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by jfager 17y ago
Having a low payroll does not in and of itself mean a team is trying to apply moneyball principles. It can also mean that the ownership is trying to keep costs down and doesn't care if the team is competitive as long as it's turning a prof
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by jfager 17y ago
Bissinger's a really good sportswriter when he's focused on his subject in his own voice, but he's definitely a jock, and he's got a history of being a jackass to other writers: http://deadspin.com/385770/bissinger-vs-leitch
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by jfager 17y ago
Yeah, and Joe Blanton's in the World Series for the 2nd year in a row, and Nick Swisher's a game away. What's your point? The list of players from Moneyball isn't exactly embarassing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneyball:_The_Art_of_Wi
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by jfager 17y ago
If you took out the references to communism, his argument would still be there, it has no actual dependence on the analogy he's using rhetorically. Your critique in this follow-up comment is a lot more useful than dismissing his claim as a
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by jfager 17y ago
I certainly didn't read this as saying "3 - 4 = 5" was cool. I would hope any reasonable Haskeller would agree that doing something like this in real code is grounds for revoking commit access. If you're not comfortable with (otherwise san
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by jfager 17y ago
I use it all the time. I have a handful of scripts that I use to tweak a bunch of sites I spend a lot of time on, including one for blacklisting some annoying folks here on HN: http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/55745
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by jfager 17y ago
How is this reasoning by analogy? He makes the rhetorical comparison to communism, but his point doesn't depend on that comparison in any way at all.
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by jfager 17y ago
Right, but so's the keyboard on the Kindle, which takes up about the same amount of space.
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by jfager 17y ago
Who the hell is downmodding thristian's comment? You're pretty much spot on. You don't just get the right to redistribute, though, you also get the right to modify. If you do modify, and distribute your modifications, you're obligated to
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by jfager 17y ago
So... why are you doing this? Nice gestures are nice, but this one seems really expensive. What's the payoff for Microsoft? Simply a goodwill play?
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by jfager 17y ago
Strawman. Of course mapping followed by reducing isn't new, nobody serious ever claimed that it was (the Dean & Ghemawat paper certainly doesn't). Systems dedicated to performing map-reduce operations using giant clusters of commodity
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by jfager 17y ago
One of the things that made OpenMoko's FreeRunner interesting was that it was also an open hardware platform - all parts used had publicly available documentation, there was a debug port with direct access to all low-level hardware, and eff
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by jfager 17y ago
how is this different from posting up a splash page asking for email addresses for a future public release? You really don't see how lying to a customer's face about having code written is different from putting up a splash page saying so
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by jfager 17y ago
A good set of evolving screenshots is nice progress in development. It is, but that's not what they were referring to. With just a little other investigational programming on the side, everything in their presentations would have been tr
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by jfager 17y ago
Is selling any unrealized concept unethical? Of course not, if you disclose that it's unrealized. Is pitching you an idea for a company in trade for your money wrong? Of course not, if you disclose that it's an idea. I think it becomes
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by jfager 17y ago
Seems so to me, and somewhat pointlessly, too. You're working closely with companies who are willing to sign letters of intent and stick with you after a botched install, but you think you have to lie about having code written? There's a
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by jfager 17y ago
For a rant on language, that's amazingly unreadable.
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by jfager 17y ago
True, but keep in mind that, to do that, I would have to return the [Kindle] I dunno, it is a computer system. As far as I know, it's not jailbroken yet, but there are folks working on it: http://igorsk.blogspot.com/search/label/kindle
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by jfager 17y ago
The analogy is more like: you gave a delivery company the key to your house and agreed with them they could come take back whatever they delivered to you whenever they wanted to. And then when they did, you got ticked off because you didn
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by jfager 17y ago
(a) Amazon is a monopsony (Amazon sells $5 billion of books per year, out of a $13 billion ecommerce book market, out of a $30-40 billion total book market). If you want to sell ebooks right now, the only way to do it (and actually get si
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by jfager 17y ago
We're talking about bits an admin can flip to get fired, aren't we? To that question, I don't really see what you get from the distinction...
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by jfager 17y ago
Wait, what? Of course an admin wouldn't just turn it on out of the blue one day, and of course that would be really, really stupid, but admins on the edge are responsible for stuff like this all the time. Turning on compression, setting u
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by jfager 17y ago
I don't see how anyone's more likely to use a new policy specification language better than they are going to use a toolkit designed for their own web framework. This can be an http header, so an admin or senior can configure the whitelis
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by jfager 17y ago
The libraries people use to "escape all inputs, etc" are providing effectively the same functionality as CSP is Maybe, but not everyone's using those libraries, and those libraries may themselves have bugs or may be used incorrectly. Def
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by jfager 17y ago
I don't think I understand what you're objecting to. The way I read it, CSP is lock-down by default (if the header is sent across to opt into it), with the application developer being responsible for providing a whitelist of where code and
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by jfager 17y ago
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/55745
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by jfager 17y ago
You're highlighting the throwaway line about 20 years ago at the end of a lengthy and impressive resume. I appreciate that you disagree with him, but that seems like a cheap shot.