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by kemiller 10y ago
Starting price for the IBM PC was over $4000 in current dollars, for a dramatically less-capable device. It's not that upgradability wouldn't be nice, it just isn't as important as portability, reliability, battery life, or
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by kemiller 10y ago
How sad.
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by kemiller 10y ago
It's perfectly accurate and honest from any normal practical point of view. If I run my freelancing business through a C corp I have to pay corp taxes and dividend taxes or capital gains. It's taxed twice, and at a higher level i
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by kemiller 10y ago
Why would that be the result? I'd think that removing the deduction would depress prices, for single-family dwellings at least.
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by kemiller 10y ago
That's not what he's saying. He's saying you can just basically hoard your income there and pay yourself a smaller salary. You could invest tax-free until you take it out.
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by kemiller 10y ago
The 9th amendment explicitly says that just because a right is not enumerated in the constitution, doesn't mean it isn't there. I.e. individual rights are protected by the constitution whether they were spelled out or not. I can
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by kemiller 10y ago
I have to say it actually seems very reasonable. I don't quite get where the entitlement to unlimited data comes from. 1TB is a lot, and it has renewable "grace" months so a fluke doesn't turn into a giant bill - that&
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by kemiller 10y ago
Yeah mine is a lot like that. I have a separate view for weeks that's like an infinite film strip. But I'm a bit shocked that the year view is so common within the small set of people who do it.
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by kemiller 10y ago
I think it's a matter of personality. Dynamic language people (to the extent there are such people... most of us use both) are generally not scared at all to change things. We're just more comfortable with the intervening chaos. F
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by kemiller 10y ago
This has always been my experience with TDD, at least if you always leave yourself a failing test when you go. A lot more labor-intensive, since you are essentially writing the "compiler" as you go, but a similar effect.
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by kemiller 10y ago
Food for thought. But what you are describing sounds more performance oriented, not scalability-oriented. Are the speed gains from extra optimization enough to make up form putting more eggs in one basket?
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by kemiller 10y ago
The trouble with this is that the database is the hardest part to scale. In a busy site the db may have its work cut out just serving data. This particular pendulum swings back and forth every decade or so. That said, plenty of sites wil
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by kemiller 10y ago
OK, if you can pull that off, I'll give you a pass.
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I think maybe you are latching onto the wrong part of the analogy.
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Gosh I've worked this way for years, but never seen it articulated so well. We used it for content moderation. Let the algorithm comb through thousands of messages looking for patterns and then present prospects to humans for final j
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by kemiller 10y ago
The fact that they claim to own their own wells and liquification is pretty fishy. What kind of startup is going to have expertise in both gas extraction and electric vehicle engineering? And why on earth would they even want to when there
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by kemiller 10y ago
So Asimov says this: "It seemed that in one of my innumerable essays, I had expressed a certain gladness at living in a century in which we finally got the basis of the universe straight." Whatever misconceptions our English major
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by kemiller 10y ago
Relativity, which was the original subject, was not just a refinement of what we knew, it discovering that what we knew was just a special case of a much weirder universe. Actually, so was round-earth, for that matter, relative to the ment
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by kemiller 10y ago
This doesn't get enough discussion. The way I think about DRM is that you can't in any real sense say that you own something with DRM, because it only works at the pleasure of someone else. You are effectively renting it. But t
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by kemiller 10y ago
Is charity a market mechanism? I honestly don't know. But apparently there has been a trend toward more private funding of basic research: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction...
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by kemiller 10y ago
Markets do a terrible job of funding basic research because it rarely pays off within commercial timeframes. Or even lifetimes. But it's obviously vital to a society long-term.
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by kemiller 11y ago
The trouble with high taxes on capital gains and dividends is that the corporation itself is subject to a rather high tax already. So the underlying productive activity in a corp is taxed twice on its way to the ultimate owners. (Barring
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Conversation with a Real Estate Developer in a World Without Offices(shift.infinite.red)
4 points by kemiller 11y ago|0 comments
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How would it slow down at the other end?
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by kemiller 11y ago
I am still pretty skeptical. We've had very promising implementations of 80-90% of the language, which faltered once they got to the less tractable parts of the language. Not saying it can't be done, but definitely saying I&#x27
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Phoenix is Rails 5(medium.com)
34 points by kemiller 11y ago|5 comments
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I think minecraft fits the bill pretty well actually. Kids make all kinds of things in there, and it's not fragile in the way traditional programming is. The article sort of gets hung up on form factor. Tablets are yet another window
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by kemiller 11y ago
It's not bad if it's the whole city but good luck re-zoning the low density neighborhoods (or anything at all) in Berkeley. Berkeley politics are best described as leftist conservative. You should have seen the fight over just t
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by kemiller 11y ago
The offline viewing problem is one that will solve itself soon enough as bandwidth gets more plentiful and ubiquitous, and as the infrastructure improves. It's a nice feature for now, though. The killer app for Amazon, for some people
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by kemiller 11y ago
If your team communicates effortlessly with each other and the stakeholders anyway, you don't really needs scrum, at least not now. But most places where scrum has made a difference, individual maker productivity is not the limiting f

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