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by madair 17y ago
It clearly depends on the context. In the case of an Asian factory worker with no options better than living in factory dorms and working extremely long shifts at often dangerous tasks for little pay to make toys that stock Wal-Mart, the sl
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by madair 17y ago
Of course not, it's all a point of view. It's just a critical point to know in the context of fellow economists that the Chicago school is under attack, whether rightly or wrongly, for the current state of the economy.
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by madair 17y ago
The fellow economist is a key figure in the school of economic thought that Krugman was attacking.
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by madair 17y ago
I can disagree by deconstructing the ideas to relatives of Social Darwinism, the friend of colonialists and the entitled alike.
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by madair 17y ago
It's like being a vassal. People can worry about contract this and contract that, but that's all a distraction from the feudal servitude that developers are under to their corporate lords.
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by madair 17y ago
Ah, yes, "suggested"
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Google forces employee to disavow MVP status(theregister.co.uk)
32 points by madair 17y ago|34 comments
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by madair 17y ago
Social darwinism rears its ugly head in odd places. Luck and intelligence can each work alone to produce fortunes. But after the initial fortune is made, only intelligence helps grow it. Wow.
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by madair 17y ago
It's not that everyone doesn't love and appreciate the village handyman. They really like having him around. They just don't respect him very much.
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by madair 17y ago
It definitely struck me as faint praise. It sounds like he's talking about the village handyman who lives in the granny shack behind Jake Doe's place and whom no one is quite sure where he came from.
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by madair 17y ago
If they clarify anywhere that this is pure sci-fi concept art I couldn't find it. Unethical buzz whoring by Electrolux it seems to me.
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by madair 17y ago
Russian nuclear brinkmanship logic: If you knew we could do it, then you wouldn't cause it to happen. But you don't know we can because if you knew it then you could stop us from doing it. But we know we can, so we won't cause you to cause
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by madair 17y ago
I agree with you that this is design, often akin to industrial design more than art, which could also be described as art meets practical considerations or too narrowly, art meets commerce . And that's why I'm casting a wide net in my re
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by madair 17y ago
Thanks for catching my error in the history.
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by madair 17y ago
Does anyone know of reputable research and blind tests that back up the common designer sentiment against Arial? The reaction of many designers seems to smell of elitism and subjectivism more than anything to me, but I'll be happily proven
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by madair 17y ago
1. Saying "actually cheaper" is not the point of the remark, it's just a secondary remark about the specific comparison case, the point is that populist and relatively crappy journalism has a comparable cost to to the consumer as high quali
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by madair 17y ago
A wink works pretty good, and often relieves potential tension, i.e. ;-) And for the people who can get off a high horse about online slang and talk with a bit of inflection, gratuitous emotional additions like Whoahohoho and Ohhhh work
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Making Corporate American Pay (On Time)(vestpocketconsultant.entrepreneur.com)
1 points by madair 17y ago|0 comments
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by madair 17y ago
I'm not being sarcastic, and I'm replying to the comment on language. Sorry I was unclear.
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by madair 17y ago
Isn't their saying, "If a nail sticks out, hammer it down"? Is that what you're going for? Or an unintended side effect?
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by madair 17y ago
I'm glad for any trend against the corporatism, homogenization and prudishness in American professional culture that dehumanizes and demeans people.
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by madair 17y ago
On the other hand, perhaps Wikipedia proves the point, and perhaps it could be argued that something other than a SQL DBMS would be more appropriate. I think the more rabid of the noSQLites would go that way. Personally I prefer to be more
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by madair 17y ago
Good point, except the the irony is the reverse of that. I think that many observers would say that the Wikipedia system works quite well considering they are one of the most widely used sites on the Internet. Since this article is publishe
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by madair 17y ago
In the database world, developers are sometimes tempted to bypass the RDBMS, for example by storing everything in one big table with two columns labeled key and value. Ironic, if you look at the Wikipedia schema. (At least last time I loo
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Variables and the roles they play(p.einarsen.no)
4 points by madair 17y ago|0 comments
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by madair 17y ago
Has anybody coined "Yeggism" yet?: Exaggerated claims with a sliver of truth and a whole lot of hand waving to back them up? It's a great article, this is not a troll. But those are some big statements in there about it seems anyone and eve
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by madair 17y ago
Oops! Sorry, don't know how I missed that!
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by madair 17y ago
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0804-netflix... Sounds like a factory to me. You guys who vote me down are just so very delusional about the information economy's greatness. LOL.
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by madair 17y ago
I'm not sure whether this is inspiring, or frightening. To paraphrase: "I pledge my allegiance to the Borg and will always give of myself and care for it above all else including my own needs."
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Kaminsky, Mitnick pwned on Black Hat eve(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by madair 17y ago|1 comments

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