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by ef4 14y ago
The problem with the "solve it with a library" answer is interoperability. You and your dependencies usually need to agree on which paradigm you're going to use. The Node ecosystem clearly has no consensus on this point. So you spend a lot
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by ef4 14y ago
From an economic standpoint, there's no reason to think that the destruction of the TV middle-men would have any impact on the amount of capital available to make shows. The only question is whether there's still a lot of money to be made f
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by ef4 14y ago
Node is maddening for one simple reason: asynchronous code shouldn't need to look like asynchronous code , and in fact it's much safer and less verbose if it doesn't. The whole performance argument is completely beside the point. Yes, we g
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by ef4 14y ago
By that argument, you could also just build one extremely powerful tower and cover a vast region. But that would support far less data, because everyone in the region would be waiting for a turn to broadcast at the same frequency. This is w
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by ef4 14y ago
"engaged in bloody wars for lucrative routes" "threatened personally with a weapon" Isn't the obvious solution to this problem the enforcement of existing laws against threats and violence? Or conversely, if the government is so weak that i
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by ef4 14y ago
Yes, "well-known" is context dependent. But I would argue the WSJ chose a poor context. The reader already knows whether or not he/she has heard of Github, so the real question is "are they well-known in their industry?" Pick any non-consum
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by ef4 14y ago
I've been using Arel directly (with ActiveRecord) for a project. It's 80% of what I want, but then it inexplicably sucks at the last 20%. The whole point of a relational algebra is that it's closed under all the relevant operations. But Are
908.
by ef4 14y ago
"to drive down the price of capital?" But that's exactly what we do see. Interest rates are absurdly low. Interest rates are the price of capital. The fact that you can select a sample of outliers who won big on risky investments doesn't
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by ef4 14y ago
But when we're talking about capital gains income, we would expect the two to be correlated.
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by ef4 14y ago
There is a principled argument against net neutrality as it's usually proposed, whether or not you happen to agree. Given congress's track record, I think there are plenty of rational reasons to be wary of asking them to start telling ISPs
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by ef4 14y ago
"If all major currencies (including home currency) float down, then I don't lose very much." That's not true -- they're all floating down relative to actual goods and services. Coordinated devaluation prevents massive capital flight from co
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by ef4 14y ago
The Swiss national bank has intervened repeatedly over the last year to devalue the franc. They do it for the same mercantilist reason that China does it: to subsidize export industries. So even though Swiss consumers may not be seeing nomi
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by ef4 14y ago
There's nothing magical about proximity. It's all just a question of sufficiently high-bandwidth, low-friction communication. There's no getting around our monkey brains' desire to see other people's faces and bond with them. But that's jus
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by ef4 14y ago
And number 2 is invalidated by the fact that the terms allow you to sell your ticket, just not for more than you paid.
915.
by ef4 14y ago
Your distinction is an important one, but I think it amounts to the same effect in the end. Back then, you couldn't make money by selling many copies of your art because making copies was too difficult. Now, you can't make money by selling
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by ef4 14y ago
Let me suggest an opposite approach: don't be your best user. Consider: you are an entreprenur/hacker. If you are also your best user, then your best user is an entrepreneur/hacker. This leads to several undesirable effects. For one, your u
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by ef4 14y ago
"my six years of Ph.D. training have made me wiser, savvier, grittier, and more steely, focused, creative, eloquent, perceptive, and professionally effective than I was as a fresh college graduate" This statement is essentially a post hoc e
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by ef4 14y ago
Having taken the classic MIT 6.001 scheme course, the choice of language didn't really level things out. There was still a big difference between people who came in with years of exposure to code and people who didn't. Even though many of t
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by ef4 14y ago
This article is not using a correct definition of "scalable". A business that needs more staff to service more customers is still scalable, as long as each staff member generates more revenue than they cost. McDonalds is awesomely scalable.
920.
by ef4 14y ago
I think the strongest argument is pedagogical. If tau makes the underlying concepts clearer (and I believe it does), then it makes sense to use it when teaching beginners.
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by ef4 14y ago
Get out and talk to the people that you think would make good customers! A small-business product like yours is the ideal candidate for that model. Small business owners are relatively approachable. You can often get a chance to talk direct
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by ef4 14y ago
I think a lot of the frustration with relational databases in general comes from a misunderstanding. People conflate "relational" with "SQL", because of the historical accident that SQL is the most popular way to query relational data. Then
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by ef4 14y ago
I'm curious about your choice of pricing. My uninformed guess is that you can charge substantially more than this and still provide great value. Consider that $5 is about the cost of four minutes of programmer time.
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by ef4 14y ago
Demurrage is a solution in search of a problem. Where is all this alleged currency hoarding? Who's sitting on piles of cash? The rich certainly aren't. Does anybody really think that rich people keep vaults full of cash? They keep their mon
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by ef4 14y ago
Can anybody claim with a straight face that there's even a problem here? Where's the evidence of harm? It seems so transparent that this is just a bureaucracy trying to enhance it's own power / relevance / budgetary future.
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by ef4 14y ago
Yeah, they got big enough fast enough that it wasn't practical to squash them. So they got incorporated into the system instead. If anybody finally does manage to create a transnational money beyond governments, it's going to need to be hig
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by ef4 14y ago
The DIY copter crowd does some pretty sweet stuff (both autonomous and piloted). Here's a fun video shot by a guy who built a first-person-view Hexacopter: http://vimeo.com/18873955
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by ef4 14y ago
We're talking about a five-year-old here. I think it's absurd to think that any of us know what a mainstream productivity OS is going to look like by the time it affects his "job prospects". At that age, what matters isn't any of the materi
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by ef4 14y ago
The article (and the rest of the author's writings on the topic) contains a lot of evidence that his children are delighted with what they're doing. They're happily choosing to spend hours of time tinkering with this stuff, both with dad
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by ef4 14y ago
Anyone who actually think's that's "doing it wrong" needs to step outside the echo chamber for a while.

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