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by pbourke 16y ago
You almost always need to have a client object observe the state of an instance - clients need to marshall it for the network or log some information about it, etc. So getters make sense. It's a problem when people assume that getters and s
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by pbourke 16y ago
I strongly suspect there's a 'Ballmer Peak' involved in billiards. http://xkcd.com/323/
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by pbourke 16y ago
I don't believe that there's some natural conservation of credit/recognition. I think this would be a function of the promotion/performance evaluation process and general company culture.
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by pbourke 16y ago
> I've really come to dislike dualisms in politics, because the abstraction is always leaky. Anarchism is still a collectivist political philosophy, though it does focus a lot on the individual. Agreed - I have no trouble with "here are
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by pbourke 16y ago
I'm also not an expert on Somalia - thanks for pointing out that paper. > All anarchists recognize that there needs to be significant social change before anarchism could happen I would go further and point out that there needs to be si
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by pbourke 16y ago
this was downvoted, but it is true. Look at Somalia.
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by pbourke 16y ago
As a programmer, I would be more interested in working with a non-technical founder who has these skills: - domain experience - a good network in the target market / sales leads - ability to manage customer relationships and close s
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by pbourke 16y ago
William Bernstein's "A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World" is also quite interesting. It correlates social and technological development with increased trade by examining various societies throughout history. http://amzn.com/080
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by pbourke 16y ago
This is a fun hack. Strangest path that I've found so far: Sitar -> Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -> Adolf Hitler
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by pbourke 16y ago
S3/AWS multi-factor authentication, in combination with bucket versioning, ensures that if you can keep a redundant offsite record of your key and version information, you can always retrieve your data. An attacker requires your key fob to