mquander

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   by mquander 17y ago

   In C#, it's basically just idiomatic to produce enumerables that don't have side effects as you enumerate them. There's nothing strictly enforcing it. Like in your Python example, one is expected to put the results of an enumerable into a
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   by mquander 17y ago

   Nor would any of them dump their iPhones for Walkmen, I wager. I wrote about like that kid does when I was 13 years old.
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   by mquander 17y ago

   I think that the Internet sheds an interesting light on the practice of censorship, since for the first time in many people's lifetimes, a new and completely uncensored medium is going through the process of being methodically censored. Peo
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   by mquander 17y ago

   Perhaps professors should just stop accepting "the computer ate my homework" as an excuse to extend a deadline.
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   by mquander 17y ago

   I agree that your premise is important to consider, but I come to the opposite conclusion. I think that if you have the power to push back against unethical practices (because you have the good fortune to have other options available) then
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   by mquander 17y ago

   The taxpayer upside is that there are more electric cars on the road. More efficient and environmentally-friendly technology helps everyone.
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   by mquander 17y ago

   I disagree. Even if your admin tool worked, bad content could still make its way onto your site as long as your site was partially user-contributed. If user clients complained about bad content, you'd have to be on perpetual cleanup duty
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   by mquander 17y ago

   "With all due respect, what are 99 percent of people gaining from a book on, say, convex optimization?" The headline doesn't say "reading list for 99% of people." It says "Highly recommended reading list for those who love to learn." If y
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   by mquander 17y ago

   I think I see what you're saying. By having to make the $20 offer credible, you're engaging in the sort of "marketing" that you wouldn't need to do if the inherent value somehow shone through on its own, right? OK, I agree with that. I wo
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    by mquander 17y ago

    Well, my comment was meant to distinguish between your examples of quality and other metrics of utility. You gave the example of popular singers, and popular singers might not be the "best singers" in the sense of musical quality, but they
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    by mquander 17y ago

    Generally that's true, but the more useful your content is, the less promotion it'll (probably) need.
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    by mquander 17y ago

    I think there's a misunderstanding. When Google says "good content," what they mean is "content that is useful to people," not "content with a high level of artistic or technical quality." Useful in this context might mean "entertaining,
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    by mquander 17y ago

    I don't know about you, but I find it impossible to read that URL without reading "BoingBoing" instead of "BongoBing."