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by gruseom 13y ago
Snopes provides no citation for the Whistler story. That prompted me to look it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler#R... I had no idea that this quote has such a delightful and well-documente
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“‘Dog Bites a Man’ Is Not News. ‘Man Bites a Dog’ Is News”(quoteinvestigator.com)
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Joseph Brodsky’s Reading List For Having an Intelligent Conversation(openculture.com)
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by gruseom 13y ago
Using foam earplugs along with an ordinary set of headphones playing white noise (or rather brown—not as harsh) has changed my life. Combining the two was the critical factor; neither worked very well by itself. I keep the volume at the low
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by gruseom 13y ago
Dean Baker has been making an argument similar to yours for years. He usually presents it as a free trade vs. protectionism issue, which is an interesting way to think about health care costs: http://www.theguardian.com/comm
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Accounting for the great divergence(voxeu.org)
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by gruseom 13y ago
I didn't call Bart-Caltrain particularly worse, only hard to figure out for the first time, especially from the airport.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I originally wrote it as one monolithic paragraph with just the last line separate at the end. I thought it would be funny that way, plus capture the feeling of being faced with all those details. But some people found it annoying, so I rel
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by gruseom 13y ago
Cherry-picking!? What did I leave out? :) It's true that most of those details are not so bad. I've exaggerated in an attempt to recapture the feeling of being a beginner faced with all of them at the same time.
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by gruseom 13y ago
How could I have forgotten that? I credited you above.
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by gruseom 13y ago
It is hard to figure out! I've taken it from the airport to Mountain View many times. First you need the airport train to the BART station. That's easy enough, once you see the signs telling you how to get there. They don't t
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by gruseom 13y ago
After applying a diff, how does it load the new code? Eval?
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Living in One of R. D. Laing’s Post-Kingsley Hall Households(madinamerica.com)
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by gruseom 13y ago
I'm not understanding everything here, but I agree that my post was simplistic to say that language is just a reflection of reality. It's more complex than that. I thought that when I wrote it, too, but didn't go there beca
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by gruseom 13y ago
I hope you didn't say it's fun id(x): x; Well, I did. :) That's an interesting example. My first reaction was that one might be able to construct a similar anomaly by abusing optional arguments, but perhaps not: optional ar
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by gruseom 13y ago
The problem is that the words themselves carry an intrinsic charge I'd say that is precisely what they don't do. That's magical thinking (what sort of energy is this "charge"?) and I think it's the core of wh
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by gruseom 13y ago
Marketing to teenagers definitely goes back decades, but not forever. I believe it is very much a post-WWII phenomenon.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Can you say more about how multiple return is "very subtle and hard to make performant" and leads to getting burned? As far as I can tell the main advantage of multiple-return over literal objects is that callers who only care abo
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by gruseom 13y ago
I haven't seen it! I haven't seen anything. I finished F&Z last night. The thing is a train wreck. Now I'm curious to read the rest of what Salinger published (pretty easy to do) because Catcher and Nine Stories are s
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Hermann Rorschach’s Original Rorschach Test(openculture.com)
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by gruseom 13y ago
Counterexample to Betteridge!
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by gruseom 13y ago
Your point may be valid, but you put it so maliciously that I winced when I read it. Smart but malicious comments are the worst thing about HN. They are like dioxins where stupidity is mere sewage. PG has written about implementing a commen
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by gruseom 13y ago
No, I only read Catcher a couple weeks ago. It's on an altogether other level than F&Z, even though it's no longer shockingly original like it must have been in 1951. I found it brilliant stylistically; only a voice, but wha
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The New York Review of Books turns 50(washingtonpost.com)
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by gruseom 13y ago
I guess it's a failed experiment the way Catcher in the Rye was a successful experiment. But it's kind of interesting despite that. I like how daringly he injects esoteric religious material into conventional 1950s settings. But
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by gruseom 13y ago
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger. I can't figure it out. It seems like it might be terrible. I'm half enjoying it and half sort of hypnotized like a chicken by it.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Sometimes these so-called "inconsequential details" are what will ultimately sink a project Yes, and overwhelmingly more often they are better let go of, or allowed to morph through contact with others. Telling the difference re
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The Visual System as Statistician(persci.mit.edu)
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Lost in the Funhouse – Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita”(drb.ie)
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by gruseom 13y ago
You gave a way of measuring something else.

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