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   by api 14y ago

   What they don't include here is the money you end up spending repairing the apartment (yes, repairing an apartment) to make it livable. At least I saw a fair bit of this in Boston. Unless you want to spend an utter fortune, you might be get
2. 15992.▲
   by api 14y ago

   I was actually making a bit of humor, but it really is true. All these things are common to all forms of currency I know of, so it's sort of a sign of Bitcoin's coming of age.
3. 15993.▲
   by api 14y ago

   Bitcoin has speculative bubbles, fraud, robberies, money laundering, gambling, and Ponzi schemes. I think that takes care of all the qualifications for a real currency. Am I missing anything? :)
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   by api 14y ago

   http://programinplacebostudies.org/
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   by api 14y ago

   This makes me think of peak oil and the fossil fuel crisis, where you have physicists and such ringing the alarm bells and nobody is really paying attention. "But we just found more oil!" And we will, until we don't.
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   by api 14y ago

   Physical touch? Seriously? Be careful. That's likely to be creepy in many circumstances, and not just across genders. It can easily come across as controlling, condescending, etc. Maybe I'm weird, but money does motivate me. Or rather, the
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   by api 14y ago

   Lobbyists.
8. 15998.▲
   by api 14y ago

   This may be true. I don't think they're doing anything truly unethical -- if everything pg says is true -- and they may indeed be trying to bring some improvement to a sloppy and shady industry. That being said, this sort of thing is sort o
9. 15999.▲
   by api 14y ago

   That's one of the hard things about advertising-- beyond an informative product announcement, most other advertising ranges from useless to annoying to the consumer. I know that I spend a certain amount of almost unconscious mental energy i
10. 16000.▲
    by api 14y ago

    I'd say that obsession and monomania about one form of cognition makes you less creative, and high IQ people are often so impressed with their analytical intellect that they fall into the trap of disregarding other mental capabilities.
11. 16001.▲
    by api 14y ago

    "std::cavedwelling<stl_guru, guru_cavedwelling_tag<const _Type<T &> >::const_value_type" Pure gold.
12. 16002.▲
    by api 14y ago

    I don't think innovation has a final closed-form definition, which might be related to the fact that there is no foolproof closed-form static method or algorithm that can reliably produce it. Speaking more loosely I'll take a stab. Innovati
13. 16003.▲
    by api 14y ago

    I'm gonna be a dork and not read the article and just say this: There is no magic bullet "methodology." Agile, Lean, etc. are sets of ideas and methods and some of them are very good, but they cannot be applied without thought . Think of t
14. 16004.▲
    by api 14y ago

    I think hardcore OOP is highly overrated outside of a few use cases where it does seem to work well: graphical user interfaces and certain kinds of business logic. In those two cases, OOP works because it correctly models the underlying pro
15. 16005.▲
    by api 14y ago

    I'm using C++ right now but tend to write very "thin" C++ that is mostly C-like. I just like the object syntax for grouping things together, I sometimes do use a little bit of templates/inheritance when it makes sense, and I like the STL co
16. 16006.▲
    by api 14y ago

    Too bad you probably can't get a Honda Civic GX and fill it up for free up there and drive for free. :)
17. 16007.▲
    by api 14y ago

    What sucks about ATM fees is when you get a ten-car pile-up. It's happened to me once or twice. Something big clears and then ten more little things clear and you get ten fees. My bank was pretty nice and reduced it to two fees last time it
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    by api 14y ago

    Been using Fedora 17 for a while at work. Used to hate RPM-based distros, but I took another look about a year ago. It's actually pretty nice. I also don't hate Gnome 3. It's a bit immature, but it's pretty and fairly easy to use and stable
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    by api 14y ago

    Desktop apps with built-in ads are okay. I've used a few here and there. I've also seen shareware model software that has ads that can be turned off by registering. That's fine too. In this case the ads are part of the application . They l
20. 16010.▲
    by api 14y ago

    A lot of people these days are bashing Apple and Google for creating walled gardens with their app stores, but this is really the primary reason such walled gardens have taken off. They offer a mostly crapware-free experience. If Linux on t
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    by api 14y ago

    That's an excellent point too. Kids treat each other like complete and utter crap in school, and teachers often aren't all that much better from a kid's point of view. When I was a teenager I didn't give much thought to other peoples' conve
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    by api 14y ago

    Oh sure. I'm sure what I did was incredibly annoying to someone, if not downright dangerous. I don't know what the solution is though. We've denuded our society of independent ways of knowing accessible to the young: hacking, cracking, dang
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    by api 14y ago

    It's a valid point. I have a confession though: I was a teenage hacker (in the cracking sense). I suspect many people around here were. I didn't break stuff or steal stuff on purpose , or have explicit malicious intent. I practiced what is
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    by api 14y ago

    There's nothing wrong with networking of course, but there is something wrong with claiming relationships that don't exist, claiming to own things you don't own, lying about your accomplishments, and damaging other peoples' reputations in
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    by api 14y ago

    Relevant: http://jackealtman.com/2013/01/10/startup-knowledge-decays-q...
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    by api 14y ago

    Yup. But what I've seen even more is people cozying up to new founders and mooching time, publicity, connections, and money off them. One thing to be on guard against is the human social capital version of the Ponzi scheme. In this a self-p
27. 16017.▲
    by api 14y ago

    I have seen cases where predatory hustler types have cozied up to entrepreneurs to steal various intangibles: intellectual property, time, publicity, and yes, ideas. Yet this isn't exactly what this article is talking about. I agree with th
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    by api 14y ago

    A decent observation, but it's also true that sometimes complexity becomes an end in itself. It cyclically begets more complexity until it collapses and a new, simpler form emerges. This Tetris-like complexity-collapse model is very common
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    by api 14y ago

    As soon as I heard about the Rails 'sploit, I was waiting for the first Bitcoin exchange to get hit.
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    by api 14y ago

    This is like putting NOS on a school bus.