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by jleader 15y ago
Cue Lloyd Dobler: "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair
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by jleader 15y ago
I think it's just that he's trying to raise the barrier to entry a little higher. If you know you'll get a response in a few days or weeks on paper, instead of a day or two later in your email client, that makes you look for other, quicker
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by jleader 15y ago
It appears that that story about the director of the Patent Office saying there's nothing more to invent is mostly made up, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Duell or http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/22779.html or the most
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by jleader 15y ago
I think he's actually somewhat correct about multi-threaded programming, at least in some areas. Multi-threading works (aside from all the problems Yegge mentions) when you're dealing with multiple cores in a single box, but it doesn't scal
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by jleader 15y ago
There appear to be two different senses of the word "iteration" in play here. There's the sense common on HN, where it refers to getting the idea out in front of real customers, and then making changes to it in an attempt to improve it. HN
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by jleader 15y ago
This is the first time I've ever heard of ads for a "free IQ test" actually leading to the real thing! The paper uses the word "significant" quite a few times, but never mentions the significance level, or confidence intervals, or any other
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by jleader 15y ago
Actually, one of the best ways to learn something (even after you think you know it) is to try to explain it to someone who doesn't understand it yet. There's a big difference in depth of understanding between "I can get the right answer to
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by jleader 15y ago
There's a photo credit at the bottom that links to the picture on flickr, where it has a ton of annotations, by Doctorow and others.
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by jleader 15y ago
While Iverson started the work that led to APL while at Harvard, It believe the language itself was implemented when he was working for IBM. I'm not sure where that was, but I suspect it was Armonk, New York, and not Boston (nor even Cambri
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by jleader 15y ago
Two words: medical tourism.
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I didn't intend my comment to be a complete retelling; I was just pointing out some odd things that stood out to me, and asking if anyone else here knew what they might represent.
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From my point of view, that's a bizarre depiction of history. Tux started the discord, by throwing a rock at Windows? What's that supposed to represent? I understand about the Halloween memo, though it wasn't Linux that Microsoft was trying
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by jleader 15y ago
"And, with the exception of nethack, there aren't many ways to waste a lot of time at the console." Clearly, Matt has not yet fully learned the Unix lifestyle!
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by jleader 15y ago
If it needs "high throughput of human waste matter", it's not a toilet, it's a sewage treatment plant.
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by jleader 15y ago
Actually, I'd say that having multiple different "standards" from different vendors is a pretty good description of both Javascript and x86.
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by jleader 15y ago
"As for 'Why complain?'? Because money doesn't really grow on trees. Rich people get rich by spending their money wisely." Complaining and spending money wisely are independent activities; you can do either one without doing the other.
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by jleader 15y ago
I don't know about Paypal and Facebook, but interestingly enough, both Google and Yahoo have/had fair-sized offices in Southern California, though Yahoo's has gone the way of all Yahoo.
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by jleader 15y ago
Because professors are in a position of authority over their students, and part of their job is to evaluate the students. Thus preventing or detecting cheating (for example, by changing the structure of the assignments, or using various pla
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A nice synopsis of all programming language bashing(shlomif-tech.livejournal.com)
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by jleader 15y ago
Saying "AAA bonds will cause a crisis" is like saying "Homeowners' mortgages caused the mortgage crisis". They're an essential part of the situation, but the actual cause was the misrepresentation of the riskiness of the securities, due to
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by jleader 15y ago
There are other things that can be caught by code review, too, like potential performance problems ("why not use a hash table, instead of iterating through the array doing comparisons?"), or code that could be refactored to be shorter and c
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by jleader 15y ago
When I wanted to submit some patches to one of the Protocol Buffers projects, I was asked to submit them via Guido Van Rossum's Rietveld tool, which is a public re-implementation of an internal Google code-review tool: http://codereview.ap
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by jleader 15y ago
I think the author has a valid point that the "conservative" garbage collection approach has a flaw in its assumptions about the behavior of C compiler optimizations, and it doesn't sound like something easy to fix without a rewrite (i.e. s
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by jleader 15y ago
Not to mention for example "boston ma" vs. "boston ma." or "new york new york" vs. "new york ny". On the other hand, the size of area to aggregate probably depends on how close you live to that area.
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by jleader 15y ago
Hint to Google: If your servers are overloaded, "Please go back and try again" is a really dumb thing to ask people to do on your 500 error page!
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The debate reminds me of some of the angst the Perl community went through over what was known as the "DarkPAN problem" (i.e. all the hidden enterprise code that might get broken by new releases of Perl). A lot of the corporate argument com
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by jleader 15y ago
"This preference affects only HTTP redirects, not redirects with HTML meta tags or JavaScript." So if the shorteners use (or can be configured to use) different redirect methods, it might be possible to get around this limit. However, you'd
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by jleader 15y ago
What about when the alternative to the software also requires training? For example, draftsmen didn't intuitively know how to create usable architectural or machine drawings; is it so horrible that today they have to be trained in the use o
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"vocational schools are still seen as having less prestige..." Except for a few vocations that have managed to get themselves tagged as "professions". There are a number of fields where students are supposedly taught to think in general-pur
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But in this case, it sounds like FB is already taking a reputation hit (at least among the HN demographic), with no apparent effect.

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