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How market forces undermine racism: Uber Cab Edition(reason.com)
3 points by ataggart 14y ago|0 comments
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Kickstarter: It's cool and all, but it doesn't allow for enough central control(reason.com)
2 points by ataggart 14y ago|0 comments
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by ataggart 14y ago
Judging by the headline, it sounded like they tried to implement a one-time pad, but had only heard of them by rough description.
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by ataggart 14y ago
He's certainly letting his voluntarist-anarchist flag fly: "What a wonderful world it would be if everyone accepted the simple moral premise of rejecting all acts of aggression. The retort to such a suggestion is always: it’s too simplist
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by ataggart 14y ago
Perhaps I missed it, but I don't see where the author defines what he thinks it means to "really know any computer language."
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by ataggart 14y ago
We already know how cartels work.
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by ataggart 14y ago
I fully expect an unbiased evaluation.
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by ataggart 14y ago
My comment intended to show how macros can allow one to create syntactic abstraction. That one can accomplish X without creating new syntactic abstraction, or that some language already has syntactic abstraction for X, is wholly irrelevant
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by ataggart 14y ago
Syntactic abstraction usually requires a language change. For example, Python's "with" statement. In languages with macros, you don't need to wait for anyone to change the language because the entirety of the language is constructed from a
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by ataggart 14y ago
"Reform" is one of those lovely words that means precisely whatever the audience thinks it ought to mean.
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by ataggart 14y ago
The cheat sheet's groupings can make finding things easier. http://clojure.org/cheatsheet
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by ataggart 14y ago
Similar analysis using $50 billion: http://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global_prioritie...
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Uber pricing, post-Sandy(reason.com)
1 points by ataggart 14y ago|0 comments
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by ataggart 14y ago
If there's no way to determine if someone is driving stoned, then what's the point of prohibiting it? Further, reckless driving is illegal, even if someone has no intoxicants in their system.
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by ataggart 14y ago
>This Chilean system was without a doubt the right solution for the problem This presumes one can input all the relevant data, the preferences of millions of individuals as expressed by billions of choices every day. It also presumes t
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by ataggart 14y ago
>Somehow this has become received wisdom for the press, but not only is it false, it's very false. So too with student/teacher ratios. http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d11/tables/dt11_069.asp
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by ataggart 14y ago
Likewise for myself. Though I suspect that it's because testing for memory is easier than testing for knowledge, especially when one can simply assume that the former accomplishes the latter.
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by ataggart 14y ago
Fair enough. I take a different approach in my interviews: try to gauge how useful the person will be to the team. We have internet access, and a library with CLRS if someone needs to implement a bipartite graph test. It matters more to
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by ataggart 14y ago
>knowing these things is indicative of your general level of knowledge in certain areas. Very possibly. But is knowing the same as remembering? Compare remembering the specific value of quicksort's worst case to knowing that some sort
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by ataggart 14y ago
I wonder about the utility of an exam that one can ace with five minutes of googling.
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by ataggart 14y ago
1. No one needs to agree to a ToS to read CL data. 2. One cannot "steal" publicly accessible data. 3. A search interface with resulting links to the relevant post on CL; if PadMapper was a "competitor" then so is google.
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by ataggart 14y ago
Any details on who the employer was, what the position was, and what was requested?
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by ataggart 14y ago
How interesting that in both of those incidents, the employer was a government agency.
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by ataggart 14y ago
In a similar vein, it's not clear to me why I should be deprived of the knowledge that a potential future employer is a privacy-invading jerk. The censor not only infringes on the rights of the speaker, but also the rights of the would-be
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by ataggart 14y ago
No. But politicians won't let manufactured outrage go to waste.
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by ataggart 14y ago
>most of their "rational" foundations are just way off - i.e. the world is fair, people will act like you want them too, free markets bring all the good to the world, markets are efficient, private industry doesn't corrupt etc. I think
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by ataggart 14y ago
>someone like you ... without a clue as to why I'm concerned about the Big-O Except that's not what he said. He clearly does have a clue, he just hasn't actually needed it. And for application development, where most of the work is wi
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by ataggart 14y ago
>Notice 'parseLogLoudly'. You could not implement that Fair point, and that's due to my failure in not providing an optional side-effect function arg to `parse-log-skip`. And this brings up a related point, namely that the author of th
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by ataggart 14y ago
If I understand correctly, the idea is that `parseLog` is a library function, while `parseLogSilently` and `parseLogInteractively` are examples of callers to that library. If so, then the complexity of documentation and understanding of `pa
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by ataggart 14y ago
An overlay requiring me to "Sign in" before I can even know what the hell the site is about? No thanks.

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