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by osullivj 6y ago
"In science it is rather more important to find out the right answer than to identify an answer that will fit one’s currently ruling paradigm." Which is why "consistency is the virtue of a narrow mind". And why debugging
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Quine: "no entity without identity" & "to be is to be the value of a bound variable". IMHO the neatest summation of a rigorous approach to the interface between mathmatical logic and ontology. That's why "Q
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by osullivj 6y ago
The article mentions the popularity of Marion Richardson in the Midlands and South. I was taught handwriting at primary in Derbyshire (Midlands) in the early to mid 70s, and can clearly remember the looping exercises, and that the method us
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by osullivj 6y ago
Yes, there are families in Florence, England and other European countries and cities who have enjoyed unbroken dynastic wealth over several hundreds of years. But this doesn't prove that Europe is more or less equal than the US. The US
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by osullivj 6y ago
Sounds like you're talking about corporate environments, where the people using the software aren't the same folk as those paying for it.
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by osullivj 6y ago
Neal Stephenson's System of the World trilogy has a lot to say on Newton's alchemical investigations.
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by osullivj 6y ago
Maradona scored against England, not Britain. In athletics the UK competes as one nation: GB. In football the four UK nations compete separately; England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland. IIRC this is FIFA recognition of the British origi
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by osullivj 6y ago
Wonderful movie - one of my all time faves. It's based on Carl Sagan's book of the same name, which is also excellent.
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by osullivj 6y ago
Charles Ferguson's book - No Prisoners - is a great read on the first wave of VC funded internet innovation.
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by osullivj 6y ago
Agree: Against Method is a great work, and the argument for "anything goes" is compelling. IMHO the core argument can be used to dismiss software dev methodologies too. I recommend Feyerabend's Farewell to Reason as well.
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by osullivj 6y ago
If we accept Popper's falsification, one of the characteristics that distinguishes real science from psuedo science is the making of falsifiable predictions. Turchin's Cliodynamics reminds me of Elliot Waves, and other technical (
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by osullivj 6y ago
Tudor England was a nasty place. Henry VIII and Liz I were murderous despots persecuting Catholics and pursuing genocide in Ireland. Suspect Bannock likes that 'directly approach to opponents.
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by osullivj 6y ago
"The craft approach has survived because building software systems has been a sellers market, customers have paid what it takes because the potential benefits have been so much greater than the costs." Gotta disagree here. SW dev
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And the converse. IT depts at banks want to exterminate Excel solutions as they're perceived as unsupportable. But on trading floors traders are the boss, so Excel will never be decommed.
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by osullivj 6y ago
In my experience D: Fast turn-around also applies to software dev. Traders get frustrated waiting for IT to deliver new features and systems, so hack up a solution in the closest available tool - Excel.
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by osullivj 6y ago
I've used the NHS and the parallel private system in the UK. With private medicine everything happens quicker: initial consultation, treatment, operation etc. Inpatients tend to get private rooms, with a food menu, and routine meds lik
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by osullivj 6y ago
Fascinating. I knew Wittgenstein taught primary in the 20s, but never connected that with all the later Philosophical Investigations about language as a game, forms of life, intersubjectivity. Looks like that connection has been the object
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Ask HN: Production Win32 MFC Systems?
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by osullivj 6y ago
Good to see Worcestershire mentioned. To be more specific, it's the Malvern Hills in West Worcs, on the Herefordshire border [1]. CS Lewis [2], Elgar [3] and Evelyn Waugh [4] were also inspired by the Malverns. Worcestershire is a slee
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by osullivj 6y ago
Mount Athos has special autonomous status within the Greek Republic; the Orthodox equivalent of Vatican City for the Catholic world.
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by osullivj 6y ago
No good deed goes unpunished!
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by osullivj 7y ago
Two stack pointers, one for call/return, the other for push pop data.
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by osullivj 7y ago
GrandView: a note taking outliner.
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by osullivj 7y ago
Yes - "bourgeois" manners were rejected as affectation.
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by osullivj 7y ago
Certainly delivery was commonplace in the UK by the late 90s. It was unusual in the late 80s. Douglas Adam's first Dirk Gently novel (1987) has an American character who complains frequently about the lack of delivery pizza in London.
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by osullivj 7y ago
Kinda like single thread async vs thread pooling...
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by osullivj 7y ago
Columbus Circle in NYC, on the corner of the park [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Circle
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by osullivj 7y ago
His insistence that there is no scientific method is pro-science. Science’s only method is “opportunism,” he said. “You need a toolbox full of different kinds of tools. Not only a hammer and pins and nothing else." This is what he mean
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by osullivj 7y ago
Maybe in the US, but that wouldn't be permitted in the UK.
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by osullivj 7y ago
Sell side are selling liquidity, they're like car dealers who stand ready to buy or sell any financial instrument with buy side firms. As well as the buy side firms listed by tomp above there are also what we call "real money&quot

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