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Every $1 spent on food stamps resulted in $1.73 in GDP growth(economy.com)
47 points by lee 15y ago|63 comments
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by lee 15y ago
No, it seems like we're talking about the same thing. Also, the iPhone wasn't designed to be an mp3 player + phone. It was designed to be a really good smartphone.
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by lee 15y ago
But you make these two arguments with hindsight. 1. Creating the iPad was not a good bet that it would create profits. Microsoft had tried pushing tablet computing for a decade, and they lost a lot of money doing so. The iPad was a gamble.
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by lee 15y ago
Yea mean "every self-taught PROGRAMMER should read". Computer science is very different than day-to-day "real world" programming. Computer science is more akin to applied mathematics... its the study of algorithms and computation. What you
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by lee 15y ago
Well yea, I didn't notice anything "bad". It took some adjustment initially to move my clock, but I pretty much get up at 5:30-6:00 AM and can get out of bed alert and refreshed. I am still getting 8 hours of sleep a day. I can only assume
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by lee 15y ago
"But I'm a night owl!" I'm glad the author of the post recognized that it is possible to switch from being a night owl to an early riser. Anecdotally, I am a night owl... if it were not for work and kids, I would sleep late and wake early.
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by lee 15y ago
I just think the name wasn't well thought out. Cherry pop reminds me of "popping cherries"... the colloquial term for taking ones virginity.
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by lee 15y ago
Yes. You are advocating various alternatives, citing that they're safe and useful based on the anecdotal experience of a handful of bloggers. The article would be much more credible if you backed it up with some solid science (has there bee
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by lee 15y ago
The fact that these sleep cycles have been used by "bloggers" for a few months and that they are still "healthy" does not give me the warm fuzzies. It would take a much longer experimental time frame, under more rigorous scientific study, t
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by lee 15y ago
Don't forget about dehydration. A big glass of water often cures many headaches.
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by lee 15y ago
This is amazing. Currently there are 12000 people tuned to watch a man program live. Who would have thought that would ever happen... live streaming programming.
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by lee 15y ago
I'd be interested to see some benchmarks of some computationally expensive applications vs. running them on Linux or another OS. How much gains are you making by optimizing the OS?
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by lee 15y ago
You can't put it that way. Part of understanding the effects and experience of drug use requires the actual experience of drug use, unlike studying cancer. It's like someone criticizing the taste of a mango without ever experiencing eating
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by lee 16y ago
I hope you don't try and hold up book-cases in the future (not sure how large they are). But during an earthquake, they could easily crush you.
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by lee 16y ago
Just curious, how well did your card game scale? How many concurrent users could it handle? And could you easily balance the load by firing up more servers if you needed to? The reason I ask is that everything sounds all good on paper, bu
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by lee 16y ago
Yes, the metric system. Every country in the world uses it except for the US, Burma, and Liberia.
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by lee 16y ago
Can you cite where you got this? I imagine it'd be very easy to get ejected from the back seat of a car in a rollover/accident. Do you ever sit in the middle back seat?
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by lee 16y ago
It seems to me that this story has a bit of sensationalism in it? It doesn't mention the engineer's salary. At that kind of offer, I'm going to assume he's a super-star performer. So his salary is probably on the far right of the bell-cur
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by lee 16y ago
What a great idea and site! Great execution. Are you making money through this via affiliate sales? With a little more polish and popularity, this site could make a ton of cash that way.
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by lee 16y ago
Perhaps it's because you're making an ad hominem argument... which is rarely interesting or valid. Debating the points and issues of the article would probably not get downvotes.
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by lee 16y ago
Why? This is hacker news... where anything intelligent and interesting is kosher. I found Carmack's argument interesting and solid.
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by lee 16y ago
So the reputation of the asmartbear blog didn't net many sales...but reputation of one of employees did. So reputation IS powerful then, as long as you have one that's catered to your market.
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by lee 16y ago
I watched the youtube video of the author making the wooden gear and I was amazed at his level of craftsmanship, and how effortless it looked for him to make the gear. It's magical to watch. I suppose for a non-programmer it may appear tha
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by lee 16y ago
I did say "medium". The form with which we interact with. Text is the best medium right now. No one's discovered a better method of representation. Are you saying we should represent code in a more graphical tree-like way? Even in that c
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by lee 16y ago
It seems like the author forgets that the medium of code IS text. Not graphics, or sound, or a 3D model... but code is text, and for now text is the most concise representation of code. But actually, a textual representation means that you
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by lee 16y ago
It sounds like you made the same mistake I made: built something first, then talked to customers. Last year I had built a really nice marketing tool to help contractors (builders, plumbers, trades people). I sunk myself into the project fo
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by lee 16y ago
Different strokes for different folks. The vast majority of people look for a stable job, and don't mind being a 90k .NET developer at Big Corp. But there's a small section of the population that cannot stand to "grind" for a large organiza
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by lee 16y ago
The initial idea rarely becomes the sustaining business for successful startups. The reason for this, is that your idea is a "wild ass guess" until you talk to real potential customers, to see if you're actually solving a problem they need
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by lee 16y ago
Totally go. >> learn 3x much being on my own I doubt that. Part of it is the mindset of school. For 4 years of your life, you will have no other obligations than to focus and learn. It is "liberating" in the sense that you know y
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by lee 16y ago
Hi Vincent, So you have an idea, are a cool guy, and have some domain knowledge. You'll have to pitch yourself a bit more before you list your demands in a partner. As a technical person, the first thought I had was "so you expect me to do

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