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by miked 18y ago
There's not a shred of real data about learning outcomes in that article, only subjective opinions from decidedly biased sources. Also, there's no hint of a cost-benefit analysis. Online instruction may not be as good, but it should be much
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by miked 18y ago
Back in the '80s I was the first person in my CS dept to champion the idea of OOP. It wasn't some conspiracy to make money (not a bad thing) selling a fresh set of buzzwords (that would be a bad thing). My views were strongly influenced by
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>> The real problem is that many corporate managements operate with impunity with little oversight by, or accountability to, shareholders. Instead of operating as aggressive watchdogs over management and corporate assets, many board
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by miked 18y ago
>> Wouldn't it be so much easier if there were something cleaner and simpler that would make all the problems and uncertainty go away. "Simple" at what level? The principles underlying evolution are fairly simple, but have resulted
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Google Accused Of Invisibly Deleting Blog Posts On The RIAA's Say-So(techdirt.com)
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Obama during the campaign: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK." Obama now: (from Axelrod) "He's from Hawaii,
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European Union: it is a crime to insult the State or its symbols(chicagoboyz.net)
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Only $26 billion of stimulus bill's $355B would be spent this fiscal year(online.wsj.com)
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by miked 18y ago
>> It is a functional straightjacket like Haskell and Erlang (no side-effects), appealing to functional programmers. Not so. Clojure has three different mechanisms for judicious use of side-effects, including Software Transactional
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by miked 18y ago
Sorry, my bad. Upon carefuly re-reading your original post I can see the point you were actually making, rather than the one I thought you were making. I completely agree that there is nothing special about Lisp-class languages rather than
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by miked 18y ago
>> Why can you build a new language with infix syntax and Greenspun's-tenth-law semantics up from scratch, but not a new Lisp? pg: I'm a big fan, but I think you're a bit off on this one. Costs, risks, and benefits. Costs: with Jav
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by miked 18y ago
Ummm, why is this news? President GW Bush wore a bullet-proof vest to throw out the first pitch at the start of the last baseball season. And many other times, I'm sure. It's just good common sense for a US President to do this.
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by miked 18y ago
I quite agree with Mr. Veldstra, and would add a few things. 1) Clojure isn't always fast, but it's fast enough. 2) When you need more speed, you can always write Java code and then trivially call into it. No need to worry that you'll be tr
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by miked 18y ago
Congratulations on the new baby!
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by miked 18y ago
I'm very surprised by some of the comments here, as I think many of them are missing the key point: NEVER use a sunk cost as a factor in making a decision. What the VC paid for its investment is gone forever. All that is relevant is how the
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by miked 18y ago
Highly recommended read. Pinker's book _The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature_ is one of the greatest books I've ever read. A brave, profound thinker and a wonderful writer.
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Parcelization of fishing areas was used by Turkish fisherman of the Anatolian coast, with dramatic improvements in fishery productivity.
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by miked 18y ago
>> In the United States, Gladwell is sad to report, cap rates are really low owing to poverty, stupidity, and culture. Yes, that would explain why we're one of the wealthiest societies that have ever existed. </sarcasm> As f
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by miked 18y ago
Governments default on their own bonds often enough. Cf. Argentina plus a whole slew of third-world countries. I'll skip the theory and offer a single data point: the employees of the Social Security Administration do not, themselves, use o
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by miked 18y ago
The usefulness of measuring depends on how actionable the measurements are. I think this is one of the big reasons that the startup culture in Europe has never really developed. In most European countries (and US government agencies) it's a
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by miked 18y ago
And in Missouri at least, teachers' unions have made it so that any teacher, no matter how bad, can get a raise just by getting a master's degree or a PhD.
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by miked 18y ago
Spending initiatives like this are why the wife and I are leaving the state early next year. We don't feel like sticking around when the tax bill comes due, which we'd have to do if we bought a house here. Evidently the state's not deeply e
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by miked 18y ago
Hiroshima pictures should be seen, but they should be seen alongside pictures of Philipina nuns being were raped and thrown out of third story windows by Japanese soldiers. Pictures of "The Rape of Nanjing". Oh, and throw in a few pics of U
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by miked 18y ago
Rand doesn't view those of lesser productivity as "evil", assuming they aren't leaching off of others when they could be providing for themselves. She simply viewed them as uninteresting: they aren't the people changing the world. She was a
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by miked 18y ago
"Chinese Students: They work much harder at their studies and exhibit greater patience in problem-solving than their American counterparts thanks to their cultural legacy of long days toiling in rice paddies." Gladwell is a great writer, bu
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by miked 18y ago
Wanting to keep most of what I've worked hard and taken risks to earn --> "selfish". Voting to take most of someone else's money for myself and/or those whose beliefs I approve of, and to call agents of the government to arrest those wh
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by miked 18y ago
Ummm, that's because it was murder. See the (well written) works of the historian Robert Conquest. By the way, when the Soviet archives were opened up during the Yeltsin era, his estimations of the number of Soviet murders turned out to be
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by miked 18y ago
I have to wonder if she specified the resume format and medium. If I ask for a resume as an RTF attachment, I'm not going to get mad at someone who sends a link. I'm just not going to look at it. That said, I've received some truly horrific
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by miked 18y ago
Umm, no. From the Boston Globe: "American workers stay longer in the office, at the factory, or on the farm than their counterparts in Europe and most other rich nations, and they produce more per person over the year. They also get more do
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by miked 18y ago
Statistics, statistics... European Union: 500,000,000 people United States: 304,000,000 people

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