jaxtapose

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by jaxtapose 16y ago
> Consider the case of car insurance. A car is a luxury. Health is a right. Keep your examples apples to apples, thanks.
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
> The physical form factor isn't what's new, the implementation, software, use cases, and the whole experience is what's new Actually. I want to explain why I was so vicious before. What made Wieser's ideas about computing so fantastic
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
a) Coaches can pick and choose their players. b) They get paid for the risk. Many schools pay more for a football coach than they do for the school principle. Imagine if each class had to have academic try outs? Now imagine that teachers go
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
The iPad is an entirely new type of computer? You mean, like a pad computer as suggested by Wieser in the 90s? > turned out to be substantially better than anyone imagined By anyone you mean analysts, right?
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
> This is true everywhere. Not quite. Other nations have easier access to understanding how many people are unemployed due to unemployment benefits being so readily available. Look at Australia as an example. Anybody can qualify for ben
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
11: People who make amazingly broad predictions will forget that the vast majority of what they said was wrong, but will hyper focus on some specific point of view that infers that their point wasn't a waste of time.
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
Typing speed is probably irrelevant. Touch typing is probably important for programmers to master, even if it is just so they don't have to break their zen state while programming.
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
How children gained the ability to explore the world without leaving home.
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
Who does a PhD to get a job as an Academic? I did a PhD to have the opportunity to learn something that nobody else did.
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
5.8% growth per month, not too shabby. Must be getting exciting.
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
MineCraft
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
I think the guy is on the right path, don't glorify dropping out. Glorify removing unessential distractions.
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
Anybody who has to work with Google (not for) would know that Google and Focus don't belong in the same sentence. Individual teams are fine, but overall Google is fractured and confused.
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
How much do you know about Erlang? Because, anybody competent with the tools of distributed systems would know that Erlang is one of the best tools for the job. You could spend a decade, or more, building the base level functionality that c
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
Yeah, because comparing something that, if it pays off, will put your family into the lap of luxury, and if it doesn't you can go back to your old life with something that offers no intrinsic value or reward if it pays off, and if it doesn'
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
> exploration is always a serious business What did you explore? Nothing, it's all documented, explored, exploited. Hell, it's a tourist attraction.
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
> My honest impression was that you must not be very good at what you do if you can make something as basic as reading your site so frustrating. I felt that it was overly wanky and art-bloated and neglected basic principles of Informati
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
I got to your web site, but I couldn't read the text easily, so I left within 3 seconds.
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
Agile has a similar problem to Waterfall. Business is a bunch of cheap pricks who don't understand the value of doing things right.
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by jaxtapose 16y ago
> $2/$3 a month sounds much better to me, especially for services for which users aren't very expensive. How do you know if they are expensive or not?