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by etal 18y ago
Lately it's been bothering me more that we're expected to get our health care plans through our employers. The proportion of Americans who hold traditional full-time, salaried positions at medium-to-large companies is far from 100%. A healt
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by etal 18y ago
This is interesting, but I strongly recommend reading Alan Kay's commentary on the study: http://secretgeek.net/camel_kay.asp In addition to his work on Smalltalk and OOP, Kay spent a major portion of his career on the problem of how to t
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by etal 18y ago
There are a lot of "what ifs" in the history of web tech, and considering this article, JSSS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript_Style_Sheets ) versus CSS springs immediately to mind. Using Javascript for styling pages in 1996 may hav
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by etal 18y ago
Because your competitors won't -- that's exactly the reason not to spend a major chunk of your time in a porting effort. Some history springs to mind involving IBM, Lotus and, indeed, Microsoft. Unless IE-Firefox seamlessness is the origi
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by etal 18y ago
Being a professor before tenure does involve a fair amount of work. Lecturing, less so, and just being an indefinitely ABD grad student is actually fairly sustainable. Heavy administrative overhead affects people differently, though.
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by etal 18y ago
He recanted. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000245.html
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by etal 18y ago
Track down a relative who doesn't really know how to use the Internet, and observe all the little inefficiencies in their life that would drive you nuts. Arranging your life by mail and phone takes twice as long. Looking for work and housin
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by etal 18y ago
Who says getting people to like you and lie for you isn't a real skill? ;) ETS seems to be under pressure to do something since they scrapped the latest revision of the GRE. Fortunately, colleges are still free to interpret an applicant's
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by etal 18y ago
Very true. My best investment so far has been Illumina a few years ago, which I found because they were blanketing the job boards. Why hire like mad unless you expect to blow up soon? However, I'm not really willing to be a full-time invest
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by etal 18y ago
I'm looking to strike a balance, mostly. If I can match the 3.3% my savings account pays and do some good in the world, I'm happy. Currently I fire off the occasional small check to environmental groups; I consider that a good enough invest
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by etal 18y ago
Observations from the article: - Test-taking levels declined to below 2007 levels, but are still above 2006 levels - GMAT levels are still rising. - China's test-taking is still rising; India's fell to between 2006 and 2007 levels. - GRE te
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Ask HN: Is microfinance a smart way to park your savings?
6 points by etal 18y ago|7 comments
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by etal 18y ago
Isn't git's porcelain mostly Perl and shell scripts? (...which is gradually being rewritten in C, I know.) It does appear that the signal-to-noise ratio in the talent pool declines over time, for just about any popular programming language
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by etal 18y ago
"The scientists plan to develop a home test," it says. While the article itself is about par for the Daily Mail, this is a great research area that's being commercialized now. A team at Stanford is doing something similar for various cancer
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by etal 18y ago
The only nuisance is keeping medical records straight. There's no central database to drop this information into, and subsequent health-care providers need to know exactly what you've had done in the past (regarding vaccinations). These wou
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by etal 18y ago
That's probably why the Python community was able to pull this off.
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by etal 18y ago
For my own work I'm planning to do it this way: - Incorporate the -3 check with the usual unit tests and pylint run for checking a module as I work on it. - Stay compatible with Py2.X and these additional checks, and when curiousity strikes
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by etal 18y ago
I imagine the Firefox thing is to make the initial setup of a machine faster (doing Firefox addons and other packages in one shot with apt-get), and possibly because the maintainer's didn't trust the security of Firefox's update mechanism.
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by etal 18y ago
They could be going for two different types of user: A) Brand-new programmer or language nomad who wants to dive right into Python. It's for personal enrichment, so they might as well learn the latest dialect and not pick up archaic habits.
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by etal 18y ago
The latest draft of Linux Standard Base appears to specify Python 2.4. I wish we could rely on everyone having ctypes and ElementTree in the standard library, but no luck. (I think web.py 0.3 and possibly the trunk of Django can handle Py2.
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by etal 18y ago
Also, a lot of the scripts that power Gnome and Debian are written in Python. Ubuntu also seems to do most new work in Python. So I expect Python 2.X to be the default in distros for quite some time, probably until a 3.1 release or later.
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by etal 18y ago
From what I've seen of bzr and git, if you're competent with one, learning the other won't change your life the way a switch from cvs to bzr might. The way git figures out what you've done to a directory tree using sha1 hashes is interestin
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by etal 18y ago
Or, just use the Unix mv, and let Git figure out what you did at the next "git add .".
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by etal 18y ago
Something to let you use all your Firefox add-ons (AdBlock, Foxmarks, Greasemonkey) from inside a locked-down IE6/7 at work could be pretty suave.
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by etal 18y ago
The latex2rtf program might help. The result looks like hell initially, compared to the PDF, but the content, styles and images are retained surprisingly well. (Equation support is weaker.) Just load the generated RTF in Word/Writer, tweak
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by etal 18y ago
As a vimmer who has used Visual Studio in the past: - Auto-complete can done in emacs and vim, too. There's an older vi-style completion which just completes from existing tokens in the current file (Ctrl-P) and a newer "omni-complete" (Ctr
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by etal 18y ago
Out of the three leading free DSCMs -- Git, Mercurial, Bazaar -- none seem in danger of going extinct any time soon. Bazaar is the foundation for Launchpad and Ubuntu, almost irrevocably. Mercurial has less buzz than Git for open-source pro
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by etal 18y ago
For writing school assignments, I looked for a system that would meet two requirements: 1. The text can be edited using vim, or at least vi-like keybindings. 2. The storage format is plain text, so any version-control system can efficiently
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by etal 18y ago
Here's the announcement: http://groups.google.com/group/webpy/browse_frm/thread/964a2...
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Guido van Rossum on Scala(neopythonic.blogspot.com)
8 points by etal 18y ago|0 comments

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