jriddycuz

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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Agreed. But I find it amazing that a browser that has roughly a 5% user share has had so much impact. I surmise that it's really the weight of the company behind Chrome that has scared its competitors more than the adoption of the browser i
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Thanks for the article! Also, I love that your computer is named "kid-charlemagne". :)
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Ad hominem isn't always a fallacy. Now, I don't know if this analysis of the author is necessarily accurate , but it smacks of plausibility to me because I've seen it before. As people, both men and women, remain single as they get older,
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Good point, and with a few qualifications I agree with you. But the actual intent of the prize, as expressed by Alfred Nobel himself, mentions the reduction of standing armies as a qualification for receiving the award.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Why not? The irony of giving a peace prize to a military organization would clearly escape the grasp of this increasingly irrelevant group of nominators.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Because this way I don't have to throw out 11 years of work and practice on the actual guitar in order to play one of those Rock Band games.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Thanks for the post! I love that about Clojure: you can just write code in the simplest way when you start, and then you can tweak it to get performance when and where you need it.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
University of Oklahoma (they offered me a nice scholarship which I proceeded to blow in a hurry)
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
You know, I hate to dog on attempts at innovation, but I fail to see what is new or exciting about this language. It looks like it's just solving some of the problems with Java and C++ that were apparent 15 years ago. I suppose baked-in sup
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Perhaps I shouldn't have said "only". But Eminem presents himself as a gangsta, and while he does cover a lot of his own issues, he doesn't strike me as particularly introspective. I'm not necessarily preferring one guy over the other here-
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Yes, but only for certain kinds of creativity. Hacking requires a lot of creativity, but there's not a tremendous amount of emotional content in it, so it doesn't really demand vulnerability. Even a lot of very creative musicians write fr
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
He's probably the only male in the hip-hop world that makes music with a lot of personal, emotional content. Also he has a pretty good ear for hooks, and is widely regarded as a good producer. Not a big fan myself, but I think that's basica
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Read about the development and individuals involved with the history of different types of music. I suggest this because you probably won't instantly like styles of music that are significantly different from what you already listen to. For
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
It really is the broken window fallacy, but in reverse; that working harder could decrease aggregate employment implies that working less hard (or more counter-productively) could increase aggregate employment. This is even more hare-brai
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I think what we need is "Real World Category Theory" to go along with "Real World Haskell." It's not surprising that it's difficult to get your head around concepts lovingly referred to as "abstract nonsense." The reality is, of course, tha
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Oh, I agree. You're absolutely right. I know that the perfect is the enemy of the good, but just knowing that doesn't make it easy to get over the psychological hurdle. The same hangup keeps me from trying many of my software ideas. It's a
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
No. I don't have a blog because my perfectionism keeps me from even starting to write. I feel like if what I write isn't extraordinary, I have no business putting it out there at all.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I'd argue that game theory could be tremendously more useful if its practitioners made a better habit of questioning their own assumptions about the situations they model. In the study cited in the article, the authors (seemingly) assume th
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I agree with most of the comments here that it's not obvious what the site is supposed to do when you first land on it. Really, a simple "Be Before! gives you information on such and such in a way that no other site does..yada yada. <a
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Push for quality, push for creativity, and push for time -- in that order. I think its easy to try to push to get things done fast first, especially for non-technical managers, but this can be really counter-productive because it starts t
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Consider becoming a tradesman or artisan of some kind. General construction labor doesn't pay all that well, and is pretty boring, but if you have the skills, specialty craftsmanship can be very lucrative and fun. You can make physical thin
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I guess this makes human observation monadic.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
My solution: drop it's in favor of the antiquated (or timeless) 'tis. Do this in speech too to give your elocution style a bit of the whimsical and refined air of an older time. ;)
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
This also makes karma a zero-sum game. This necessarily results in a distinct winners-and-losers scenario, which would be antagonistic to the goals of the site.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I'd agree that artificially inflating page views is the primary reason for this practice, but I do wonder if any other things contribute. For example, I believe there is an antiquated and probably flawed notion out there that readers dislik
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I don't notice HN being that negative at all, although I'm relatively new, so I don't know if I know anything yet. What I do notice, however, is a bit too much self-seriousness, and it can come across as cold or negative at times when you'r
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
Maybe the term capitalism has a different meaning to you than it does to me, but I use almost synonymously with "free markets." And I would actually make the case that you can only have "pure" free-markets without government. What I was
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
You have much to teach us, great one.
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
There's a fundamental flaw in the logic that concludes that "government must intervene to stop the shameless looting of taxpayer money." Taxation itself is government intervention. Abuse of money received from a government that shamelessly
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by jriddycuz 17y ago
I'm pretty sure this was copied word for word from the employee guide of the firm that originally wrote the software I now trudge through every day. Except it wasn't sarcastic. And I think there was some other rule in there about avoiding s

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