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by carbon8 17y ago
Indeed, but considering the social impact of business has traditionally required additional overhead. It even prevents entire business models and even sectors (eg, the debt industry) without a series of mental leaps to justify it as sociall
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by carbon8 17y ago
"No offense, but if this is your darkest hour, you need to be living a much wider spectrum of human experience!" I'd say that about someone who would make a comment like this. Things that are unbelievably difficult for one person can be e
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by carbon8 17y ago
"Ruby, for example, shoots out from the bottom right - to me, this says" "yarv" is the graph that represents what is now Ruby 1.9, "ruby" only represents Ruby 1.8
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by carbon8 17y ago
The situation you describe simply doesn't exist.
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by carbon8 17y ago
This is a really strange interview. Granted, Woz is a sucker for shiny objects, but praising "the algorithms" after seeing just a presentation? Also, the interviewer's favorite features were website preview popups and customer service numbe
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by carbon8 17y ago
"on HN" Indeed, but even here it has been increasing. This made it to #2 within a half hour of posting. Even watching this thread you can see people driving through down modding even mdasen's post. Another recently popular blatant nonsens
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by carbon8 17y ago
"Python vs. Ruby (Perl’s Ugly Sister)...This makes the Ruby syntax look like someone emptied all the symbols from the keyboard into a shotgun and shot them into your face." It's amazing watching the python web development community develo
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by carbon8 17y ago
"I quite like..." But that's just a taste preference (though I agree with the sentiment; I personally don't like white backgrounds in general). Plus, all indications are that the images are just a haphazard marketing decision. Good design
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by carbon8 17y ago
Plus, everyone knows that the first step in great UI development is covering an application's background in stock photos.
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by carbon8 17y ago
I'd be curious to hear exactly what functionality is supposedly provided by the distracting background images and headers. I want to like bing (seriously, powerset FTW), but this is the same kind of pointless design-by-committee stuff that
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by carbon8 17y ago
A series LLC is another option: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_LLC
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by carbon8 17y ago
A quick google search indicates that he ran a feed mill and took a threshing crew to ND every year, and the tractor was developed to address problems he encountered doing that work. One of a few rough sources: http://iagenweb.org/boards/cl
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by carbon8 17y ago
"- Paris reminded me in a lot of ways of a significantly more laid-back New York." Probably the most striking thing for me is the difference in cafe culture. In the urban US, cafes are filled with professors and grad students, telecommute
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by carbon8 17y ago
Ruby or Python, leaning toward Python only because it's used more widely in physics applications and, as a result, has more developed libraries for scientific computation.
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by carbon8 17y ago
"When is there ever anything especially remarkable about New Yorker covers?" When hasn't there been?
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by carbon8 17y ago
Well, thankfully one of the top priorities of the upcoming release is a stable API.
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by carbon8 17y ago
"I also point out statical rates: Microsoft shares in IM, web-email, console market, developer tools market, web-server market etc. are all growing and aren't declining." Depends on how you measure it. For instance, apparently in terms of
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by carbon8 17y ago
"Perhaps your ideal web stack is what you're using. (What're you using, btw?)" He has stated in previous comments that he's using scala. Interestingly, merb on jruby has reportedly reached 14000 rps on similar hardware to what he's referi
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by carbon8 17y ago
It's in 2.3 stable, but it appears to no longer be present in edge (in fact, ActionPack has already gone through a lot of changes): http://is.gd/xP8Y (github link)
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by carbon8 17y ago
"Facebook private messages are governed by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which forbids communications providers from intercepting user messages, barring limited exceptions for security and valid legal orders." Are private mes
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by carbon8 17y ago
Science has always been socially, culturally and politically disruptive.
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by carbon8 17y ago
How did this completely content-free post get so many votes so quickly? Really, the world could do with a few thousand fewer blog posts and comments about how someone decided to learn web development and chose a python framework (usually dj
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by carbon8 17y ago
"Fortunately, I found them (maybe) on google images: http://cache.consumerist.com/assets/resources/2006/10/laptop... " According to the context ( http://consumerist.com/210708/all-laptops-break-period ), this is apparently a graph fro
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by carbon8 17y ago
"I wouldn't want to invest that much money in systems that I've watched fail on a regular basis" So, according to the decision model you are using, if you saw your friend win the lottery, you'd start playing every day and expect to win, s
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by carbon8 17y ago
Apple computers are consistently more reliable than average, and historically (at least the last 10 years) they've frequently been top ranked in reliability rankings (consumer reports, RescueCom, etc). "Sample size of 1 office but it's eno
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by carbon8 17y ago
My daily use cases for dd-wrt (all might be possible with tomato): * tunneling: I work mobile and tunnel everything through ssh and/or openvpn using my primary home router. * signal boost: I can't get reception everywhere I need to without
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by carbon8 17y ago
FWIW, I've used DD-WRT on a variety of wrt54g series routers (including three wrt54gl routers) and have never had connection problems attributable to the firmware.
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by carbon8 17y ago
If it might incite immediate violence, then there is a possible argument for limiting distribution of something that would cause or significantly aid violent acts. But the threat of violence would need to be imminent for it to be justified.
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by carbon8 17y ago
Really, this isn't a hard concept to grasp: RSS is not email. You don't need to read everything. You don't need to feel overwhelmed. You don't need to feel guilty. What an RSS reader allows you to do is have a central location to categorize
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by carbon8 17y ago
Eh, different strokes for different folks. My only major criticism of Haml is that it makes me actively adverse to how incredibly verbose HTML is, which probably isn't a good trait for a web developer.

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