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by kevinpet 16y ago
"The supposition that everyone in a linguistic community shares the same grammar is a central tenet of Noam Chomsky's theory of universal grammar." Clearly the author of this article does not understand the basics of linguistics. I suspect
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by kevinpet 16y ago
Well now hold on a minute. First, out of necessity, they adopt a recruitment model that disregards academic credentials, and then they find no correlation between academic credentials and performance. How about the possibility that they nev
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by kevinpet 16y ago
This is great, except for the minor issue of not wanting to announce to the world that you're applying there.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
This is being referred to as a knockoff, I assumed this was actually based on stack exchange. Can someone clarify?
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by kevinpet 16y ago
If the best are 10x as productive as the mediocre, I don't see a problem with this. Of course, you might say that the $120 bulk of freelance programmers are already a notch above mediocre and maybe $500/hr is more reasonable, but whatever t
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by kevinpet 16y ago
If a car cut Arrington off on the freeway, I get the feeling we'd have a story about how they have lots of freeways in Los Angeles, and Calacanis probably drives like a jerk.
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by kevinpet 16y ago
And, of course, the ability to stay connected with nothing but a laptop relies on a huge infrastructure.
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by kevinpet 17y ago
I don't think I'd say infinitely more valuable. I'm sure that she was willing to spend infinite amounts of resources to prolong them if she gains nothing from forgoing the more expensive outlandish treatments. Let's say I got a terminal ill
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by kevinpet 17y ago
My rule of thumb has been that a single rapid job change doesn't show anything, but you don't want a pattern of rapid job changes on your resume. That is, if your resume is currently something like 3 years at one company, then 9 months at t
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by kevinpet 17y ago
They are, but you can move them back very easily with gconf-editor. Change /apps/metacity/general/button_layout to "menu:minimize,maximize,close" as described here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-bac...
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by kevinpet 17y ago
Let me briefly explain the difference: With mturk, you have work you want to get done, and people go look through the HITs for things that fit their abilities. With fiverr, you have money you want to spend, and you go looking through things
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by kevinpet 17y ago
It's a trade secret until Apple announces it. Obviously business plans become public eventually, the secret portion is before it becomes public.
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by kevinpet 17y ago
You don't understand the definition of a public good. The key to a public good is that it is non-exclusionary, or at least partially non-exclusionary, and would suffer from the free rider problem if provided by the market, and so would be i
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by kevinpet 17y ago
If the problem originates in school where math and science are perceived as the boys areas, then changing the attitude of venture capitalists isn't any solution. If men outnumber women 10 to 1 with the qualities that are needed to start a t
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by kevinpet 17y ago
I wasn't aware this had a name, but I've proposed this in terms of families. Most people come from larger families than they have. That is, for most people, the number of brothers and sisters plus one (for the person we're talking about) is
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by kevinpet 17y ago
I don't think Hacker News is the appropriate place for Google content petitions.
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by kevinpet 17y ago
This is his retirement. He retired in order to have time to finish the series.
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by kevinpet 17y ago
A keyboard. How quaint.
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by kevinpet 17y ago
Amazon's pricing model is even more busted when you look at the cost of puts for small objects. The simplest answer is for Amazon to revisit their pricing based on their actual costs. You can use SimpleDB to index larger objects stored in S
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by kevinpet 17y ago
Being any more generous than you need to be to attract good people and get them to work hard is being too generous, hence, not a good business decision, hence, the founders would not be "good" founders.
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by kevinpet 17y ago
Pissed away 20 years of your life making great money? Even as enlisted, if you aren't an idiot or an alcoholic, you should be able to sock away far more savings than private sector counterparts at a similar level of education and ability.
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by kevinpet 17y ago
I'm completely in favor of gay marriage because it merely removes unreasonable restrictions on an institution. Reasonable restrictions on marriage include being under age and certain close relations. Polygamy isn't a relaxation of a restric
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by kevinpet 17y ago
Fascism is an economic system based on government control of nominally private enterprises. If fascism is limited to the political regimes within a precise moment in history, we lose a useful term.
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by kevinpet 17y ago
Is this the reason Joseph Stack flew his plane in the IRS building?
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by kevinpet 17y ago
Society can't function without ignition coils, but I'd wager that 90% of the world can't even vaguely articulate what role they serve. There's a big difference between society depending on a handful of people understanding how something wor
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by kevinpet 17y ago
I believe the point was that Buffet was comparing two things as if they were equivalent, while in fact one has an additional level of taxation between when it provided value to a consumer and when it got into the hands of the person providi
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by kevinpet 17y ago
As someone who's spent a considerable amount of time analyzing twitter data, the most tweets come from a small cadre of "social media experts", which is the web 2.0 term for useless spammer. Seriously, #1 should have been "the bot"
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by kevinpet 17y ago
From Google's point of view, it's worth it. If they think they could develop this in-house for $5 million, and maybe it'd be great, maybe it'd be okay, and maybe it would suck. Spending $50 million to let them have the pick of proven techno
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by kevinpet 17y ago
The advantage of implicit conversions over monkey patching seems solid, but I'm not an unqualified fan of implicit conversions either. As a Scala newcomer (i.e. never written a significant app in Scala myself), I find implicit conversions h
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by kevinpet 17y ago
A good read on this subject (which shows why it falls down) is von Mises "Bureaucracy". It's probably available on the web somewhere. Also, Ronald Coase on the Theory of the Firm. Strangely enough, economists have a lot of useful things to

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