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by bloat 13y ago
No - I'm being provocative. Happy New Year!
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by bloat 13y ago
I think the Monkees fit the bill of a "pop band manufactured by a business person" more than the Beatles do. And they're better.
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by bloat 13y ago
I love the Monkees.
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by bloat 13y ago
Nice self righteous racial stereotyping there - thanks.
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by bloat 13y ago
Note that this article is in the Guardian's Comment Is Free section, which is precisely for editorializing and putting forth personal opinions.
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by bloat 13y ago
You've missed the main point of the article. He does spend some time raising practical objections, true. But this is really about Amazon's PR tactics, and how a carefully timed press release about a pie in the sky drone project is
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Amazon to deliver by drone? Don't believe the hype(theguardian.com)
173 points by bloat 13y ago|151 comments
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Ethical cosmetics company Lush takes 'bullying' Amazon to court(theguardian.com)
2 points by bloat 13y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 13y ago
Is it true that any random company I once did business with can call up a credit ratings agency and claim that I owe them money? What standards of proof do the credit agencies require?
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by bloat 13y ago
This is a great page in the same vein - bash specific, but quite a bit more comprehensive. http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls
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by bloat 13y ago
No matter how long it takes? Or until the debtor is dead? Death is an arbitrary line, so why not make bankruptcy the arbitrary line instead? Or maybe the late debtor's family should be liable. What if they just can't pay? Do they
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by bloat 13y ago
That seems like a natural progression, technologically speaking. Millions of microscopic camera drones everywhere. The only thing to hope for in that case is that the footage is available to everyone, and that the powerful are filmed as muc
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Scott Carpenter obituary(theguardian.com)
1 points by bloat 13y ago|0 comments
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Alexis Ohanian interviewed on WFMU's Too Much Information(wfmu.org)
2 points by bloat 13y ago|0 comments
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by bloat 13y ago
I am (irrationally) afraid of flying, but I try and counteract it by telling myself, when I get out of the car at the airport, "Phew, that's the dangerous part of the journey over with."
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by bloat 13y ago
How about putting a cell tower right on the jail's roof? Woulds you use your smuggled phone if you knew the signal was going straight through the warden's cell tower?
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by bloat 13y ago
Agreed - I enjoyed my Google interview. HR showed me around the building when I arrived. All the interviewers were friendly and not intense at all. In each interview we did the random algorithm question, and then had 10 minutes or so of tal
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by bloat 13y ago
I don't know why people get so bent up over this and write these screeds. Surely everyone knows the drill by now. If Google interview you, you'll get a bunch of random algorithm questions and you either get hired or you don't
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by bloat 13y ago
I've been in working in investment banks for 10 years and I've never seen any base salaries this high. If these answers are true then they must include a very generous bonus or be at hedge funds.
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by bloat 14y ago
It does evaluate to itself and it is constant. It is also a function though, and can be used in the function position of a function application just like any other function. Keywords and all their functionality are defined as a primitive in
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by bloat 14y ago
No, there is no syntactic transformation. The keyword is a function i.e. (in Java terms) it implements the IFn interface. The effect of that function is the same as calling the get function on a map using the keyword as the argument.
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History of calculating pi - in Emacs Lisp(aaronhawley.livejournal.com)
2 points by bloat 14y ago|0 comments
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Autonomous Killer Robots(hrw.org)
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by bloat 14y ago
Think of it like pornography. It may be available cheaply at any time at the store down the street. But having it available for download in the privacy of one's own home removes a significant barrier.
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by bloat 14y ago
> The only thing appealing about this is that we'll all be long dead by then. I'm going to use this line a lot in all my future planning meetings.
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by bloat 14y ago
My problem is that I do exactly this while already reading hacker news.
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by bloat 14y ago
Looks great! Now we need an edition using Overtone... http://overtone.github.com/
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by bloat 14y ago
I believe you are thinking of Christian Marclay's "The Clock". http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2011/apr/07/christia...
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by bloat 14y ago
Yes, and I'm not evening talking about mediocrity. I'm talking about excellent developers - people like me who've spent ten to twenty years developing high performance, high reliability apps that run in very demanding environments. These pe
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by bloat 14y ago
It's nice of you to put your recruitment email at the bottom of the post, but the only message I'm getting from this post is that you needn't bother applying until you're already a startup founder, or have written several books, or have a m

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