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by mdda 16y ago
Last week I bought a top-of-the-range camera from Nikon. Excellent camera in every way : Great purchase. This week, Nikon has discontinued the camera, and has announced that there's going to be a new range, even better, coming along soon.
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by mdda 16y ago
This is the first post in the thread that makes me feel good about what's happened - perhaps this approach should have been the lead story, rather than what appeared to be "If you're using Pylons then say goodbye to all the cool developers
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by mdda 16y ago
I've already added a comment about a particular martial art. But I think that you could also narrow it down through a kind of decision tree: Do you want to be 'badass'? Do you care whether there is a philosophy side to it? Do you want to h
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by mdda 16y ago
There are many different approaches to Tai Chi - from the 'spiritual', via 'health', the 'form', 'weapons', 'push hands', ... , all the way to 'tournament fighting'. I've just come home from a lesson where we had to wear chest protectors..
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by mdda 16y ago
yum got a lot faster a few Fedoras ago. Of course, if the speed of updating is so relevant, you should probably be using Fedora anyway, since it's rather bleeding edge.
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by mdda 16y ago
I check things out on Amazon not for the savings, but for the reviews. And that's content not created by Amazon. I guess I stick around for the recommendations - but that's also generated by Amazon analysing other people's actions.
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by mdda 16y ago
But economists would all agree that the models have limitations - that's not really news. The news here is that the limitations are a 10% slice rather than a 1% slice. But that doesn't stop the theory being 90% correct. Incentives-wise : i
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by mdda 16y ago
That's because the media loves an argument, and politicians love lobbyists... When most economists see a debate between 'experts' on CNN (or Fox) I'm sure they're shaking their heads and sighing. Imagine seeing a debate on TV about the meri
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by mdda 16y ago
The labelling that you've chosen "pro-business, anti-tax, anti-worker rights" is politics itself. The economists are more accurately characterized by 'anti-distortion'. The amount of distortion that should be accepted (for instance, to pro
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by mdda 16y ago
Get Out Now. You'll probably have an 'exit interview', during which you can suggest that you'd continue to do the current major projects for 75% of what they're paying you now - but you'd be working off-site, against a set of milestones (ju
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by mdda 16y ago
If you're talking kids and toys : Oracle is the new kid who is sitting in the corner writing his name in marker all over 'his toys'. The Libre kids just want to share toys, and think the new kid is a bully. Maybe one day they'll all play to
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by mdda 16y ago
$1950 per month for sure. For comparison, a similar Manhattan (NYC) one-bedroom (no yard, though) would be around $3000 (rents have fallen some since the peak). Decent source : StreetEasy.com
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by mdda 16y ago
Polarizing is much better for selling books than being 'meh' : a 10% following by motivated people is better than 100% of people who can't be bothered...
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by mdda 16y ago
Ok - just to be clear, I was talking about GA in its standard bit-twiddling setting, rather than as an overall approach. Also, I'm not really saying GP (again, the original Koza-style tree manipulation type) is a magic cure-all : I just lik
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by mdda 16y ago
One of the problems the original post was battling was the 'fact' that the x86 instruction set was too brittle to do actual mutations on, and so were searching for a way of coding programs with instructions that didn't self-destruct at the
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by mdda 16y ago
Actually, it's not surprising that the mutation rate is 'just right'. If mutations caused by (say) solar activity were much higher, then DNA itself would incorporate more redundancy to protect itself (it looks like there's around a 3-to-1 m
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by mdda 16y ago
I see you've already taken care of wwdotcom.ww.com :-)
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by mdda 16y ago
I work in the (junk) bond markets. There's a clear distinction between Yield-to-Call paper (which is priced so that different bonds are priced based on the yields they offer) and paper that trades on a 'price basis' (i.e. recovery rates in
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by mdda 16y ago
Exactly on the last point : since I'm looking to have a 'build script' working with just the sort of WP frontend / Pylons (or RoR) backend that you're doing, I created a Wordpress plugin WP-Templatize that will put tags around important WP
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by mdda 16y ago
It's not quite so simple. The $25 you spend on the share isn't used by Microsoft : It's used to pay to the seller of the share. Until Microsoft needs to issue more shares (or repurchase them), the value of the stock is not meaningful (to t
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by mdda 16y ago
I don't see why you doubt that anyone who earns $600k is clever enough to live cheaply : Banks prefer to hire smart people... But there's also an element of management preferring their employees to live at/above their means to some extent,
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by mdda 16y ago
Everyone on Wall St (approximately) has read Liars Poker - and, while there's some artistic license being take, the observations are basically dead-on. And people are proud that they work in an industry that has such a compelling book. An
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by mdda 16y ago
Don't get me wrong : StackOverflow is an excellent resource, and I would definitely be a contributor if when one tries to 'up vote' something it didn't force you to log in with an unfriendly message... Perhaps the UI could track my mods (a
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by mdda 16y ago
This whole post perplexes me. I had no idea that there was such a thing as a StackOverflow 'community'. What's important to me is that Google (or whatever) gets to crawl the questions/answers (and tags, I guess, since I hadn't really noti
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by mdda 16y ago
I've been running my own business in the US on an E-2 visa for the last 12 years. The minimum recommended initial investment is of the order of $100,000 - and a majority the E-2 company must be owned by citizens of the non-US 'treaty count