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by mdemare 18y ago
If it was a crappy article, it wouldn't have made it to #3 on HN. I wouldn't have clicked on a link with this title in any other context.
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by mdemare 18y ago
That reminds me, considering how small the project is, and how much I depend on it, I should probably donate some money (clickety-click). Done!
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by mdemare 18y ago
Try keywurl: http://purefiction.net/keywurl/ For me, it's the only essential plugin.
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by mdemare 18y ago
This makes so much sense, why am I not doing this already? Now I know how doctors feel...
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by mdemare 18y ago
What "literally" does is turn off the automatic evaluation of (stale) metaphors, thereby drawing attention to the metaphor itself. And although it has been overused tremendously, this is a very useful feature to have in a language (just lik
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I love the Stackoverflow discussion format
3 points by mdemare 18y ago|2 comments
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by mdemare 18y ago
Have you tried currying?
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by mdemare 18y ago
Also, Amsterdam is sufficiently small that you can get anywhere within 30 minutes A nice follow-up to this article would be to photograph /film Dutch cyclists in heavy rain.
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by mdemare 18y ago
And you can keep an eye on them in the train. Actually, most of the strangeness in this article can be explained by the pervasive fear of bike theft.
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by mdemare 18y ago
1 in 4000 over a lifetime is not a fairly large reduction of risk - it's a very small reduction of risk. There's a much bigger payoff in thinking about the 3999/4000 chance that something else will kill you.
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by mdemare 18y ago
There's a hate-hate relationship, but in the Netherlands we do a good job of keeping motorized traffic and bike separated.
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One Tough Yahoo - Carol Bartz is the new CEO.(economist.com)
10 points by mdemare 18y ago|0 comments
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by mdemare 18y ago
Impressive! How often do you hear about two open-source projects merging? Forking is much more common. I can't even recollect other instances of merging. Best of luck to the two teams with making it work!
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Calling Clojure From JRuby(blog.rubyenrails.nl)
1 points by mdemare 18y ago|0 comments
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by mdemare 18y ago
I think Clojure might succeed even without its great concurrency features - and by succeed I mean gaining a Porsche-like marketshare. It has all the good Lisp stuff, but ditches all the historical Lisp cruft, actually has a little syntax. A
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by mdemare 18y ago
I'm dying to know Taleb's thoughts on the crisis, but this video is aimed at 10 year olds. Don't bother.
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by mdemare 18y ago
I've actually googled around (in vain) to find such a service (after searching everywhere on last.fm for this feature - I was convinced that they'd have it - but no...) So, excellent idea, I needed it yesterday!
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by mdemare 18y ago
This applies to programming too. Even though Java/JEE has such a huge number of programmers, every Java project I ever worked on was probably unique in the combination of libraries it used (ever worked on a project with struts, spring, ibat
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The Shared Suffering Hypothesis(miksovsky.blogs.com)
7 points by mdemare 18y ago|1 comments
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Ididwork - The work log that shares(ididwork.com)
1 points by mdemare 18y ago|0 comments
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Stackoverflow Beta: A Review(blog.mdemare.info)
3 points by mdemare 18y ago|0 comments
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by mdemare 18y ago
Excellent advice! If you write client-side apps, obey these commandments, for they are truly the user's keeper.
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by mdemare 18y ago
As soon as you have a secret police, the second amendment (if not the entire constitution) will have been abolished. So how does the second amendment help against secret police?
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Zed's Reply To HN Concerning Feed Readers(zedshaw.com)
3 points by mdemare 18y ago|2 comments
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by mdemare 18y ago
Let me try to make the case: The repeal of the Corn Laws led to a massive flow of people to the cities, providing much needed labour to fuel the industries there. And by lowering the price of food, the entire country people had more money t
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by mdemare 18y ago
Searching for my name returns my linked in profile as the first hit ... with a picture of Charles Nutter.
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by mdemare 18y ago
I agree that economic growth outweighs anything else. But why would funding companies be the best way to generate the highest economic growth? There are many obstacles that prevent economic growth, especially in poor countries. Examples are
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by mdemare 18y ago
Transportation may be a good, but infrastructure isn't, and there are good reasons why depending on the free market to invest in infrastructure is a bad idea. It is very hard (and wasteful) to charge for roads. Infrastructure forms a natura
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by mdemare 18y ago
But the government pays for the roads too. Isn't that a subsidy? And without trains or subways much more people would need to use cars - where would they be parked? Who would pay for all that parking space? Trains allow people who can't dri
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by mdemare 18y ago
NZ is exceptionally positive toward qualified immigrants.

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