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by gills 17y ago
Cool. It seems that the kind of folks who are scared off by this might be doomed anyway. If you're going to be successful, then at some point you've got to take up the attitude that you're going to eat the competition's lunch - even if the
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by gills 17y ago
We have collapsed. It's called denial.
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by gills 17y ago
Good job, you read the first page. The salient point of the article is calling out the obvious and rampant corruption that is strangling our economy; naked short-selling is an example to explain it.
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by gills 17y ago
With the assumption that 'debt payed' means 'product shipped to happy customers', I think that fourth quadrant is a bit of a red herring in that it's not so much a kind of technical debt that must be repayed ; but more of a 'technical buye
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by gills 17y ago
Having just returned from 4 months traveling, realizing that little more than what we carried in our packs was truly necessary, my wife and I have already taken the full car to Salvation Army with stuff we just don't use. Twice. There's a
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by gills 17y ago
We were doing some early testing on this distributed system, and process A kept backing up well under it's nominal load. A had no allowance for shedding excess load (it was broadcasting high frequency safety-critical data), and the network
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by gills 17y ago
Maybe there's a selection bias among 'start-up people' for being more comfortable of the risks associated with having a big mouth...
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by gills 17y ago
So you throw out the ambiguous and obvious patents. It doesn't mean you throw out the entire IP framework. This is akin to the folks who claim we should go back to physical gold as money because fiat money has been abused. Fiat money isn'
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by gills 17y ago
It's nice that they are releasing this, but it's boilerplate that most shops are going to have in one form or another, whether by open source or something they brewed in-house long before an alternative surfaced.
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by gills 17y ago
My wife and I toured Dachau today. While I don't have answers for his questions, his questions help form an answer to my own: is humanity 80 years wiser, or just 80 years older?
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by gills 17y ago
It's about using the right bait for the fish. The promise of an effortless long/easy/healthy life is pretty solid bait for humans.
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by gills 17y ago
Benefits, job security, and often sexier products.
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by gills 17y ago
You sort of have a point, but it's not just about the top. Ending up with bad design (be it websites, airplanes, processes, packaging, whatever...) requires the complicity of and/or lack of political aptitude by the folks at the lower leve
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by gills 17y ago
Do you mean that when I click "go", the wordoid-generating algorithm is kicked off during the request cycle? Have you considered generating the wordoids asynchronously (offline) and keeping an index of them and their metadata?
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by gills 17y ago
ImageMagick? Cairo? OpenGL bindings?
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by gills 17y ago
Seconded. I'll let you know how it works out after using it as my primary dev machine for the next 4 months while circling the globe.
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by gills 17y ago
See, the strategy here is to conglomerate everything into one giant too-big-to-fail media monopoly, then get a never-ending stream of taxpayer handouts to keep the tipsy inverted pyramid of bad journalism and political spin from meeting i
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by gills 17y ago
The barrier to entry for programming is just so low. Oaths and certifications for the general programming population will not prevent bad people from learning to program and expressing malice algorithmically; but it may hinder good program
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by gills 17y ago
She has to be a pawn in some larger game that intends to subvert water rights. Bills don't come into the state legislature over one organic farmer's attempt to capture rain water. This reads like a slimy PR piece to stoke "grassroots" sup
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by gills 17y ago
We had an Atari 800 as early as I can remember. Eventually we got the fancy-pants external cassette tape drive. LOGO rocks :)
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by gills 17y ago
That's what I do :) I've noticed an increased number of garbage cans near doors as well, in many places, so I think it's catching on. I wasn't trying to bash Arrington, btw. He has a point about germs. Especially with the sheeple freakin
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by gills 17y ago
I guess the EU won't be using a whole heck of a lot of software then, will they?
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by gills 17y ago
I'm just curious: how does the man open doors?
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by gills 17y ago
Wow. Schools pay load-based licensing costs for registration systems? There's a niche just waiting to be demolished by some startup... I think you have a useful idea here, and you should try to find a way to make it work. It sounds like
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by gills 17y ago
Don't forget the phantom ('seasonal') 60,000 jobs created by temporary hiring for the census...
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by gills 17y ago
"Never Waste a Crisis." ...
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by gills 17y ago
I was under the impression that goats present the same problem? Here's an interesting article from a couple years ago on some effects of overgrazing of goats in China, including desertification, starvation, and dust storms. http://seattle
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by gills 17y ago
I guess that makes it more of a "stimulus loan", eh? Debt slavery indeed...
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by gills 17y ago
Step 1. Learn <some activity>. Step 2. Perform <some activity> in return for cash. Step 3. Purchase chair of dreams. At any rate, your parents aren't the answer. I know this will probably enrage some ergonomics hacker, bu
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by gills 17y ago
The not-so-positive corollary is that 3% of GDP must be extracted from the economy before it can be 'committed' to the politically-viable science projects.

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