. It's still my go to (Java) platform for mocking up sites quickly, especially for APIs. Play 2.1 seemed a bit slower to develop on. At least for me, it was definitely not as quick to get some
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by ap22213 14y ago
I am really trying to make sense of this reasoning, but it's not working. Maybe someone could help me out. It seems like this is saying, 1. (implied) Humans are affecting the climate, but 2. Humans can't direct the change of the climate,
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by ap22213 14y ago
I love sites like this. But, it would also be extra great if the site's price included estimates for the cost of lodging (say, at a particular quality level).
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by ap22213 14y ago
I didn't see any data in that article. Does anyone know if there is any validity in that point of view? I mean from a moral sense, it sure sounds powerful, but does it really show results?
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by ap22213 14y ago
Oops - typo. Yeah what he said
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by ap22213 14y ago
It's a trade-off, right? As most things in software are. Recently, I inherited a project that had 10,000s of lines of ant scripts. Resource constrained, I didn't have anyone to maintain that build process. So, I took a few hours and conv
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by ap22213 14y ago
As a 'mainstream lefty', I feel pretty safe in saying that Obama has generally been considered by many of us as right of center.
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by ap22213 14y ago
That's bad in itself. But, worse - most laws as written in federal and state codes aren't even the actual laws. The real laws are what my lawyer friends call the 'case law' - the historical precedence and rules of courts. And, case law is
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by ap22213 14y ago
Hacking ones own solution has benefits: control over the technology, freedom from proprietary interests, ability to enhance the behavior, configuration and customization, integration with other technologies, knowledge of how to build other
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by ap22213 14y ago
From what I understood from sophomore economics, 1,000 transactions of $1,000 has potential to stimulate more economic growth than 1 transaction of $1,000,000. And, if we think about it, it seems pretty straightforward as to why.
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by ap22213 14y ago
One of the puzzling parts of the current working situation is that the people who are working seem to be putting in way more hours and effort than they used to. What I can't put a finger on is the underlying reason why me and about all of m
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by ap22213 14y ago
How can it be theft, when the rules are agreed upon beforehand? Or, choose a country with low tax rates before setting out to make a fortune. Then, there's no conflict.
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by ap22213 14y ago
I, for one, would be much happier with government brokering than corporate. At least with the (democratic) government, I will have some control. There are parliamentary processes, voting, constitutional rules, albeit often slow, that give
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by ap22213 14y ago
You may be interested in these DC/NOVA meetups: HacDC http://www.meetup.com/hac-dc/ NOVA Makers http://www.meetup.com/NOVA-Makers/ I haven't been to either, but have been meaning to get to one of the NOVA makers happy hours for a whil
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by ap22213 14y ago
I'm wondering if it's just because those foods happen to also be foods with low glycemic index [0]. Based on an NPR story I heard yesterday [1] (if correct), I'd guess that you'd get similar results eating any of those types of foods [2]. [
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by ap22213 14y ago
I don't know much about China, sadly. Mostly, that's because of the language barrier. I'm assuming that you know a lot about China. So, maybe you could link to some alternative views of China that are different from what we get from the w
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by ap22213 14y ago
Because our laws have been so overly complicated that we have come to believe that we need lawyers to write them.
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by ap22213 14y ago
Maybe the problem is that there's less and less need for most types of workers. We have a global population steadily lurching toward 8 billion. And, the richest of us seem to need less and less. And, that's coupled with aggressively commod
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by ap22213 14y ago
I could and have. But, the performance of VirtualBox on my 2011 Lion-based MBP seems much worse than on my windows box (with comparable hardware). I have a task on my todo list to investigate.
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by ap22213 14y ago
Yesterday, it was 'pip install matplotlib' (through virtualenvwrapper). Just a few days earlier, it was getting a dev version of paramiko to work with ansible. Most likely, both were user errors of some sort, but instead of spending a few

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