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by procrastitron 19y ago
Why would demand be static? Do you really think that demand for marketing doesn't increase? That would require having only a fixed number of people wanting to sell, and for them to only be willing to sell to a fixed number of customers.
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by procrastitron 19y ago
In the mid 90's MTV did a salary survey of moderately successful bands and found that the average yearly salary was about 30k, putting it in the range of an entry level office job. These weren't the biggest names in music, but they were def
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by procrastitron 19y ago
Interesting. If I were them I'd move to a state that didn't have a state capital gains tax before cashing out. Then again, I guess when you cash out 3.7 billion dollars in a single year, 380 million seems like pocket change.
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by procrastitron 19y ago
The market seems to have already agreed that artist exposure is a fair return for online postings. I don't think the author appreciates how valuable that world-wide, democratic exposure is. The artists may not receive any direct revenue fro
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by procrastitron 19y ago
I think the problems with both readers is a symptom of the respective companies loosing focus on their target markets. These specific products are trying to satisfy too many industries at once. Instead of trying to address publishers, distr
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by procrastitron 19y ago
I don't know why I didn't think to mention this before, but there are HR outsourcing companies that will let you set up a co-employment agreement with them. Basically, these companies get tens of thousands of small businesses together, and
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by procrastitron 19y ago
Remember, creative activities can be their own reward. In those cases profitability pretty much goes out the window. For instance, my current side project is based on my personal interests and probably could not make for a successful busine
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by procrastitron 19y ago
Related projects for other languages: Scheme: http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/05-saint-mleux.pdf Haskell: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~mfn/reduceron/
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A compiler from Higher Order Logic to hardware (with a detailed survey of the field)(cl.cam.ac.uk)
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by procrastitron 19y ago
"they shouldn't exist at all." I think this version works much better.
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by procrastitron 19y ago
That comment doesn't pick up on how much of an impact the low quality of the data has on the outcomes. For instance the commentator points out that there should be a larger difference between the average IQ's of Hong Kong and mainland China
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by procrastitron 19y ago
Well, I haven't read the book, but the article that you point to seems to indicate that "A Farewell to Alms" actually makes the opposite point: 'What was being inherited, in his view, was not greater intelligence — being a hunter in a forag
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by procrastitron 19y ago
The entire book is bogus. About 1/3 of the wikipedia article is dedicated to the criticisms of the book, and they seem pretty damning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations#Cr...
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by procrastitron 19y ago
Actually, for systems programming (kernels and languages) I would want a language with a strong (preferably static) type system.
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by procrastitron 19y ago
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/142699#633354 Yeah, it does seem pretty trivial. Granted, I would probably find it extremely useful (if I used ruby), but it doesn't seem to complicate the language to the point of needing to be delayed unt
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by procrastitron 19y ago
Congress tried to make serving in a foreign military cause you to loose your citizenship, but that was struck down by the supreme court. The actual case where it was struck down involved a guy with dual US/Israeli citizenship voting in Isra
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by procrastitron 19y ago
You have it backwards, actually. Python is strongly typed and C++ is weakly typed. You probably meant dynamically/statically typed.
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by procrastitron 19y ago
That's not a troll, that's a challenge. One that someone should take up. Not me, though... I'm too busy :-(
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by procrastitron 19y ago
Actually, if the JUMP instruction allows an indirect address, then it is already Turing-complete. I know X86 treats indirect jumps as a separate instruction, but it's not hard to imagine an assembly language where the two use the same instr
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by procrastitron 19y ago
I think it's more like having to fit your program within a 512 byte sector.
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by procrastitron 19y ago
The way I look at it now is that a hacker is the dual of an engineer. An engineer first makes sure that something is correct, then tries to build it. A hacker first builds something, then tries to make sure it is correct.
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by procrastitron 19y ago
I'm not familiar with the arguments against using eval. Can you enlighten me as to why it would be a bad practice?
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by procrastitron 19y ago
I never had the pleasure to use one, but one of my professors in college said that when the old Lisp Machines started garbage collection you just went home for the day. Of course, even that was still more productive than using the competing