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by donaldc 17y ago
No doubt in 100 years or so nutrition science will finally get to the point of saying, in essence, prepare and eat foods that have a long tradition among groups of people who managed to stay in excellent health. I've gone ahead and started
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by donaldc 17y ago
I do think the article was a bit much. At the same time, I notice that during Steve Jobs's absence, the iphone mostly just treaded water, making only fairly incremental improvements to the same basic functionality. A few more years of this
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by donaldc 17y ago
He has a point for smaller-scale programming. Certainly, even when designing part of a larger system, one should aim to be as clear and well-structured as possible. But beyond a certain scale, complex systems, including complex software, mu
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by donaldc 17y ago
Perl (especially Perl 6, if/when it reaches completion) and Python fill very different temperamental niches. They have profoundly different takes on programming, despite their similarities in terms of both being high-level, interpreted lang
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Why Parrot is Important(linux-mag.com)
78 points by donaldc 17y ago|20 comments
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by donaldc 17y ago
I disagree. Making more information available is virtually always a win. It often causes organizations to moderate their own behavior, for fear of looking bad. When this does not happen, it makes it easier for those outside to know what nee
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by donaldc 17y ago
I've isolated the problem to be with my will power - I never take initiatives, and I keep procrastinating on doing homework. Drugs will not fix this problem. You need to improve your willpower and your study habits.
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by donaldc 17y ago
One of the things not mentioned by the article is that the city of Detroit has an income tax on people working in the city, unlike virtually all of the surrounding cities. This is symptomatic of a wider dynamic, in which it actually costs m
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by donaldc 17y ago
Having grown up in Michigan and since moved to Silicon Valley, I can say that Detroit and San Jose are not really comparable. The weather in San Jose is much, much nicer. It's sunny and warm most of the year. The four-month winters in Detro
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by donaldc 17y ago
Packing the family up and selling the house to pursue a more challenging development job in another area is just not feasible, especially when your spouse has her own career. A good reason to live in a tech hub, if you want to be able to
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by donaldc 17y ago
Going to a more prestigious and expensive institution isn't just about the diploma anyway. It's a 4 year long networking event where you build relationships with people that will help you for the rest of your life. Has this effect been qu
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by donaldc 17y ago
I have a friend who recently bought a house and his property taxes are like rent, it is just that expensive. Yes, his property taxes are probably higher than they would be without Proposition 13, because he's subsidizing those around him
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by donaldc 17y ago
Unfortunately, Proposition 13 is a lot broader than merely allowing retirees to stay in their homes. The tax breaks can be passed on to children if they take over the house, essentially creating a privileged and heritable class of homeowner
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by donaldc 17y ago
This article is looking at things from a static perspective. If biohackers ever get to the point of releasing killer plagues, something along these lines would happen: (1) The earliest killer plague created and released by a biohacker kil
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by donaldc 17y ago
I think that the lawyers who wrote the article would have benefited from consulting with a couple of qualified internet engineers. Having said that, the piece was written by lawyers, so it isn't surprising they see primarily a legal solutio
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by donaldc 17y ago
That blog post was (in a way) persuasive... It was substantially more difficult to read than it would have been had it been properly capitalized. I am now convinced that capitalization is not obsolete.
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by donaldc 17y ago
There would also be nothing to prevent you, as a coach, from applying the same full-court press strategy back to the pressing team. Even the coaches of the team in the article conceded that this would have defeated them. So the interesting
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by donaldc 17y ago
That seems to be the conventional wisdom. The conventional wisdom is probably right for teams that haven't specifically prepared to constantly press. Are there any statistics on the effectiveness of a full-game full-court press done by a te
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by donaldc 17y ago
One of the points of the article was that, due to its incessant running practice, the full-court press team was in better cardiovascular shape than the other team, able to pull off the constant movement required for a full-court press. Wher
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by donaldc 17y ago
It is actually hard to tell from the article whether the EU parliament recognized Internet access as a fundamental right. The article itself did say that's what it did, but there was no actual quote from what the EU parliament passed that c
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by donaldc 17y ago
Once there is no work that humans do better than robots, there will be no work for humans to do. This could be very good, or very bad. We're not yet to that point, however.
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by donaldc 17y ago
Also, his assumption that life could spread at nearly the speed of light may be overly optimistic. If, by contrast, one assumes that light can spread at only 1/10th the speed of light, and that the earliest star-faring life could have arise
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by donaldc 17y ago
I think it's possible (although not a foregone conclusion) that in fact much of the filter is from what he terms 'discrete' events. That is, having the right sort of sun, the right-sized planet at the ideal distance from this sun, with a su
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by donaldc 17y ago
If the parents don't care about their kids' education, you generally have a problem regardless. The kids are likely to pick up this attitude, and forcing them through the current school system will not change it. Anyway, it should definitel
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by donaldc 18y ago
Doubtful. Google's been around for years now. If the bandwidth providers were going to stick it to Google, they already would have. Furthermore, Google and the bandwidth provider both stand to gain by cutting out any middlemen (i.e. tier 1
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by donaldc 18y ago
What do you mean, you couldn't find a new job? It sounds like you had at least a year from when things got icy to when your life was destroyed. If you can't find another job in a year, perhaps the great disaster wasn't all your employer's f
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by donaldc 18y ago
In theory, the ability to sign a non-compete increases an employee's options. In practice, if they're enforced, many employees no longer have much option for employment without signing them. But don't worry, even if this bill passes, you'll
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by donaldc 18y ago
Brilliant! I think everyone involved benefits: * More startups get to receive YC aid and funding, and these startups are more likely to have (as a group) advice from/access to a top-tier VC firm. * YC gets to fund more companies, while spre
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by donaldc 18y ago
I agree, but I wonder about the subtle effects of so many old buildings have on the psychology of a place. Old buildings and a place with a long past (which in North America means hundreds of years) is probably great for the idea industry,
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by donaldc 18y ago
And possibly the biggest events site, etc. Basically, for the subset of things where having the most people you know on the site is more important than the fact that the interface of some other site is better, facebook may win out. I know p

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