justinmk

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   by justinmk 14y ago

   > “Nothing else looks like this in a phone store,” he says of the 920. “It’s very, very, very organic. It’s almost super-organic, Also wants to out-do Apple on reality-distortion :) I am glad to see a company competing on visual/indust
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   by justinmk 14y ago

   > every email at Stripe is CC-ed to lists that go to either the entire company or to any particular team. This includes internal person-to-person correspondence I recently watched an 1990 Steve Jobs interview[1] in which he gushed about
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   by justinmk 14y ago

   And btrfs[1] of course. There's also git bup[2] and git-annex[3]. [1] http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/btrfs-snapshots.html [2] https://github.com/apenwarr/bup [3] http://git-annex.branchable.com/
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   by justinmk 14y ago

   > I was hoping [grok] would eventually lose favor among us geeks Yet you do not seem to mind the word "geek".
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   by justinmk 14y ago

   Giving money to consumers doesn't lower the aggregate supply of real capital, it just sends false signals to producers (and consumers).
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   by justinmk 14y ago

   What are the variance and median?
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   by justinmk 14y ago

   Thanks for a very informative answer. I've been considering Seattle as a possible destination.
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   by justinmk 14y ago

   > returning wealth into the economy as something other than capital. This would reduce the oversupply of capital How does one return capital as something other than capital? And how would that decrease the aggregate supply of capital?
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   by justinmk 14y ago

   > capital. We apparently have more of it than we know what to do with (see, e.g., the real estate bubble, the tech bubble That tends to happen when the central bank dumps false signals (ie, low interest rates) on the market.
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    by justinmk 14y ago

    > circa 2011 my dev machine was a Celeron 1.5GHz. Of all the negative anecdotes I've read about Amazon, this is the most effective. > glad to have graduated out of both Amazon and Seattle, care to elaborate on Seattle?
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    by justinmk 14y ago

    > if you press "Ctrl-r foo Ctrl-r", you will get the second item in your history that matches foo. There's no way to get back to your first search result without repeating the search. Actually, ctrl-shift-r goes backwards.
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    by justinmk 14y ago

    > People end up writing things like: for (x in hugelist) { doSynchronousCall() What are you referring to here? I use client-side GWT daily; it is clear that RPC success() and failure() callbacks are asynchronous. > the JavaScript wo