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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
If you are vaccinated, then you don't have much to worry about. According to this: http://www.cdc.gov/measles/vaccination.html "Measles can be prevented with the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine. On
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
For some strange reason they have buried the best story. Please skip down to: 'Daddy's job in video games was no longer a cool thing they liked to brag about' That is a story that everyone should read. It is emotionally inten
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The Pizza Party Where Everyone Got Fired(kotaku.com)
13 points by lisa_henderson 12y ago|3 comments
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
I have read Hemmingway's novel The Sun Also Rises 5 times. It's a book that has a lot of dialogue. It is funny to notice that it's the dialogue that changes the most for me, when I read something again, a few years later. May
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
Whenever I find myself in a conversation with a goldbug, and they complain about something like "the craziness of unbacked monetary systems" I say "I like your shirt. I will give you $500 for that shirt." (This assumes t
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
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
More important is the average tenure of the shareholder. Much wealth now resides in organizations that do not play a traditional ownership role. Mutual funds need to rebalance, typically every month or every quarter. Pension funds and hedge
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
Everyone should stop for a minute and imagine what would happen if this legal precedent spread to the tech startup world. We might then have situations where a highly experienced programmer might sign up with a startup, and sign a contract
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
No joke, this time Charlie Brown is really, really, really going to kick that football.
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
A man given power who then uses it for great good -- I wish the history books were full of many more stories such as this, but sadly, the opposite is true. This was a rare circumstance where a man of great intelligence and energy was given
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Trick OO Programmers into Loving Functional Programming (Dependency Injection)(medium.com)
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
Yes, valuations would shoot to infinity if investors believed that interest rates would reach 0% and then stay there forever. Finite valuations are based on the idea that, at some point in the future, interest rates will be above 0%. Also,
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
About this: "When Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee coined the term unicorn as a label for such corporate creatures in a November 2013 TechCrunch blog post, just 39 of the past decade’s VC-backed U.S. software startups had topped the
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
Of these 3, at least 2 would depend on the language in use: "We used a combination of lexical features (e.g., variable name choices), layout features (e.g., spacing), and syntactic features (i.e., grammatical structure of source code)&
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The War Nerd: Getting “Women Warriors” Wrong(pando.com)
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Fun with Optional Typing: Narrowing Errors (Clojure)(blog.jessitron.com)
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
I think the hype around Groovy was at its peak when folks were the most interested in having something like Ruby running on the JVM, and jRuby did not yet seem like a viable option. But even the hype for classic MRI Ruby has been waning, as
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
You really have no idea what you are talking about.
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
This part: "Online and off, some teams consistently worked smarter than others. More surprisingly, the most important ingredients for a smart team remained constant regardless of its mode of interaction: members who communicated a lot,
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
About this: "You are mixing two concepts." You have no idea what you are talking about. This creates deflationary pressure: x > y + z So long as x is greater than y plus z, then it is cheaper for the Swiss to import their crois
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
About this: "if z grows too large then you get a massive inflation which is very damaging" No! No! No! I am surprised there are so many people on Hacker News who are bad at math. You can not get inflation unless: x < y + z but
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
Anyone who thinks the that the peg was unsustainable should remember a basic bit of supply of demand. Assume the demand of Swiss francs is "x". Assume the supply of Swiss francs is "y". If the price of francs is higher t
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
About this: "I think we may be coming to the end of a period where being an artist was synonymous with being urban, unless we are willing to fight for it—but before I start it, let me say that I have mixed feelings about my own conclus
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
A more interesting poll would accept a vector rather than scalar value. For me, over the last week, my sleep cycle: Sunday: 3 hours of sleep at night, 1 hour nap in the day Monday: 3 hours of sleep at night, 1 hour nap in the day Tuesday: 3
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The Anti-Innovators: How Special Interests Undermine Entrepreneurship(foreignaffairs.com)
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by lisa_henderson 12y ago
About this: "Copyright of All Images On This Website is Owned By The Rescued Film Project." They are almost certainly making the claim under the various Orphan Work acts that several nations have passed recently: http:/&#x2F