justindz

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by justindz 18y ago
Congress is good at fund raising, not math.
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by justindz 18y ago
I went the other direction. My wife is a natural born materialist. She has a tendency to buy things for me that she thinks I will like which turn out to be things that she would like if she had my interests but had her attraction to objec
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by justindz 18y ago
This is an important point you've raised. In particular, lowered infant mortality combined with a poor grasp of statistics makes it look like you and I are living longer, even when those infants that might have died before could end up kee
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by justindz 18y ago
For some people at least, Twitter beats Facebook simply by only doing statuses and not exposing you to all the other crap. With Twitter, I don't have to waste my time ignoring the latest Knighthood Invitation or the Group Created to Get Eno
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by justindz 18y ago
I would argue that allowing anyone to choose whatever courses they want (outside of degree requirements) would not discourage lowest common denominator behavior. It would facilitate that even more (e.g. Accounting + Non-stop PE). But, sinc
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by justindz 18y ago
So, what do you do during the 2 years your competition is catching up on that model? Get ahead again, or do nothing and be really surprised when you lose your edge? I'm not saying labor cost isn't a disadvantage. I'm saying you're treatin
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by justindz 18y ago
No amount of innovation could overcome a labor cost disadvantage? No amount? Ever? I'm not disagreeing with your main point. But I think you're either selling innovation a bit short or you're being too rhetorical.
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by justindz 18y ago
QWERTY is a more stable protocol. You'd have to do less rip and replace of hardware (read: body parts). You could even handle Dvorak with only a software upgrade ;-)
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by justindz 18y ago
For an interesting take on this, see Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Many of the cyborgs and secretary-bots have expandable spider fingers that type at lightning speed. People without augmentation can still use the keyboards, so
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by justindz 18y ago
This is a bit off-topic, but I really enjoyed William Gibson's Spook Country and especially was intrigued with the headsets used to overlay 3D renderings on locations via a GPS-enabled server. Ray Kurzweil talked about VR visors, but I thi
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by justindz 18y ago
Some dude named Scott. He doesn't drip, but he comes highly recommended for the non-professional who wants to go long.
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by justindz 18y ago
I just bought my first direct stock (non-index, non-mutual fund). A whopping five shares of AAPL. I think this is non-threatening news for the company and they are priced pretty well, currently, for holding longer than a year. Wish me lu
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Meet Aiko, one man’s perfect robo-woman.(cyberpunkreview.com)
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by justindz 18y ago
One thing I enjoy about Heroku is the option to export code and run a local Rails + Postgres instance if the need comes to fruition. The "escape hatch" is good for any system in which you intend to invest resources, even if you never need
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by justindz 18y ago
I think it's effectively like buying an advertising and PR firm to work for you in the job market. Word of mouth and demonstrable talent substitute for the expense to the degree to which you stay in the (sadly) smaller circles who aren't s
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by justindz 18y ago
I agree with the comment on the site pointing out the glaring absence of unlambda.
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Anyone going to lead a health care community discussion?(change.gov)
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by justindz 18y ago
In my case, learning PHP before learning a language that (regardless of the language) was embraced by a more best/interesting-practices-oriented community would have helped me enjoy programming sooner.
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by justindz 18y ago
What does it say about your sexuality if you also had BeOS on there? I hope my wife doesn't read HN.
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by justindz 18y ago
And AIR Linux 64-bit can't use the keyring properly. If only I could get one of the shoes twitter clients to work out of the box.
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by justindz 18y ago
An interesting thought. It doesn't address the impact this would have on schools (already over-crowded or not) or other capacity-limited public works. I mean, in theory the tax base would expand, but that would kind of be slightly after t
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Relax with CouchDB - First Three Chapters for Feedback(books.couchdb.org)
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by justindz 18y ago
If Twitter started profiling me and providing targeted ads based on what I say, I wonder if I would begin to provide fewer and fewer useful nouns in my messages over time.
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by justindz 18y ago
I like the idea of learning to live within modest starting means and then getting a significant increase over time to build a luxurious retirement. Math and Philosophy would fit well with this approach, getting more relatively significant
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by justindz 18y ago
I get nervous every time I use Math.sin(). At least it's not Math.sin!(), which seems more unrepentant.
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by justindz 18y ago
Hm. I've never used any. The issues I ran into were along the lines of SOAP output with XML structures that alternated within the same document using attributes or child nodes for properties of the object (likely, the overall response was
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by justindz 18y ago
The article seemed a bit weak, since depending on the problem set the choice is either apples and oranges or completely moot. Saying that HTTP + JSON is going to throw your developers for a loop is a bit embarrassing. The "hard" part is a
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by justindz 18y ago
I'm currently using gems because I haven't gotten to the level of complexity where it's made any difference. Also, I tend to operate on Windows and Linux interchangeably and using the same approach in each platform is easy. I suppose I mi
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Ford's Restructuring Proposal to Congress [pdf](freep.com)
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by justindz 18y ago
Maybe they'll decide to unconform by foregoing the descriptive subtitle.

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