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by gruseom 14y ago
Some time ago I heard an 82-year-old lady talk about how her parents' marriage had been a happy one. She said that the whole time she was growing up, her mother kept a newspaper clipping on the family icebox that described marriage as a pro
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by gruseom 14y ago
It was utterly rude and a bad way to treat any commenter, but especially a new one who was trying to add something very valuable—a fresh perspective—to this site. If I were anxx and that were my first impression of HN, I'd think [something
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Who Needs Antioxidants?(bigthink.com)
4 points by gruseom 14y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 14y ago
What underlying theory do you have in mind? It seems like Nietzsche's eternal recurrence to me.
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by gruseom 14y ago
That's not why people don't want to give up Excel. It's because in Excel they can do what they want themselves rather than having to rely on programmers. That's a really big deal and it's not something we programmers can easily appreciate.
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by gruseom 14y ago
I suspect the reason those commercial solutions aren't very prominent is that they don't work very well. Spreadsheet compilation is a harder problem than it appears to be.
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by gruseom 14y ago
Well, of course "it's always a people problem" as Jerry Weinberg says. But the Barclays example is interesting* precisely for its technical detail. The spreadsheet author used Excel's "hide" feature to hide some data. Had Excel given them t
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by gruseom 14y ago
Yup, but the Excel error is the soundbite. Anyone can understand it and it makes the authors look ridiculous, which is so much more potent than just being wrong, especially if what you're wrong about is something abstruse that in the end wi
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by gruseom 14y ago
It's serious, though playful. Some of the cases are very interesting, particularly the one about Barclays getting burned by the lack of access control on data in spreadsheets.
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by gruseom 14y ago
Your comment is ignorant (Chechnya is not a country), off-topic (the OP in no way attempts to explain the Boston attacks) and horrid ("maybe Chechnya is a shitty country because it's full of Chechens"—what kind of person says such things?).
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John le Carré Has Not Mellowed With Age(nytimes.com)
5 points by gruseom 14y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 14y ago
Thank you.
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by gruseom 14y ago
I didn't mean to slander Phish! I know literally nothing (else?) about them.
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by gruseom 14y ago
Your dad and uncles sound like quite the crew.
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by gruseom 14y ago
This is superbly entertaining.
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by gruseom 14y ago
Whom if anyone do they follow now?
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by gruseom 14y ago
Could you expand on the following? What is really important is to realize that dataflow variables (I-structures) are not in memory. So any language/library that gives dataflow semantics to programmers should not allow programmers to indire
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by gruseom 14y ago
Didn't Phish inherit the Deadheads after the Grateful Dead stopped performing? That's a unique situation and hardly a business model.
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by gruseom 14y ago
Are there cases of category theory yielding results in a more traditional branch of mathematics? That would seem to be a litmus test of sorts.
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by gruseom 14y ago
Great comment. You make it sound like analysts have more imagination—was that intentional? When I studied math I was definitely, in your taxonomy, an algebraist. But if I went back to it now I'm pretty sure I would be an analyst. I say that
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by gruseom 14y ago
Dean Baker's critique of this response is typically incisive: [Herndon, Ash, and Pollin] found growth was slower in periods with debt levels above 90 percent of GDP than below, but the gap was relatively small and nowhere close to statisti
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by gruseom 14y ago
and also that higher debt leads to lower growth Or that lower growth leads to higher debt. See Krugman's chart at http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/reinhart-rogoff-... .
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by gruseom 14y ago
Thank you. Great answer, great thread.
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Gold: The fear bubble bursts(blogs.reuters.com)
7 points by gruseom 14y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 14y ago
Deleting a comment in one thread (especially a parent comment) and reposting it in another is not a very good practice. Also, this is obviously news. Also, a gratuitous reference to climate science in this context is flamebait—luckily it ha
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by gruseom 14y ago
Dataflow is really the way to go to lower energy consumption dramatically. Could you expand on this for a layperson? I'm terribly interested.
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by gruseom 14y ago
It is news. The three criticisms the article raises are new and depend on their having gotten access to the spreadsheet. Even though the author implies at the end that the Excel error is the least of the three, it's the perfect soundbite fo
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by gruseom 14y ago
Fascinating. I'm Canadian too and have made similar observations, yet was surprised to read what you wrote. Our self-image is so strongly one of not being nationalistic that we're for the most part unconscious of this behaviour. Most Canadi
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by gruseom 14y ago
I thought they all used teleprompters. Who doesn't?
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by gruseom 14y ago
his personal narcissism seems to rival Obama's I realize that the view of Obama as a tremendous narcissist has become a right-wing meme, but it seems so odd (kind of like the related view that he's a know-nothing who can't speak without a

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