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by gruseom 13y ago
That's a zero-argument method but not a zero-argument function. That is, if you view makeAvailable as a function, storeItem is an implicit argument to it. In fact, storeItem is probably an object with several fields, so there are arguably
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by gruseom 13y ago
It used to be, but the industry is changing. The status of programmers is going up and that of middle managers is going down. As Silicon Valley goes today, so goes BigCo tomorrow, and woe betide the BigCo that does not. That's the theory, a
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by gruseom 13y ago
I'm guessing MaggieL is not a Sir? All the more interesting if so.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I find this reply entirely convincing. Thanks for sharing your experience—it's obviously relevant to the topic at hand.
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Permanent Present Tense: The Man with No Memory(lrb.co.uk)
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How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled(nybooks.com)
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English and Dravidian: Unlikely Parallels(economist.com)
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Credit Rating Agencies Likely to Evade Provision to End Conflict of Interest(cepr.net)
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by gruseom 13y ago
You might find a kindred spirit in Terry Gross' recent interview with David Sedaris. He talked about what he does to relax at his English country manor: rides his bike around the exquisitely beautiful countryside and picks up trash.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Yes, perhaps there is ego involved. But at least it's blended with some wonder and some love. That's better than the form of it that you're expressing here, which is black bile. I wonder why people don't see that when they pour this stuff o
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by gruseom 13y ago
I strongly disagree. People ought not to let themselves be talked out of unreasonable dreams of greatness. Your comment reads to me like depression distilled into words.
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by gruseom 13y ago
My jaw dropped when I read this, and then I felt sick. It's so dismaying to check in on HN threads and encounter this degree of nastiness and self-parody. Good for you, Weston. I look forward to hearing about your dragon-slaying adventures.
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Reinhart-Rogoff One More Time(cepr.net)
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William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction (1956)(theparisreview.org)
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by gruseom 13y ago
Yes! Thanks. The whole interview is worth listening to if one can tolerate the (at times considerable) douchiness of the interviewer.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Thanks; I've run across his stuff tangentially a few times but not seen that film. You might like Gormenghast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast_(series) Wyndham Lewis's novels, especially the Human Comedy that he wrote at the end
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by gruseom 13y ago
It depends on what you like. Flannery O'Connor's fiction is extraordinary. I bet you'd like Nabokov based on what you've said so far; I like his earlier Russian novels best (which have excellent English translations), like The Defense , fo
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by gruseom 13y ago
Wait, how'd you get to Pessoa from there?! Pessoa is fascinating. I believe it was he who wrote: Poets pretend They pretend so well They even pretend They suffer what they suffer. ... something that lodged itself in my brain ye
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by gruseom 13y ago
In a recent interview, Chomsky expressed ambivalence about the propaganda model that became so successful with Manufacturing Consent . It seems that he disagrees somewhat with the analysis of media content as a function of corporate intere
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by gruseom 13y ago
Don't miss The Double . This was the book that Dostoevsky wrote after his early rock-star debut. It was widely hated at the time, and Dostoevsky found himself in the doghouse as quickly as he had been celebrated before, but it's fabulous—m
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Pro-Inflation Policies Show Signs of Helping Japanese Economy(nytimes.com)
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by gruseom 13y ago
The epigraph to that chapter is brilliant.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I've always assumed that the violin and piano are favoured by tiger parents because they are high-status instruments. (Please excuse this off-topic rant: it dismays me that the violin is so high-status. The damn things are so shrill and squ
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by gruseom 13y ago
In fact, the economist Dean Baker has been arguing for just that as a free-market reform that would actually bring health care costs down. And the converse, too: that Medicare/Medicaid patients should be allowed to get cheaper health care a
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by gruseom 13y ago
Generally speaking, the historical posts on HN are some of the most interesting. I wish there were more of them. They're also one of the more distinctive things about this site. At its best, people here are interested in a broad range of th
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Keynes's Biggest Mistake(economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by gruseom 13y ago
That statement is untrue. Among journalists I know of, the one who has studied this the most and reported on it in the most detail is Gareth Porter.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I lived in the Mission for many years and I find your description overwrought.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Congratulations on a very cool historical find.
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by gruseom 13y ago
The critique of modern psychiatry has a long and intellectually serious tradition. Ironically, as your comment shows, the Scientologists have discredited it by association, at least with the ignorant.

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