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Much Ado About Who: Is It Really Shakespeare?(nytimes.com)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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Tim O'Reilly: How I Failed(radar.oreilly.com)
281 points by gruseom 13y ago|74 comments
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George Orwell: In Front Of Your Nose (1946)(orwell.ru)
4 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
What do you think is needed in order to make a good web-based spreadsheet? Where do you think Google falls down at it? (I work on spreadsheets and find this very interesting.)
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by gruseom 13y ago
My question is addressed to benologist. He is something of an expert on this subject.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I doubt that. But it is what Canadians say when you step on their toe. I've done it myself!
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by gruseom 13y ago
Have you ever thought about turning your anti-spam passion into a startup?
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by gruseom 13y ago
That's interesting, but you lost me on the connection to Heidegger and I would like to hear more specifically about what he took from Nietzsche.
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by gruseom 13y ago
This is great! I hate reading slides, but this has to be one of the best things I've read on the topic. Is there a video? It would be better if it talked about the good things to do in as much depth as the bad things. A gelled team com
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by gruseom 13y ago
I agree, that is a clever way to shed light on the problem. It's easier first to see that the host is giving you 999,999 choices for the price of one, and then see that the same logic applies when there are only 3 doors.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Thanks for the comment; I wouldn't have looked at the article otherwise, and it's great, both historically and as an explanation of the problem. The most helpful part is where she simply lists all six possibilities in a table. Tha
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by gruseom 13y ago
That was probably William Black. His usual point is that the lack of prosecutions is a result of the investigatory system having being gutted. He says that in the S&L scandal, his agency made 10,000 criminal referrals to the DoJ, while
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by gruseom 13y ago
Heh. When we have a variable name with a question mark to denote a boolean, as in "ready?", we pronounce the question mark "what" like an old-school English gentleman—so, "readywhat", or rather: "Ready, wh
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We've Learned Nothing From the Financial Crisis(theatlantic.com)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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Scarcity Captures Your Mind(nybooks.com)
2 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
The biggest annoyance I have is that there is no way to do that for Reply. Why should Reply be different from Compose? They're both just sending an email. The whole thing is poorly thought through. Countless details seem off.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I'd pay for that too, if it worked well.
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Belief beyond the evidence: the proposed effect of breakfast on obesity(ajcn.nutrition.org)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
Please don't attack other users personally. It's never necessary, makes you look mean, and poisons the well for everybody.
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by gruseom 13y ago
This is a bad argument. There are many illegal things a person can make legal by consenting to them. Is it hypocritical to both refuse consent and cite the law? (It's also inapplicable, since even if Russia consented, China wouldn&#x27
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by gruseom 13y ago
You have a point in general, because that is how these things usually go, but these guys spent like three years working on the foundation for what they're doing now. This level of rapid improvement may be the visible payoff of a lot of
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by gruseom 13y ago
That's an insightful comment and an important point. Because the underlying computation is physical, there's no such thing as side-effect-free computation. Any attempt to treat programming as purely mathematical, i.e. pure FP, is
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by gruseom 13y ago
My theory is that when typing code, I'm thinking entirely about the code and have no attention left to spend on how I'm typing it. I end up with countless typos that I have to backspace and type over again, often adding more typos
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by gruseom 13y ago
Persons { String[] first_name; String[] last_name; String[] address; } Are you sure they didn't do it for performance? That is a well-known pattern for getting better data locality ("structure of arrays" vs. "array of
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by gruseom 13y ago
In that case they've buried the lede, as this is arguably more noteworthy than the microcontroller. Has anyone done a production-worthy JS-to-Lua compiler before? The idea has come up many times because the two languages are so similar
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Crowded Planet(orionmagazine.org)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
I found it again. It was A New Grammar by Ann Fisher (1719-78), and this is a good article on the subject: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26FOB-onlanguage-... Also see http://en.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Let's not get personal. There are lots of ways this kind of thing can happen.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Downvotes aren't for disagreement here. Comments are That's not true. PG has said the opposite many times. Commenting is for when one has something to say.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I agree with this post's use of the word "ruined". That's what the new Compose did. It's a usability train wreck which I'm astonished they put out at all, let alone impose it on users against their will. There

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