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by gruseom 13y ago
That wins some kind of award, though I'm not sure what.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Having experienced abusive behavior in the past, I feel strongly about neither engaging in nor tolerating it. But when I read Linus' rants, I don't get the feeling of someone being abusive. They're vociferous and profane, but
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John Searle on Foucault and the Obscurantism in French Philosophy(openculture.com)
2 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
Nope, but I've just added it to my Amazon cart.
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by gruseom 13y ago
That is the rarest of things in a Picasso quote: it's authentic! http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/05/computers-useless/
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by gruseom 13y ago
Fascinating! I know about that story from the point at which the search for rigorous foundations had already begun (i.e. late 19th century), but no awareness of the connection to Fourier. Thanks.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Fred Wilson said something similar about obsession, though in very different language: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2721767 . I like that quote very much. What (if anything) are you obsessed with?
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by gruseom 13y ago
Can you expand on this? What did Fourier prove and why was it accidental and what was the quicksand?
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by gruseom 13y ago
That is very interesting. Thanks!
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by gruseom 13y ago
The huge assumption that Nathan makes here is that "problems I have" can always be extended to "problems that a profitable target market has." You're surely right that that assumption is invalid, but I don't
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by gruseom 13y ago
Why are you posting this obvious blogspam that obviously violates the HN guidelines?
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by gruseom 13y ago
I find the article more subtle, and rooted in much more experience, than you're giving it credit for. When people talk about the lean theory they often leap from "Don't make something no one wants", which is a truism, to
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by gruseom 13y ago
This is docudrama. The only known film of Orwell is a scratchy reel from 1921 of a bunch of kids walking like stick men at Eton, of which Orwell is said to be one, though you'd never guess.
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by gruseom 13y ago
It's great how fast this is. Suggestion: make the underlined text "not available" be a link to whois information when a domain is taken. The way you have it now, it looks clickable, and that's what I expected it to tell
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by gruseom 13y ago
But mistermann is right; his point is the critical one, and you've responded to it by changing the subject. Another humorist who does this, in a meaner way, is Sasha Baron-Cohen. The lesson here is not how ridiculous the people being r
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by gruseom 13y ago
Ugh. I'm a Canadian who is repelled by Rick Mercer's way of feeding Canadians' blind spots and prejudices back to them. His comedy is smug. He is not a truth-teller—he shows people what they want to see. Canadian prejudice ag
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by gruseom 13y ago
That all seems reasonable, though "living Constitution" sounds a bit silly to my ear—if that's used by advocates they should find a better name. On the other hand, the originalist thing seems flat-out dumb if it tries to deny
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by gruseom 13y ago
I seem to recall you making a surprisingly originalist comment about the US Constitution before, as well. Do you really think the meaning of "cruel and unusual" doesn't evolve as we learn more over centuries? All kinds of thi
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ADHD Drugs Don't Boost Kids' Grades, Studies Find(wsj.com)
81 points by gruseom 13y ago|109 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
The propaganda of one country can be a useful (because different) filter on the events in another, so long as one doesn't forget that it is propaganda. Particularly useful is when one can find several different such angles and triangul
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by gruseom 13y ago
One can write plain English without sensationalism. Waterboarding someone 183 times is obviously torture. People only use roundabout phrases to describe torture when it's their side that did it. Conversely, it's easy to see the na
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by gruseom 13y ago
That is a rough approximation of Max Weber's theory from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism , which is an amazing and surprisingly readable little book.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Huh. How annoying that it doesn't just work everywhere. Annoying in two ways, actually: one, I want it to work; two, it bugs me not to understand what's going on.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Are you sure this works? I've tried it many times.
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by gruseom 13y ago
This is the syntax I use in Emacs, so I would love it if git-grep would do the same. But it doesn't, for me. Are you sure that it does for you?
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by gruseom 13y ago
I don't use homebrew, but your comment made me realize what I needed to do to successfully compile git with pcre. As a result, this now works: git grep -P "outer\b" Yay! Thank you and moonboots. This is an important fe
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by gruseom 13y ago
This doesn't work for me, nor do the other two users' suggestions. I even just rebuilt git in case my version was out of date.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I haven't been able to figure out how to match a one-sided word boundary using git-grep. For example, say a file includes the word "router". You can do this to match the exact word: git grep -w router But what if you w
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California Cool: How the Wetsuit Became the Surfer's Second Skin(collectorsweekly.com)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
I have that experience rather often myself. It takes a conscious effort to pay enough attention to how one is saying something.

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