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by kgrin 17y ago
There's a great deal more to a language than syntax: libraries, actual implementations, and so forth (so say nothing of documentation, community and other non-code matters). PEP 3003 puts the brakes (temporarily!) on one point of evolution
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by kgrin 17y ago
Title is incorrect - the post is dated March 22, 2007 (which, in some ways, makes it more interesting).
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For that matter, why did Apple have something like 8 laptop display adapter standards? (before, to their credit, apparently setting on one)
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by kgrin 17y ago
Original article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10... Actually a pretty reasonable write-up of open source advantages.
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by kgrin 17y ago
This reminds me of Raymond Chen's story about what happened to time zone map highlighting in Windows (short version: Kashmir). http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/22/54679.a...
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by kgrin 17y ago
Wrong Jason... Calacanis is Mahalo & others... 37signals is Jason Fried. (Minor, of course, though I suppose not to the Jasons!)
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by kgrin 17y ago
I agree, though as a matter of policy you have to ask - how do you actually "break them up"? On what basis? You can't just have the government ordering companies to break up. Unlike, say, Standard Oil, antitrust laws don't apply here (the
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by kgrin 17y ago
True, but you've gotta figure that "our datacenter was swallowed by a volcanic eruption" is at least a cooler excuse than "DFW is having weird power issues". If you must go dark, go dark in style! (And keep a good eye some off-site backups
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by kgrin 17y ago
Not to over-nitpick, but there's surely a difference between private and government debt. Not that public debt is a good thing by any means, but the trend of treating of the government as a "family" that needs to "live within its means" st
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by kgrin 17y ago
True enough RE: importance of saving the financial system, though there's plenty of room for debate about the best way to go about it. For instance: what should the government (read: taxpayers) get in return for their guarantees of these c
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by kgrin 17y ago
Sure, but to the extent that the author is comparing two numbers to generate shock value, the fact that he's really comparing an amount of apples spent to a number non-inflation-adjusted oranges lent makes the whole thing a bit misleading.
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by kgrin 17y ago
That 300 million isn't inflation-adjusted, is it? Also, most of the $4-trillion-range figures are of guarantees , not actual dollars spent or committed - a good deal of that money has been or is going to be repaid. If the banks default on
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Ground-Up Android: Getting Started with App Development(activefrequency.com)
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by kgrin 17y ago
Seriously, ModelForms are pretty much the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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by kgrin 17y ago
The author makes a telling comment about how "worker-bee" programmers can be reassigned that displays the same contempt for developers as the managers who call them "resources". Call it a pet peeve, I guess. One other factor to consider is
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by kgrin 17y ago
If I misunderstood your point, I apologize. Care to correct? Here's what I understood to be the debate: Original comment you quoted: > A lot of dating and who a person would consider for relationships is based on social, cultural and e
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by kgrin 17y ago
The "unfortunate" comment seemed to be directed at the relative inequality , not the fact that whites are "succeeding". I think it's pretty tough to make the case that economic and educational inequality in the United States along racial
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by kgrin 17y ago
As someone pointed out recently (sorry, can't find the original blog post) this sort of plan really skews the power dynamic between the entrepreneur and VC/angel. If you really make this visa contingent on funding, then in addition to havi
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by kgrin 17y ago
Technically it's not Obama, but an Obama appointee who's doing the mandating (and wrote the linked blog post): Julius Genachowski (FCC Chairman). Obviously the proverbial buck stops with Obama, and it's fair for him to be credited, but it'
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by kgrin 17y ago
Generally speaking, PAs and NPs must technically be "supervised" by a physician. I think the degree of supervision varies by state, but it's typically not case-by-case supervision - rather more of a general sign-off sort of thing, with ava
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by kgrin 17y ago
Scaling horizontally is considerably more expensive on the MS stack, as the StackOverflow folks discovered recently ("discovered" is a poor word choice maybe). I distinctly remember a blog post or podcast where Jeff basically lays out the
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by kgrin 17y ago
And what happens when, faced with the rational person's ultimatum ("learn to fish or you get nothing"), the man chooses nothing? Surely it's his own fault, but suffering still happens. Of course, that's a small-scale, contrived example, b
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by kgrin 17y ago
We have an app for sale on the Android Market (which uses Google Checkout for transaction processing), and it seems like every week we have a support email claiming we charged them twice. We always apologize (even though it's not our fault)
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by kgrin 17y ago
This vaguely reminds me of how some people set clocks 5 minutes ahead to make themselves think they're late. Of course, people also tend to get used to that pretty quickly and compensate accordingly, which doesn't sound like a problem her
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by kgrin 17y ago
Yes, you have to call: 1-800-JETBLUE (538-2583), prompt 4. I believe you also need to register for their frequent flyer program (free?), though I'm not sure if you can just do that when you call.
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by kgrin 17y ago
In general, Django is considerably more explicit about what it's doing (particularly after the "magic-removal" branch two years ago). The implicit trade-off is that some things that Rails does automatically you have to declare explicitly i
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by kgrin 17y ago
From the actual article linked to by the submitted post: "Schwartz saw the error in the announcement timing as more than a technicality, citing the false assertion of Police Chief Paul Walters that motorists would be given 4.4 seconds of ye
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by kgrin 17y ago
That's not really sound logic - if you see a yellow light and there's enough time to safely stop , you should stop. That's an important qualifier. Indeed, that's why the duration of yellow lights differs based on the expected speed that
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by kgrin 17y ago
Can someone explain why this is better than a real profiler, or something like YSlow? I'm not criticizing - just trying to figure out what I'm missing.
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by kgrin 17y ago
The details in both Daschle and Geithner's cases are fairly weird: Daschle's mistake was in not reporting a free car/driver as a gift (and hence not paying taxes on the value). There's a whole other conversation to be had about the culture

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