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by neilk 13y ago
Those are good points. I should have clarified, I meant a naive interpretation of free market theory. I'm only a dabbler when it comes to economics, but I think the field of the "theory of the firm" is interesting. And one of
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by neilk 13y ago
The argument has an emotional resonance, but does it really make sense? It's not like working for big employers (and entrusting Wall Street with one's retirement) worked out really well in the past decade either. Every company is
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by neilk 13y ago
Postgres is getting there, with JSON columns. You can do hstore if you like key-value, or mix it with plain old SQL tables. This combination works well for me.
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by neilk 13y ago
> the alleged victim is ... not a very sympathetic character > does little to help set an example for why the real instances of harassment are so wrong and terrible. Ah, but this is why most victims don't go public. Very few of u
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by neilk 13y ago
Adding to what SEMW said: for all we know, this story could be pure fiction, written by the Preston-Warners themselves, or someone else with a strong incentive to do so. The fact that this story helps everything "make sense" is no
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by neilk 13y ago
Anonymous allegations are worthless unless other Githubbers can confirm this.
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by neilk 13y ago
Everyone thinks the message of that movie is "all truth is subjective", but it's not. It's more like "the stories we tell ourselves and others are distorted by our self-image and our interests". At the end, the
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by neilk 13y ago
Threadable (YC W14) is working on the mailing list problem. http://threadable.com/ They have a walkthrough video here. http://vimeo.com/90926057 Stay with it till the end; it looks like any other forum sof
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by neilk 13y ago
The OP's design for it is much nicer. Navigation popups have been around since 2005, and while in some ways better than the OP's design (pictures!) this is useful enough to test it as default behavior. Hover doesn't work on m
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by neilk 13y ago
It may not have been any better for her if she joined. A friend of mine was an evangelist of a startup, acquired by Google for their technology. She was humiliated by having to essentially re-apply for her job and be ejected a few months la
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by neilk 13y ago
Whether or not these points have merit, this media pundit is only replying to other media pundits. Some important nuances are being lost. If there is a way to make this sad story even sadder, it's turning it into a political football.
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by neilk 13y ago
It's a nice idea but I think it would be a little too burdensome for every single email. Maybe if the mail was going out to >N people where N is configurable by the organization. I think one of the reasons why no one's ever don
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by neilk 13y ago
> It sounds arrogant Well, yes and no. You're probably right that you have some unique skills. But the curse of the founder is that you can't separate yourself, and how you do things, from the job. There are probably other ways
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by neilk 13y ago
Given what Couple.me does, I expect the AI will just be other users of the appropriate orientation. Maybe slightly more poignant than the average April fool's joke.
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by neilk 13y ago
Thanks. > I know nobody here likes to hear it, For what it's worth, I do like to hear it! I have a very small amount of Bitcoin but just for fun, really. That said, I'm not sure that "machine to machine payments" is a
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by neilk 13y ago
Tangential question: could this, paradoxically, make Bitcoin a better medium of exchange, even if it becomes a bad speculative investment? Since the IRS is now imposing a capital gains tax, that penalizes speculators. One of the issues with
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Are "acquired for $X" statements related to reality?
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by neilk 13y ago
Okay I reread this and I don't know how I missed the second section. I assume you didn't add that later. Sorry I am jet-lagged. Revising comment.
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by neilk 13y ago
> typeclasses? Fixed. Thanks. I agree with you about Haskell. I almost went into a discussion of how Rust does this. They don't have subtypes, but they do have code reuse if you explicitly declare it. Caution, I'm just an admir
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by neilk 13y ago
You're correct that adding interfaces to JavaScript would also require adding optional type declarations. But there are lots of languages based on JavaScript, or which compile to JavaScript, which offer optional type declarations. It s
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by neilk 13y ago
[edited because apparently I can't read; kenjackson did mention interfaces] I think it's still a bad idea - as you note, isa is available without necessarily having inheritance; we know inheritance is dangerous, so why include tha
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by neilk 13y ago
A good idea but race conditions could still cause both comments to be posted. Maybe if we decide the user can't do that reliably, we cod just let that case slide.
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by neilk 13y ago
Fair point but sometimes people don't want their real identity known. Either as a matter of policy or because they are using a throwaway to discuss something sensitive.
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by neilk 13y ago
What I like about Threadable is that it's both obvious and contrarian. Startup people usually turn their noses up at mere email. Not sexy enough. Except, everyone relies on email, and everyone hates their tools for managing it.
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by neilk 13y ago
The question the article is trying to answer is not whether Newsweek was wrong - everybody knows they are wrong, now. The question the article is interested in, is whether they should have known that they were wrong, before publishing. I th
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by neilk 13y ago
You have a point. Innovation ends when one company achieves success. Ok, let's assume SoundSlice never adds any feature that Guitar Pro doesn't have already, never goes after a different market, never interacts with customers diff
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Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo(mail-archive.com)
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by neilk 13y ago
I would like to point out that this is more awesome than it even looks. Try selecting a portion of the song, in the usual way with your cursor.
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by neilk 13y ago
The other day I saw two identical items next to each other and thought "right-arrow".
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by neilk 13y ago
A friend of mine owns a house a few blocks from Facebook. She has had to stay in her house due to shootings and police manhunts several times over the past few years. The problem is real and I don't blame Facebook for being concerned.

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