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   by galactus 17y ago

   I had already used the name for my lisp flash library :( http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/gordon (not that it is a very original name or anything ;))
2. 272.▲
   by galactus 17y ago

   never change. <3
3. 273.▲
   by galactus 17y ago

   There are perhaps other qualities in Cezanne's paintings, but PG is far from being the only person who considers Cezanne's drawing skills quite deficient.
4. 274.▲
   by galactus 17y ago

   Ouch, you are right. This is perhaps the only one that might shock one or two persons ;)
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   by galactus 17y ago

   Honestly, I could tell most of the things in that list to pretty much anyone I know without shocking them. Including my grandma. "Communism would never work" ? Gee, I think there are actually more people in the western world who would actua
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   "This is how TechCrunch works..."(scripting.com)

   45 points by galactus 17y ago|17 comments
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   by galactus 17y ago

   "Yes, yest... they have great education and great healthcare for everybody BUT ..BUT.. they have to use old furniture and prepare their own meals!!!!!! THE US IS STILL THE BEST"
8. 278.▲
   by galactus 17y ago

   Yes. I blame SEO :-(.
9. 279.▲
   by galactus 17y ago

   Contrary to some people here, I don't think DHH is arguing that taking a 40m pay ouy is a bad thing by itself. He argues that it shouldn't be your primary goal.
10. 280.▲
    by galactus 17y ago

    The idea of being selfish as something good for society is relatively new, tho.
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    by galactus 17y ago

    Pie charts considered harmful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart#Discussion_on_use
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    by galactus 17y ago

    Are you sure? From http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000009.html (October 2001): "I've been rather quiet lately on this weblog -- mainly because we've been working so hard at Fog Creek getting ready for the beta of CityDesk, o
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    by galactus 17y ago

    From Richard Gabriel & Ron goldman "Innovation happens elsewhere". Gabriel's prose is almost always very pleasant to read: http://www.dreamsongs.com/IHE/IHE-42.html#pgfId-956546 http://www.dreamsongs.com/IHE/IHE-47.html#pgfId-956575
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    by galactus 17y ago

    For a 30 years old company Microsoft is still pretty impressive.
15. 285.▲
    by galactus 17y ago

    And they have more vacations :(
16. 286.▲
    by galactus 17y ago

    Well said
17. 287.▲
    by galactus 17y ago

    We all love to think of ourselves as rebels.
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    by galactus 18y ago

    Information technology is still just a fraction of the whole world economy. I don't think it is big enough for anyone to have the slightest idea of what the world will be like when we actually become an information-based economy. I think th
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    by galactus 18y ago

    What is interesting is how "optional" it actually is. Being very tall is also "optional" if you want to become an NBA player (Nate Robinson is 5'9"), having working legs is "optional" if you want to climb the everest, etc.
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    Silicon Valley Goes from Libertarian to Keynesian(blogs.wsj.com)

    13 points by galactus 18y ago|17 comments
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    by galactus 18y ago

    I think its a great post. The strength of stackoverflow is obviously the community of users. It is perfectly logic to use a local language if it helps to grow a new community somewhere else.
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    by galactus 18y ago

    Lets be honest, the REAL problem here with the idea of global warming caused by humans is that it can not simply be solved by the market. This possibility seems to make hardcore libertarians so uncomfortable that they can only hope no such
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    by galactus 18y ago

    "When Google came on the scene, a lot of people said search was a solved problem." That's true, but I think one big advantage of google was that for anyone used to the existing search engines it would only take like 3 seconds to notice goog
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    by galactus 18y ago

    I think he just forgot "unamerican"
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    by galactus 18y ago

    english pudding??? ... I rest my case! ;)
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    by galactus 18y ago

    uh... the french newspapers can not be good because the french economy is "in such a poor state"? I dont quite follow your reasoning. Anyway, let me quote Krugman on the french economy: "let's ask how the situation of a typical middle-class
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    by galactus 18y ago

    I almost never comment on this forum, but reading this just made me laugh/cringe. I lived in France for seven years and I now live in Canada (where I read mostly american magazines/newspapers). One of the things I miss from France is the qu
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    by galactus 18y ago

    Unemployment is often portrayed as the cost that european countries pay for supporting developed welfare states. According to this line of thought, it is ok for the US to have much less advantages for unemployed people since it is much easi
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    by galactus 18y ago

    I use myself dedibox.fr (France). I certainly recommend it.
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    by galactus 18y ago

    hmmm.. I remember a recent article in The Economist about how social mobility in the US is decreasing, which seems to contradict the idea there is a shift towards a more merit-based society. (btw, the same article also showed with hard data