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by artsrc 13y ago
As an industry it is a really important issue that men are not going into teaching. Disqualifying half the population will reduce the quality of the selection you can make. The quality of teachers is of critical importance to the effectiven
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by artsrc 14y ago
I flew less after 9/11 because it made rational sense to do so. Before I could turn up at the airport 10 minutes before my plane took off and go the the gate and check in. After 9/11 I was in a queue for ages and had to arrive really early.
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by artsrc 14y ago
It is pragmatic to be dogmatic in a context where there is a a temptation to cut corners which will result in non-obvious, severe negative consequences.
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by artsrc 14y ago
Hard to know: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=lion+stretching&hl=en...
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by artsrc 14y ago
I don't know what to make of the debate, but I do want one of those answering machines he linked: http://ccdc11.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/durrell-bishops-marbl... Not because it is a better UI, but just because it seems so cool.
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by artsrc 14y ago
Excel solves this right problem, and Erlang does not. Erlang allows you to create concurrent programs, i.e.: programs where the result is schedule dependent. One right problem is allowing people to write deterministic parallel programs. Th
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by artsrc 14y ago
> "[A]t a time when the U.S. economy needs it most, our immigration policies are stifling innovation. The 2013 cap for the H-1B visas that allow foreign high skilled talent to work temporarily in the U.S. was exhausted by June 2012, pre
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by artsrc 14y ago
> I think it would be nice if wages rose faster than inflation. It is nice, and there is a history of this happening. > There's nothing that special about labor markets that prices shouldn't be set by supply and demand. 0. There is
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by artsrc 14y ago
> Indexing the minimum wage to inflation is a particularly bad idea, if there is ever a big supply shock and stagflation, you'll get a big increase in the minimum wage at the wrong time, when people and companies are struggling to avoid
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by artsrc 14y ago
I agree with you that the context sensitive grammar make this sentence hard to parse. However if you look at the clarifications of meaning they break things into bits. In some languages (e.g.: Java without lambdas), you can't write a funct
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by artsrc 14y ago
Functional languages provide the ability to (promote?) write expressions that remind me of this sentence. Just because you can do without temporaries does not mean you should.
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by artsrc 14y ago
Certainly information technology products are advancing faster than some others. But in terms of health care, life expectancy is still increasing. For diabetes, I think that blood glucose monitors are more easily available than they were in
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by artsrc 14y ago
If those are the metrics you care about, then I think you should go with PHP.
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by artsrc 14y ago
Domino's artificially keep the price of their Pizza constant against the US dollar for long periods. This is common and useful. There are a group of people who think that currencies should be connected to the value of gold. But if you work
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by artsrc 14y ago
> while solar is ridiculously expensive without any clear prospect of becoming cheaper This is different from the impression I previously had, which was more along these lines: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/12/daily
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by artsrc 14y ago
I change one line of C# in a unit test, and ask VS to run the unit test. It then spends 30 seconds building. This kills TDD and many other ways of exploratory development. This is not the case in any Java or Python IDE.
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by artsrc 14y ago
If the market is efficient, then the correct investment is market weighted. You are missing the rest of the world and smaller stocks. This implies that you are missing some diversification that would reduce your risk.
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by artsrc 14y ago
In Australia married couples file their own tax separately. One income supports 5 people in my case, but I am taxed the same way as if that income supported one person. No system is perfect. The US system much better recognizes capacity to
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by artsrc 14y ago
One counter example is Java and Python. In Java this is allowed and the result requires knowledge of detailed rules: int i = 10; int j = 20; String s = "Test " + i + j; In Python the equivalent is an error. The 'in your fa
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by artsrc 14y ago
> Really, we don’t know how to write and maintain software, let alone reliable software, without throwing vast amounts of time or money at the problem. when we come up short we’re left with the inevitably bug-ridden fruit of our labours
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by artsrc 14y ago
You can question whether the perverse incentive will be exploited. For example lets say the rule is that "C# code must be compiled before it is run." The incentives are to declare code compiled when it is not, to declare that you are not r
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by artsrc 14y ago
What does "growth" measure? If we buy a $7 kindle book rather than a $16 paper back does that halve GDP? We have improved medical care that costs the same does that imply no growth? If twice as many people use air travel, but it costs half
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by artsrc 14y ago
Does anyone know what the story with file systems and SSD's is? Google did made it clear that some tuning makes sense for SSD's, but did not make it clear whether the various file systems are more or less suited to SSD's.
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by artsrc 14y ago
There are numerous attempts to measure marginal propensity to spend. They agree that people on lower incomes have a high marginal propensity to spend, and a lower marginal propensity to save.
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by artsrc 14y ago
In the US companies generally arrange to pay their shareholders with capital gains through a combination of share buy backs and stock splits. This enables investors to take income when they want to in a very tax concessional way.
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by artsrc 14y ago
I enjoyed Stephen Jay Gould's books: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_for_Brontosaurus
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by artsrc 14y ago
> However, not using strictly defined self-contained data types for a large project is also recipe for confusion and pain. Not using well defined data types for in a widely exposed interface in a large project is suboptimal. Overly form
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by artsrc 14y ago
The default in the intellectual property world should be that there is no protection. Perhaps the manufacturing process by which the device can be made so thin is original. The physical design of the iPad is not original enough to justify a
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by artsrc 14y ago
There are many examples of a division of labor between companies without intellectual property protection being involved. I have worked on many consulting projects where intellectual property protection of the results was not significant.
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by artsrc 14y ago
Another difference suggested by Stallman is that there is no legal definition of non-software patent, and software patent.

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