pjmorris

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by pjmorris 7y ago
> I fear it's going to become more like trying to argue your case against Google for why your YouTube video was taken down without explanation I think that's a perfect analogy. EULAs and other corporate policies are likely just
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by pjmorris 7y ago
'If you are a good leader, Who talks little, They will say, When your work is done, And your aim fulfilled, “We did it ourselves.”' - Lao Tse, quoted in 'Becoming a Technical Leader' I heartily second 'Becoming a Te
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My impression of how slow feedback cycles make for better programmers is that habits of careful thought are developed because the cost of waiting is so high. The following are anecdotes, not data, but consider their sources: "When I le
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I have a theory that dorito powder is the most sophisticated product designed by humankind, as measured by the hours invested in its development by who knows how many scientists and engineers. An OS kernel might have more, but I'm not
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> I don't need a window in my bedroom. Until there's a fire. Some regulations actually make sense.
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If only there were some market-based solution, some way for consumers to compensate providers for their services.
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I agree that monthly payment is the key factor people consider. I think there's more to it than interest rates, though, let me demonstrate: I took a generic mortgage calculator and ran the numbers (30 year mortgage) on your house (firs
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by pjmorris 7y ago
> I'm not optimistic interest rates will rise as inflation stays low. I agree that interest rates are likely to stay low. I find it ironic to think of as inflation as low, given that housing is way out of its historical pricing band
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> Real estate will always be priced at what buyers in an area can afford per month when factoring in home price, mortgage interest, and taxes This was the model that led me to believe there were problems in the housing market in ~2005. W
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by pjmorris 7y ago
The rice cooker is easiest, but there's another scheme: use an abundance of water and cook the rice like spaghetti. I learned the technique from a Lynne Rossetto Kasper cookbook, and it's never failed me.
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Most weeks, I take an hour+ long walk around a lake near my neighborhood, no electronics. I find the time helps surface vital things that don't come up day to day.
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The key for reading HtWFaIP is to understand and practice sincerity. "The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made." - Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux Don't be that person. Cultivating genuine
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This is huge. I'm lucky in that my spouse and I talk regularly about everything from daily logistics to existential meaning. I view learning her (and updating her about me) as more of a habit than an event. I'd say this is also va
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by pjmorris 7y ago
"There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me; The sign was painted, it said private property; But on the back side it didn’t say nothing; That side was made for you and me." - Woody Guthrie, 'This Land is Your L
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Less dubious than I feared. If you prefer: "One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his ax. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars to learn how to navigate. And yet all
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How about “A computer on every desk, and in every home, running Microsoft software.”
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It is one of my favorites as well. It seem apropos.
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“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” - Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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by pjmorris 7y ago
It's an old topic, see, e.g. 'Etudes for Programmers', Charles Wetherell. Code dojos, code katas, code retreats, I suppose I should put together a list.
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"One other lesson needs to be drawn explicitly. A project is not a house of cards which collapses when a single "key" person is removed. At least, it should not be; but often, when management thinks it is, the prophecy become
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by pjmorris 7y ago
For reasons of both bias and curiosity, can you point to your sources for this? Philosophically, even if there is no greater effect than transfer of wealth from young to old, pretty much everyone who is now young will one day be old. "
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by pjmorris 7y ago
It seems likely that US social security is linked with this: "Elderly poverty in the U.S. decreased dramatically during the twentieth century. Between 1960 and 1995, the official poverty rate of those aged 65 and above fell from 35 per
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"The three golden rules to ensure computer security are: do not own a computer; do not power it on; and do not use it" - Robert H. Morris
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> Case-Schiller ignores (among other things) that the size of houses has increased. Not true. From the Case Shiller methodology[0]: The main variable used for index calculation is the price change between two arms-length sales of the sam
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> This precisely shows me you're dishonest. Why pick those categories while ignoring the "agree" one? Because it shows evidence of dissent in the community of economists polled. I am happy to admit all of the specifics int
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I'm sorry to come back to this so late, but I've been otherwise occupied, and I think the topic really matters. I agree with the GP that the bailouts were a success for the banks and an 'ongoing disaster' for many others
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Compare your > 'Taxpayers don't pay interest on Fed assets.' with what I said; 'they pay interest on a loan enabled by that 2T+ expansion' (of Fed assets.) The Fed bought ~1.5-2T of MBS, turning bad loans that wo
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> Taxpayers didn't pay for bailouts. The Fed did. The 2+ Trillion dollar expansion of the Fed balance sheet during the crisis costs taxpayers every day that they pay interest on a loan enabled by that 2T+ expansion. Every house that
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I was living in Florida, working for a Boston-based WebDev/ISP consultancy. Smart people, high-flying projects, free snacks, nerf shenanigans, constant hiring, with bonuses for you-name-it. I'd recently gotten a nice bonus for br
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I know the piece well. Back when, my university used "Oh, Pascal!" to teach introductory programming to programmers. For worse reasons than Kernighan, I never liked that the length of an array was part of the type in Pascal, but,

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