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by jfager 16y ago
I specifically said "lower-middle-class jobs", and you're pretending I just said "jobs". Of course I meant that you were replacing fewer higher paying jobs with more lower paying ones. I see nothing in your previous numbers showing how you
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by jfager 16y ago
You don't have to solve a problem in one fell swoop with one technique. Medallions aren't the only way to reduce congestion, and they aren't a complete solution, but they certainly do at least partly address the issue as an explicit goal,
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by jfager 16y ago
I suppose I don't understand how reducing congestion can be seen as a "side-effect" of the medallion system. That's one of the explicit reasons it exists: to cap the supply of cabs on the streets.
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by jfager 16y ago
Yes, my proposal is to reduce the wages of current cabbies, increase the wages of future cabbies (the people currently making $25k/year, or perhaps who are unemployed, who would take jobs as cabbies at $35k/year) and lower the cost of tax
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by jfager 16y ago
Being able to switch services or rent someone else's credentials are different problems than being able to cheaply create a new positive profile on a given service. Switching doesn't help you much if there's one dominant dispatch service th
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by jfager 16y ago
So, just so I follow, your proposal is to impoverish cabbies and drive the skill level of the average driver down as low as it can go while increasing the number of vehicles on the streets in a city where it already takes an hour to go a mi
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by jfager 16y ago
I didn't say people wouldn't leave reviews, I said they wouldn't have the same social incentive to do so as with other things that get reviewed. Other incentives (revenge) of course still exist, but the result is probably a heavy bias to
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by jfager 16y ago
You missed the part where the cabbie gets together with his friends to pad his stats and/or only screws 1 in 10 fares, and the part where people aren't going to perceive the same social incentive to review a cab as, say, a trendy restaurant
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by jfager 16y ago
I don't know about other places, but here in NYC, in the poorer neighborhoods in Brooklyn at least, there's a thriving system of taxi alternatives. You'll frequently see cars or vans packed full of people getting rides for a buck or two, a
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by jfager 16y ago
Your claim that I was responding to was "it's impossible to write a clean room vm implementation without infringing these patents", which is false (J9, JRockit), and which is also a different issue than whether Harmony has a patent grant. H
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by jfager 16y ago
Most of that is true, but is not what you said in the comment I replied to, and is not what I disagreed with. Apache Harmony isn't spec-compliant only because it hasn't been blessed by the TCK, and the only reason it hasn't been blessed by
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by jfager 16y ago
Why is this getting upvoted? You're wrong. Spec-compliant jvms get a patent grant. Dalvik isn't spec-compliant, so it doesn't get the grant.
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by jfager 16y ago
I haven't seen anyone mention Optimal Layout yet in the thread, so I will: http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/ It lets you move, resize, and tile windows easily with just the keyboard, and you get a better Cmd-Tab that switches b
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by jfager 16y ago
What is FB's consideration in this deal? Is it simply preferred access to acquisition targets and promotion of their platform, or does this relationship preclude (formally or otherwise) YC from funding startups that want to compete with FB
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by jfager 16y ago
Another one to try is Optimal Layout. It gives you tiling, hotkeys for resizing and moving windows, and a better Cmd-Tab (though you have to Alt-Tab instead, unfortunately), and the latest release supports rotating. I love it.
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by jfager 16y ago
The "close button on the left" crowd, for instance, is thrilled.
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by jfager 16y ago
I wondered that, too, but if you go in and look at the projects, the pedigree is clear. Even if you're going to use a similar implementation style, the likelihood that you independently come up with the exact same instance variable names a
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by jfager 16y ago
Hey, China, we just debased our currency after jump starting your market-based economy, training your next generation of businesspeople and engineers, and taking some of your plastic and lead paint. Have fun with your 2 billion person mark
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Scripting the Java Debugger Interface with jdiscript(jasonfager.com)
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by jfager 16y ago
http://www.logicalfallacies.info/ambiguity/straw-man/ http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man Saying that epoll's proponents perpetuate a myth that epoll is always faster than pol
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by jfager 16y ago
Zed, would you stop with the strawman bullshit already? Nobody serious ever claimed epoll was always faster than poll. The very graphs you linked to in your original post, the ones that you said were "flat out" wrong, themselves showed th
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by jfager 16y ago
I googled 'epoll "O(1)"'. You're the first hit (congratulations), followed by some random person on stackoverflow, the documentation for a CPAN module, the repetition of that documentation on github and in various package repos, and some r
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by jfager 16y ago
What I've been saying all along is something very simple. If the ATR > 0.6, poll wins. If ATR < 0.6, epoll wins. You left out the part where you accused people who advocate using epoll of being bullshitting touts who perpetuate fa
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by jfager 16y ago
IE will keep a connection open for about 60 seconds, how much of that's going to be active? I don't have the exact number, and of course it will vary, but of course it's going to be far less than 60% in the vast majority of cases. If a sit
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by jfager 16y ago
It is worth pointing out that the original epoll benchmarks were focused on how performance scaled with the number of dead connections, not performance in general: http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/nio-improve.html And as jacquesm
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by jfager 16y ago
I really disliked that part, not because it wasn't informative, but because it contradicted the whole point of picking up a book with "Real World" in the title. You don't write pretend monads for pedagogical purposes in the real world, but
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by jfager 16y ago
Ah, alright, fair point. Maybe we could coin a new term: "The HighVolumeProfitableCrapMonger's Dilemma"
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by jfager 16y ago
In what possible way can making a shitty phone and then lying about its capabilities in marketing materials be considered 'making the "right" decisions'?
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by jfager 16y ago
It sounds like you haven't actually read or understood The Innovator's Dilemma. TID isn't about companies growing too large and making obviously idiotic mistakes - it's hardly worth a book to point out that that might not be the best way t
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Lexi-Sortable Number Strings for Key-Value Stores(jasonfager.com)
2 points by jfager 16y ago|0 comments

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