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by arockwell 18y ago
Yes, that was the one. I thought it gave pretty good recommendations.
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by arockwell 18y ago
Off-topic, but I did see a pretty good friend finder linked to on hacker news the other day. Can't remember the name of it though.
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by arockwell 18y ago
I pray this is someone's cruel joke. You just wouldn't write code is poetry at the bottom of every page for an xml programming language unless this was a joke. Also, it runs on the JVM, but is called X#. I mean... I'm honestly speechless.
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by arockwell 18y ago
No, its about the new display: table property, which really will make life easier. However, IE 6 and IE 7 don't support it, so in about 5-10 years this book will be relevant.
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by arockwell 18y ago
What's the Social Text fiasco?
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by arockwell 18y ago
Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but did anyone else think that all this test will find is who is the best bullshit artist?
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by arockwell 18y ago
Rename 'origin' to 'github' in .git/config. This is from the 'ENLIGHTENMENT' section in the article.
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by arockwell 18y ago
My understanding is that a lot of the concepts and terminology of Haskell are rooted in category theory (e.g., monad, functor, etc.). I don't think its necessary to learn category theory, but it might help if you're mathematically inclined.
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by arockwell 18y ago
That was worth reading to find out that I could rename origin to github. For some reason I find the word origin really confusing. There's a couple of other good tidbits in there if you're still a git neophyte like myself.
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by arockwell 18y ago
To clarify I meant that as a lower bound. In other words, don't take VC money unless you believe you can create a company worth at _least_ $100 million.
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by arockwell 18y ago
He probably just slipped a digit and meant $100 million. I figure that if you take VC money you believe you can build a company worth $100 million.
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by arockwell 18y ago
Did you actually read the article? It seems highly unlikely that there is anything shady going on. Besides, that is a pretty swanky setup.
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by arockwell 18y ago
The video is cheesy, but I thought that it was entertaining.
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by arockwell 18y ago
I never even knew those damn things existed until fight club. Now I seem them every time.
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by arockwell 18y ago
I think this is one of the problems with so called "un-biased" reporting in the media. They tend to give equal time to competing theories as if they were equals. Vaccinations causing autism in the media has been really hyped up in the media
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by arockwell 18y ago
Are there any good standard tools already out there that handle this type of tracking?
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by arockwell 18y ago
You'd have to start them off at a pretty low salary though (like 30k if my back of the envelope math-fu is good today). Would you take a job at a lower pay rate if they claimed to offer weekly raises? Seems like this would really shift too
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by arockwell 18y ago
Are you in favor of health care for smokers and drinkers? People who eat trans fats? Virtually any choice you make in life has some type of health care risk. I think that's almost impossible to draw a line and say these behaviors are ones w
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by arockwell 18y ago
Yes, it more or less has been settled. I have not heard of a reputable study showing that vaccines cause autism. The problem is that if you try hard enough you can stretch/fake/politicize scientific results to show just about anything. Ther
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by arockwell 18y ago
This happens more than you might think, but generally the score won't stay that low for long. Comments like this seem to attract a large number of votes in both directions.
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Programming and the Recession(duartes.org)
5 points by arockwell 18y ago|0 comments
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by arockwell 18y ago
I agree, arguably betting real money that the system was going to meltdown was the absolute best way to tell others he thought the system was fucked. Its not like anyone would have listened to him if he played the whistle blower roll. The r
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by arockwell 18y ago
I think the problem is more structural. All of USPTO's funding comes in the form of patent applicant fees, so they have an incentive to let us many through to encourage others to file ridiculous patents as well. The way the system is set up
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by arockwell 18y ago
This is true, however for these large companies many of the patents are filed as a defensive measure. Its fairly uncommon to hear them sue someone for patent infringement, and they probably have a patent on just about anything (MS has a pat
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by arockwell 18y ago
This allows a lone inventor to patent a device and then license plans to a large company to manufacture and sell the product. I agree that this might help curtail patent trolls, but I am not sure this will help that much since the way paten
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by arockwell 18y ago
I don't follow you... There's not much difference in the amount of information between the different versions.
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by arockwell 18y ago
That's a huge difference in sales from subtle changes in wording and font sizes. Definitely shows the importance of A/B testing.
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by arockwell 18y ago
Spring is definitely an improvement, however we had a serious problem getting it up and running in our environment (it was a while ago so I can't remember what it was exactly) and had to give up on it. It really does not help that all of ou
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by arockwell 18y ago
This also makes unit testing extremely diffcult since you have the joy of creating mock objects for your Context, ConnectionFactory and Connection. I have all but given up writing test code at work. The various j2ee frameworks I have to use
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by arockwell 18y ago
On a related note, I saw this on reddit this morning: http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc/apidocs/org/apache/xmlrpc/server... What's sad is that I have no idea if this is a joke or not.

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