j1o1h1n

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by j1o1h1n 13y ago
I hate to be go all happy family on you, but please avoid swear words in a public forum like hacker news. There are enough forums where that sort of behaviour is a part of the culture and it degrades everyone.
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by j1o1h1n 14y ago
Capita Centre, Sydney, Harry Seidler & Associates 1989
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by j1o1h1n 14y ago
These little localised gardens, their upvotes and downvotes have lost the ancient pure glory of USENET and the killfile. "This means all your question, comments, or pleas for help will go unheard... or, even worse, answered by idiots."
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by j1o1h1n 15y ago
The timeline starts at 1650, the height of the Renaissance, and projects forwards 2500 years. It would be more interesting to start at 500 B.C. While the author is making the point that 2% growth is silly, he is missing that there (if pas
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by j1o1h1n 15y ago
The point of a sword tended to be involved in the process, money being less of a thing in the middle ages. Anyway, your analogy will seem more believable we start to see the children of interns forced to work for the companies that their pa
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by j1o1h1n 15y ago
That website is terribly annoying. Please don't post things like that.
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by j1o1h1n 16y ago
Don't forget to make a couple of mistakes ;-)
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by j1o1h1n 16y ago
> get up to speed to an experienced developer in a month or two Ho! You are not a fan of the "become an expert in ten years" theory?
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by j1o1h1n 16y ago
Say what one will, eh? Microsoft Courier. How about if it works 0% as well as claimed?
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by j1o1h1n 16y ago
Yep, the social web is a misnomer, and cellphones are nice and all, but who has the stomach to learn another gui toolkit? How about biology? Study biology, perhaps at a university, build the geneticist's philosopher's stone...
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by j1o1h1n 16y ago
> they have a right to do what they want The first thing the auditors do is go through the HR records, find out who hasn't taken off any vacation time or sick leave for three years. That person is raising purchase orders and signing an
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by j1o1h1n 16y ago
The public beta was only made available in May or June this year (as I recall).
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by j1o1h1n 16y ago
The eight hour day, forty hour week was a key victory won by the persistent efforts of the trade union movement (and anarchists and socialists). Mr Ford seems to have been writing a clever justification for a pre-emptive capitulation. And
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by j1o1h1n 16y ago
Down at the Club, further sage advice from Mr Ford: "When "Mr. Lee Jackson" is proposed for the club there would seem to be no reason, as far as reading goes, why anything unusual about Mr. Jackson should be surmised, until you know that M
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by j1o1h1n 17y ago
Partners in law firms are co-owners. When the year's profits are tallied, they divide them amongst themselves.
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by j1o1h1n 17y ago
The Bible is a collection of texts that has at times been revised and updated by committees. This kind of artefact is unremarkable.
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by j1o1h1n 17y ago
Or you could just grow a moustache ( http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Moustache.txt )
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by j1o1h1n 17y ago
日本語わ、むぞかしですね。。。
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by j1o1h1n 17y ago
Is there a generally accepted "LOON" tag?, Mr Sheppard gives us: > What I have termed the "Dynamical Laws": > 1. The only power that females have is given to them by males; > 2. The only thing which females do with that power
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by j1o1h1n 17y ago
Wabi-sabi is worth a look.
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by j1o1h1n 17y ago
I'm just reading Poor Folk, in honour of the Recession.
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by j1o1h1n 17y ago
Rather teleological argument from Ms Rand. If the heir manages to keep the inheritance, then they deserved it, however if they lose it, they weren't worthy. Perhaps a new "Ayn Rand" inheritance tax is in order; those heirs who fail to do
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by j1o1h1n 17y ago
you mean you weren't 19 in 1993, spending your daylight hours wandering around campus like a zombie, hoping you might pass maths this time and your evenings going home from a nightclub called cybersomething (to which you had a laminated! me
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by j1o1h1n 17y ago
Bah - selfish gene again. People give away ideas because we are social animals that survive through our ability to co-operate and recognise that it is advantageous to share. Except for those evil selfish Peter Chamberlen brothers of force
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by j1o1h1n 18y ago
"Our advice: Beware of geeks bearing formulas."
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by j1o1h1n 18y ago
You forgot the cost of hiring of mercenaries to protect your nukes from pirates.
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by j1o1h1n 18y ago
> you can't just learn how to make great designs I worked with many talented designers in pre-Internet-Crash 1.0 days. They were very good at telling me where to add some whitespace - almost invisible tweaks that made great differences
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by j1o1h1n 19y ago
People seem to think Japan = Miso, Green Tea and Sushi, but let me present some popular alternatives - Tonkatsu - deep-fried pork cutlet - ice-cream bread (a loaf of white bread with the centre filled with ice-cream) - endless convenience s
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by j1o1h1n 19y ago
Truely richer than Putin?
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by j1o1h1n 19y ago
The financial industry does not use databases for this kind of thing much - for keeping records, and back office trade post-processing, yes, but not for market data. Try wikipedia ~ Event Stream Processing, Complex Event Processing, TimesT

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