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by azanar 18y ago
Ok, I will. The value of restaurants is fleeting. Here's why: The value derived from an individual from a restaurant is food, and perhaps being in a pleasing ambient environment for a short while. They derive value from the environment only
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by azanar 18y ago
It is not so much money itself, as money combined with hyperbolic discounting -- some money now is much better than a lot more money later. Sometimes this is a valid decision; if you are going to starve tomorrow, a couple of dollars today i
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by azanar 18y ago
The positive value that prostitutes deliver to the world is very fleeting. An orgasm lasts at most several seconds. After a few days, the average male will be jonesing again. The long term value production of the average prostitute strikes
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by azanar 18y ago
I get the suspicion the causal progression here is deeper than just f(intelligence) - g(wages) = 0. As an alternate hypothesis, the reason why students who study what they love earn less than students who study something practical is becaus
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by azanar 18y ago
He sees everything through his 'free software' glasses, the same way a dyed-in-the-wool communist sees everything through his Breznospecs. Just as a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist sees everything through their Smith-o-specs. We have always l
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by azanar 18y ago
The object code is the aggregate of your code and the library's header code. If you have just your object code, you are not bound by the license of the library, then you don't need to include it. If you have just the library header code, th
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by azanar 18y ago
It would be really cool if shell lines included some sort of hyper-linking to man pages based on the grammar of each shell command and its arguments. Have one line that is the hyperlinked command, and another than has the command in a textf
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by azanar 18y ago
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_code 2. I'd assume as lines are normally counted. The number of line-feeds and/or carriage returns in a file. I don't see what the big deal is anyway; if you are at all concerned, just include the li
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by azanar 18y ago
Fixed. :-)
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by azanar 18y ago
You are talking about Section 3 of the LGPL? IANAL, but this section seems pretty logically simple to me, and I think you are misreading it. If you read the terms, you are required to do either of the following: * a) Give prominent no
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by azanar 18y ago
Apart from the political squabbling, the feasibility of implementing something that "detects" JavaScript released under a free-as-in-freedom license seems tricky and error prone. The suggestion in the article that you put a license delimite
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by azanar 18y ago
Ahh. I see what you mean now. They aren't expected to have already taken sides, even though they might have anyway. I wish that mentality were allowed to the rest of us. Being pressured to prematurely take a side really encourages less rati
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by azanar 18y ago
Your assertion hinges on the assumption that the government exists autonomously, apart from the people it represents. If my landlord claimed to represent me and my interests with the money I gave him, I would expect to have a say in how he
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by azanar 18y ago
I think your argument could go even deeper than that. If you are compelled to do anything by the State, I think you should argue quite effectively that the State should be compelled to take you and your concerns into account. Anything else
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by azanar 18y ago
This doesn't answer the previous question so much as begs a new question. The current system protects children from politics, but why? You mention targeted political pressure, but only in a vague sense; it almost seems like foreboding of so
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by azanar 18y ago
The first of your two objections is perhaps a confusion of the word best practice. It doesn't mean ultimatum as much as it means something seriously worth considering. What constitutes "one thing" is a judgment call, and it varies tremendou
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by azanar 18y ago
I'll grant no one will read this but you (maybe?), since it's so far off the front page and everyone else's radar. Overall, your thoughts are excellent, but I have a bit of a bone to pick here: (I recall one coworker at a job, when we look
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by azanar 18y ago
He may have meant this when he created the slide, but precise numbers here seem less important than relative magnitude as long as one is reasonably close. One could be a few ns off on how long a L2 cache lookup takes, and endure in all but
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by azanar 18y ago
I suspect Performance Improvement Plan. Not a google-specific thing, but I've not seen the acronym used before today.
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by azanar 18y ago
Not everyone that deserves to be made an example of gets the privilege, nor does everyone that deserves to be marginalized so treated. It doesn't imply you aren't in either group if you aren't singled out; it just means the stage isn't tha
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by azanar 18y ago
Not just people with good averages, but more so people with lower averages who want to make them better.It may keep them from expressing counter-views that the orangey colored folks might, as a collective, down-mod and post ripostes which w
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by azanar 18y ago
This has me thinking, comment score appears to be tied to two independent things: 1. The quality of the post. 2. The time since the article was posted, it's arrival to the front page, etc. Not all insightful comments are modded up the same,
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by azanar 18y ago
> The most common answer is probably to trust their instincts about people. A couple questions about this: * Do they offer any advice on how to hone this instinct? I'm assuming they still get false positives; do they know of any traits
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by azanar 18y ago
Agreed. But, for those who might be looking to this thread for advice on how to detect assholes as early as possible, know the difference between prudence and cynicism. Be cautious, but don't start out assuming that someone's good impressio
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by azanar 18y ago
In these recession times, or in any other times, it can be difficult to tell the difference between really not having a choice, and seeming to not have a choice because of the internalization of the same platitudes one hears repeated incess
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by azanar 18y ago
> A lot of arguments can be avoided by delving into the scary but true, raw but honest emotional side. I learned this from a great consultation. I'm surprised no one has counter-pointed this yet, but I've found that a lot of arguments c
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by azanar 18y ago
A couple of points here: > Quality matters, but there are other things that also matter, such as actually getting working code written. "Working code written" is setting a quality bar. Really. I've seen enough code that has omitted the
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by azanar 18y ago
> From what I understand they're saying that unit testing isn't "real actual work". You write unit tests to save yourself debugging and regression testing effort later. This sent off my faulty logical implication detector. Assuming that
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by azanar 18y ago
I'm not going to presume if vetting-by-karma is true, but I know that the text you pasted above says nothing about karma except to point out how it is tangential. But we will be more likely to fund people we know are smart from their submi
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by azanar 18y ago
A particular part of this article stood out, because it's not the first time I've had someone claim this: Wondering what happen to Jerry? Feel like you’re getting half the story? Wrong, you’re getting 1/10th of the story. People are messy

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