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by ellyagg 17y ago
While I think that this is usually the right strategy for most people, I can't help but think of Apple's products, which are developed in the bubbliest bubble of all.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
He meant bubble as in bubble boy.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Yep. If it happens, it won't be the first time, won't be the last time, won't be Apple's death knell, won't be a sign of decline.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
You shouldn't be trying to win arguments. That's the root of all argumentation evil, as far as I'm concerned. In fact, that's one aspect of debate competition I really despise, the fetishizing of winning arguments. (OTOH, the way debate tea
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Wow, it sounds like you actually condone the spirit of what happened. As an American it's strange to imagine celebrating rule of force over rule of law. The US falls woefully short at times, but I can't imagine anyone cheering fraudulent th
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by ellyagg 17y ago
It doesn't matter. Who cares? White males aren't a team. The only drawback I can see from white males being underrepresented in college is that white males are underrepresented in college, which is a tautology. If white males were being tre
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I thought Chris Henry's fatal accident was the first test, but anyway...
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Evidence of anthropogenic warming is real, verifiable, and weak. Evidence that it is problematic, or that scientists are even remotely able to predict its magnitude and effect is nonexistent. But the costs of prevention are 100% real and en
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I got pulled over when I was learning to drive, with my dad in the car, because the cop didn't think I was old enough to even have a learner's permit. Like, it was so far out of the realm of possibility, that he felt compelled to pull me ov
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by ellyagg 17y ago
"Hourly employees happier than salaried" is not equivalent to (nor implied by) "[p]eople paid by the hour exhibit a stronger relationship between income and happiness" so I'm left to wonder which it is.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
It's not surprising business analysts know the marketing power of trolling.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
> project the same surliness back at them and you're just asking for trouble. That's commonsense, but its truth still pisses me off. There is zero reason border guards deserve deference, and projecting surliness to people behaving surly
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by ellyagg 17y ago
To be fair, Joe Armstrong just adds interest and credibility. It's not as if this is gossip. When you click the link, you get a working example of an Erlang program connecting to Chrome's new web sockets interface.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Could I have a bittorent client running in Chrome?
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Actually, it's not the slightest bit hard: > Consider the case of Phil Jones, the director of the CRU and the man at the heart of climategate. According to one of the documents hacked from his center, between 2000 and 2006 Mr. Jones was
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Riiight. I'm sure you went into that article with an open mind. Let me guess, you think the CRU leak didn't reveal much of interest? Instead of ad hominem, how about you refute the main and specific points brought up. I'm pretty sure Paul G
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Yes, there is an objective justification for working 80 hour weeks: You get more stuff done. You say you do your work in <5 hours a week. Why so much? Why not make it 2? How about half an hour a week? I'm not being snide or a jerk. The
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by ellyagg 17y ago
He also said he wouldn't take his mom's money, so this was also to prove something to himself.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
It is a gotcha. How on earth could you deliver that as a reply to the original question and not have it be a gotcha?
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I wish this were two comments so I could upvote the first paragraph and downvote the second.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I agree with this big time. I hate increasing the "vocabulary" of my program unnecessarily.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
The person he replied to said it "seems highly unlikely". This isn't a peer-reviewed journal here. We're speculating. I will mention that I gave $20 dollars to a girl last week who claimed she had had her stuff stolen and didn't have enough
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by ellyagg 17y ago
>> Programming isn’t typically a job done under pressure, so seeing how people perform when nervous is pretty useless. > Not my experience. Actually, quite the contrary. > The single biggest difference I have ever seen (over
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by ellyagg 17y ago
We do not know the rate at which technology-producing species come about, period. A couple months ago there was a post about how people will come up with a business idea and falsely extrapolate how much money they can make by assuming a see
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Aside from the fact that regex are implemented as a library, can you elaborate how support for them is not that good? I think that's wrong: http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/re.html
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Erlang now has a full-featured standard regex module called re that handles utf8 strings and binaries. It now has a standard module for handling unicode. Yes, regexes aren't part of the language syntax, but then that's not true for, say, py
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Yeah, this was my problem with the claim that "Cash for Clunkers" was a raging success. People like free stuff and money, and it's not exactly rocket science to get the word spread about all the free stuff and money being handed out.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
That's one of the worst things I noticed from the data, the overwhelming and negative responses to Steve Mcintyre. Mcintyre is not some demagogue. He's extremely dry and analytical. Why are they strategizing on how to give him dirty, annoyi
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Climate News: Hadley CRU hacked with release of hundreds of docs and emails(examiner.com)
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by ellyagg 17y ago
This whole post was confused and basically incoherent.

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