lisa_henderson

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by lisa_henderson 9y ago
> Store of Value: Bitcoin is better than gold at what gold does. Gold is about $7tn. BTC ~$180bn I don't know many women who feel this way, and women's interest in jewelry has historically helped establish an important floor
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by lisa_henderson 9y ago
Wait, is this Kyle Kingsbury? If so, where is his name? Who are the authors? I notice this text doesn't mention the authors: "We wish to thank Jordan Halterman for his discussion of Hazelcast use cases. Luigi Dell’Aquila & Luc
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by lisa_henderson 9y ago
Your first 2 examples are good, but "bespoke" is older and often more specific than "custom".
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by lisa_henderson 9y ago
Or questions that are original but get marked as duplicate. This has happened to me several times. It's become my biggest frustration with StackOverflow. I might run into a problem that is a new variation on an old problem. I try to do
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A radical idea: stop spying on students(theguardian.com)
2 points by lisa_henderson 9y ago|0 comments
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by lisa_henderson 9y ago
pervycreeper is making the point that all computers are, for practical purposes, probabilistic, since you can never know if a given result is because of a machine failure. In the normal sense of a math proof, one can not "exhaust the p
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by lisa_henderson 9y ago
You won't find anything in any set of economic statistics that can offer the slightest justification for this statement: "The JavaScript ecosystem nowadays is responsible for the global revolution the same way steam engines were r
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by lisa_henderson 9y ago
Great teachers are expensive. This needs to be emphasized more. Even if there is strong demand for the dev bootcamps, the bootcamps still have to hire great teachers. The teachers are highly experienced developers, the kind of people who co
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by lisa_henderson 9y ago
This article misses what seems like the most obvious explanation, which is that the USA economy has recovered from the Great Recession. We had a stretch from 2009 to 2014 when it was difficult to find any normal investment that paid better
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by lisa_henderson 9y ago
You have it backwards. The plague starts in east Asia, then spreads West along the Silk Road, it arrives at the Black Sea, and then is carried to Venice. Most likely it was in rats that were on the ships which the merchants of Venice operat
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by lisa_henderson 9y ago
On a similar note, recently a lot of research has looked at the extent to which utility functions fail to explore a space, and how the introduction of novelty is a crucial new strategy: "Novelty search is a recent algorithm geared towa
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by lisa_henderson 9y ago
I got started in software in the late 90s. At that time, there were immense philosophical differences between the communities that drove each programming language. Perl had a well known culture, which was utterly different than what the Pyt
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by lisa_henderson 9y ago
Last year I worked at an electronic publishing firm which had wasted $3 million and 5 years on a Ruby On Rails application which was universally hated by the staff, and which we replaced with 6 clean, separate services. The problem with the
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by lisa_henderson 9y ago
This is fundamentally a religious question. There is nothing wrong with religion, but you should be aware when you step into the realm of religion. Whether you think the universe is made of math, or God's will, or it's turtles all
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by lisa_henderson 10y ago
How is this flamebait? This is a legitimate question.
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by lisa_henderson 10y ago
The question "Was GamerGate driven by misogyny?" can now be answered. How many people raise the issue of ethics, regarding this situation, will clarify how many people really did care about ethics when Zoë Quinn, Brianna Wu, and A
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by lisa_henderson 10y ago
Are you joking? Every human society had ways of killing off their children, mostly the daughters since they are regarded as less valuable than sons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide "In many past societie
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by lisa_henderson 10y ago
When there is no food, the parents need to decide which children will die. This is true in all species. This is what leads to the emergence of specific neotenic traits that in the context of humans we regard as "cute" or "ado
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by lisa_henderson 10y ago
Anyone who has been China can tell you this is wrong: "With the exception of the imperial offspring of the Ming dynasty and the dauphins of pre-Revolutionary France, contemporary American kids may represent the most indulged young peop
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by lisa_henderson 10y ago
And you have to figure out what a "reserved instance" is. Because that saves you 70%. And so, if you miss that small point, then you are wildly over paying. But who can learn all these details in a short amount of time?
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by lisa_henderson 10y ago
What about Heroku or Lambda or Cloud Foundry or all the other companies that claim that startups don't need any devops at all?
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by lisa_henderson 10y ago
My favorite by far: "Teams are better than individuals and everyone has to be aware of the valuable contributions of employees in other roles. So let's team every programmer with a sales person—preferably working the phones at the
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Ghosts in the machine (the Clojure runtime)(danielsz.github.io)
3 points by lisa_henderson 10y ago|0 comments
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
In this bit, Hanson indulges in pure fantasy: "Rural living historically has encouraged independence, and it still does, even in the globalized and wired 21st century. Autonomy and autarky, not narrow specialization, are necessary and
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
It's also important to think about the implications of articles such as "What's 96 Percent of the Universe Made Of? Astronomers Don't Know" http://www.space.com/11642-dark-matter-dark-energy-4-percen
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
This is a true story: I rent some servers from the Rackspace cloud for personal use. I have my own sites on these machines, and my own email servers. Meanwhile, I have a day job, and lately it has been consuming 12 hours a day. We missed a
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
I agree that fasting hits everyone differently, but then, the same can be said of drugs. It's ludicrous to think that one day we will have a drug that mimics the effects of fasting, but without any negative side effects. Whatever drug
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
I agree. Last month I went 11 days while only drinking water. No food. And the first 7 days I barely noticed. I had no hunger at all. On the 7th day I went for a 12 kilometer walk. I had plenty of strength. After the 7th day I did start to
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
If so many people support government regulation of the drug industry, why aren't more people taking drugs? If so many people support the government regulation of debt, why aren't more people running up debts? If so many people bel
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
There has been a minor uptick in foreign investment, but you have to squint really hard to see it: https://en.santandertrade.com/establish-overseas/portugal/fo... And FDI stock is down. The Portuguese are resource

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