jamieb

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by jamieb 15y ago
Definitely agree, but with the caveat that the teaching occurs after a period of doing. If I learn something by doing it, and then attempt to teach it, I may dwell in the "Why" of it when otherwise I might not have. But if someone listens,
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by jamieb 15y ago
jamieb "google that for you service" (TM): http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/reason 1. a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc. ... 3. the mental powers concerned with forming conclusions, judgments, or inferen
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by jamieb 15y ago
You will see a contract that says "Employee to start July 1st. Employment is at will. Either party may terminate with two weeks notice". You will think the first is the most important. The student might find the last clause most important.
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by jamieb 15y ago
>One shouldn't have to pay for people to do what they say they'll do: if they accept the offer, barring some act of god, they should start work for the company. You are missing the point nupark. What they said they would do is "I will w
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by jamieb 15y ago
You could sell Obama O's and Cap'n McCain's... http://www.airbnb.com/obamaos If they don't invest, they don't have to be accredited.
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by jamieb 15y ago
To which I would have asked "compete against who?" And you would have said "china etc" and I would have said, "Who the fuck do you think let these cheap chinese goods in here in the first place"? You would have then started talking about ho
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by jamieb 15y ago
TARP! Yes TARP has been repaid! Why are people complaining, when the money has been repaid? Who are these people who are clearly ignorant of the facts?!!? That would be you. We loaned citibank $25bn with TARP. They paid that back. You seem
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by jamieb 15y ago
My point is, if these people are magically special, why are they not able to create more jobs now? How come they stopped creating jobs? How come 50 million americans are without jobs? Is it not, perhaps, the case that the situation was such
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by jamieb 15y ago
They caused a lot of pain to a lot of 1%ers. If you think the financial sector likes, and purposefully causes, crashes, well, you're wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday George Soros made $1bn in a day. The UK Gvt lost 3.
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by jamieb 15y ago
I stated explicitly that the bankers had bribed the politicians. You responded with a statement that the bankers did not do so, and that in fact the politicians had caused the damage, and then blamed the bankers. A direct contradiction of m
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by jamieb 15y ago
Do these people consider how many jobs these top 400 people created over the last decades You seem to be claiming that these people actually create jobs. That they have some magical power, or even non-magical power. Some economic somethin
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by jamieb 15y ago
Whenever it got sluggish, the sys admins eagerly added memory and processors, not bothering to consider what might be wrong. And when the box finally collapsed the sysadmins are more than happy that all the anger is directed at the hackers
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by jamieb 15y ago
Ah, ok. So "Its possible to create wealth without taking wealth from others". Unfortunately, although it is possible to do so without taking it from others, taking it from others is still a viable way to do it. Further, its also possible to
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by jamieb 15y ago
which I assume is pretty much the same today a) Why would you assume that after a major crash the distribution is the same? b) And the paper that you quoted says this: "So as of April 2010, it looks like the wealth distribution is even
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by jamieb 15y ago
If by the pie fallacy you mean that people are forgetting that the 2011 pie now represents a much greater total number of dollars than the 1920 pie, then I must point out that the simple economic fact that if we just multiplied everyone's b
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by jamieb 15y ago
I feel like the traders on Wall Street would be the first people to want an economic bounce back. Hence your failure to understand OWS. Wall Street's job is to make money. Period. If it happens that it is effective to make money by repeat
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by jamieb 15y ago
Yes, that's the mistake most people make: back-end is engineering, front-end is art. No wonder we have such shitty front-ends. Sure, there are a whole slew of "applications" that will suffice with a basic form-driven UI accessing a rails or
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by jamieb 15y ago
UI is hard hear hear. ui is harder than back-end stuff in my opinion.
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by jamieb 15y ago
Can I have it laying flat with a mirror above the camera?
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by jamieb 15y ago
You know, there is a gulf of difference between having the courage to confront people who violate your principles and wishing someone dead. Aaaand I quote: "I'm not glad he's dead"
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by jamieb 15y ago
IMHO, good testing is hard. I think that something that's probably as hard as writing programs in the first place shouldn't be commoditized into a methodology. I don't particularly dislike TDD, but I certainly don't like it either. Comple
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by jamieb 15y ago
And doing a pull, which is meant to safely pull in unrelated changes, to test some things before committing, especially when it was a very simple change on head, is completely reasonable. I don't think its reasonable. 100% of posters here
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by jamieb 15y ago
You referenced that article to claim that Linus does what you did. But that article is quite clear that Linus does not do what you do: He either reverts, commits or stashes first. Had you done that you would not have had your problem. Its o
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by jamieb 15y ago
I have difficulty reading that page, with light grey text on a grey, "hand-drawn", graph-paper background.
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Half a day without power(jamiebriant.tumblr.com)
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by jamieb 15y ago
Whatever they don't consume is reinvested in the economy. You'd be forgiven for saying that because thats always been the case. Until 2009. http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/EXCRESNS The banks don't spend the money, they stuff
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by jamieb 15y ago
the new prices aren't too bad at all. c1.xlarge on EC2 is $1.16/hour. How many of the $0.08 GAE units does it take to match one of those? How many of those GAE units can run optimized SSE4/AVX? (Answer: none of them). I've run 250 c1.xlar
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by jamieb 15y ago
Well I've had the pleasure of working with someone who started programming when they were 6, is proud that they did so, and seems to believe that all you need is a belief that it can be done. Said individual was very good at delivering cut-
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by jamieb 15y ago
Some companies don't seem to have caught on that we are in a recession. People don't have the money to just go out and buy the latest cool gadget. No more one-upping friends. No more trying out the latest toy. In a bygone age HP Touchwhatsi
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by jamieb 15y ago
If you put it into a bank, they'll loan it back out to someone in a mortgage or such. Except that they aren't. http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/EXCRESNS The banks just stuff them into a safe haven. Hence the phrase "Pushing o

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