hyperbovine

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   by hyperbovine 16y ago

   In the future, I recommend not clicking.
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   by hyperbovine 16y ago

   Seeing the forest instead of the trees is a common trait of successful people.
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   Room 641A(en.wikipedia.org)

   1 points by hyperbovine 16y ago|0 comments
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   by hyperbovine 16y ago

   Bush's term ended in 2008. I think that's a salient point.
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   Flying car coming next year(slate.com)

   1 points by hyperbovine 16y ago|0 comments
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   by hyperbovine 16y ago

   Truer that you realize: this is a reverse Like button. It's antisocial.
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   by hyperbovine 16y ago

   So said accounting rule changed then? Honest question. And in any case, if that were really true, why not charge a penny? Or the download cost? I don't buy it.
8. 2108.▲
   by hyperbovine 16y ago

   Except that's not true anymore: "Apple has for the first time made this full iOS upgrade free to all of its iPod touch customers, rather than charging the customary $10 fee that provoked groans in the past." ( http://www.ilounge.com/index.p
9. 2109.▲
   by hyperbovine 16y ago

   > Why are people obsessed with weather widgets? Would you by chance happen to live in California?
10. 2110.▲
    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    I had the same thing happen to a loaf of bread I purchased recently. Never have understood why people in software equate dormancy with worthlessness.
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    Exactly. It's trivial to write a prettied-up interface to those Python functions that would make as much sense (?) as PROC MEANS. Good luck trying extend SAS to do anything the designers didn't implement as a procedure, though. Having had t
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    Dollars to donuts the author is a Vimmer. I am and the workflow makes complete sense to me :-)
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    Easy: be a sleazy doctor and market yourself as the go-to guy for tabloid news money quotes.
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    Assuming the foreign workers are not being exploited or abused, I don't understand why it is any more or less moral to channel your commerce to them as opposed to people in your own country.
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    To figure out who he was and what he wanted in life.
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    Either Jack Dorsey is a con man, or VC's could care less about losing $5 to $50.
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    But then you wouldn't get to use Bayes' theorem in a public setting.
18. 2118.▲
    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    Lego cubicles and chair massages do not a revolution make.
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    School's out in June.
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    I once read this incredible book about a white whale. The logic totally didn't stand up to scrutiny...
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    > Few interesting books. Except for Dickens, Shakespeare, Poe, Austen, Twain, Dostoyevksy, Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters, Melville, Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, Dumas, Thoreau, Marx, Henry James, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Joseph Conrad
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    "Important" is subjective. Compensation equals the intersection of supply and demand. There are fewer business monkeys than code monkeys, and demand is higher, so they make more. Teachers are more "important" than shortstops, but who are be
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    This is the old noble savage debate ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage ). As evidenced by the fact that Western societies have engaged in it for at least the past 500 years, it's way less settled than you make it out to be. Convinc
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    Screen size seems to be about the same as a Kindle DX. That goes for $379 and is thought to be a loss leader for Amazon. Also, I suspect that if somebody found a way to do stylus input on e-ink, AMZN would already be offering (or at least h
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    Last post on this and I'm finished. Read the comments I was originally referring to. They are not of the "This threatens my way of life and my stream of income, and I'm concerned about it" variety. I would have no problem with that. Rather,
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    This is what I was getting at in my original post: why do so many people feel the need to render a moral judgement on the behalf of others? If it's rotten, don't participate. Everyone using those sites does so of their own free will.
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    I'm guessing many of the designers on those sites are from developing countries, where even the chance of landing a $3000 contract would mean a great deal to themselves and their families. So yes, it is competition: somebody is willing to d
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    Would anyone care to explain the prevalence of comments from designers complaining about "spec work"? I had never heard this term applied in a derogatory manner before. Is the idea that because you are an "artist" you are somehow exempt fro
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    Yes, it's a tantalizing prospect because so much of the groundwork has already been laid. I have the sense that something is just needed to tie it all together into a nice, easy-to-use package with a consistent interface, easily-understood
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    by hyperbovine 16y ago

    I have often wondered when something Python-ish will come along to compete with R. I like the power of R, and there is no better choice if you require an esoteric statistical estimator, but there are also a lot of downsides. It's difficult