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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Yes, see the comment referring to John Boyd.
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ExtremeTech's 2011 Best Value PC(extremetech.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 16y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Too many colors, too close together in hue, and the hue adjusts not by how the languages are related, but by alpha sorting of the language names. Terrible info graphic! I'm sure I could do much better in 10 minutes, and I'm a rank amateur.
874.
by jackfoxy 16y ago
I think there is seldom a good reason for changing the original title of an article for posting on HN. Why was this one changed?
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
CoreLogic in Concord, Ca. We're looking for .NET engineers to work on our web SaaS. We'll also consider Java experience. Our developers do it all, front-end (jQuery), server, DB. Contact me directly. I'm the hiring manager.
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Because it would make them a target of vilification. It's much wiser to put a big chunk of your assets into a charitable trust and talk about raising taxes on the rich. That opens doors simply being rich does not.
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
The guys at http://stackvm.com/ use node.js. I was disappointed to learn javascript does not support tail recursion. Kind of makes it a 2nd class functional language.
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
I think I've experienced different meanings and different influences at different points in my life. Right now it would have to be meaninglessness and struggle, which possibly makes me some sort of stoic existentialist, the idea of which I
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Wolfram ends the essay on a tantalizing note ...another level of automation.... [I]nventing and developing [systems using other axiomatic systems] to respond to some particular purpose. I see this almost happening daily on HN with the h
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
tl;dr Scanned until I stumbled upon this unsubstantiated tid-bit For example the theory that learning Latin helps learn English turns out to be pretty much a myth. I can only imagine that study was conducted by people who never learned ev
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Announcing Browserling(catonmat.net)
18 points by jackfoxy 16y ago|1 comments
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Unfortunately your option 4 is the wishful thinking the starry-eyed idealists in our foreign service and media have been whispering among themselves for 20 years. The Chinese coms like the regime in the North very much, thank you. It keeps
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Saudi king to seek medical treatment in U.S.(reuters.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 16y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Every qualifying person (citizen, legal resident, TBD) would have a baseline exemption. As you point out energy requirement varies by geography, and the exemption would also have to be geographic sensitive. More importantly, such an energy
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
I couldn't agree more. I've been following Cyc off and on for 20 years. It has yet to produce anything that interests me. I have yet to see a good project I can get my hands on that gets anything OUT of Cyc. Last time I checked, after decad
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
The right, even obligation, of the sovereign is to dip a straw in the stream of commerce and extract revenue. Tax farming was the way to do this in olden days, a highly inefficient and grossly unjust means. Today the income tax is the predo
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
The income tax system is only superficially progressive. Two examples: 1) Everyone's earned income below about $105K has an additional 12.1% tax called Social Security. Half of that is disguised as the employer contribution, but it stil
888.
by jackfoxy 16y ago
The income tax system, and the principle of taxing income, is wrong in so many ways, but I have given up arguing the point. The inertia of the system and the inertia of individuals is too great to overcome. I've identified these major contr
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Test Driving the Chevy Volt(pcmag.com)
1 points by jackfoxy 16y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
32. At least those responding corroborate your prediction. Could be self-selection. Those I got wrong I spent too much time analyzing, might have selected the "correct" answer if I had acted quicker. Does that corroborate Dunning-Kruger a b
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
QED, by Richard Feynman Also watching the Messenger Lecture series Nima Arkani-Hamed gave recently http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1851016
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
GS is the Man! Watching his calculus and linear algebra course videos overclocked in VLC is a beautiful experience. What a great teacher.
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
CoreLogic in Concord, Ca. is hiring .NET web developers. On site. I'm the hiring manager. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/eng/2026135349.html
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Nima Arkani-Hamed: The Messenger Lectures(motls.blogspot.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 16y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Didn't the HP board destroy the HP Way by placing the outsider Fiorina at the helm?
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
Thanks for turning me on to an interesting blogger. EDIT: Doh! I see you're promoting yourself. Well done!
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
http://www.facster.com
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
I see this story delivering a full dose of irony that will be lost on so many people. Google is a company that chose to affiliate with progressive causes and personalities almost from the start. And one of the central tenants of progressivi
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
My main beefs with MS 1) Bloating Office products with each successive release and discontinuing the old menu structure. I finally did something about this and switched from Outlook to Thunderbird. 2) MS has alienated small and independent
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by jackfoxy 16y ago
I'm still very much a novice at FP, but seeing as far as I can through my keyhole view I think FP offers a different, and in some ways deeper, level of absraction than OO, providing more re-use to the individual who becomes proficient, but

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