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by hodwik 11y ago
Agreed. I tried for a good portion of last night to get it setup for Clojure, and it was surprisingly difficult.
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by hodwik 11y ago
The government can tap pretty much any call, and has been collecting meta-data on all calls, and the public does not seem to mind. I think you're overestimating how much the public's indifference has to do with computer illiteracy
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by hodwik 11y ago
Speakers of English think it is easier than Swahili, but we know from language acquisition studies that Swahili is easier to learn in the large. Your use of "subjective" is imprecise and overly relativistic. Just because somethin
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by hodwik 11y ago
It's sad "scientists" are wasting their time on this close-proximity alien fantasy when they could be working on real problems.
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by hodwik 11y ago
Written by Dorothy Thompson, first journalist kicked out of Nazi Germany. She also said: "No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as
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by hodwik 11y ago
When an untethered machine can provide all of the functionality of a machine that phones home. (never)
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by hodwik 11y ago
That's still bad design. It may be good marketing though. Not the same thing.
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by hodwik 11y ago
I worked for a multi-billion dollar finance company that worked primarily with middle and lower class people. Our marketing department swore by bad design. Not just simple, accessible. Intentionally bad . They believed it grabbed more at
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by hodwik 11y ago
The web community is flooded in negativity because it was swamped by kids with overly idealistic, unrealistic, and heroic ideas about what the web was going to be post-Facebook. Those people then realized that the web is, like all things, b
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by hodwik 11y ago
Enrollment at UCB is 37k, which only puts it slightly above Harvard (21k), Columbia (22k), Cornell (20k), and UPENN (20k). Also, UCB outranks most of the ivyleague in the sciences, engineering and computer science on most measures -- http:
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by hodwik 11y ago
The lower the price the easier to buy, so there should probably be some weighting on stock-price to remove some weekend warriors from the equation on many-shared stocks, and to reflect the barriers to entry on stocks like BRK.A.
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by hodwik 11y ago
You should really be worried when the students aren't complaining that things are going too fast.
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by hodwik 11y ago
Judging from what I've seen on MIT's OCW and Berkeley's webcasts, students at the best schools are getting a considerably better education in the sciences than I did at a small state university, and students at St.John's
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by hodwik 11y ago
It seems difficult to program on many of these, as best as I can tell, many are missing symbols common to programming notation -- [] {} | Portugal, Norway, Germany, Belgium, France, Czech R, and Croatia specifically.
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by hodwik 11y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure. It was pretty hilarious. I got a bug-fix from the form developer that his button wasn't working, and I kept trying to explain to him that it couldn't possibly work, it didn't do anything. Finally he e
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by hodwik 11y ago
Saw a form recently with search-as-you-type that included a fake button that when pressed would write "Search Complete" to the screen, but had no other function, for users who didn't comprehend search as you type.
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by hodwik 11y ago
I am quite sure that I do not feel attacked. Also, parent admitted as much: "histrionic", "the article violated my perceived personal belief space", "I am an angry and unpleasant person."
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by hodwik 11y ago
Parent used language highly associated with taking something very personally: -"Wait, how exactly is [...]?" as if indignant. - Scare quotes, as in "personal space" -The "First, [...]. Secondly, [...]." dialect
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by hodwik 11y ago
Someone took the article personally.
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by hodwik 11y ago
No, it's more like "The internet is public, and I know I can't hide what I'm doing in public, so I don't do stupid things in public."
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by hodwik 11y ago
Yes, many of us do.
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by hodwik 11y ago
The third graph pretty much says it all; research, licensing fees, consulting and speaking engagements (mostly training pharma staff from what I understand) make up almost all of the payments. Glad to see that the data is so boring. https:
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by hodwik 11y ago
They did, and then they failed to respond properly because their corporate leaders are a bunch of hippies.
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by hodwik 11y ago
Stockfighter.io and microcorruption
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by hodwik 11y ago
Oh no. My work day has been seriously threatened.
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by hodwik 11y ago
You save a good amount of money though. Most of the high-end sub-$100 CPUs in the PassMark CPU benchmarks are AMD chips. I just picked up the AMD Vishera -- 4.2 Ghz, easily overclockable to 4.5 with a proper cooling system, for $90. For com
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by hodwik 11y ago
>"And when the facts and evidence are overwhelmingly against them, they rely on unsubstantiated theorizing to hand-wave them away." Facts can't be 'against' something. That's silly, anthropomorphism. Facts
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by hodwik 11y ago
>"this empirical research is wrong because my unsubstantiated theorizing is right." The empirical research isn't "wrong", that doesn't even make sense. Data is just data, it stands for nothing but itself, i
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by hodwik 11y ago
The inflationary nature of money is heavily tied into our subconscious experience of it. If you ask the same question , but about things rather than dollars, people will make the rational choice. "Would you rather have a yacht if yo
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by hodwik 11y ago
Who is better positioned to tell you about the dis-incentivization of minimum wage than those who have recently worked hard to get above it?

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