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by mwsherman 10y ago
I don’t think there is a strong case to be made that the CEO matters much here. We’d need to see the counterfactual of what would have happened in her absence. Maybe the same, maybe better, maybe worse. And in any case, there is no reason t
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by mwsherman 10y ago
The best way use case I can think of is to view my own feed anonymously. It’s all public information (whom I follow etc) so I should not need to be auth’d.
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by mwsherman 10y ago
In terms of $$, by far the biggest cost is in the wasted time of the millions of people who are subjected to this. It's obviously in the billions.
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by mwsherman 10y ago
As I mentioned in another comment, the incentives here draw from the protections that derive from several levels of prohibition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11650108
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by mwsherman 10y ago
I don’t think legalization will reduce addiction (though would defer to empirical studies here). It would make the economic cost of addiction lower for the individual – one problem instead of two. More importantly, it would make doctors (an
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by mwsherman 10y ago
The problems derive from the prohibition, which takes several forms. The forms add up for big profits and bad incentives, for which the consumer pays. FDA approval is the first layer of prohibition. Very expensive, this keeps a lot of compe
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Time well spent(clipperhouse.com)
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by mwsherman 10y ago
Nobody moves there anymore, it’s too crowded.
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Meetings are the FizzBuzz of management(blog.stackoverflow.com)
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by mwsherman 10y ago
Cute. Could this be implemented as a compiler optimization for saving allocations?
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by mwsherman 11y ago
Attributing a person’s preferences to identity is just ad hominem. That doesn’t even imply it’s wrong or mean-spirited; it just means that it’s “preferable” to talk about a person’s motives. Very Kahneman.
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by mwsherman 11y ago
Awesome article. The countdown clocks are generally accurate, but in certain situations they are surprisingly off. I would love to see someone use this data to improve arrival predictions – a regression, say, based on features such as time
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Time well spent(clipperhouse.com)
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An Honest Conversation about Ad Blockers with Stack Overflow(adpipes.io)
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by mwsherman 11y ago
Similar to another commenter’s note about Raspberry Pi, this seems like an argument that an well-supported, and ideally open, OS is the way to go for devices. Android comes to mind, even iOS would be unlikely to leave customers in a lurch.
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An Implementation and Analysis of a Kernel Network Stack in Go with CSP Style(arxiv.org)
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by mwsherman 11y ago
It will be a very interesting study for future generations, should we substantially legalize recreational drugs, on all of the follow-on effects. For example, many categories of police activity (raids, traffic stops) will become harder to j
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by mwsherman 11y ago
Bureaucracy of this sort begins with the belief that systems are designed a priori by rules. I am sure that most of the personnel policies that the author alludes to are well-meaning and intuitive. What is out of scope in such rule-making
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Efficient Documentation Using SQL Grammar Diagrams(cockroachlabs.com)
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Lore(clipperhouse.com)
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Principles of null-free programming(clipperhouse.com)
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How Stack Overflow Does Technical Interviews(blog.stackoverflow.com)
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by mwsherman 11y ago
Yes. It’s opposite of what one would do to make housing affordable. Unaffordable housing, especially in cities, is a huge and regressive drag on the economy.
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by mwsherman 11y ago
Yes, a decent amount, I am a fan: https://github.com/clipperhouse/gen
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by mwsherman 11y ago
Maybe, in the sense that Go is designed for the use case of large teams of everyday coders (i.e., not PL enthusiasts). A similar use case to Java, no doubt. That said, Java (and C#, which is where my experience lies) are fundamentally burea
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by mwsherman 11y ago
I don’t see any quotes from users of the service, in this article or in the CNN article. Seems salient.
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by mwsherman 11y ago
Here Comes Everybody.
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by mwsherman 11y ago
Based on Rick’s talks, this is the sort of trade-off choice one deliberately makes. Reduced throughput can be understood as amortized GC.
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by mwsherman 11y ago
Commoditize complements until you run out of complements (for which one shouldn’t hold one’s breath).
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by mwsherman 11y ago
It’s free shipping. I know people don’t like to hear this. The market for mobile “shippers” is more competitive than that in the physical world, in fact. The analogy is not perfect, but if one objects to this then one objects to Amazon or v

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