mhartl

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   by mhartl 13y ago

   Thanks for the link to a counterinsurgency manual; here is my favorite work in the genre: http://www.civilwarhome.com/liebercode.htm It describes the code (developed by Prussian jurist Francis Lieber) used by the victorious Union to suppr
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   by mhartl 13y ago

   People are missing the main point here. This was a terrible, but not a senseless, tragedy, and there is an important lesson to learn. It's not "be more careful when crossing the street". Being a super-defensive pedestrian might have saved A
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   by mhartl 13y ago

   I believe Tarsnap's only flaw is that it hasn't yet solved the cperciva-gets-hit-by-a-bus problem. Or perhaps I am mistaken?
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   by mhartl 13y ago

   Great, thanks for the reply. I'll take a look at your other comment as well.
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   by mhartl 13y ago

   What are some of the hallmarks you see?
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   by mhartl 13y ago

   This really underscores perhaps the most important factor in negotiating, which is to have a strong negotiating position to begin with. This often takes work, but it allows you to drive a hard bargain. ( Note : Don't forget to drive a hard
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   by mhartl 13y ago

   My guess is "Correlation Is Not Causation".
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   by mhartl 13y ago

   The success of Cards Against Humanity is evidence of massive demand, and yet all they have protecting them is their brand—unlike, say, craigslist, whose unwillingness to innovate is legendary but whose business benefits from massive network
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   by mhartl 13y ago

   Is there more to it than just that Visual Basic is the antithesis of ML? Nope, you've got it. This is the joke.
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    by mhartl 13y ago

    I'm pretty sure the most common reaction to this will be "Wait—Harper Lee is alive ?"
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    Thanks for mentioning this. You're right that the beta book has been out for a while, and I've tried updating the Rails Tutorial for the release candidate as well, but the new RC breaks tons of tests in the sample application. I probably wo
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    The person who wrote "That's incorrect" is a Parse founder ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=csmajorfive ).
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    Of course, this is also true for experienced programmers. I especially like the combination of bad code with tests. 1. Write ugly tests 2. Write bad code 3. Refactor the bad code to make it good 4. Refactor the ugly tests
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    You're right, of course, but it's worth noting that the current system of national fiat currencies with floating exchange rates isn't very old at all. Commodity currencies (especially metallic standards), in which the money supply is bound
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    Since this has been downvoted, allow me to explain. The parent to my previous comment implies that Europeans are more tolerant of swearing than Americans, but they (or at least their governments) verge on paranoia when it comes to any menti
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    Ilkka Paananen is a good example of a very powerful CEO. Delegation of authority is a sign of strength, not weakness.
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    Until someone mentions Nazis, that is.
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    This is actually good PR for 37signals. We already knew that all apps go down from time to time. What we now know is that (a) 37signals has a great status page, (b) they are transparent about their uptime, and (c) that uptime is in the 99.9
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    In other words, we can be confident that the puppy influenced someone —we just don't know if it's the subjects or the experimenters.
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    When does he get started in the morning?
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    April 10, 2008, but Jeremy has me beat (as do several others, I'm sure)
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    the chemical name of water is dihydrogen monoxide But it's not. From La Wik [1]: "Dihydrogen monoxide", shortened to "DHMO", is a name for water that is consistent with basic rules of chemical nomenclature, but is not among the names pub
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    Mozilla and the Rust community are pleased to announce version 0.6 of the Rust compiler and associated tools. Rust is a systems programming language with a focus on safety, performance and concurrency. This is how you do an announcement r
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    AAVE gets no respect because of the social status of those who speak it, not because it's "ungrammatical". Of the stratified [1] dialects of American English, it's a basilect ; "standard" American English, spoken on TV and taught in school
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    It's thoughtful yet mistaken posts like this one that make it clear how early we still are in the Bitcoin game. Capitalism doesn't need inflation. Capitalism works best with a hard currency. Money gaining 4% per year in purchasing power isn
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    It works in Firefox 19.0.2 and Safari 6.0.3 but not in Chrome 26.0.1410.43.
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    Kant was wrong.
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    At that rate, in just over 20 years every woman in the world will be a software engineer at Etsy.
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    I've decided that any content I produce in the future will be completely under my control, and in this context I've been very pleased with the Octopress/Jekyll setup I installed for the Rails Tutorial news feed ( http://news.railstutorial.o
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    by mhartl 14y ago

    How do you "transition existing subscribers off of FeedBurner"? I'd definitely think about doing this, but I don't know how.