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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
At any scale, you use what is convenient to your goals. Think about maps. If you want to hike a mountain in Colorado, you might go with a topological map where 1 centimeter equals 2 meters. If you'd like to hike the Appalachian Trail,
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
About this: "Very little economic activity can be bottled up and saved for years." That might have been true for hunter-gatherer societies, 10,000 years ago, but since the advent of agriculture, and especially irrigation, human so
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
About this: "Though a jury is a good idea and the best we've got, the process they run through seems ripe for reform." How do you justify the statement that a jury is the best idea that we have? Germany has the concept of Sch
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
That would be normal in any big city. For over a century the general rule was "Move to the suburbs if you want to buy a house. If you stay in a city then you rent." Things have only changed slowly, since the 60s, with the rise of
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
This bit raises the question, is #1 being caused by #2 and #3? -------------------------------------------- The problems that we have hit with using Typed Closure are 1.) slower iteration time when programming, 2.) core.typed not supporting
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
About this: "but there's lots of people who live < 10 miles away from Google who'd be willing to do it if there was better infrastructure" Then the headline should be "Google wants to make biking easier in Silico
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More on the Political Economy of Permahawkery(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by lisa_henderson 11y ago|1 comments
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
You should include both of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Durant And yet, this is the exception that probes the rule. The above quote has an element of humor in it, and it is basically saying "No modern
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
A commit message should answer the question "why?". In the article they ask "Which would you rather read?" I would prefer to read the first commit message they offer as an example: "Re-adding ConfigurationPostProces
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Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained (2006) [pdf](rgoarchitects.com)
27 points by lisa_henderson 11y ago|2 comments
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Early adopters and inverted social proof (2011)(ideolalia.com)
2 points by lisa_henderson 11y ago|1 comments
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
I wonder why this was downvoted? I'm stating what should be obvious to everyone. As the human habitation moves deeper into the woods, there is an increase in the political motivation to engage in "assiduous firefighting".
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
This article has an innocence that seems almost willfully blind. They write: "But assiduous firefighting is also to blame." They don't spend much time talking about the most obvious force that drives the "assiduous firef
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DDD, Event Sourcing, and CQRS Tutorial(cqrs.nu)
39 points by lisa_henderson 11y ago|11 comments
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
I also had Lyme and I was also given metronidazole, in combination with other antibiotics. The theory for giving it was that Lyme, during its life cycle, has several forms, including a form that is a bit spore like (that is an informal and
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Brief History of the ASF Board Agenda Tool(intertwingly.net)
1 points by lisa_henderson 11y ago|0 comments
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
Fascinating that even here on Hacker News, where we can presume the audience is well-informed about tech matters, the comments on this post show a large amount of confusion about the definition of "RESTful". I see some comments ra
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
I just started at a new job, at a new startup. During the my first job interview with them, they asked, "Do you know how to work with a RESTful interface?" I said yes, and I told them to look at my Github account for examples. Dur
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Gamergate controversy (Talk page on Wikipedia)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by lisa_henderson 11y ago|0 comments
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
This is ridiculous: @carbocation: "If you are interested in a physician's help but do not want to take a specific medication or class of medications, things will get a bit more complex" You don't understand the pressure
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
david gerard, if I could upvote your comment a thousand times, I would. Especially this: "Who thought "Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. nothing to commit, working directory clean" was a good idea
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by lisa_henderson 11y ago
Fascinating, and very similar to my own family. This is especially true: "When faced with evidence of their children's true feelings about unwanted contact, parents minimize ("What have we been doing to him? Nothing but telli
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
Thank you for saying that. The last 15 years have seen tremendous heat and noise exhausted in fantastical debates the end result of which brings no obvious improvement. If we were honest, we would say something humble, such as "Sir Tim
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
Is this a typo? "at least they understood that threat of death is worse than threat of injury" Surely you meant to write the opposite? As we've all been told, over and over again, at least since it became clear that President
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
I love this story. It offers an important reminder about how our industry really works. Whenever a practice becomes established as a "best practice", such as automated testing, then the next question that arises is "Why isn&#
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
The rules about titles on Hacker News are both stupidly strict and then erratically enforced: a bad combination. dang said he would bring more transparency to this, and he has done so where he comments, but I assume, his time being finite,
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
I bike to work in New York, and I've biked around Berlin, and I would say New York still has a way to go before it catches up with Berlin. The problem that New York faces is that it is embedded in USA society, so it has to face some is
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
Seems like his story can be thought of as a data point for those who argue that info-grazing doesn't benefit the grazer as much as the grazer might like to think. Here is a fellow who oversaw MTV Online during the time it failed to cap
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
Let's be realistic: there are many companies that won't hire you after this. The question is, are those the companies that you want to work for? It's a tough choice, of course. You mention that the company you worked at is po
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Matter Over Mind (the declining demand for skilled work)(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by lisa_henderson 12y ago|0 comments

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