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by pnathan 10y ago
This vote had a bad result, and the Rs were pushing the bad thing. But a bit of puttering around older newspaper articles reveals the Democrats have also done their fair share of problematic votes here. Obama's Administration was not
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by pnathan 10y ago
This is definitely something worth pushing for, if you're an American. Figuring out how to shift our system into one where viable third parties can play ball would be frigging grand . I'd like to see the GOP split into the 2-3 pa
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by pnathan 10y ago
third party voters can wind up choosing which of the two parties win. in 2016, they gave Trump the win, because they equated him and the Republicans with Hillary in terms of deleterious effects.
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by pnathan 10y ago
Yeah, I need to examine a bit more of the situation with local-projects. I reject ~/common-lisp because I have my own directory structure, thanks. If I can symlink farm under ~/common-lisp, then what's the difference? :) (and
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by pnathan 10y ago
The CL community tends to expect you to read the source. You're not just a user , you're a programmer too - and quite possibly of the library you want to use. It's an interesting dynamic, very alien to modern computing mod
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by pnathan 10y ago
Yes. Clojure often feels like a skin over Java; an ergonomic library. Most visibly this is manifested in stack traces. Clojure also wants to compile files, rather than read them. There are good ideas in Clojure, but they lie around the pa
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by pnathan 10y ago
nit: The previous president could certainly have done this, but chose not to. obscures the reality that the opposition party - and its grassroots supporters was ruthless in opposing all that Obama did, often for no apparent reason. For in
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by pnathan 10y ago
I have consistently found rms to be the most prescient tech voice. A lone prophet, if you will. He always bears careful thought in his vision of where tech and politics will play out - even if you disagree with him.
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by pnathan 10y ago
The Democrats also have policies that are... poor, particularly around the internet. This is a cross-party problem.
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by pnathan 10y ago
This, right here, is the consequence of the withdrawal from politics many geeks advocated very strongly in an earlier time. "Everything is corrupt, it doesn't matter"... turns out to only be a viable philosophy when things m
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by pnathan 10y ago
Yeah, I recall using it a bit more now. The personal edition is really a trial edition, it's not a 'low budget low features' edition, which is what I was thinking when I originally was fooling with it back then. (These days I
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by pnathan 10y ago
Ah, interesting! I don't remember reading that when I wrote it. I'll go back and correct it after my current project wraps up (but PRs are also accepted!).
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by pnathan 10y ago
Really! Do you use it? Would you feel comfortable submitting a PR explaining how to set it up? I HATE recommending emacs as the IDE for Common Lisp if it's not something people are comfortable with already.
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by pnathan 10y ago
Hmmm. I tried to convey the idea, without getting too bogged down in the details that don't per se matter on Day 1. I would be interested in any PRs you have to clarify the matter adequately for people just starting out.
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by pnathan 10y ago
Yes, send in PRs if things significantly change! It's a stable ecosystem, but things do improve over time. Things like examples would be quite useful.
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by pnathan 10y ago
It's a seamless dynamic programming language, which can, with care, be given excellent performance and a high level of abstraction. In my opinion, it's miles better than the other dynamic languages out there, by nearly every fac
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by pnathan 10y ago
Hi, HN! I made this! Ask me any questions you like. I'll try to respond as the workday progresses and I wait for deploys to complete! paul@nathan.house if you want to email me instead. (or @p_nathan on Twitter, if that's your thi
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by pnathan 10y ago
I wrapped up my BS in 2006. A variety of people teaching underclass courses as the instructor of record were people with Master's degrees. A couple were ABD. I would hesitate to say that older profs were better; it seemed bimodal: eith
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by pnathan 10y ago
I generally found the professors with a PhD to be more engaged, driven, and generally capable than those without. just my 2c. I would guess that the internal qualities that drove them to seek the phd were the ones that made me prefer them.
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by pnathan 10y ago
No. While one or two data points may be fuzzy, and it's the case that Amazon gives teams a lot of leeway in culture definition, it's wholly internally consistent with the quiet conversations you get with people in Seattle.
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by pnathan 10y ago
Generally, HN is bullish on Amazon, with the usual bear crowd. IMO: Amazon has not turned the screws in ways that are causing signficant complaint. I would guess, based on the usual history of duchies, founders, etc, when Bezos starts check
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by pnathan 10y ago
I would be super interested to know how Foreign Policy, the Economist, the New Yorker, and other more longform / semispecialist systems are doing. My overall impression is that they are chugging along: it's the mass media which
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by pnathan 10y ago
Anytime I do anything around appliance shopping, the ability to get information about what is actually quality is near zero. It's SEO'd, spammed, paid-reviewed, and marketed into the ground. Mattresses are similar, but fortunate
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by pnathan 10y ago
> Rural America. The United States has many rural areas. Seventy-two percent of United States' land area belongs to rural counties, but in 2014, just 46.2 million Americans (roughly 15% of the population of the country at the time)
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by pnathan 10y ago
The thing to do is move. That is what my friends who have made it did. That is what my family did. That is what my in-laws did, and their parents did. That is what I did. We have phenomenal ways to keep our connection with friends and famil
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by pnathan 10y ago
That is how I was raised as well: move to where the jobs are. Don't self limit.
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by pnathan 10y ago
> Honestly a bit disturbing to see people coming out of the wood works to defend palantir. It was a very sexy startup a while back. And success breeds friends.
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by pnathan 10y ago
Yeah, those are sibling ideas, I think.
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by pnathan 10y ago
They are the best lyrics site on the net, period. The annotations are... not always that great. The annotations that journalists do on speeches can be super useful. But in general... I'd like to have a portable system to annotate PDFs
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by pnathan 10y ago
Huh. Didn't know this had died out; guess I'd never thought about it when I was learning German back in college. But, then.... > What is withheld is the information on the meanings of words, phrases, and sentences the students

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