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by jwhite 16y ago
I agree about it only being clear in hindsight. Part of the problem is that many people who write about bubbles have a vested interest one way or another (not implying anything about the OP as I'm not familiar with the author). Real estat
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by jwhite 16y ago
My comment was not expressing an opinion on the relative values of Arc and the HN discussion community. HN delivers lots of value for the modest price of your time. Claiming that its performance is shameful when it isn't being directly mo
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by jwhite 16y ago
I think that all depends on the purpose of the site. If I were paying a subscription to access the site I would be within my rights to object. As it is, with HN being a free service, built to be the application spurring the development of
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by jwhite 16y ago
iPad I think... see OP's response to another reply.
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I wish they would. I find content farms irksome.
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by jwhite 16y ago
It reminds me of the reddit IAMA a while back by an affiliate marketer [1]. There were lots of responses by people claiming he was the scum of the earth, poisoning the web, not adding value, but he just calmly stated his position that affi
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by jwhite 16y ago
Apologies for nitpicking, but your post was quite hard to read due to typos. Most of the time my brain auto-translates typos without me realizing it, but the ones in your post really interrupted my reading flow. YMMV. The content was inter
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by jwhite 16y ago
> I don't think anyone expects perfect adherence to "international law" by the USA. > The phrase "violation of international law" tastes meaty, but it's just tofu. Good and valid points, but mildly tongue-in-cheek my response to you
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by jwhite 16y ago
Thanks for those links!
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by jwhite 16y ago
Good point about the age of the page. From what I've observed, things have changed a bit in the last ten years or so, no argument there. "Learn You A Haskell" is very good, and I haven't seen anything like it for Common Lisp. However, Pet
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by jwhite 16y ago
The SmugLispWeenies complaint always strikes me as a really poor excuse for disliking lisp. If a cantankerous old so-and-so gives you a hard time and you run away from the language because of it, I think it says more about you than the can
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by jwhite 16y ago
If you put your name to a comment on a public website, there should be some guarantee that nobody else can edit your words to say something that you didn't say and maybe disagree with. An editorial feedback system would be a more respectfu
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by jwhite 16y ago
Qualifiers are certainly important in this case, it frustrates me no end that mainstream media can't distinguish these. Thanks for your insightful comment. Steve Keen has an interesting article on endogenous money at www.debtdeflation.com.
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by jwhite 16y ago
There might not be a causal link between the Hashimoto and the CFS. All the symptoms described sound like CFS to me (my sister has had it for 15 years).
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by jwhite 16y ago
You make valid points about open source tools frequently having leaky abstractions, and I often have exactly the same response that you do -- "Why don't people make more effort to make this elegant/pretty/intuitive?" But the more I use git,
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by jwhite 17y ago
He did mention the word "compress" though. Once. That might be a key part of their technology, but to say that they glossed over it would be a gross understatement.
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by jwhite 17y ago
Also, stop thinking that doxygen output from your source code qualifies as adequate documentation. (Insert whatever comment-embedded-docstring-auto-extraction tool your language supports, if not doxygen.) It's great as a reference, but woe
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by jwhite 17y ago
I agree with your sentiments about advertising. I haven't had a TV in my house for five years, mainly for that reason. When I go to my parents' house and watch TV ads there, I find them ridiculous and wonder how anyone could take them ser
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by jwhite 17y ago
I highly recommend "The Red Queen" by Matt Ridley for a really interesting look at what might have caused our species to develop this way. It is not as simple as one might think.
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I'm starting out in Ruby the last couple of months, but I've done a lot of Python, among other things. I've read other people criticizing the poor standard of documentation of some parts of Ruby and Ruby libraries, and from my recent exper
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by jwhite 17y ago
I think you would have to set the parameters very carefully. In Australia, universities have been encouraged (or forced, depending on how you look at it) by budget cuts to offer courses to full fee paying students from overseas to supplemen
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by jwhite 17y ago
Or perhaps the relationship is more complex than that. Despite his antics, Steve Ballmer was right about developers. Apple might be irritated by Adobe over some issues, but I don't think they would want to cut Photoshop's lunch like that.
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by jwhite 17y ago
NICTA and WinLab have developed a management framework called OMF for specifying and running experiments on testbed networks. One of the main goals of the project is to improve reproducibility in networking research. http://omf.mytestbed.
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by jwhite 17y ago
Actually I think it might be both. As I understand it, the US tends to pay for imports in USD, which it can do since it is the world's reserve currency. Trading partners then invest their USD trade surpluses back in US securities, I would
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by jwhite 17y ago
Lisp started from mathematical roots and grew towards practical applications. OP asserts that data processing grew from practical applications and claims that it then went for mathematical theory to try to make itself feel and appear more
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by jwhite 17y ago
I found the tone of the title and the whole article arrogant, rather than playful. I can't help wondering at the small view of the world implied in the title. People are still creating interesting software applications that are not web app
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pair -> pare
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This is the way our governments are going. The business of government is so sensitive and delicate that it must be done quietly, by experts who understand all the issues, and can be trusted to do the job right. We must give them the priva
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by jwhite 17y ago
Git is unashamedly a power tool, for power users. Git checkout seems so natural to me in the way it functions, and I use it so often, that it would annoy the hell out of me if I had to force it or answer a y/n prompt every time I used it.
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by jwhite 17y ago
Agreed. Local topic branch for experimental hacks. Rebase it when you want to integrate upstream changes.

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