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by prospero 18y ago
Is it really silly? Almost all the code I write day to day is either multi-threaded or event-driven, so the above difference means a very real improvement in my quality of life. The code is simpler, more compact, and easier to understand
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by prospero 18y ago
The C# version would actually be: new Thread(() => Console.WriteLine("I'm in a Thread")).Start();
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by prospero 18y ago
They had 65 employees and $50 million in funding. They were obviously planning on making a little bit more than $5 million a year.
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by prospero 18y ago
I think the idea of a German atomic bomb was an even greater concern for Einstein, and for others. The years leading up to WWII were very, very complicated. It's unrealistic to claim that your hindsight (or anyone's) is 20/20 with respect
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by prospero 18y ago
Little known facts about millenials: * They are younger than the average person reading this article * They know how to use computers * They play well with others, except when they don't * If placed in a well-lit room and given plenty of wa
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by prospero 18y ago
You know what a turtle is?
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by prospero 18y ago
The rhetoric in the article is a little ridiculous, but for a moment let's gloss over his glossed over details: Professional football teams have an extreme financial incentive to accurately predict an athlete's potential. They have a sizab
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by prospero 18y ago
I was responding to the article, not your post. I should have made that clearer, sorry.
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by prospero 18y ago
The problem was not necessarily the home loans themselves, but that these high-risk loans were classified as extremely low-risk by credit rating agencies. The government did not make these classifications, nor did the government force exub
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by prospero 18y ago
I don't think he's claiming to be a humble person, just humble about his role within his own company. It's not necessarily a contradiction for him to claim that he's really good at being a humble boss. If you truly believe you're awesome
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by prospero 18y ago
Do you know who you'll be working for at either job, and who you'll be working with? Are they personable? Are they knowledgeable? Will they be able to look at your work and tell you, in the simplest terms possible, how you fucked up? You
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by prospero 18y ago
Requires username and password?
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by prospero 18y ago
That doesn't parse. You're treating two different types of majorities as the same thing. It's fairly common that bills will be voted on down party lines, which means all Republicans vote one way, and all Democrats vote another. The standar
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by prospero 18y ago
40% of Democrats opposed the original bailout package, compared to 66% of Republicans. That's a difference to be sure, but the vote was obviously not down party lines. Furthermore, Bush was a strong supporter of both packages, and was voca
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by prospero 18y ago
Twitter offers a potentially superior signal to noise ratio than blog content Does anyone agree with this? I don't think brevity implies a greater density of information; often it means there's none at all. There's no context to real-tim
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by prospero 18y ago
As the company's only technical hire, there's an expectation that he would be exceptional regardless of his age. There's also a question of how much he has to offer to the founders, and how much the founders have to offer him. If these two
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by prospero 18y ago
Rand's vilification of people who disagree with her is irritating, but what's more troublesome is the victim mentality that goes along with it. Inevitably the protagonist (who is handsome, smart, determined, and surprisingly domineering in
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by prospero 18y ago
True, but Rand's philosophy deals entirely in absolutes, and is resistant to reconciliation with any other philosophy. Any golden mean approach need not apply. So, yes, it's a silly word, but by that same measure Objectivism is a silly phil
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by prospero 18y ago
I like dynamic languages too, and often wish C# was looser in its typing (or at least less verbose in its typecasting). If it were practical to use Ruby/C to do my job, I probably would. That being said, C# is a huge step above C++, at lea
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by prospero 18y ago
I write Windows applications. C# has Win32 bindings that are vastly superior to anything else out there. There are tools designed to let me leverage these capabilities that are much more polished than the comparable tools for Python, Ruby
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by prospero 18y ago
If you have a small, well-scoped application, like your RSS daemon, C++ is going to be best of breed in most cases. Similarly, if performance is your absolute primary concern, there's nothing out there that can compete. For most desktop so
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by prospero 18y ago
I honestly can't tell if this is satire. Does your universe of programming languages seriously consist of just C++ and Java? I'm glad that coding in C++ makes you feel like more of a man, but Java's not the only competition. C++ and Java
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by prospero 18y ago
Not always, no. Government rationing during WWII, for instance. You might want to broaden your horizons a bit, economically speaking. A capitalist with socialist leanings is nowhere near a Marxist, and you make yourself sound ridiculous
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by prospero 18y ago
Marx believed that the government should distribute goods, not money. Don't be silly.
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by prospero 18y ago
I think Wikipedia is a successful collaborative site because there's much less room for people to argue over simple, declarative text than any other medium (though of course they do argue, all the time). The arguments that could be raised
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by prospero 18y ago
Facebook's social graph only describes my life if I use it as my primary medium of communication. Network effect aside, the value it holds for me in my day-to-day life drops off exponentially the less I use it. Either online interaction w
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by prospero 18y ago
You're talking about making a conventional device in an unconventional way. I'm talking about making something completely new. Historically, groundbreaking scientific work has been done by one or a few extraordinary individuals (Einstein,
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by prospero 18y ago
Wikipedia et al. work because they can be divided into a bunch of little orthogonal fiefdoms for a bunch of internet tinpot dictators. It's accretion, not collaboration. You can't crowd-source a rocket to the moon.
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by prospero 18y ago
You can turn eyeballs into money, but it helps if they're the right eyeballs. The less discriminate you are in who you target, the less you understand your audience, and the less money you'll make per visitor. For some websites, this value
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by prospero 18y ago
At the bottom it says that these figures don't include the costs for the day-to-day expenses of Iraq or Afghanistan. Those costs, if my cursory Google search is to be believed, are around $9 billion a month. All told, that's about $600 bi

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