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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
Also by Clay Shirky, and very much worth reading: Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6770039
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
You misread the sentence. The comparison is being made to the Mesozoic. That is, the Mesozoic was much hotter than the Cretaceous. I can not imagine what you mean when you write "Global temperatures don't correlate ... with the am
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
The title says "All Our Fossil Fuels" but they really mean something like "all the fossil fuels we are likely to dig up given reasonable economic assumptions." If they really meant "all" the fossil fuel, the re
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
"they were correct across the board" That's impossible. The "Anti-Federalists" were a diverse set of groups with no unifying themes other than opposition to the newly proposed Constitution. Southern racists and Nort
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
At one point I tried to think of every musician that I could. I listed 923 musicians. I gave up, but I realized I had not scratched the surface: rock music, pop songs, American songs, African songs, French songs, classical music, etc. I&#x2
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
The pain I've felt with Angular has been less about Angular itself and more about the way it integrates with the backend frameworks I've seen it used with. If the backend has a clean RESTful API, then Angular is not so painful. If
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
Agree strongly with this: "Does anyone seriously think that was anything other than hitting on Pao?" Any man who is beyond college age, and who sincerely does not realize the meaning of handing out gifts and asking women out to di
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
Scala has always been multi-paradigm -- that can be a strength or a weakness. Martin Odersky seems brilliant, and I've enjoyed watching some of the talks he's given, but he also seems to define words in a way that goes against the
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
I wonder why this was downvoted? I think the point is obvious: if you suspect that founders, employees or investors regard their company's IPO as any kind of finish line, then you should run away from that company. Here on Hacker News
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
You should run away from any company where "founders, employees, and investors" regard an IPO as the finish line. Run away as fast as you can.
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As Jo Freeman once said: "Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a structureless group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably str
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
Robert L. Glass has compiled a book of entertaining and instructive stories regarding the massive software project failures of our time: http://www.amazon.com/Software-Runaways-Monumental-Disasters... Software Runaways:
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
I live in the South, and I know it is very conservative. I am not surprised by her story at all, especially this part: "I am from Tennessee and love that I have a very real business reason to spend more time there and shine a spotlight
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Fair warning: Pandoland is not that kind of conference(pando.com)
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For years I worked as a concierge programmer, and it was the most fun that I ever had, mostly because of the one-to-one relationship I had with my clients. All of them were in the same circumstance, which is that they had inherited a large
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
I briefly worked with a startup that has built their whole system using Python (though they use things like ElasticSearch, so they also run the JVM). The programmers at this startup are very intelligent, and very thoughtful. There are 4 mai
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The troubling context of R&D in the USA(conversableeconomist.blogspot.com)
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The overwhelming majority of the ones that I checked were marked as "high availability". Demand outruns supply, in the tourist capitol of the world? Does that mean prices are too high? Or does it mean that AirBnB has to go fully m
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
Women tend to focus on those jobs where the need for the job seems solid. If we focus, for a moment, on those jobs that are available to those who have college degrees, many women become teachers, but teaching is not high prestige. There is
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
The Bitcoin community might want to take a deep breath and recognize where Bitcoin has the most real-world use. The idea that my mom will someday use Bitcoin to buy books online is about as realistic as the belief that, any minute now, youn
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
Interesting bit about their technique: "Could regulation be increasing barriers to entry, raising the costs of reallocation, and slowing the diffusion of productivity innovations? To test the hypothesis that regulation is reducing dyna
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Is Regulation Causing the Decline in American Dynamism?(marginalrevolution.com)
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"Neanderthal genes live on in you and me, more than likely." That's mostly true for people who descend from people living in Europe and parts of Asia. Less so for anyone who primarily descends from Africa or Australian aborig
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Individual versus group decisions: Female versus male honesty(voxeu.org)
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Student Loan Delinquency Rate Defies Overall Downward Trend(libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
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This is one part of "Frameworks for Understanding the Future of Work": http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2014/10/08/framewo... danah boyd works in Microsoft Research
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Understanding Intelligent Systems (The Future Of Work) [pdf](datasociety.net)
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In New York City I was just offered a job at a startup, as a senior engineer. The company is small (only 5 people) but they have many customers, they are profitable, and it is fairly certain they are going to be successful. They had, for ye
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
In the USA, unemployment was elevated for several years, and is only now coming down to reasonable levels. More so, if you lack a college degree (and 74% of the USA population lacks a college degree) then your chance of getting a good job i
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
This has been exactly my experience. I was an early convert to Chrome, and I loved how fast it was, but now I find it slow and buggy. There are some partial workarounds: Chrome does a cache lookup on your history when you type, so if you de

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