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by gruseom 13y ago
Another fascinating detail is how the king tried to shut them down because of the political impact they were having. A "war on drugs" that never got off the ground!
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The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse(publicdomainreview.org)
80 points by gruseom 13y ago|44 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
it makes a huge number of claims but does not back up these claims by any empirical evidence Name a book that does! The corpus of evidence in our field is quite weak and doesn't support almost any interesting claim you might make abo
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History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes(quoteinvestigator.com)
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The study uses an odd and rather dubious measure of "happiness": Gallup asked respondents [...] to imagine a "satisfaction ladder" in which the top step represents a respondent's best possible life. Those being pol
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by gruseom 13y ago
More on Nietzsche's use of it: http://www.malling-hansen.org/friedrich-nietzsche-and-his-ty...
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Beowulf in a Hundred Tweets(historyoftexttechnologies.blogspot.com)
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Thirded. Plus there's Orwell's classic rewriting—"Here it is in modern English": Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no ten
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That material is very interesting. I'll have to find some time to look at it more closely. It reminds me of John Gall's classic Systemantics (now published as The Systems Bible ).
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A persistently missing name is often a sign that the concepts haven't been fully worked out yet. In you guys' case that could be exciting. It could mean that what you're doing is newer and more emergent than you've yet r
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There's no need to be rude. Some people care. I think it's an interesting verbal conundrum.
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Most everything you're talking about is explicable by popularity effects. That's why more objective study would be interesting. Alas, I doubt it will happen: serious research on software engineering, as opposed to the thin broth w
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That would be well worth testing, so I hope you or someone else does find time.
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the second group favors readability and the ability to share code in a large team over language power Not to pick on you, but people say this all the time, as in it's probably the thing people say most often on this subject, and I wo
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by gruseom 13y ago
Status difference can take many forms other than management hierarchy. Indeed, one big problem with management hierarchy is that it messes with the "native" status system of the creative disciplines, which is based on technical me
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by gruseom 13y ago
I strongly agree. CSS is rife with extrinsic complexity—complexity greater than the problem domain required. As often happens with such designs, its pieces don't line up and many simple questions have complicated (or no) answers. It&#x
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The New Augustus(the-tls.co.uk)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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Gandhi Before India(literaryreview.co.uk)
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If philosophy teaches you that ideas need to fit in one of binary opposite buckets, that sounds like an argument for not studying it.
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The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism(cjr.org)
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He was far from the only one.
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LISP: awful for developers, good for the compiler -> machine (fast) It's pretty funny that the knee-jerk dismissals of Lisp today are the precise opposite of what they used to be.
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Chomsky certainly never left academic work for politics. He has divided his time evenly between the two for many decades.
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Academics Who Defend Wall St. Reap Reward(nytimes.com)
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The attorney general of Maryland who argued that case in 1979 has strongly protested against its application to mass surveillance. http://www.npr.org/2013/12/21/256114227/1979-supreme-court-r...
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Steele was brought in to write the spec. He didn't design Java. In fact, his classic talk "Growing a Language" is among other things a very polite and implicit, but devastating critique of the design of Java.
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I noticed that the APL one seemed off as well. But I would say: APL: Other languages are verbose and irregular.
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Ok, those count!
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I'm not a subscriber, but I read quite a few of their articles and I'm pretty sure I never noticed a sentence like "This is a change so obviously sensible that no other country has made it."
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by gruseom 13y ago
Let's see some examples.

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