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by crpatino 12y ago
Even assuming point 4 does not hold up, the GP is describing a system that promotes arbitrarily long development cycles. i.e. if it takes 5 years to develop the next generation of a drug, but the patent expires after 20 years, you are basic
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by crpatino 12y ago
You could equally argue that people who build products that do not sell but thanks to (heavy-handed) advertising are freeloading off the rest of society.
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by crpatino 12y ago
Definitively going to look for "The Design of Design"; Fred Brooks is a master. Though I am relatively young - one of those clueless hacks who arrived at this industry when the dot com party was on its last legs - I can see the bl
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by crpatino 12y ago
If by "improve" he means creating a mediocre clone of an existing and successful product, leveraging a monopolistic position to wreck the original, and then go through a long process of incremental improvement on the clone until i
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by crpatino 12y ago
You can always emulate all autotools' shortcomings, you know, for backwards compatibility. And then add a bunch of defects of your own making on the top.
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by crpatino 12y ago
You'd need to have enough local oil to pick up the slack. For what I know, US has been a net importer for decades... Or maybe there are enough reserves, but they are in the long game and want to buy the foreign oil first... while the t
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by crpatino 12y ago
I know it is a semantics argument, but there's a difference between "X ends up acting in alignment with self interest" and "X's actions are motivated/guided by self interest".
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by crpatino 12y ago
A hundred times yes! You know you have a true scholarship when it pays (not lends) at least 90% of total costs.
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by crpatino 12y ago
As someone who has been on and off of lecturing for the last 10 years, I think you overestimate the size of the Decent Schools Set.
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by crpatino 12y ago
This is totally the wrong way to think about it. When you see a role model you see the finished product, but not all the hard work involved nor those embarrassing mistakes that turned in valuable lessons. Progress is a fiction. And self act
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by crpatino 12y ago
I don't think the article mentions specific species of insects, but... I have tasted maguey worm and crickets, and they are both quite good. So, unless it is poisonous, I think hornworm would do, too.
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by crpatino 12y ago
> Of course, it also incentivizes getting the supply back up. I think you answered yourself, didn't you? One thing I've observed about (legal or otherwise) markets with inelastic demand is that temporary supply shortages tend
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by crpatino 12y ago
Slimy yet satisfying.
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by crpatino 12y ago
Tell that to my manager :P
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by crpatino 12y ago
In my experience, there's strong correlation between programmers that don't know how to implement basic data structures and programmers that make poor decisions when picking up one from a collections library. The ones that know th
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by crpatino 12y ago
I think the idiomatic form of "user" is perfectly clear within industry. In particular, a "user" is a stakeholder that makes use of the product but not necessarily pay for it... otherwise, he would have been called a &qu
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by crpatino 12y ago
I think the key phrase here is "in the long run". Nothing that you said suggests that there's something going on besides an honest rookie mistake. And if you are not willing to loose some dime because a rookie did something t
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by crpatino 12y ago
If you care about performance at all , strings are going to slow you down in unexpected and counter-intuitive ways. Far better if you pass around text data as binary buffers (with metadata describing encoding, please), and only convert tho
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by crpatino 12y ago
If play a simple "99 bottles of beer" backwards three times, it will awaken Cthulhu.
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by crpatino 12y ago
The problem is that there are lots and lots of people that comes to you and say "college is not worth it because of..." and you dismiss every one of them by saying "that's just one anecdote, there's no data to suppo
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by crpatino 12y ago
> Although tech industry don't get as many law suits I think they face much higher financial consequences for screwing up. Agreed on that, though there is an upper limit on that, you cannot lose more revenue than you make over the t
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by crpatino 12y ago
I agree standard images are much easier to set up than a hand configured system. That does not mean said image should run on top of an emulator. I see some value in having a running system right now, instead of waiting for a long latency wh
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by crpatino 12y ago
That would be a bummer for those personally involved wouldn't it? From astronaut to subsistence farmer. At least somebody would make lots of money from the reality TV show that ensued.
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by crpatino 12y ago
> That's like saying: "don't make backups, just don't screw up." That does not even belong in the same category. Data backups in computer systems are cheap, and people/organizations not doing them even cheap
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by crpatino 12y ago
Mother Earth?
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by crpatino 12y ago
If consumers of IT products were given the right to potentially sue for every bug that resulted in adverse situations arising for them, the whole industry would collapse in less than a year. Now, put yourself in the shoes of a company/
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by crpatino 12y ago
You could have said the same thing about tobacco, 50 years ago. That did not make the suffering of those with the proclivity to develop cancer any less gruesome.
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by crpatino 12y ago
Pardon me... You did not lump us in the same category with the average Facebook stalker, did you?
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by crpatino 12y ago
Don't discard feudalism just yet. If nothing is done (and there are reasons to believe that not enough will be done to count as "more than nothing") this is what we will be getting by default. Also, do not conflate the social
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by crpatino 12y ago
I do not think anything you say here contradicts what I originally said. Yes, there are economic reasons why this makes sense, probably having to do with labor compensation. Having said that, please excuse my ignorance on system administrat

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