jwallaceparker

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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
"Last month, I came across a recently digitized book from 1680 with the innocuous-sounding title The School of Venus ." Funny. I read that title and assumed it was erotica. Venus is the goddess of love. The title is also rather s
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
When I was a kid in the 70's we used to visit my great-grandfather every summer on his ranch in Texas. He owned several oil wells in the area. I remember at nights the family would sit around a bonfire and talk. The elders would smoke
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
Wow great to hear. I've been learning Ableton Live 9 on my Mac, along with a Push controller, which I can't recommend enough.
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
Hey, great work. Listening to it now. What toolset or DAW did you use to create these?
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Code School's New Look(codeschool.com)
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Why parents are raising their kids on Minecraft(theverge.com)
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Smartphones are about to get awesome again(theverge.com)
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The World Of Everything-As-A-Service(techcrunch.com)
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PayTango(paytango.com)
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Best Password Manager, Free Form Filler, Secure Digital Wallet | Dashlane(dashlane.com)
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
My first job was at a record store. The owners were an old man and his wife. The old man was essentially Shazam personified. It was amazing. He could name any song, composer and artist after listening to a few beats. Except he would do it
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
At first glance at the title I thought this was going to be quotes from Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Sam Adams, John Hancock and so on about how to cope with depression. That would've been great. I still think it's a good
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
When I was young my great-grandfather started a tanning business, in the sense that he was a tanner who produced leather goods. He had to buy a sign to put above his shop. The sign maker asked him if he wanted to put a logo on the sign, too
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Ask HN: What's the best programming book you've ever read?
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
Norman Rockwell painted over projections of photographs to achieve his photo-realistic results. This article shows his paintings and photo sources side-by-side: http://petapixel.com/2012/12/27/the-photographs-
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Flappy Swift - a Swift implementation of Flappy Bird(github.com)
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
This new workout book from Joe Manganiello (actor from True Blood) is pretty incredible. http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Cutting-Breaking-Mental-Buil... He details the workout he used to transform his body for his role of A
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My Job Pt.1 – I have no idea what I'm doing(blog.pieratt.com)
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ITunes Concept(kurocha.blogspot.com)
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My self-themed OS X 10.10 Mac(theverge.com)
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2014 Logo Trends(logolounge.com)
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The Right Way to Ask Users for iOS Permissions(medium.com)
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WTF is a User Experience Expert anyway?(medium.com)
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
For clarity: all of the comments citing Adam Smith actually showed up later, after I had made a comment about Marx. So the Marx comment was not in response to Adam Smith quotes.
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
Here's Hayek and Friedman on monopoly: http://principlesnotmen.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/does-the-fr... Rothbard, Sowell, Mises and others share this view. Google their names followed by the word "mo
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
> You are making the false assumption that capitalism = free market. anarco-capitalism = free market crony capitalism != free market I use the term capitalism to describe the anarco flavor. Capitalism is defined as the private ownership
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
> you are pretending monopolies don't exist except where created by the government There is a strong case for this view, and it is shared by many well-regarded economists throughout history. And I haven't redefined the terms:
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
The Marxist term was misused in this case, you're right. I was just making a general comment about a perceived anti-capitalist bias in these forums. "Any market left to its own devices will devolve into a monopoly." This is n
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
Regulatory intervention into a marketplace is not "ensuring vigorous competition." Markets are vigorously competitive in their natural state. This is the nature of a market, where firms compete for customers' business. This c
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by jwallaceparker 12y ago
You're right. Regulation is not explicitly Marxist. My edit was born of a frustration with the general bias in this community in which advocating for capitalism or free markets is guaranteed to earn you down votes.

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