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by ewjordan 17y ago
You're right, I never rent from Ebert's page, but that's mainly because I don't read Ebert's page. If I did, and I saw a review of something that looked like I liked it, I'd be fairly likely to click a link to the Amazon rental page if it
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I don't think the idea itself is so terrible - there are a lot of social networks that largely duplicate each others' functionality, and it would be great if newcomers to the field could link in to a meta-network so that they were actually
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by ewjordan 17y ago
I see that he is including Amazon affiliate ads on the review pages; I assume that must not be working very well for him, which surprises me a bit, as I rent movies all the time through Amazon (it's one of a very small handful of places I a
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by ewjordan 17y ago
I'd like to see an example of where choosing Ruby / Python / Perl is a momentous decision. The only one I can think of is that a lot of people have an intense hatred for one of the three, so you've got to weigh your team's preferences to
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by ewjordan 17y ago
Clojure has a leg up over most Lisps for another reason: the people that know Clojure well and participate in its community are not complete douchewieners, and they're willing to accept that everyone has different needs and backgrounds. Th
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by ewjordan 17y ago
Relational programming may be beautiful, sure, I guess in some ideal world. But SQL syntax is a dog. Especially when it's sitting next to real code, wrapped up inside strings and making everything feel dirty. If you're using an SQL databas
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by ewjordan 17y ago
It's a real shame, too - it's so easy to hate Microsoft when it gets hostile and starts abusing its position, because their software generally makes you want to scream. Apple, on the other hand, puts out stuff that is a genuine pleasure to
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by ewjordan 17y ago
I'm not really sure why anyone would want to bother drawing Feynman diagrams if they didn't need to calculate the amplitudes associated with them. There are very few physical effects that can be explained through Feynman diagrams without u
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by ewjordan 17y ago
4. Some way, some how, get rid of all the dicks. Or at least try to make it opt-in, or figure out a way to ban/segregate repeat offenders. Seriously. Chatroulette may be a great idea, but when 20% of the users are trying to shock the rest
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by ewjordan 17y ago
It gets boring to repeat this comment so often, but: Buffett's income is mostly in the form of capital gains and dividends. These are paid out of the taxable income of corporations. So he pays a direct 15% tax on something that's previousl
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by ewjordan 17y ago
The Wikipedia article says that when the percentage of revenue from each bracket is compared with the wealth distribution rate, it lines up very closely. See below - one could argue that the bottom 50% numbers are extremely divergent, w
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by ewjordan 17y ago
You're a lucky man if your e-mail box is only for "real work." Mine tends to end up with all sorts of distracting crap inside it, plenty of it from people that should be working instead of mass e-mailing links to ridiculous Youtube video
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by ewjordan 17y ago
It looks like this is missing one of the (IMO) most useful pieces of Processing, though: the "one click to run" IDE. Processing is pretty much the only environment around that you can download, open, type in a few lines of code, and have a
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by ewjordan 17y ago
Same here - logged into Gmail and I was forced to choose whether to go into Buzz or old fashioned Gmail. Maybe they're tinkering with the process or something... I'd have to agree, though, that the default of following everyone that you e-
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by ewjordan 17y ago
Sounds to me like this guy has created a fantastically shitty place to work, and an equally shitty company to do business with. You can't get away with abusive behavior towards employees and vendors and expect to keep the good ones around
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by ewjordan 17y ago
The other comments here confirm what I suspected was true about most hackers - we never learned the "basics", or at least not at first (at least not the "basics" that this blog post seems to take as fundamental to our trade). We just becam
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by ewjordan 17y ago
I think that's great advice, and it's something I'd love to work towards. I suspect I'm speaking for a lot of us here when I say that I have absolutely no idea where to even start when it comes to design, though. And I don't mean learning
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by ewjordan 17y ago
Unfortunately what counts to the law and what really counts may be two different things altogether. Be careful, especially if you think your employer might try to pull something here.
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...which this article on HN would surely establish.
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Microsoft was seen as ruthlessly destroying their competition. Google is seen as innovative. Bizarre. Google gives away a ton of free services that work. Microsoft sells people something that they have (almost) no option not to buy, and
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by ewjordan 17y ago
preparing for AI that may never be invented ... I think it's a mistake to let the zealotry of the singularity weirdos cast doubt on everything that they're predicting; yes, they've got some pseudo-religious delusions about what AI will do
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I've found that pretty much any conceivable tax curve can be considered "fair" for some definition of the word. The disturbing thing is, most of those definitions are really not that ridiculous if you make the case for them well enough. IMO
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by ewjordan 17y ago
Anecdotal or not, the only time my browser ever crashes (at least since Java applets stopped showing up) is immediately upon opening a page with streaming video. Whether it's Apple or Adobe at fault, I don't care, but it seems to be exclus
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When you divert productive capacity of the economy to unproductive use (such as building an unnecessary bridge) then society as a whole pays because of the diversion of resources (including labour and capital). Do you really think the ave
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by ewjordan 17y ago
Typically we don't consider epsilon naught to change as we move around in a gravitational field, we consider spacetime itself to change and leave the Maxwell equations unaltered. So that doesn't explain away the current in a wire or rotati
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by ewjordan 17y ago
There's a fine line, and I suspect the iPad is on the right side of it. What you probably want to shoot for is offering features that will leave 90% of your customers 99% satisfied. If you only offer the stuff that the bottom 50% needs, to
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by ewjordan 17y ago
Has anyone run similar tests on the JVM after warmup? Theoretically the JVM should be pushing memory around to negate as much of the cache penalty as possible, and I've definitely noticed this in some algorithms (this is how people come up
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by ewjordan 17y ago
True enough. But choice of algorithm can often mean cache-awareness, too - using a random access algorithm where a sequential one could be used instead can be a 10x performance drain, and a 10x constant multiplier is pretty substantial. For
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But... isn't that what the author says? Not really. As pointed out above, the author doesn't appear to understand that the associative/non-associative distinction is literally undefined unless we're talking about a binary operator from a
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by ewjordan 17y ago
Call me crazy, but I think that the normal and correct way for transactions to occur in a modern, civilized, capitalist economy calls for the producer of the good to set the price -- without fear that his product can be appropriated unlawf

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