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by miked 18y ago
>> I ended up using Smalltalk for my startup. I'm getting ready to start a new project with a significant GUI forms component. I wanted to go with Clojure, but it still seems a little rough around the edges. So I'm leaning towards V
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by miked 18y ago
>> I remember similar analyses before both Iraq wars. As do I. And don't forget the classic "brutal Afghan winter", endlessly discussed in the mainstream media, that was going to prevent the US from seizing Kabul et al. Except, you
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Was Paul Baran the Inventor of the Internet? The Wired Interview(wired.com)
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by miked 18y ago
>> First, the idea of the virtue of selfishness is that we should question the "virtue of self-sacrifice". Really what she means is "the virtue of self-actualization". Good point. Rand called one of her books _The Virtue of Selfishn
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by miked 18y ago
UPDATE: It gets better and better. Olbermann was actually running a Twitter feed. http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2009/03/29/new-revelations-...
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Olbermann damns Twitter for hosting fake Olbermann site...run by MSNBC(media.nationalreview.com)
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by miked 18y ago
High-level languages are the single most important breakthrough in the history of software engineering. That's because they enable a tremendous compression of meaning . Languages, both natural and artificial, have two purposes: thinking an
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by miked 18y ago
The Social Security and Medicare systems are simply a means of making a younger generation pay for an older generation's retirement, since both of those systems are pay-as-you-go. Obama amd Congress have signed us, and especially young peop
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by miked 18y ago
Deflation didn't bring gas prices down, a decline in economic activity did. A smallish drop there drove a huge drop in oil prices, since auction markets are very sensitive to small changes in supply and demand.
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by miked 18y ago
A good measure of business friendliness is to take a look at how the US Chamber of Commerce ranks the states in this regard. I did a while back. California is dead last. And don't even get me started on the tax rates that are about to explo
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by miked 18y ago
>> It's easier to grow fast if you're a country that has been blown to bits and is putting everything back together, rather than one that's already prosperous. Yup. In 1949 the US had had something like 80% of the world's manufactur
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by miked 18y ago
I enjoy the line and, living next door to Bezerkley, I take the point, but LSD was invented in Switzerland (by Albert Hofmann) and Unix came out of New Jersey.
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by miked 18y ago
It's not just the lost profits to the founders that will hurt. The bigger damage might be that angels and VCs will now have less incentive to invest. That means more startups won't make it.
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Obama "delays" promised elimination of capital gains taxes on start-ups till 2014(business.theatlantic.com)
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by miked 18y ago
As entertainment moves online, shows will no longer be constrained by the 30/60 minute time frame. This should help remove filler and/or add additional useful content. This, in turn, should drive an overall increase in quality, at least at
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by miked 18y ago
Check out Milpitas if you need to save a little money. Great East Asian restaurants and not too far away from the main part of SV.
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by miked 18y ago
I'm afraid that's just the CA state income tax (soon to go up).
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by miked 18y ago
>> But only 13% of savings actually went to the citizens. 87% of that tax money went to coroporations with large tracts of land (agriculture, warehouses, ...). Are you saying that not taking money from people or corps is the same as
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by miked 18y ago
>> $1000 a person isn't even that much - each citizen of the USA would have to pay $35,462.89 to cancel out the country's national debt. This is mixing apples and oranges. The $1,100 deficit is this year's deficit. The US's $35K/p
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by miked 18y ago
>> Now I know the article is just whining from someone who doesn't want to pay taxes. Do you know anyone who does want to pay taxes? Also, when did ad hominem arguments become valid? >> job-killing regulation The US Chambe
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by miked 18y ago
How things change. Not so many years ago SF was a nightmare for single women, thanks to the city's disproportionate number of gay men. I'm guessing things have evened up a lot.
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The Holdren nomination: Obama politicizes science(nytimes.com)
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by miked 18y ago
It's been a while since I read his explanation, but an economist -- I believe it was Tim Harford in _The Undercover Economist_, but it may have been Tyler Cowan -- has already solved this, and with a very different answer. Several factors a
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by miked 18y ago
"Pure" FP languages eliminate state. All programs contain an (implicit or explicit) model of the domain they are computing on. Many aspects of the world (domains) that we need to model are stateful. Our programs, in modeling those domains,
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by miked 18y ago
What on earth would make anyomne think that some ex-J-school student knows enough about this subject to make a judgement. It's the dead tree version of link bait.
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by miked 18y ago
kragen -- Very classy of you to write what you just wrote. My compliments. >> From your post I think I might have offended you but I am not sure how. I was reacting to the fact that your original post contained lots of detailed kno
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by miked 18y ago
>> The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were happening there in the 1960s, and the problems with Chinese educational outcomes included things like "widespread illiteracy" and "professors sent to prison camps because st
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by miked 18y ago
>> The rise of functional programming might not be accelerated by the pain of impedance matching to RDBMSs. Arrrgh! I meant that it might be accelerated by the pain of impedance matching to RDBMSs. Sorry, it was late at night.
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by miked 18y ago
>> Underestimating the amount of work and the cost of failure in maintaining data integrity at the application level - for all but the most simplistic applications you will end up writing a ton of code that replicates what a RDBMS d
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by miked 18y ago
The rise of functional programming might not be accelerated by the pain of impedance matching to RDBMSs. Converting between the relational and OO models of data is a time-consuming pain. If this is widely realized, it could give FP a boost.

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