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by ap22213 15y ago
I don't know what the Paris Review is, but that's pretty shit poor writing. I hope it's not a classy, intellectual magazine. That said, minus the wealth and power parts, he pretty much described my experiences at "generic american land gran
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by ap22213 15y ago
I don't think it's dangerous at all, because 'culture' and 'society' are derivatives of genes. The larger organization of culture and society stabilize the individual in context. It would take quite a bit of evolution to expel those 'stabi
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by ap22213 15y ago
I don't think the author understands the dynamics of the enterprise market. The companies mentioned in the article are definitely not the rule, and I don't see a trend here. I'm guessing that those companies don't have wide adoption acros
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by ap22213 15y ago
Yeah, those look like outrageous salaries. But, to be fair, I doubt they are salaries. They're probably derived from hourly consultant rates of around $250 / hour.
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The physiological effects of walking in the woods(americanscientist.org)
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How to survive the age of distraction(independent.co.uk)
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by ap22213 15y ago
Yes - this happened to me three times in my early 20-somethings. Sadly, with the tech media reporting on all the riches being made these days, I expect it happens even more often now. It's so easy for one to be overly trusting and conned wh
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by ap22213 15y ago
Why down vote the commenter? Seems like a valid question. I've known a lot of people who have great opinions and ideas and are very talented at communicating but who otherwise haven't accomplished very much. Or, as I've recently heard a ca
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by ap22213 15y ago
The GoF value isn't in being a taxonomy. It's about noticing that given certain environmental conditions and a goal, people will derive similar solutions. Patterns are just time-savers. So, if you see X, then do Y, because it will just w
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by ap22213 15y ago
I agree with you, and I can't argue with the numbers and data. But, still I wonder what is classified as 'productive' work and 'productivity', because I (and many others I talk to) don't see it. My thoughts are indeed anecdotes, and being
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by ap22213 15y ago
Personally, I think that the data in Peopleware is somewhat weak, and I'd like to see updated studies. However, surprisingly what Peopleware says (iirc) is that the #1 way to increase productivity of developers is to improve the working co
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by ap22213 15y ago
The (anecdotal) issue seems to be lots of Americans not working intelligently. There's a lot of proverbial paper-pushing going on, and I have seen quite a lot of it. But, proportionally there's not equal value being created. Provocatively
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by ap22213 15y ago
I have a relatively good PPO plan through my US employer. I pay out $300 a month in insurance fees, and in addition I presume my employer pays out a couple times that. But, it still takes me a couple of months to get in for a doctor's vis
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by ap22213 15y ago
Nothing like standing up a straw man and then tearing it down. The situations that are cited in the article seem like apples when comparing to the situational oranges of today. A shaky foundation like this hardly seems like a good place to
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by ap22213 15y ago
Yes! I've been using this method for years. But, similar to the article's premise, I actually have four different hash functions, of increasing complexity. Then, all I have to remember is what's the URL, what's its general level of data
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by ap22213 15y ago
As others have generally pointed out, 'intellectualism' isn't the problem. Instead, it's a particular brand of intellectualism that economically benefits from maintaining its established system. These intellectuals have little incentive t
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by ap22213 15y ago
Exactly. As nl stated [1], bitcoin would turn the currency into an investment. The very wealthy who would otherwise hold stock and property would instead have incentive to just hold the bitcoin currency. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by ap22213 15y ago
I don't know. Maybe. It seems like it would just create aristocracy. If I inherit a large sum of money, I have incentive to ensure that my large sum of money increases (or at least doesn't decrease) in value in the easiest, least risky wa
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by ap22213 15y ago
I would love to see a currency like this work, and I would be interested in using one, but the major issue for bitcoin, for me, is that deflation is built into its core. Inflation is a good thing. Inflation encourages holders of capital to
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by ap22213 16y ago
Well, if the title is the problem, what's would be a better title? Significant software projects need a technical person at the top, who's not a manager. If that technical person doesn't have a cool title, he's going to get implicitly demo