johnnybgoode

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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Yes, history (or "the common understanding of these events") is written by the winners. The democrats (small d) won the wars and conquered the world. Now, democratic schools teach pro-democracy views, which constitute the only acceptable ma
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
When the only measure available is hopelessly flawed, the correct approach isn't to use it; it's to say, "I don't know."
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
> it's in fact easier to make that same argument about the French Revolution than it is about Tiananmen Square No, it isn't, because your argument depends on the "end" being an escape from "absolute monarchism" into democracy. Even if
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Also, HN seems to have excellent PageRank.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
I agree, "alternative" does seem to have a negative connotation at this time, maybe because so many things now fall under that term. Thanks for letting us know the doctor was IFM-affiliated; it's good to know that option is available.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
> But the main difference between China and America is that China is authoritarian and America (and all the developed world) is democratic. The problem is that "democratic" is not the opposite of "authoritarian". China and the US both
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
If he is, then so did the mob revolutionaries. In fact, so did an HN poster right here in this thread: > The French Revolution was a step forward for humanity, no matter how messy it was. (from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=868
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Thanks for the informative post. I do have one quibble though: > Whether the current Chinese/Russian model of free markets but central strong political oligarchy without an ideological emphasis, versus the American model of free market
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
> And the reason relates to my beliefs in self-education vs school education. It's more efficient if people do what they want. So even an oligarchy with an emphasis on practical results will still be less efficient than individual peop
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Thank you for sharing your story. I hope this serves as a wake-up call to anyone who doesn't believe that someone can be misdiagnosed many times by medical professionals. Perhaps this is related to what marze said, but based on your experie
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Hahahaha, good one! Oh wait, this was a serious question? Sorry...in all seriousness, what others have said makes sense to me. If you really think it's worth the cost to have that credential, because you really want to get that kind of job
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
You are on the right track, chrischen. Many of us seem to have made the hidden assumption that we are first supposed to have a two-decade-long "education" phase, and only then a "real world" phase. I'll bet even the not-so-bright kids can t
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
I think you mean arram's reasoning? I agree that if adderall stunts creativity, it is at best somewhat misleading to say it makes you smarter. Imagine someone said this: "Hey, I found this new drug. It makes you smarter and less creative."
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
This whole thing is nuts. Please see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=857922 Also, Einstein on exams: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=864539
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Thanks tokenadult. I knew Einstein had views like this (mine are similar, especially with regard to coercive study plans) but I had never seen this quote in particular. It's refreshingly direct -- I did not know Einstein had actually used t
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
No, please read my comment again. The point is that your explanation is not complete or correct.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Thanks for the response. I wonder what percentage of users will have the JVM installed in the future; maybe it depends on Oracle's plans.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Thanks robc and ed. In that case, I don't think this is as impressive from a technical perspective as some people thought. Again, this AOT compiler is not what made Flash apps technically possible on the iPhone; Adobe could've used this sam
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Interesting info. What is your opinion of the prospects for browsers with canvas, O3D, etc. as a gaming platform?
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
That explains how they deal with your code, but what are they doing for the Flash Player bits? All of that wasn't written in ActionScript, right? For example, if your app needs to play a video, where is the video player coming from? If it's
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
This is a case where I want to upvote you if you were being sarcastic, and downvote you if you were not. :)
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Did they take class into account at all? That could explain some of the results. Or even if they did, and all of these stats have been adjusted for class, carryover from class stereotypes could still explain the results.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
They can't even get Flash to work well on the desktop. Video performance is abysmal. Sure, it's possible that they'll get their act together for the mobile versions, but it seems unlikely. And that is a very good thing.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
To clarify, it looks like this is the HN top 100 by karma, sorted by karma/day, not the top 100 posters by karma/day.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Neither of them seem to realize or explain why flipping has actually become so common despite its questionable track record on actual value creation.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Some of the situations described sound absolutely terrible. While we're on the subject, though, I want to point out that slavery is a spectrum, not a binary condition. I don't doubt his number, 27 million, for a certain cutoff point of who
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
> Is there something about MySQL that exempts it from this scaling weakness that I'm not aware of? No, there isn't. We're discussing Postgres since that's what Heroku uses.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Heroku has been hyped up far and wide as being some kind of magical scaling solution. Just give Heroku your app and it will scale infinitely on EC2, right? Wrong. As they've admitted before, they haven't done anything to scale the database.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
So, we've finally found where the women are online?
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
I am very sorry, both for your loss and for the fact that I never had a chance to know Dan.

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