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by jmagoon 12y ago
Here was a good perspective from a 'smaller artist' (on Merge and Secretly Canadian) from reddit on this subject: http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/2ld32y/the_1_hit_sing... Basically, they
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by jmagoon 12y ago
It's strange to me that people think having or not having money is directly tied to obsessing over money. These are two separate things that aren't actually connected--the number in your bank account and the state of your mind. Yo
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by jmagoon 12y ago
Fellow Coloradan-- agreed on the practicality of a mountain train, agreed on the no Olympics here, ever. It was already voted down once (1976), and I'm sure it would happen again.
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by jmagoon 12y ago
It seems like the hard part of programming is and always will be the problem solving part, and not the syntax memorization / environment setup. Business leaders, at least where I work, are not programming due to the fact that they just
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by jmagoon 12y ago
Are you saying a child's imagination isn't part of the real world? How about books? The Hobbit isn't 'the real world', either.
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by jmagoon 12y ago
Just a note: that inner voice is also a thought. A strongly habituated one, certainly, but still just a thought. You don't need to stop 'talking', just take a step back, so to speak, and watch that voice and it will gradually
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by jmagoon 12y ago
>>why doesn't the buyer seek out a seller himself? Because it takes more time. Because in this scenario, a program has purchased all the tickets ahead of time, making it basically impossible for a real customer to buy the product
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by jmagoon 12y ago
In the context of the parent article, I have spent ample time cleaning up the code and mess of people who get excited about something, then about something else, and never complete what they begin. It could be just a semantic difference, bu
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by jmagoon 12y ago
Can we also add "Ninja" and "Genius" to the list of abused recruitment buzzwords? And don't even get me started on "passion". (David Mitchell's take: http://youtu.be/Bz2-49q6DOI )
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by jmagoon 13y ago
Do you have a link or some info about the languages they are adding? We're very curious over here--would love to know if they plan to add support for something we already have.
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by jmagoon 13y ago
used the same strategy, lost at about 11.5K after I had to use a down after filling my top two rows. definitely works well.
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by jmagoon 13y ago
The first two lines of the article: "Institutional racism is any system of inequality based on race. It can occur in institutions such as public government bodies, private business corporations (such as media outlets), and universities
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by jmagoon 13y ago
I've always heard of this referred to as institutional racism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism "When racism is built into the institution, it appears as the collective action of the populati
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by jmagoon 13y ago
That's certainly not the reality of the cocaine and heroin trade.
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by jmagoon 13y ago
So they should get none instead?
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by jmagoon 13y ago
Well, you're saying that there's no point (intrinsically) in self-sacrifice. I'm saying there's no point (intrinsically) in self-promotion. So the value judgement is relative.
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by jmagoon 13y ago
What I meant was that he was characterizing all feminist activists as wanting or doing X (X being unsupported, anyways), which seems to me to be an unfair generalization and an easy to knock down, stereotypical villain. I should have clarif
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by jmagoon 13y ago
Why should one care about themselves more than others? There's nothing intrinsically valuable about the self. Accumulating resources or accomplishments? Sounds pretty pointless to me.
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by jmagoon 13y ago
I don't, and I never made that claim because it's insane. I object to the idea that "feminist activists" "didn't push to get more women into tech until tech was a higher paying, lower risk endeavor." There
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by jmagoon 13y ago
Do you have any evidence to back up your broad-brushed claims? And who are these "feminist activist" strawmen(straw-women?) you have set up?
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by jmagoon 13y ago
There's something even more fundamental about his own thought process than creativity, which is odd that he doesn't see -- namely, "Why does David Deutsch care about creating an AGI?". Why is there a drive towards creati
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by jmagoon 13y ago
This is totally true, and as the original article mentions: "Unless you can afford to have two or more competing teams solving the same problem, and c’mon, who would do that, you will never know." So, the above metaphor is almost
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by jmagoon 13y ago
It's probably hard to have a general rule about something like that. My take away from the article was that much of the current news that we consume isn't particularly useful to us--it doesn't improve the way we think or act,
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by jmagoon 13y ago
It's always impossible to tell on the internet, but I would suggest that you would be unlikely to make this statement if you've actually had migraines.
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by jmagoon 13y ago
So it still has little specifically to do with Java vs. node.js. Just a ridiculously bad old process to a better new process.
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by jmagoon 13y ago
they seem pretty open to pull requests. so feel free to fix the "crap", as you call it.
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by jmagoon 13y ago
Love this, had never heard of it before. My generation drives me mad. 20-30 year olds whose major pursuit in life is frivolity, who complain when they don't have the jobs necessary for them to pursue their frivolity. We're beyond
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by jmagoon 13y ago
Can you elaborate on this? I'm a new developer and would be interested in this perspective. If they have a new, energized staff that is shipping software on time and have old, untouched software that still works and communicates with t
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by jmagoon 13y ago
I work at a big company and we use ruby all the time. It's a powerful scripting language that we can rapidly develop in for the 1000s (literally) of small programs that need to work with our legacy unix systems.
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by jmagoon 13y ago
If you provided sources, I would maybe think this was something beyond a personal axe you have to grind. Seeing as how you've fit the classic "respond to every post" argumentative style.

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