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391.
by maw 16y ago
In the sentence, "good" is a noun. You can say "deliver ..." or "achieve positive results", but why use the longer latinate words? It just makes you look like you're trying to look smarter than you are.
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by maw 16y ago
There's the old joke about finding an SO. Attractive, intelligent, available: pick any two. I recently realized that with programming languages, it's similar, but not quite the same. Runs fast, has libraries, isn't totally frikkin brainde
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by maw 16y ago
Duh, I meant local maxima , of course -- at least, that's what those drivers are trying for. What they get most of the time are more like minima, of course.
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by maw 16y ago
Pretty sure transmission type has nothing to do with it -- traffic is stop and go in plenty of places where most cars have manual transmissions. I'm increasingly convinced that it's due to so many drivers optimizing for local minima, at the
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by maw 16y ago
You should. Who doesn't use package management? Nobody I want to have bits on systems I have anything to do with, that's who doesn't.
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by maw 16y ago
I left Melbourne in 2002, and finally visited again in 2009. The effect of seven years of sustained prosperity was palpable in many ways, but none more so than the number of new cafés. I guess it's the sort of change you don't notice so m
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by maw 16y ago
I think marketing's only part of the Economist's success. It's certainly true that editorially and, uh, advertisorially a lot of what the Economist does is not done to primarily inform its readers, but rather to play to their aspirations.
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The Economist Tends Its Sophisticate Garden (nytimes.com)
3 points by maw 16y ago|1 comments
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by maw 16y ago
Yeah, but this time it's for real! It's the Year of the Linux Desktop that you need to be skeptical about.
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by maw 16y ago
Oh, go jump in a lake in an island in a lake in an island in ...
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by maw 16y ago
In economics, there's a distinction between the normative and the positive. The former describes what ought to be and the latter describes what is . The concept seems relevant here. Operators ought not block mail solely due to some R
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by maw 16y ago
We obviously aren't throwing out SpamAssassin just because a few problems pop up now and then. I did. In 2002 or 2003, they made a change which caused my then-users to lose mail. I can't remember the details now (something to do with re
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by maw 16y ago
things go straight to the deep end with everyone trying to sound smarter than everyone else Yeah, that's the degenerate case, and is why I'm less keen on IOT than I used to be. The Indian Rebellion (20100218) was the worst one this year
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by maw 16y ago
Those were good ones indeed, but let's not be too narrow. For example, division of labor is a common topic discussed. (An economics program! And division of labor!? No effin way!) For those of us trying to get a business going, it's pro
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by maw 16y ago
Paying to receive calls is annoying at first blush, but it does have at least one benefit: you're far more callable. With other systems, low level employees at many businesses simply won't be able to. (I've seen this first hand in Austral
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by maw 16y ago
Ditto. We also have a wiki and a tumblr site where we post immature nonsense. We all (except one of us) used to work at the same place, but now we're geographically and employmentologically spread out.
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by maw 16y ago
But I said that I have no problem with rudeness and snobbiness, and I was being more than half serious.
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by maw 16y ago
When I read on tech blogs that Kindle is a goner, I think these people must not read very much. Yeah, pretty much. It is snobby and rude to say it that way, but being snobby and rude myself I'm fine with that. In fairness, while e-ink de
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by maw 16y ago
Helpful, and I'm definitely a fan of pypi when doing development, but depending on services like that to do installations on production machines is unwise. It's a better idea to maintain a private repository of dependencies for production i
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by maw 16y ago
Oftentimes, but not always. If John picked it up and it just broke (due to being fragile, I suppose) he could just as reasonably say "se me rompió" (note where the accent goes, by the way) and we might translate that is "it broke on me". (
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by maw 16y ago
If, when my wife tries to wake me up in the morning, I grunt in reply I can usually fall back asleep. But if I respond using actual words, I'm generally awake for the day. My hunch is that this phenomenon is somehow related to the study.
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by maw 16y ago
Unless you're only suggesting skepticism, which is a good idea in general, this is just ad hominem.
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The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp (albany.edu)
5 points by maw 16y ago|0 comments
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by maw 16y ago
The most effective monarchy succession plan is probably having the current ruler groom his successor and retire or alternate - that happened during the height of Rome with emperors choosing and grooming their successor before retiring Tru
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by maw 16y ago
Sigh. Go reread, but here's a hint: the main problem with SSL certs is not their technical implementation.
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by maw 16y ago
No, because guidelines can be overridden when there's a good case for doing so. Not so with syntax.
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by maw 16y ago
a) SSL is worth jack shit. It only tells me that some person paid some obscenely large sum of money to some company so that my address bar glows in green. CAs do a very bad job at verifying their customers. There have been valid certificat
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by maw 16y ago
Network latency is not that much of an issue when you have your application in the cloud as well. What?
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by maw 16y ago
It may indeed look exactly like a memcached server, but that's not enough. A client that speaks the memcache protocol assuming that it's talking to a cache can make assumptions and cut corners which a client talking to a persistent store o
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by maw 16y ago
All but certainly unrelated, but using constructs like NO_FOO=YesPlease is a wretched idea. On the bright side, there aren't no triple negatives neither.

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