carsongross

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   by carsongross 11y ago

   LTCM wasn't a warning, it was prophesy.
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   by carsongross 11y ago

   Short Afghanistan.
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   by carsongross 11y ago

   True, but they are almost always very wrong to the upside .
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   by carsongross 11y ago

   And yet, and yet... Female happiness marches relentlessly downward. http://www.nber.org/papers/w14969
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   by carsongross 11y ago

   If you can get 11.3% per year on your investments forever, spending anything on anything is going to look foolish: just wait a few hundred years and you will have more money than the US GDP, which only grows at 2-3%. If you do want to enjoy
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   by carsongross 11y ago

   If you want a picture of the future, imagine casino lights blinking in front of a blank human face, forever.
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   by carsongross 11y ago

   In fairness, taking 2 minutes to load and freezing the browser is a pretty darned good summary of Javascript at 20.
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   by carsongross 11y ago

   I prefer REST for mainly aesthetic reasons: the URLs are pretty, and in Rails I can handle different HTTP actions in the same method, which usually ends up being some clean code: def index if request.put? update_stuff end
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   by carsongross 11y ago

   Uh oh, The Client is figuring out that Agile isn't a silver bullet for building great software... Time to turn the crank.. Get your team GROWS™ certified today!
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    I highly recommend getting custom made shirts. There has been a resurgence of custom tailors with competitive pricing. Sacramento has a great shop: http://www.rdouglas.net/ Properly tailored clothing will change your life
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    I did not, I have to admit.
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    Believe it or not, I implemented powerset() as a joke in Gosu years ago: var set : java.util.Set<String> = {"a", "b", "c"} print( set.powerSet() ) prints [[], [b], [c], [b, c, a], [a], [b,
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    ” We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.” As I've gotten older, I've developed the following interpretation of this statement: Getting system archite
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    Auxiliary support provided by The Horde of Users Who Want Drop Shadow & Gradient Easements In Their UI So They Can Tell What They Can Click On, or THUWWDSGEITUISTCTWTCC, pronounced Thuh-Woods-Gheit-Eww-Tict-Wit-See.
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    https://github.com/LeadDyno/intercooler-js - Giving you 95% of the functionality of a client-side MVC framework at 5% of the complexity. Main site at http://intercoolerjs.org I'm particularly proud of
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    Not completely, but the margins will collapse and it will go back to what it once was: a nice way for part-time workers to make a bit of money. Startup idea: I'm a seller. Hi realtors, you may submit an itemized, fixed price bid on he
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    There are two possibilities here: this guy has been set up as the patsy to take the fall for this or, more terrifying, our markets are so brittle and levered that a guy at home with no juice can wipe out a trillion in notional value from hi
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    I am reminded of one of my favorite tweets of all time: “The easiest way to vertically center something in CSS is to close your laptop and go to the bar.” - @jakeboxer https://twitter.com/thedaniel/status/414123893
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    Agile development is another tick in the long series of desperate attempts by management to avoid The One Thing That Actually Usually Works™: Hire great developers, pay them a ton of money and give them a lot of freedom and time.
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    And who among us would have guessed that the answer to problems caused by the EU and a single currency is concentrating yet more power in the central government? It is instructive to go back and read the arguments the anti-federalists made
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    "Orthodoxy" - GK Chesterton "The Abolition of Man" - CS Lewis "The Master and Margarita" - Mikhail Bulgakov "The Brothers Karamazov" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    Certainly the current surge of MMA popularity (perhaps abating) appears to me to be a return to more primitive western mores around violence. It is interesting how eye gouging and biting were, even in greek times, considered out of bounds.
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    Dunno guys, when six-sigma events keep happening every seven or eight years, maybe it's time to reconsider a normal distribution as our go-to model.
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    No, it's not. The Swiss just auctioned 10 year debt at a negative yield. So, no, it's not 1999.
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    Request for a special case: if we are the original author or it's a ShowHN, can we allow gratuitous negativity by declaration? I've had some people talk some mad shit about intercooler.js and yet, after engaging them a bit, I lear
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    Just think in simple terms: as technology allows us to produce more of what we want with less labor and time, ceteris paribus, prices should fall relative to our labor and time. A man gathering berries by hand makes for expensive berries.
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    Sure. I'm saying, ceteris paribus, advances in technology should make the things we want less expensive. That's generally (though not always) why we bother to pursue them. In real life ceteris is never paribus, of course.
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    (lol) The price of an apple 2 computer, with no monitor, was $1300. You can get a 21 inch imac for $1100 today. 18% nominal deflation! Apple must be absolutely broke! Look, I know. I went to the same "inflation is necessary" s
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    I agree, I think we are probably too far gone at this point. There will almost certainly be a massive deflationary shock anyway, because total debt isn't expanding at anywhere near the rate necessary to keep up with the pre-2008 curve
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    by carsongross 12y ago

    A slow and steady deflation is the natural state of affairs when productivity is advancing and the social environment is relatively stable. Economists panic about things getting cheaper because they are compromised by the current banking s