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by cia_plant 13y ago
"Popularity is a good indicator of quality" -- Ronald McDonald
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Coroutines as a Basis for UI Programming(jason.on-a-horse.org)
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by cia_plant 13y ago
Template rendering is rarely a bottleneck. When JS-only pages seem slow, it is often because they are loading large JS libraries or are waiting for after page load to begin fetching AJAX data. By prerendering the initial JSON data for the p
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by cia_plant 13y ago
That evidence would be convincing if peasants were enticed from working in the traditional arrangements by the lure of working in a factory; but as I understand it the situation was more complicated. Industrialization proceeded alongside th
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by cia_plant 13y ago
Every society is unlike any other society. Most of them consider their particular way of life to be superior to their neighbors or predecessors. In some cases they have a very good case for thinking so, too: they are a vast empire, scientif
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by cia_plant 13y ago
Yeah I felt like this had even less content than most of Bret's other talks, which are always kind of short on specifics.
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by cia_plant 13y ago
lol none of the loops do any work after the first time. Hence why they run 200,000,000 times (this would be 10 trillion additions/second if the loops were actually running). Epic fail.
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by cia_plant 13y ago
Just a note on the text style: it all seems kind of overemphasized and breathless, due to the heavy use of bold, italic, short sentences, one-sentence paragraphs, and so on. Less is more with such devices, especially bold text. I'm not
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by cia_plant 13y ago
This is Say's Law, and was believed throughout the 19th century until being vigorously challenged by Keynes in his "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". The "General" in the title specifically refers to the fact that the theor
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by cia_plant 13y ago
I think it's ridiculous to call people "lazy" who wrote an entirely new language from scratch and released it for free, because it's lacking one feature.
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by cia_plant 13y ago
Being rejected repeatedly is disheartening for sure. However, 10 rejections is actually not that many, nor is two months a very long job search. Many companies have a pretty narrow idea of what a good candidate is - e.g. "5 years experience
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by cia_plant 13y ago
Taibbi's pieces are often brimming with excerpted interviews, specific names and places and trials, details of hearings and indictments. It may be that he is catastrophically misinterpreting these sources, but he obviously makes an attempt
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by cia_plant 14y ago
I think there must be some schism here between people with a design background and people with a programming background, or something. As someone who is more of a programmer, if I can think of a way to specify what I want unambiguously, and
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by cia_plant 14y ago
It's disgusting that your comment - a nasty, nearly content-free spit of cynical contrarianism - is currently the most highly-ranked reply to what was actually a congenial and well thought out blog post.
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by cia_plant 16y ago
It seems to me that it is unchangeable in the aggregate. A certain level of unemployment is simply part of our system; the workers are literally incapable of changing the economic variables which create that level. Moreover, a large propo
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by cia_plant 16y ago
There's nothing wrong with what he said taken on its own. But as an answer to a reporter's question, it rings of sophistry. Kind of like how Clinton gets shit for talking about the meaning of the word 'is', even though Kant also talked ab
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by cia_plant 16y ago
I only sit down and write code for maybe 5-10 hours a week. Programming is always on my mind, so I am mentally preparing my work at all times. I am working on a startup full time. I spend the rest of my time on diversions which are not t
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by cia_plant 16y ago
Your argument tends to support the point that it is better to be a citizen than a consumer, but that doesn't imply that it is better to call Americans 'citizens' rather than 'consumers.' If Americans really are better summed-up as 'consume
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by cia_plant 16y ago
Well, that does have something to do with oil skimmers, and something to do with the EPA, but it doesn't support what anamax said. Obviously I did search google for terms like "EPA oil skimmer", which came up with this "A Whale" stuff and l
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by cia_plant 16y ago
Citation?
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by cia_plant 16y ago
I guess my question was very vague. Let me be more specific. When people talk about causes, they can mean a few different things. For example, if someone is crossing the street at a walk signal, and is hit by a drunk driver, we tend to say
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by cia_plant 16y ago
I'm glad to finally find someone who knows exactly what caused the housing bubble and subsequent crash. Could you explain it to me? I find the whole matter very confusing myself, although I've read a lot about it. So: low interest rates cau
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by cia_plant 16y ago
I believe it is legal in many or most countries. In the USA the power of the state to expropriate property for the public good is called eminent domain, and it is affirmed by the US constitution.
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by cia_plant 16y ago
He's clearly talented. He not only got Playboy to run his teabagger handjob, but he got them to run it anonymously and (presumably) to pay him for the privilege.
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by cia_plant 16y ago
One possibility which seems very much overlooked is that of a catastrophic ecosystem crash. The recent bee die-off gives a hint of the kinds of things that are possible. Another possible catastrophe is a plague or parasite that is resista
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by cia_plant 16y ago
"heritable" does not mean "determined by genetics" FYI.
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by cia_plant 16y ago
By 'a bunch of paper manipulation' he probably means some of the practices mentioned elsewhere in this discussion - such as hiring someone whose full-time job is to find loopholes and contradictions within complex contracts, so they can cha
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by cia_plant 16y ago
I hid the left sidebar and expanded the results column by adding the following snippet to 'userContent.css' in my 'chrome' directory (for Firefox). @-moz-document domain(google.com) { #leftnav { display:none !important;
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by cia_plant 16y ago
Where does it conflate those? I thought it discussed exactly the point you've just made.
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by cia_plant 17y ago
the median number of lifetime sex partners for all U.S. women ages 15 to 44 is just 3.3, according to the Census Bureau’s latest statistical abstract. Huh? How exactly do you end up with .3 of a sexual partner?

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