jobeirne

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Instead of high school, my brother learned to code; this is his first app.(market.android.com)
4 points by jobeirne 15y ago|0 comments
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by jobeirne 15y ago
> So you seem to be saying that having a system where examiners approve patents they don't understand is preferred. Not so. I'm not defending the current system, just trying to demonstrate that your suggestion isn't feasible. > Ther
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by jobeirne 15y ago
Thanks!
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by jobeirne 15y ago
Either you're trolling, or you're unaware that there were close to 500,000 patent applications filed in 2009 alone[1]. Let's say you have 500 able critics; that puts us at 1,000 patents to review per officer per year. Let's assume any given
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by jobeirne 15y ago
> In fact the way patents should work is that the patent officer spends a week trying to solve said problem themselves. Does that really sound at all scalable (or even reasonable) to you? I imagine that many of the proposals that move t
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by jobeirne 15y ago
> there are things that the government will have to do to get us to where we need to be... Namely: recognize that, in imposing a double cost on anyone seeking private education, it is stifling entrepreneurship in education (where it is
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by jobeirne 16y ago
I wasn't aware that acting on preferences and then articulating them when prompted counts as a sense of entitlement. You must get angry a lot.
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by jobeirne 16y ago
Thanks for your honest advice. You could have given the same feedback in a way that is much less likely to come off badly by simply saying "I've really a UNIX kind of guy and a Windows shop probably isn't the best fit for
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by jobeirne 16y ago
Good points. I agree that it's reasonable to construe what I was saying as a swipe at Windows. What I really meant, and I guess I didn't do a sufficient job at getting this across, was that I know Unix is rock-solid; I don't know the sa
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by jobeirne 16y ago
Which "sweeping judgements" did I pass on people who do not prefer Unix? All I've said in this article is that, given the choice between Windows and Unix, I prefer Unix. I went on to add points on why I like Unix, which admittedly is a litt
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by jobeirne 16y ago
I never said using Windows is wrong or implied anything negative about its use; I said that I don't prefer to develop on Windows and that I like the principles behind Unix.
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Why I went with them and not you: feedback to an interviewer(jamesob.nfshost.com)
214 points by jobeirne 16y ago|174 comments
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by jobeirne 16y ago
The problem here is that you're arguing as a consequentialist: maybe ``those bottom-rung folks can be motivated into improving themselves'', but that's a big if. I'm not concerned with what may happen if a policy is introduced: I'm concer
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by jobeirne 16y ago
Perhaps we've touched on a fundamental difficulty here: maybe good economic policy isn't rooted in consequence or empirical datum, but instead morality. For example, the proposition of a single-payer healthcare system essentially reduces to
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by jobeirne 16y ago
The Democratic party has exhibited a ``pro-stupidity'' attitude on the same order of magnitude, just in more subtle ways. Instead of damning stem cell research, the Dems champion Keynesian economics, seek to implement entitlement programs,
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by jobeirne 16y ago
> Instead of efficient allocation, you'll have something more akin to musical chairs, which could have serious consequences for the local economy. It seems to me that you're neglecting the economic reality that, were rent control droppe
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by jobeirne 16y ago
Why wouldn't NYC want to be a ``new tech mecca''? If the city wised up and killed rent control, ``scarce office and employee living space'' wouldn't be an issue.
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by jobeirne 16y ago
> I mean, if I could convince you SS was a public good, it wouldn't change your opinion, right? Yeah, it would, though I strongly doubt you can do that given the definition of ``public good.''
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by jobeirne 16y ago
Eww. Excel graphs.
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by jobeirne 16y ago
Also because most people find it very easy to convince themselves they've come up with a simple solution to a very complicated issue.
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by jobeirne 16y ago
FTA: ``Google could have fought. It had plenty of tools at its disposal. It could have made phones that worked on all of those networks, and then sued those companies if they didn’t allow users to get fair plans.'' Does this sound at all li
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Ash HN: What are you yelling about wrt Google/Verizon?
3 points by jobeirne 16y ago|1 comments
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by jobeirne 16y ago
Picked it up from LaTeX, but I kept using it elsewhere because it's less ambiguous.
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by jobeirne 16y ago
You're not using ``begs the question'' properly.
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by jobeirne 16y ago
Where can I invest?
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by jobeirne 16y ago
Why the curiosity? You're unsure of what would happen?
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by jobeirne 16y ago
"lambda the ultimate kitchen utensil"
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by jobeirne 16y ago
First learn about the complex plane. Be able to tell someone why (-1)*(-1) = 1. Buy a Schaum's on college algebra. Work through exercises you're unsure of. Then buy an introductory, undergraduate discrete mathematics text, or a calculus tex
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by jobeirne 17y ago
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be very happy to hear them.
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Bashwords --- a small utility I wrote to aid my vocabulary(github.com)
2 points by jobeirne 17y ago|1 comments

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