jobeirne

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Facebook and (quantifiable) social ROI(blog.percolate.com)
1 points by jobeirne 14y ago|0 comments
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How I'm scraping my CC transactions with Selenium(jameso.be)
2 points by jobeirne 14y ago|0 comments
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Why we went to AWS RDS(blog.percolate.com)
2 points by jobeirne 14y ago|0 comments
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Greece's new currency(freakonomics.com)
7 points by jobeirne 15y ago|3 comments
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We have no other choice(charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)
1 points by jobeirne 15y ago|0 comments
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by jobeirne 15y ago
IMO, #3 was more about YAGNI[1], i.e. you probably won't need the speed, integrity constraints, relations, etc. delivered by SQL, so keep your data model flexible and lightweight until a shortage of those things is actually getting in your
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by jobeirne 15y ago
I'd like to also recommend Hazlitt's book: it is an extremely well-written exploration of commonly-held (even today) economic fallacies. Hazlitt's display of circumspection alone is worth the read.
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by jobeirne 15y ago
And that principle differs irreconcilably in NAP and Kantianism, so using "deontology" here is not helpful.
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by jobeirne 15y ago
> This includes things like making controversial statements ("I find it endlessly amusing that communists or socialists would call themselves anarchists") without expanding on them The phrase you cite is "endlessly amusing" because it
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by jobeirne 15y ago
Calling the ethics as described above "deontological" is risky and ill-advised because that term is commonly used to describe Kantianism and a use of the categorical imperative[1]. These two (if taken seriously) rule out a marketplace becau
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by jobeirne 15y ago
I didn't read nirvana's comment as conflating your views and Libertarianism. Where is this happening?
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by jobeirne 15y ago
> But Mr. Dyson describes it as only one symptom of a larger problem: a Western world, especially the former branches of the British Empire such as Britain and Canada, that has lost its will to invent and make things. Excuse me? Apple's
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by jobeirne 15y ago
This guy doesn't know the definition of 'monopoly.' Neither MS nor Google qualifies: http://alpha.fdu.edu/~koppl/note19.htm
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The medium obscures the message: why programming languages matter(jameso.be)
4 points by jobeirne 15y ago|0 comments
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by jobeirne 15y ago
Bingo; IBM and Microsoft aren't the ones holding the gun.
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by jobeirne 15y ago
As goods are produced more efficiently, they become less expensive to purchase for the consumer. As efficiency increases, then, workers have to work less. The amount that Americans have worked per week has dropped almost monotonically ( htt
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by jobeirne 15y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but job creation isn't the end goal. Prosperity is. Prosperity comes through automation, which is the exact opposite of job creation.
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by jobeirne 15y ago
The untrained eye sees jobs being taken away from Americans. The economist sees value being passed on to American citizens in the form of a price reduction of Apple products, and healthy acknowledgement of the reality that the American work
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by jobeirne 15y ago
FTA: "However, what has vexed Mr. Obama as well as economists and policy makers is that Apple — and many of its high-technology peers — are not nearly as avid in creating American jobs as other famous companies were in their heydays." Eco
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by jobeirne 15y ago
There will always exist groups of people who want to abrogate the rights of the average person for the benefit of a select class. What makes people think this struggle is unique to the MPAA or the RIAA or even media on the internet? It's ti
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by jobeirne 15y ago
Why is attempting to limit international commerce "really, genuinely good"? Are you aware of comparative advantage ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage )?
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by jobeirne 15y ago
> however you lose strong typing You lose static typing; strong typing is different: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_typing
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Saturday project: a utility to give your MP3s proper names based on ID3 tags(github.com)
1 points by jobeirne 15y ago|0 comments
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by jobeirne 15y ago
Does anyone else find CoffeeScript insufferably unreadable? Why take a basically nice-looking language like JavaScript and bathe it in special forms?
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by jobeirne 15y ago
Awesome! While I'm a little bummed that I no longer have a good excuse to implement this and brush up on my Django/JavaScript, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
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by jobeirne 15y ago
I acknowledge that what I'm doing is "about as top-down as you can get" in the article.
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Coding backwards(jameso.be)
140 points by jobeirne 15y ago|42 comments
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by jobeirne 15y ago
To a young undergraduate, frustrated with the lack of rapid progress on tough philosophical questions, AI seemed like the great hope, the panacea—the escape from the frustrations of thinking. Yeah, that'll go away in short order after tak
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by jobeirne 15y ago
Yeah, we didn't initially budget in any rest days, but their necessity became apparent quickly. We've actually taken a rest day in Memphis and Bolivar, TN so far. Besides, what's the fun in blowing everything by? Thanks for reading.
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Show HN: I'm biking across the US; this is the journal I'm keeping.(ahadventure.us)
3 points by jobeirne 15y ago|2 comments

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