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by mellis 16y ago
What's wrong with knee-jerk uninformed speculation?
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by mellis 16y ago
If they're ready to ship the binaries, they should be ready to ship the source code.
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by mellis 16y ago
There seem to be a lot of rough edges here. Is there a way to load more items to review without reviewing five? Otherwise, it's easy to get stuck if it pulls up a list of things you don't have an opinion about. When I click on the number o
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by mellis 16y ago
For a long and thoughtful read on this subject, see: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/
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by mellis 16y ago
An even more radical argument is that programming languages have to break free from the tyranny of text. That is, they should be represented by a internal structure that can be edited through a variety of representations (graphical or text
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Have Generics Killed Java?(artima.com)
1 points by mellis 16y ago|3 comments
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British Panel Clears Climate Scientists(nytimes.com)
22 points by mellis 16y ago|1 comments
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by mellis 16y ago
This headline seems a bit misleading. The blog post is from today, describing a problem that the developer had brought to his attention yesterday. Perhaps this should be revised to the title of the post: "iTunes accounts hacked by shady d
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by mellis 17y ago
Making better smartphones seems like a decent counter strategy.
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Panel Releases Proposal to Set U.S. Standards for Education(nytimes.com)
2 points by mellis 17y ago|0 comments
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How the 'climategate' scandal is bogus and based on climate sceptics' lies(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by mellis 17y ago|0 comments
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Paul Krugram: One health care reform, indivisible(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by mellis 17y ago|0 comments
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by mellis 17y ago
An open-source project is more than the code. It also includes the community and the resources for continuing development. Although the code is under the GPL, Sun (and now possibly Oracle) has control of the brand and many of the potentia
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by mellis 17y ago
And this excerpt seems relevant: "A senior Obama administration official said Mr. Abdulmutallab had come to the attention of American officials at least several weeks ago, but the initial information was not specific enough to raise alarms
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by mellis 17y ago
Congratulations! Octopart has gotten some love in the How to Make (almost) Anything class here at MIT, too. We used it to find a good, cheap source for ATtiny44's when Digikey was out of stock.
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by mellis 17y ago
As far as I can tell, for example by reading the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Clime Change) report (summary: http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr_spm... ), the overwhelming scientific evidence and consensus is that
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by mellis 17y ago
The summary "Now you can manage reviews on your website just like http://yelp.com but completely branded by you, all with just two lines of code." is confusing. It hints at why someone would want this, but it's not clear how it works (e.
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Ask HN: largest number you've had to store in an application?
15 points by mellis 17y ago|25 comments
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by mellis 17y ago
Doesn't programming deserve to be the subject of a rigorous, high-level education? It is a rich craft with a growing tradition. We would do well to consider, as Joel does, how to provide students with appropriate experience for the future
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6.01 Course Notes (MIT's intro EECS class)(mit.edu)
8 points by mellis 17y ago|1 comments
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by mellis 17y ago
What makes you think insurance companies spend money efficiently? For one thing, they tend to have much higher administrative costs than publicly run health care programs. See, for example, Wikipedia's article on health care in the US: ht
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by mellis 17y ago
It may be that no amount of money will ever be enough, but that money can be spent well or it can be spent badly. Doctors can prescribe an unnecessary procedure because they're paid for it or because they fear malpractice claims. Or they
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Paul Krugman: Why markets can’t cure healthcare(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
16 points by mellis 17y ago|39 comments
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Ask HN: most common hosts of URL submissions?
1 points by mellis 17y ago|2 comments
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by mellis 17y ago
Is it really so cheap? If so, it seems that it should be possible to create a mechanism which could cover these fees for open-source projects. Perhaps someone like Mozilla or Canonical or other open-source advocates could create a fund fo
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Just How Successful is the iPhone App Store?(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by mellis 17y ago|1 comments
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Reforming American health care: Heading for the emergency room(economist.com)
1 points by mellis 17y ago|0 comments
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by mellis 17y ago
For another example (admittedly less spectacular) of xkcd appearing in a real-life context, see Ross Douthat's review of Mark Helprin's screed on copyright: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/books/review/Douthat-t.htm...
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by mellis 17y ago
Car insurance is simpler than health insurance. There are fewer types of covered conditions, and it's easier to make direct comparisons. Health conditions are more numerous and vary more depending on the individual in question. It's also
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by mellis 17y ago
Health insurance is a difficult thing to price. Do you know the probabilities that you will need treatment for any particular condition? Can judge how much more you should pay for a policy with a million dollar limit on total reimbursemen

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