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by dschobel 17y ago
It's interesting because a) it's the first confirmation we have from a first-party source and b) the way the guy did it most likely just screwed his company out of any future Apple dealings.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Agreed. It's been encouraging to hear all the talk about "sustainable aid". I'll be curious how they solve the corruption problems though. If you have international observers on hand, others will scream "colonialism". But honestly, after Ha
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by dschobel 17y ago
This is a classic problem of international aid. In a nutshell, any indicators of progress revert completely when the aid stops flowing in with no lasting infrastructure/education/anything actually getting developed. In short, the countries
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by dschobel 17y ago
In addition to the analytical faults, the notion of "pulling their weight" has all sorts of moral imperative baggage which is more typically used in the context of the free-rider problem from game-theory. At the very least you'd have to mak
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by dschobel 17y ago
Fantastic work! Just curious, why does it not return any results for long strings? For example, putting "hacker" in the Beginning box and "ne" in the Ending box yields no results.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I've had similar reactions from Project Managers after I showed them some versioned Excel files. They were blown away by the ability to go "back in time without having to manage copies". The revision graph totally floored them. There's an o
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by dschobel 17y ago
Blog spam of reuters story: http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2010/01/22/google’s-nexus... To the submitter, rather than submitting everything you blog about (as evidenced here: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sinbsd ), maybe
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think a lot of the worth of HN is in the analysis by the intelligent people who roam these virtual halls so even if the story is mundane I often learn a lot from the people who follow climate science and politics much more closely than I.
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by dschobel 17y ago
This reminded me of the last time I saw this guy in the popular press when he said he found that dancing like Travolta from Saturday Night Fever was really attractive to women. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Lifestyle/Dance_like_Trav..
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by dschobel 17y ago
Very cool, very LINQish (for the C# lads out there). Includes deferred execution and everything! Color me excited.
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by dschobel 17y ago
my favorite Perl quote is from Stevey (of google fame): Sometimes [Perl] fits just right, but when it misses, the best code a human could write looks like it was produced by an agitated baboon banging its feet on the keyboard for 20 minute
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by dschobel 17y ago
I realize that, but the second one doesn't make sense without the context of the first :)
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think you need to own your company name. The dropbox guys claimed to have done just fine when all they owned was getdropbox.com but I'd be curious to know if there's been any change in traffic from people going straight to their new domai
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by dschobel 17y ago
That's my biggest criticism of the economist, that the content is not attributed to any author. I love the content but it's kind of a bizarre approach to journalism to keep the authorship anonymous. I can't imagine what their rationale is o
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by dschobel 17y ago
It surprised me that a few were (jokingly?) anti-Common Lisp. Any lispers care to explain? examples: "Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridd
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think it's in response to: 21/01/2010 15:12 (10:09 minutes ago) The FINANCIAL -- The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of US hardware and software vendor Sun Microsystems Inc. by Ora
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To Help Haiti, End Foreign Aid(online.wsj.com)
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Very nice solution for the very common problem of load-balancers not supporting sticky sessions. It's worth a read if you're in the web application business.
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by dschobel 17y ago
How is he not directly responsible for his administration's statements and positions?
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by dschobel 17y ago
The one which helped me the most was a moderately technical tutorial entitled GIT for computer scientists . http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/
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by dschobel 17y ago
Some poor countries are able to bootstrap themselves out of it though. The article cites China, Taiwan, South Korea, Botswana, Chile, India, Mauritius, and Singapore as countries which historically were chronically poor and now are some of
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by dschobel 17y ago
This trend of reducing every HN story to a glib one-liner is really starting to be obnoxious. The article is actually quite interesting in that it examines the motives a dictator has to foster stability and financial growth (so that there i
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by dschobel 17y ago
Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a ka
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by dschobel 17y ago
Thanks for organizing this Harper.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think that makes it all the more interesting because you can see that the move worked out for him: Scott is an independent author and public speaker for hire. His work as a writer and public speaker has appeared in The New York Times, T
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by dschobel 17y ago
Why are you focusing on whether or not it is shocking? It is deceptive and wrong, regardless of your emotional reaction to it.
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Why wouldn't publix leap at the opportunity and at least make him manager of the store. I can't imagine they get many MBAs at that level. Why not actually put his skills to good use?
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The issue is not that a few people are making innocent mistakes, it's the organizations (the UN in this case) which are entrusted to lead research into this which are doing it. These are the same organizations who are cited as the "scientif
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by dschobel 17y ago
Again, 37 signals like VoodooPC is just an exceptional example. That's why it is useful to look at aggregate numbers like the UVA/Darden study (I'm still trying to find an online copy for you guys) which tells you what the majority of succe
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by dschobel 17y ago
I nominate this picture: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/01...

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