emmett

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811.
by emmett 18y ago
For sure, but did you start learning to program by using unit tests? "Use unit tests" is great advice for a developer shipping commercial software, and bad advice for a 13 year old who wants to learn to code.
812.
by emmett 18y ago
1. Natural selection has nothing to do the question. This is an issue of culture, not of genetics. You could easily have a situation where we globally had declining birthrate. The interesting question is - why are birth rates for these po
813.
by emmett 18y ago
Generally good advice, but I disagree with #9 (avoid debuggers, learn to unit test). Unit testing is important perhaps if you have a large project with many contributors, but no good hackers I know learned to program with testing and "Best
814.
by emmett 18y ago
This usage is very popular around jtv. We commonly refer to people who live a more standard lifestyle as "real people".
815.
by emmett 18y ago
You're right; sorry, wrong essay. The other one, by the same guy, addressing that point: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/523.html
816.
by emmett 18y ago
There are systematic environmental differences for different cultures as well. This isn't to say "people aren't different", but rather that until you've estimated environmental differences and gene-environment interactions you know almost n
817.
by emmett 18y ago
I've posted this at least three times on Hacker News, but I'm just shocked people haven't read it: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/520.html This guy is a statistics professor, and has a lot to say about exactly what "g" is. He eve
818.
by emmett 18y ago
Perhaps I misunderstand you, but isn't the opposite true? Presumably you would target PHP with the compiler for the same reason many people target C: it's a fairly universal language, supported on many platforms. A Ruby => PHP compiler
819.
China: new global advocate of capitalism?(marginalrevolution.com)
4 points by emmett 18y ago|2 comments
820.
by emmett 18y ago
We haven't had many people show up in suits to interviews at Justin.tv, but it's a reasonably accurate indicator of failure. I try not to prejudge, but there's only so many times you can see a correlation and not start to stereotype.
821.
A modest proposal: Markets for corporate control(cscs.umich.edu)
1 points by emmett 18y ago|0 comments
822.
by emmett 18y ago
It depends on the person. I went through the series in highschool, but many (most?) people do it in college and some never get through it at all.
823.
by emmett 18y ago
I constantly find myself wanting to downvote specific stories. My only other choice is to upvote everything around it, which isn't what I really mean to do.
824.
by emmett 18y ago
"Requires new 2-year AT&T rate plan, sold separately."
825.
by emmett 18y ago
Neither PHP nor Python have anything approaching CPAN. Ruby is slightly closer with Gems, but even that's a joke compared to the might of Perl libraries. Seriously, that's the big thing that's missing. Other than that both PHP and Python ar
826.
Food production carbon output far outweighs food transportation(pubs.acs.org)
1 points by emmett 18y ago|0 comments
827.
by emmett 18y ago
What has Google done that's evil in the adsense area?
828.
Green revolution: actually green?(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by emmett 18y ago|0 comments
829.
by emmett 18y ago
You should apply to Justin.tv! We have nice hard flash problems here...
830.
by emmett 18y ago
You're basically saying you think the stocks are mispriced significantly. If that's true, there's a huge opportunity to buy Y! and sell MS, and you'll make a killing. Why aren't you taking it?
831.
A different take on the history of the American Revolution(books.google.com)
1 points by emmett 18y ago|0 comments
832.
by emmett 18y ago
The idea, I think, is to show the relevant chunk of the United States which is equivalent to the economy of each given country.
833.
Map overlaying the 4 next largest economies over the USA(flickr.com)
4 points by emmett 18y ago|6 comments
834.
by emmett 18y ago
I found this essay ( http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/520.html ) very helpful in understanding what "heritability" really means, and why it's so hard to control studies like this. The short version is: think about how heritable som
835.
by emmett 18y ago
I agree that there is right and wrong, even though I'm not religious. I agree you can try to teach your children right and wrong. I disagree that just because you have good intentions and are trying to teach good values, that this means tha
836.
Map of Language Distribution in Europe(i258.photobucket.com)
6 points by emmett 19y ago|13 comments
837.
by emmett 19y ago
Xobni is worth at least $20,000,000. It is currently unknown as to whether they're worth more. Evidence suggests those with the most at risk believe they are worth significantly more.
838.
by emmett 19y ago
16 "must have died"...just goes to show that startups don't really die, they just fade away. The only YC startup I know of that officially ended at a specific time is Kiko; are there others?
839.
by emmett 19y ago
The shareholders are getting paid right now . That is their long term value. Microsoft buys Yahoo, shareholders get a 50% premium on the value of their shares cash. Like he says, if part of the offer is in stock, you can use long term proj
840.
by emmett 19y ago
Facebook and flickr seem to be about equivalently efficient; Facebook is about 10x bigger and uses about 10x as many servers. Fotolog seems much more efficient than either though; it's about the same size as flickr, but uses only 1/3 as man

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