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by qohen 13y ago
There's lots more to be said about the late 80s collapse of AI (ES) applications and expectations On that subject, Richard Gabriel [1] writes about his experiences as a founder of Lucid, which produced Common Lisp for regular Unix wo
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FYI, that article got criticized on HN pretty heavily not ago for not doing things in the 'modern Perl' style: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7220167
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In 1989 Anthony Daniels, aka Theodore Dalrymple, went to one of these department stores and describes how even the shoppers in the store were fake -- here's an excerpt (more at the link [1]): It didn’t take long to discover that thi
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by qohen 13y ago
where the very same M-CAM dude claimed there was a "patent on toast". This comes pretty close no? "Bread refreshing method" (US 6080436 A). http://www.google.com/patents/US6080436 Abstract A meth
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by qohen 13y ago
Mark Jason Dominus is a Perl guru -- it would probably be a surprise to see him write it in anything other than Perl; among other things, he wrote the book, "Higher Order Perl", which is basically SICP for Perl or, as he describes
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Here you go -- a classic post by Hacker News heartthrob Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby, "7 Reasons I Switched Back to PHP": http://sivers.org/rails2php I threw away 2 years of Rails code, and opened a new empty
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I don't know how serious it is, but it appears that Japan has been looking into it too: From Oct. 2013: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-10/02/japan-solar-e... From Apr. 2009: http:/&#
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And, after you've watched the original, check out "Erlang The Movie II: The Sequel", by Garrett Smith (aka gar1t): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ (You are likely familiar with one of gar1t's
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by qohen 13y ago
I know charities have to use modern marketing, but that left a sour taste when I found out about it. Amusingly, this exact issue, of Heifer International putting money into a common fund vs. buying a water buffalo as expected, led Philip
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I really want someone to tell the story about the one time ...it turned out to be legit. In that vein: http://xkcd.com/570/ (and do hover for the alt-text)
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And because there isn't much money to be made in it, you really can't make it scale on the back of its own business-model. So there's really nothing a startup can do to help with these problems. Well, there are outfits like
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And there are programs like that, focusing on getting people housed first, as people finally realize that this could be more helpful than shelters, etc.: http://santacruz.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p&#
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Estella's Brilliant Bus: tour bus becomes mobile computer center for the poor(cnn.com)
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For context, Michael Lewis' Vanity Fair post-mortem on this case is worth reading -- he got a bunch of Wall Street programmers to interrogate Aleynikov to determine what a "jury" of his peers thought of his actions. http:&#x
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Government NEVER EVER gets it right. While this too often seems to be true, I happened to see this the other day, which describes a few federal IT systems that apparently were implemented well: http://www.volokh.com/2013&#
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Also, if you want to go through a few self-paced labs, instead of docs, Amazon is partnered with an outfit, Cloud vLab, that has a platform for self-paced labs called qwikLAB. They have 3 AWS-related labs, each one requiring the purchase of
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Amazon's AWS docs: http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/ And +1 for Eric Hammond's AWS blog, which you can find here: http://alestic.com/
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Link for convenience: http://www.dosarrest.com/ BTW, does anyone know how what their prices are like? (Their site doesn't have seem to have pricing info, just "Get a Free Quote" forms.)
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Feds Use Fake Mexican Constitution Article To Deport US Citizens For 35 Years(techdirt.com)
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he was a interesting blogger while running ArsDigita He still is: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/ (BTW, if memory serves, back then he didn't have an actual blog, per se, but posted essays occasionally such
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Available for free download or reading online at Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4600 Or, if you prefer, here's the tl;dr version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hazard_of_
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It's interesting that in Jun 2012, voters might've voted differently if asked again [1]: In fact, some of the highest resistance to the high-speed rail project that would run from L.A. to the Bay Area comes from Angelenos, accord
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But why would lots more people start going from LA to SF or on any of the other routes? As a comment to your previous comment below asks[1], what would the economic gain be? There might be a bit more interaction between LA's entertainm
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I'm not so sure it's a side-issue, in that the northeast corridor train routes don't just allow people in, say, NY to go to Washington, but also people in Philadelphia and Baltimore to go there as well, since those cities are
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The main cost of CAHSR will be the opportunity cost of not having built it. I wonder: this is from an LA Weekly article from 2011 -- I remember it being an eye-opener when I read it back then [1]: The authority had projected that 41 mill
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From the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2006: WHO gives indoor use of DDT a clean bill of health for controlling malaria http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2006/pr50/en/ "
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Forgive my pedantry, but: dangerous as it is, Brownsville is not a city, but rather a neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownsville,_Brooklyn
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From the article: Experts call the nutrient shortage a public-health crisis and a national emergency—and are astounded that the government and manufacturers have let the situation become so dire. “Children are dying,” says Steve Plogsted,
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Shortages forcing US hospitals to ration essential nutrients, even for preemies(washingtonian.com)
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Github found git-flow wasn't suitable given that they do CI and developed their own method of using git, Github Flow: http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html A different article on a CI-based

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