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Blodget interviews Marc Andreessen On Innovation(businessinsider.com)
3 points by kevbin 17y ago|0 comments
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by kevbin 17y ago
Silicon Valley does have some of the most beautiful, innovative office parks in the world. They're huge and isolated, however. Maybe the combination of strict zoning and ubiquitous automobiles aggregates retail into malls and strip malls,
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by kevbin 17y ago
"…which will bring a uniform look to the business district…" Sweet, with a little more effort they can turn all of California avenue into a strip mall. Uniformity is great in pencil leads and spark plugs, but the fractal beauty of nature is
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by kevbin 17y ago
It's not really 280 pixels wide: there are 280 addressable pixels but changing one can affect another nearby. Drawing diagonal, intersecting lines can make your blue lines green or whatever. Loosely speaking, there are 280 sub-pixels acro
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by kevbin 17y ago
(1) is a ticky-tack foul, just pointed it out because "Choosing the right name is everything" is pretty hyperbolic and I was being hyperbolic, too, with the "insane" bit. (2) I'm biased toward _-naming in general, I think it's less ugly tha
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by kevbin 17y ago
"How are you going to know which id field your app has?" Depends on how your interface to the data-layer layer behaves. If you're going right into an associative array, you may get "A.id" and "B.id" for free or you may have to explicitly re
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by kevbin 17y ago
I was making a funny. I'm hoping santa brings me an ARM netbook this year.
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by kevbin 17y ago
When you join those tables, you won't regret it. You may have to think about it for a moment; if you need the ids in the join they're there: SELECT A.id FROM A JOIN B ON A.project = B.project; this is concise and makes sense. When you do a
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by kevbin 17y ago
What is this "printing" of which you speak?
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by kevbin 17y ago
I think this might spawn a whole new category of very-small, energy-efficient laptops primarily used to access electronic mail, world-wide web sites, and those new-fangled instant-messaging services.
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by kevbin 17y ago
I think Java™ is more like Starbucks® Java:Starbucks::C#:Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Java:Starbucks::Scala:Peets Java:Starbucks::Groovy:Mystic Mocha Java:Starbucks::Algol60:Vesuvio Café
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by kevbin 17y ago
CamelCase in the DataBase? Insane in the brain! Pushing type information and other metadata into names is bad software engineering. Names should be from the problem domain and not co-mingled with implementation concerns. The database sectio
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The font from Screenwriter ]['s 70-column mode in hgr2 for non-80 column Apple ][s may qualify as the first subpixel typeface. http://books.google.com/books?id=zBIvBTsHbtUC&lpg=PA118&...
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by kevbin 17y ago
Us 13ers are firmly in control now! Watch out boomers and boomer babies! http://www.amazon.com/Generations-History-Americas-Future-15... "Far more than other generations, 13ers feel that the real world is gearing up to punish them down th
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by kevbin 17y ago
It's not conscious until it gets stupid around the hot new server down the hall: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6132718/Men-los...
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by kevbin 17y ago
Weird compared to what? I have no experience being anything other than a living, breathing human. Thomas Nagle wrote up the classic "qualia" argument you're making as "What is it like to be a Bat?" (here: http://www.clarku.edu/students/phi
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by kevbin 17y ago
That's interesting, I have a totally different experience with the site. The animated ad for the Sunday magazine totally dominates my glance at the page. My eye is drawn along the horizontal and vertical rules to ads in blue, yellow, red. I
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by kevbin 17y ago
If you use MacPorts, there's a compatibility list here: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/snc/snowleopard When you upgrade to 10.6 your old ports will continue to work, but you may bump into additional issues installing additional ports.
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by kevbin 17y ago
That's one "lisp" with which no one need bother. see, e.g. http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/257#comment-1901 http://www.alh.net/newlisp/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=2776 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.scheme/browse_frm/t...
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Money can buy happiness—if you spend it right(boston.com)
6 points by kevbin 17y ago|1 comments
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Ask it! :)
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by kevbin 17y ago
Gates' early philanthropic donations were primarily to higher-ed institutions. Somewhere along the line he learned that that's among the most regressive, least effective forms of charity, and shifted his focus to the truly poor and needy. T
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by kevbin 17y ago
Leander Kahney seems to think there's something unethical about building products, managing an organization, and benefiting from it. The resentful epithets he throws around (cutthroat capitalist, vengeful nerd, selfish business goals, greed
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by kevbin 17y ago
Stopped reading at "Sure, everything on the Mac platform costs twice as much…"
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by kevbin 17y ago
I think it's less a rivalry than a kind of surprised CYA response to the new administration's ramped-up FTC, FCC enforcement. This made me laugh: "[Apple] relies more than any other tech company on so-called 'native code'…"
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by kevbin 17y ago
China's is an command, export-based economy. Eviscerating its trading partners wouldn't be wise: high-interest rates and weak dollars in the US hurt the Chinese economy--like it or not, our fortunes are intertwined. Empires are founded on
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by kevbin 17y ago
I like to order a curried scotch and soda and then do the uncurrying at the table.
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by kevbin 17y ago
No comparison. Eclipse is a great integrated development environment: a relatively static (though extensible) application for writing applications. Emacs is a lifestyle. Embrace it.
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by kevbin 17y ago
Aren't the cheapest foods the simplest, least processed: produce, grains, etc.? No-high-fructose-corn-sweetener-water is cheaper than Coke. Two apples and a banana are cheaper than a bag of Doritos.
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Would be a good model for some television series, too—if budgets could be reasonably estimated and controlled.

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