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by gensym 14y ago
Yikes, "love" isn't even worth $5 anymore? Glad I'm not in the flower industry.
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by gensym 14y ago
Indeed. It seems reasonable to hold partially accountable for customers' choices any business that employs psychologists for the purpose of creating new or cementing existing customers.
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by gensym 15y ago
Clearly you've never worked at an all-male environment if you think that would necessarily by nag-free, gossip-free and rage-free. In my experience, an environment without women devolves into some "Lord of the Flies"-type shit pretty quickl
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by gensym 15y ago
I stand corrected. Thanks for the data.
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by gensym 15y ago
> Why does a white/asian guy with a 3.5 GPA have a lower future potential than a black/hispanic guy with a 2.6 (all else held equal) As far as I know, no one is arguing that he does. Additionally (and I could be wrong here as I don't k
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by gensym 15y ago
REST is the "literally" of the web world. I think they mean "RPC over HTTP API Design".
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by gensym 15y ago
> If you believe the history of mobile phone is like the history of the desktop, then of course, it's a war. If you believe the history of the mobile phone is like the history of the desktop, then you're a poor student of history. At th
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by gensym 15y ago
It's hard to study this sort, of thing, sure, but that doesn't mean that it hasn't been studied. Probably the most famous is the Perry Preschool Project in the 60s, which randomly assigned students to a control versus preschool group and fo
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by gensym 15y ago
Maple syrup is great, but in the midwest, at least, most people don't eat it; instead, they put corn syrup with maple flavoring on their pancakes. Ugh.
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by gensym 15y ago
This whole "with IDEs, you don't need to type that much" argument is starting to sound like a broken record. First off, it's good you don't need to type that much with modern IDEs because they all suck at keeping up with a programmer typing
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by gensym 15y ago
Free parking increases congestion. Think about it - if it's a pain to park in a place, fewer people will drive to that place. Some will take alternatives (walk, bike, transit), others just won't go. More cars on the road -> more congest
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by gensym 15y ago
Chicago. It's cheap and dense. It's difficult to go car-free with children, though. Some do, however: http://onelessminivan.tumblr.com/ is about living car-free with kids in the city.
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by gensym 15y ago
Fair enough. The difference between giving out homework after giving a potential candidate a change to talk with future coworkers than doing it before is huge. Companies that bitch about how hard it is to find skilled programmers shouldn't
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by gensym 15y ago
Rarely. If you're young, single, have never been sick, and need just a catastrophic plan, perhaps. Otherwise, without the benefit of an employer to negotiate a group rate, you get screwed, rate-wise.
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by gensym 15y ago
WTF, kids are owed something. Kids are owed safety, education, food, shelter, and hope for the future. Kids, by definition of the term, cannot be held responsible for their current situation. If this isn't obvious - if it isn't an axiom fro
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by gensym 16y ago
This would be great if you wanted a job at USA today.
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by gensym 16y ago
Political inertia and the passions of the mob can be purchased, as the Koch brothers know.
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by gensym 16y ago
Yes, like chocolate!
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by gensym 16y ago
The roads were built for multi-ton automobiles and bicycles. Because automobiles are less flexible than bikes in terms of radii and lane widths, their needs set the constraints for those factors. By "posted speeds", I assume you mean the de
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by gensym 16y ago
This doesn't need to be hard or confusing. Let's start with the basics - * It needs to be tasty and satisfying, or you won't stick with it. Don't start with some extreme diet: e.g. "only raw food", "only stuff grown within 20 yards of your
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by gensym 16y ago
Ugh. Your time must be pretty darn important if we should get petroleum out of the earth, turn it into dishware, haul it to your home, haul it from your home and into the landfill just to save you the two minutes it would take to actually w
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by gensym 17y ago
It's not the same thing. Not even close. For most of the modern era, the best jobs have been closed off to women. Men have wielded the power, at least in the workplace. While we'd all like to believe that the effects of that power disparity
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by gensym 17y ago
Gah, this is some awful abuse of statistics: "There are three times as many dentists named Dennis as any other names. Number of Florences living in Florida is disproportionately high, same goes for Louises living in Louisiana." This is inte
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by gensym 17y ago
I don't understand this complaint. Of course this article is about how to get hired at 37signals and companies that hire in a similar manner. Why on earth would DHH bother writing about how to get hired at companies that don't have hiri
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by gensym 18y ago
Nice. Here's more detail, following my thought process: On first glance, it seems that any prisoner would gain no information on seeing the other prisoner's caps. Therefore, it's just a 50/50 shot, so the best strategy for the prisoners is
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by gensym 18y ago
This corruption doesn't have anything to do with the "Rails Way". The corruption was at a much lower level then things like nil foreign keys, long fields, etc. that Rails validates. It was the filesystem that was corrupted, and whether he d
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by gensym 18y ago
Things that may be completely useless: * Car without engine * Bookshelves that cannot support the weight of books * Computer without processor * Nonalcoholic beer This that are most definitely not completely useless: * Cell
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by gensym 18y ago
I hate to sound discouraging, but when it comes to job interview techniques, making it hard to game is the entire problem, not just a detail.
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by gensym 18y ago
And laziness is really helpful in constructing fast data structures while maintaining purity. Purely Functional Data Structures is a great read to see how this fits together.
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by gensym 18y ago
The real question is, why don't people understand English? "He" is not always gender-specific, depending on the context. Don't like it? Well, I don't like the word "moist", but I put up with it since it's part of the damned language.

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