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by gruseom 13y ago
Good artists copy. Great artists steal. — Steve Jobs, quoting Pablo Picasso. Picasso never said that, or most of the things people say he said. The quote is a paraphrase of T.S. Eliot. (Lots of discussion of this previously on HN.) Anothe
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by gruseom 13y ago
The article is considerably better than the comments here imply. In my view, the OP is showing intelligent intuition about software. I've encountered the exact same issues that they have. It's frustrating when code wrapped up in a
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by gruseom 13y ago
One place the criticisms here are bordering on unfair is in mentioning the study's assumptions without mentioning how they're based on previous work. For example, the use of fancy cars as a proxy for higher social status, or the u
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by gruseom 13y ago
That's not a particularly critical analysis. He's not arguing that the experiments were bad, but that their findings should be interpreted carefully and in the light of the literature as a whole.
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Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (2012) [pdf](pnas.org)
61 points by gruseom 13y ago|34 comments
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I'm not a fan of Morozov either, but this piece is not worse than his usual. First, it's a review of two books by other people. Second, the examples he picks are not extreme, they're rather typical. Third, his critique in thi
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A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges(nybooks.com)
62 points by gruseom 13y ago|15 comments
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Congratulations for figuring all this out and getting to enjoy the rewards. But I'm curious: what do you do all day in Emacs if not programming?
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by gruseom 13y ago
HN has always featured sciencey articles from the popular press (as well as complaints about the decline of HN, for that matter), so your claim is at first glance untrue. It does seem testable, though. Do you have any data to support it?
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by gruseom 13y ago
It's a distinct style of C that evolved over decades for implementing APLs. It's more akin to an embedded DSL than it is to normal systems code, and the reason people use it is not that it's obscure but that it fits the probl
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This is a superb comment that has clearly come from experience. Thanks!
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by gruseom 13y ago
Chomsky would never describe himself as anti-American. He's a critic of power structures. His focus is on U.S. power structures because (a) they're the most impactful and (b) in the classic prophetic/dissident tradition, he b
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by gruseom 13y ago
This talk is a mindblowing series of lessons on the history of our field and on what great technical management really is. It fills in some crucial historical details, like the relationship between ARPA and Xerox PARC. But the most interest
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How Americans Said No To Cocaine After Years-Long Addiction(npr.org)
3 points by gruseom 13y ago|2 comments
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You're probably right that that's why administrators like it, but I'm talking about public opinion, which is different. Tacit public support is a necessary ingredient here.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I wonder how much the massive adoption of zero tolerance policies has to do with the name "zero tolerance" itself. It sounds indisputable. Why should we tolerate things like weapons or drugs in schools? Those things are bad. If yo
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by gruseom 13y ago
When incognito doesn't work, you can usually get the piece by Googling the title. Google almost always returns a link that bypasses the paywall. Posters post these links because the content is unavailable any other way. HN would be poo
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by gruseom 13y ago
It's quite true. There are lots of examples here and many more on Twitter. I suspect the reason is that once something has reached a certain popularity, it becomes more of a status move to identify against it than with it.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I've noticed a pattern. People who sneer at HN—of whom there are more than a few, it's quite a thing now—always think it's other people who are the assholes. To reply to zombio: it's probably that NYT and WaPo are such m
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How Gay Marriage Became Legitimate(newrepublic.com)
2 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
I admire a good contrarian defence. With respect, though, I think it goes off the rails here: And they're being scapegoated not because they might be a patent troll, but because they are a publicly identifiable organization with publi
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by gruseom 13y ago
cabalamat didn't put Myhrvold in the same context as Hitler What? That's exactly what he did.
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by gruseom 13y ago
They make deals where they sell patents to East Texas shell companies but keep 90% of the proceeds from their shakedown lawsuits. That's what This American Life uncovered recently—they looked at just one (laughably illegitimate) pate
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by gruseom 13y ago
Going on about downvoting is not acceptable on HN. It's so annoying, in fact, that the site guidelines single it out as a special case.
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Oops, sorry, I deleted my question before you posted your answer. (I deleted it because I thought it might be slightly inflammatory.) Thanks for taking the time to answer.
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You likely see it all the time and don't notice it. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abbc.co.uk+"has+their" https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anytimes.com+"has+thei... https:&#
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Friedrich Nietzsche and his Typewriter – a Malling-Hansen Writing Ball(malling-hansen.org)
8 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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There are countless examples, including from Shakespeare ("and every one to rest themselves betake"). See the lists at http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/sgtheirl.html and http://www.lel.ed.
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Ian Hacking reviews ‘DSM-5’ by the American Psychiatric Association(lrb.co.uk)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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But a lot of these are jury trials, aren't they?

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