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by phillmv 15y ago
The issue comes down to economics. Parked domains are an investment, and I suspect this is the kind of business that is only profitable on the long tail - you only flip some exceedingly small percentage of your total inventory on a given ye
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by phillmv 15y ago
You're right and you're wrong. I think the delta in progressivism in each society is merely correlated with regressive VATs. Being largely unable to implement the same degree of redistribution (remember also that income taxes are higher in
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by phillmv 15y ago
Think about it. I have a limited time on earth, yet I chose to spend it with you . Cuddling on this couch. Watching a movie. I think by the finite nature of our existence it imparts a little bit of significance to any sacrifice we might ma
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by phillmv 15y ago
Not interested. I really don't give a shit if my ego continues to survive forever. I only care about this particular instantiation because under my (to be frank, likely to be flawed) interpretation this is the only "I" I ever perceive. Th
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by phillmv 15y ago
I read the Forbes article and shared it amongst friends. I wasn't even aware it was originally a NYT piece; I thought it was original to Forbes. If you find yourself paginating your summary, you're definitely acting in bad faith.
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by phillmv 15y ago
I don't know. We clearly won't be defeating death in our lifetimes (and frankly, I'm not sure I would want to live forever stuck in my 80 year old body). Not only is death necessary for new generations, it kind of gives meaning to the time
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by phillmv 15y ago
>Imagine if by default, all software most users install on their Macs will be traceable to a real entity - be it a person or company. No, sir, I do not like it.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Please do! And link to the rest of your research :)! I'm just talking from my own (very) limited personal experience, though, and the Greg Wilson video I linked to (albeit it's been two years since I last watched it).
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by phillmv 15y ago
Well… it depends on the paper! Some stuff might need more than a single course of background to fully understand. For more rudimentary papers, any undergrad course on discrete mathematics should get you started. I personally was forced to r
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by phillmv 15y ago
That's pretty much it. I got a nice piece of paper, but it's not like my day to day job involves much of what I learned during school.
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by phillmv 15y ago
To be fair, I didn't take offense to "self-taught computer scientist". I took offense to " every self-taught computer scientist". I'll be the first to admit that university is bullshit and mostly acts as a social signifier. Like I mentione
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by phillmv 15y ago
Speaking as an actually credentialed computer scientist, this list is ridiculous. First and for all, only one of these books is actually about theoretical computer science, and even then. Secondly, (feel free to disagree on this one) K&
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by phillmv 15y ago
>I think the README convention that github has helped push out there is doing more to get people using each other's codes than any amount of variable naming. Well… the README file is an ancient convention that probably stretches all the
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by phillmv 15y ago
Yeah, but you should still have meaningful variable names. Let's be honest here, very few people practice a good literate style.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Frankly, it's quite immature and it's the sort of thing that belongs on http://programmersbeingdicks.tumblr.com/
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by phillmv 15y ago
Yeah. On the one hand, it's basically an enormous usability win. I don't want to manually manage all of my security updates. On the other it's a little hard to let go of the fact that I no longer control all of the software on my own disk
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by phillmv 15y ago
Yes. Or at least, I would still use bootstrap even if I had to throw out all of the js.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Whenever I find myself thinking that I'm the smartest person in the room I like to take a deep breath and look around me more carefully. Always a poor assumption to make, in my experience.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Beanstream and Adaptive Payments here. Man, I dislike PayPal.
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by phillmv 15y ago
We spent a not unsubstantial amount of time moaning about our inability to use you guys here in Canada, if that's any comfort.
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by phillmv 15y ago
… Which is why Buffet also says he doesn't like currency denominated assets.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Right. I tried to caveat myself, for I forgot the exact reason I wasn't supposed to like it. Institutionally, we seem adverse to any sort of intervention that does not go through a banking intermediary.
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by phillmv 15y ago
Tomfoolery. >According to many people in favor of higher taxes, quantitative easing has no ill effects. Why don't they just ease $5B into existence? It increases inflation. Right now, it's better to have more people employed/have the ec
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by phillmv 15y ago
It doesn't matter in the real world. I'm pretty sure no one even bothers checking if javascript is disabled. I know you can't access Facebook without it (or at least with Lynx); doesn't that exclude basically every web app?
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by phillmv 15y ago
Things aren't as cut and dry with legal traditions. I'm sure there are tons of scraps of legal language that remain in use only because it's traditional and few people know any better. Like some kind of legal shibboleth. Like coderdude said
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by phillmv 15y ago
Eeeeeh, I think it's one of those executive privilege things. 1) If he's already flying domestically and first class, that shaves what? An hour? Please. 2) The company doesn't have to charter a jet to fly friends and family. So… let's just
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by phillmv 15y ago
Sure. It's still absurd to deny them entry. Rude white kids from England aren't exactly a threat, and a cursory glance at their background would probably confirm that.
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by phillmv 15y ago
I don't follow the js world super closely. What would you say were the first two (rich client/single page framework) gens?
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by phillmv 15y ago
The only valid reason I can think of is minimizing PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE from your customer service spam filter.
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by phillmv 15y ago
No, no, those are todo list apps. Besides, we're still in the first to second generation of js rich client frameworks. All this crazy amount of experimentation is great ; it'll settle down more towards the fourth to fifth generation.

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