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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -Gandhi
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
You should also read "Overcoming the Two Cultures" by Lee & Wallerstein, if you liked this. Kuhn's work is mentioned in the context of the broader conflict between the arts and sciences.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
I did miss the requirement that GS would have to sell their position immediately to be a textbook moneymaker. And that does confirm Josh's frustration that there's people here with a rather casual understanding of the financial lingua. ;-)
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Exactly what Goldman Sachs is doing right now? They are taking a nontrivial position in FB, in order to grease the wheels for others. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketmaker.asp http://www.wordnik.com/words/marketmaker/examples
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
No, I'm pretty sure he does. The details of the deal are complicated. Most of the money that Goldman is going to invest for Facebook is not coming from Goldman itself, though Goldman will invest almost half a billion of its own money.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
There are times when you wish you had dynamic typing, but this is usually a fault of the type system and there are better answers than ripping the type system out entirely, once you ascend to a mathematical way of looking at it. Suppose for
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Not only do we do so with a much smaller number of people, but certain industries seem to dominate the export scene (e.g. aerospace) and more than that, our dynamicity in manufacturing is no longer there. The hot fields, like where our iPad
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Does anyone else also feel that the traditional sources tend to be rather negative in their opinion? Take the Gladwell piece, for example. I won't disagree with that FB activism can be "shallow", but perhaps this is just the way it will be
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
There is a concept of a sub-luxury brand, a product that is not exclusive to the rich, but still markets itself as a quality, high-end, status-worthy product, and that is what I think the author is getting at. An example of this could be Li
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
I used to have to think a great deal before typing, with Haskell and ML. Nowadays, I should think a great deal, but the thinking goes on at a higher level in the design than I'm used to. Of course, I could be prototyping. But the point
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Make non-compete agreements unenforceable there and I would consider moving there. Now if you really want a leg up on California, also consider make non-poaching agreements unenforceable.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Maybe they don't think politics is fun?
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
FWIW, one of the more common complaints amongst the hackers I've hung out with is that they've wanted to work part-time so they can spend more time on hobby projects. Do kids count as hobby projects?
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Sure but you at least have a chance at helping them out and moving them up. To some extent is culture and happenstance. Sometimes you get off on the wrong foot and you're on each other's nerves. But attitude and work ethic are like multipli
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
The dinging people for not-clever-enough solutions feels like hazing. It's less about competence than about ego. The most important thing in an interview is to make sure the person's level of skill is at least as big as their conception of
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Agda. Just for shits and giggles.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Dammit... Avoid success at all costs?
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
- Finish "The Art of Computer Programming." - Use the fixed point combinator in Javascript for something. - Make your own bike lights. - Figure out how the monad laws really work. - Write something that makes more than $100 on the App Store
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
I'm close to people who work in the public sector, and this sort of thing is not where the real waste is. This is two or three guys in a shop somewhere. At least they're making stuff. You know that Despair.com catchphrase, "None of us is as
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
I don't know how well this is going to be accepted here, but I marveled at the cultural value of making and using your own wooden ladders in this day and age. In our practical, efficiency-obsessed style of doing things, people generally don
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Aluminium also melts before it glows red from being hot. It's why it's relatively difficult to weld, and why there were a lot of failures in early aluminum-frame bikes.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Serious question... how do you post to these sort of things? Do you just start your subject line with "Offer HN:"?
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
To be fair, the author attended the NYC YC Q&A. I imagine that there is a dearth of programmers relative to the number of people who want to start projects over there.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Architects are usually advised to have light on two sides of every room. It doesn't seem to happen often. And this place has light on three sides. Hot Damn.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
The article mentions that it could take some time for mining to pick up again. Now how would feel about this if we'd outsourced all of our farming to one particular country and that country suddenly decided not to sell us any? Or if a sizab
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
If that is so, then perhaps they aren't honoring the concept of failure.
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
It will be interesting to see if they can escape Goodhart's law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodharts_law
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Countries never just get lucky. The work doesn't stop on launch day. Both countries' power structures were built in a way that allowed a willing populace to correct its problems. The self-correcting mechanisms seem to have lost their footin
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
It's also fair to say that entropy has taken its toll on the implementation of the system, and it's overdue for some refactoring. Let's be more constructive here. For starters, how many people know their local reps and actually expect said
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by baguasquirrel 16y ago
Well if you want riots, of course it needs to be overnight. Wasn't there some adage with regards to boiling a frog concerning this?

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