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by ap22213 10y ago
I love that quote. Interestingly, when I think of Miles Davis, subconsciously my internal memory goes to 'Tutu'. I can't say that I understand it or even enjoy it, but I would definitely describe it as art as it invokes some
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I think you guys are missing my point, which is my fault. Making art for the money should never be a primary goal, unless one's goal is the emphasis and irony of that relationship (see: Koons). Otherwise, how can it really be art? I
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Come on, you know that was funny. But, my point is that when I watch those videos, I see people trying to avoid modern reality - trying to portal back to a different time. It looks like escapism, avoidance, or maybe looking for acceptance
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by ap22213 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF6SGWRMIYw
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I clearly know nothing about music, but why does it even have to be called 'Jazz'? Given those market numbers cited, it seems like it would be a very bad brand to be associated with your music. Having a son who's 12, and hav
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by ap22213 10y ago
Hasn't there always been a Mathematical tug of war between theorists and practitioners? Theorists get big dopamine responses when discovering new abstractions and models. Practitioners get similar responses when solving real-world pro
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Sure, universities embraced it in the late 90s because it was easier to teach to undergrads, and CS programs were becoming cash cows. But, the researchers that I knew certainly weren't using it for their own Computer Science research
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I'm sure it worked well in many cases. But, in our case, we were developing for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Windows NT. The VMs would behave differently in different environments, and I remember VMs stack dumping on many occasions which b
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by ap22213 10y ago
This is a lot different than I remember. As I remember it, Java was touted as a compile-once run everywhere language. Back then, you had many different flavors of UNIX, with different hardware architectures, and in practice, software was de
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A lot of the colorizations seem really poor. They don't even look lifelike. What are the technical reasons why some of the 'old' b/w photos seems much more realistic than the others? Is it the type of film or processi
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I had always assumed that protein powder was derived from waste products that were created during other food processing. Why would someone use protein powder when there are other good sources of protein?
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Hi, jumping back in this late ... I agree with you on some of those things. For instance, it would probably be difficult to develop a road network that spans across groups of people without some planning and coordination between those peopl
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The problem with that approach is that it's very centralized in a soviet kind of way. You have a small group of people deciding what people should get and how they should get it. The state then becomes the decider of what people need
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Historically, the wealthy do not create many things. When not funding wars (which do advance knowledge, btw) or accumulating capital, they use their disposable income to fund intellectual things (which can be science) and art and the craft
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That's interesting. Why would they learn fewer words? Do the less wealthy just talk less? Or, do they learn other words that are then culled from their vocabulary?
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Maybe it's a reflection of my circumstances - but this reminds me more of a difference in class than language. I was born to two uneducated parents in a poor, rural coal town in Pennsylvania and then later married a woman whose parent
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Completely agree. When I scanned the article I thought, 'bull shit.' There are a lot of players in this space, and everyone that I've evaluated so far is basically selling astrology (i.e. profiles that could match 60% of the
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by ap22213 10y ago
As an American, I fantasize about the day when our 325 million no longer try to manage the other 7 billion. But, yet I worry that when that day comes, the ideas of American liberalism will be long gone. The US has big issues and internal i
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by ap22213 10y ago
Ok, got it - it's probably semantics then. When I say 'work', I mean doing something other than what you enjoy. If you love it, it's not work, in common vernacular.
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And, for the people down-voting, I'd love to know why. Send me a message if you don't want to say publicly. The anthropologist in me genuinely wants to know. I can't understand how anyone would be for work ('they call i
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by ap22213 10y ago
You say proletariat like it's a bad thing. Of all the social goals that we have (curing cancer, hunger, war, etc.), it amazes me that we haven't added 'work' to that list. Maybe like 5% of people that I know enjoy work m
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by ap22213 10y ago
Why wouldn't someone occasionally want to output data per partition? I have that need fairly often, and I appreciate having the flexibility to do it. Spark requires reading the docs, for sure, but once you get down the basics it'
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by ap22213 10y ago
Could be why many of my conservative friends would be disgusted to go to a liberal talk, whereas many of my liberal friends would be very interested to go to a conservative one.
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Most importantly, for a larger code-base, unit tests allow a team to make structural and behavioral changes with much less risk of breaking existing functionality. This is especially true when one has a lot of business and domain rules to
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by ap22213 10y ago
People in software generally suck at negotiation. And, salary transparency just reduces overall salaries and increases profit for the company. Why? because a software developer will say, 'Wow, I can get paid that much for doing somethi
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by ap22213 10y ago
I graduated 1999 and made $38k; Now make $190k (and I'm definitely not a top 1% candidate). Based on your assessment, I should expect to make a lot less in the future. But, yet people are contacting me weekly saying they can't fil
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by ap22213 10y ago
Yeah, my comment didn't make sense. Terrible example. Was running out the door. I meant to say that in the U.S. things are marked in ounces. So, it's like calculating (10 oz / 16 oz.) * price. Whereas, elsewhere it's u
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by ap22213 10y ago
Shopping for groceries outside of the U.S. is so straight-forward, the U.S. food industry should worry about loss of profits in moving to metric. Imperial: $4.49 / lb 0.67 lbs ≈ ??? Metric: $9.89 / kg $0.3 kg ≈ $3.00
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by ap22213 10y ago
It seems like a well-thought, fluent interface to what lots of Java developers (especially Java 8 ones) inevitably have to write themselves.
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Ask HN: Is it difficult for non-Chinese to work in China?
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