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by duncanj 16y ago
But at some point in understanding probability, as it is actually used in the real world, you need calculus. The same is true for economics, which you didn't mention but often comes up as something everyone should learn. I think by not co
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I think I can explain some of the dogmatism seen with XP practitioners. XP is a set of practices for customers, developers, and communication. XP consultants think that teams should try all the practices. Most XP people don't oppose remo
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I feel like the two things economists need to know are: 1. You don't know what you're talking about. 2. You don't know it yet.
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by duncanj 16y ago
I read "The Easy Way to Stop Drinking" by Allen Carr. I had already stopped smoking after reading his smoking book. I haven't had a drink since summer of 08, and I have much a much better ability to do productive work, get up in the morni
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by duncanj 16y ago
When I had Tivo, I definitely watched things like Modern Marvels, Mythbusters, etc, more than other things like whatever was supposed to be on at 8PM. If the model was based on recommendations and voting, like Tivo, I think a lot of those
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This is actually a little paradoxical, because numerous reports have shown that strenuous exercise depresses the immune system by increasing glucocorticoid levels. The odd thing is that glucocorticoids cause an increase in circulating neut
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by duncanj 16y ago
In this case, I have no dogs in the race. I'm registered in a different county from where I now live and it is too late to register in this one. I am not interested in any of the local issues in the other county and I am uninterested in a
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by duncanj 16y ago
My reaction is a big "wha???" I don't understand what is supposed to be done, even after clicking on the "what is a slashtag" link. Maybe I'm getting old? Can the site describe what it does without a video? I hate clicking on videos. A
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As much as I want to defer to the expertise of the author, to say that there's been a 30-year bull market in bonds is to say that there was at least a 20-year bear market before 1983. This may be the long term trend, but within that is up
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by duncanj 16y ago
I've been finding ActiveInbox ( http://www.activeinboxhq.com/ ) pretty useful as a way of keeping things organized within gmail. It also is agnostic to google tasks, although I hope they add some more integration there soon. I think the f
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by duncanj 16y ago
I agree with you, but only because what you are saying is a tautology. If the government was vaporized, and some powerful corporations took over, there would be a new de facto government. The corporations would then have to be overthr
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by duncanj 16y ago
I was a little disturbed by the glib comparison between Nazi Germany and the IRS. Also, I think there are a lot of people who do not "suffer" under a redistributive welfare state, but rather suffer less than they would without the redistri
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Winebottler: simplified Wine installation on OS X(winebottler.kronenberg.org)
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I think it's good, at a basic level, to refuse to do things that shock your morality, even just a little bit. I was once told our company was going to be pitching to do work for one of those companies that sneak charges onto your credit ca
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by duncanj 16y ago
Are the delays in Russia due to a satellite? Those seem like very long delays. I am usually annoyed by 5-15 second delays in the US.
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by duncanj 16y ago
I wouldn't include social security and medicare on an income tax receipt. That would be an income tax + payroll tax receipt.
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DietLibC, a libc optimized for small size(fefe.de)
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by duncanj 16y ago
I'm not even sure my votes ever count on HN so I rarely vote. The algorithms, as people talk about them, seem to be stacked against us casual readers.
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by duncanj 16y ago
Not everything is encoded redundantly. Try changing CGA to TGA in one of the exons of PAX6. In humans, this change will result in aniridia, the lack of an iris, an unstable corneal epithelium, and other problems. This is just one example,
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The really interesting lesson that engineers have learned from the Patriot is that "never reboot" might not be the best target for critical systems. Rather, controlled rebooting can help clean up problems before they affect the function of
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I think you misunderstand. When I see, in a function like yours void function(int const * const value) it worries me because it shows me that the writer doesn't know the meaning of const. There is no added value of this declaration o
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by duncanj 16y ago
const type* const has always been a warning flag to me when I read it in other people's code. What are the advantages of making the pointer itself const?
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by duncanj 16y ago
If you want to outsource your coding, you should see if you are any good at specifying what you want and conversing with developers. Try little projects for $1000 or so, ideally things that will help you with your business but are not huge
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Galbraith: Deficit Commission Should Produce No Report(angrybearblog.com)
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Should BP Nuke its Leaking Well?(scientificamerican.com)
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hear hear
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And devoting resources to Win Phone 7 is going to be a big win? How does one know? What if Kin caught on and Win Phone 7 flopped? Some people would be praising the Kin team and others would be making fun of MS for wasting their time with Wi
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by duncanj 16y ago
I assume Google created more jobs in the rise from 501 to >20,000 employees than they did in the 2-500 period. I have heard statistics that a lot of the creation of jobs occurs with small business. Also, that a lot of the job losses oc
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by duncanj 16y ago
I submitted this because I felt that this discussion of Say's law and the classical discussion of the concept of a "general glut" that DeLong brings up in the article is important material for people to be aware of, regardless of their curr
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Is Macroeconomics Hard?(delong.typepad.com)
1 points by duncanj 16y ago|1 comments

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