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by rauljara 14y ago
"Psychologists describe depression as anger turned inward." Correction: Freud described depression as anger turned inwards. Specifically, he described anger at external forces (your mother, etc.) turned inwards. In his view, the only way t
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by rauljara 14y ago
From the article: "You can completely implement data abstraction, encapsulation, messaging, modularity, polymorphism and (to a limited extent) inheritance without using an object structure." So the author agrees with you. So please, no "No
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by rauljara 14y ago
> Aren't we all pretty keenly aware of the memes and absurdities that crowd the startup industry? Or, another way of putting it, 'Hasn't everyone on Hacker news been exposed to the same articles/knowledge/humor I have been exposed to?'
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by rauljara 14y ago
The original content recycler I found this link from has more insightful commentary than I could ever muster: http://www.avclub.com/articles/here-allow-science-to-ruin-ba...
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Trajectory of a falling batman(physics.le.ac.uk)
4 points by rauljara 14y ago|1 comments
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by rauljara 14y ago
>>I can't stop to think about the right semantics about what I want to do After the initial learning process, you don't think about the right semantics of what you want to do. Learning vim's normal mode really is very analogous to
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by rauljara 14y ago
Everyone dies eventually. The deaths that would have been from whatever is no longer killing us are being taken over by something else that still does. Or, another way to look at it: we are living long enough now that we have a much better
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by rauljara 14y ago
I know different people can take away different feelings, but for me, it's complicated is the opposite of a cop-out. It means you have to keep on working at it. In my experience, the people who believe they have answers to everything are g
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by rauljara 14y ago
Agree completely.
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"It's complicated" For some reason, I'm very comforted when other people reach that conclusion about big questions. I think it's because I was much more certain about what was right when I was younger. The more I learn, the more I'm able
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by rauljara 14y ago
Absolutely. In my experience the most genuinely accomplished people are always getting enthusiastic and inspired about one new thing or another. I think their capacity to be inspired is one of the main reasons they became accomplished in t
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by rauljara 14y ago
Despite being no fan of bit coin, and despite this article basically defending bit coin, I still think this is an excellent article. I really liked the way it doesn't make the debate as "fiat" vs. non-fiat (as though fiat were a dirty term
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by rauljara 14y ago
The list is all phrased as commands. I can't stand that. There is no one way through life, and I wish people didn't act like just because it worked for them it will work for everyone. Find people that are cooler than you and try to be eve
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by rauljara 14y ago
This is an interesting technique, but it too has flaws. If there is a period of buzz and excitement surrounding your app, whatever design was most popular at that time will be rewarded accordingly, and accrue a high click through rate with
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by rauljara 14y ago
It's not the most used language, actually, though I don't think it's your fault for misreading the chart. Ruby on Rails and "Ruby on Rails Token" were split into two different categories, based on how they figured out the site was using Ra
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by rauljara 14y ago
As a guitarist, I don't think this is a useless tool for people learning how to play, but "the first guitar that anybody can play" is a ridiculous title. Anyone with two working hands and no cognitive disabilities can learn how to play a gu
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by rauljara 14y ago
[Kilgore Trout had written a novel call the Big Board.] It was about an Earthling man and woman who were kidnapped by extra-terrestrials. They were put on display in a zoo on a planet called Zircon-212. These fictitious people in the zoo ha
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by rauljara 14y ago
The racism those photos document is startling. Just 50 years ago? Though, in my private high school in Indiana, in 1999 I overheard kids more than once telling n *er jokes. I heard less overtly racists at the school saying things like "Y
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by rauljara 14y ago
No. A strawman is when you give your opponent an argument other than the one s/he is making and refute that instead of the real argument. In other words, you created a strawman and knocked him down, claiming victory while the real man rem
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by rauljara 14y ago
Unlike most of the top comments, I actually agree with Atwood's conclusion, if not all of the arguments he uses to get there. I don't particularly care about the accumulation of bad code. I don't particularly think that summer of code peop
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by rauljara 14y ago
>> In essence, the report suggest that VCs get paid “to build funds, not build companies.” Sometimes it seems like the whole financial sector is just one long series of perverse incentives strung together. But I guess it doesn't ma
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Google Said to Face Fine Over Apple Safari Breach(bloomberg.com)
7 points by rauljara 14y ago|0 comments
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by rauljara 14y ago
> Could you produce a report for the school's administration of each professor's confused/understood ratio? That would probably make professors (especially non-tenured professors) either terrified of making use of the app, or terrified
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by rauljara 15y ago
I can't speak for everyone, but you are probably being downvoted for two reasons: 1) Apologia does not meet "I'm sorry". Read the first few sentences of the article for an explanation. 2) I shudder to think of a world where everyone felt t
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by rauljara 15y ago
Neat. Works in Ruby, too. def tree; Hash.new {|h, k| h[k] = tree }; end t = tree t[:foo][:bar] = "foobar" # => {:foo=>{:bar=>"foobar"}} Probably more idiomatic to do it as a class, though. class Tree < Hash
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by rauljara 15y ago
We're probably not disagreeing as much as you think. I started off by saying that GDP has problems. My favorite example of the problem with GDP is that Apple charges $100 for $27 worth of ram and they have magically added $73 to the GDP,
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by rauljara 15y ago
> Why? If the man sticks money under the mattress, he reduces inflation (slightly) and increases the buying power of the rest of the world. Because the money under the mattress doesn't produce a good or service. The maid does. By spen
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by rauljara 15y ago
There are definitely problems with GDP, but you didn't just identify one of them. To keep things simple (at first) assume that in your example, all of the man's income otherwise goes under a mattress, doing nothing to improve the economy.
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by rauljara 15y ago
I love reading introductions to languages. But holding them up in comparison to just one other language is often problematic. I don't think this article does ruby much justice (e.g. the syntax stuff, and especially the bit about ruby's la
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by rauljara 15y ago
It isn't an apology in that sense of the word either. There is no defense here. Just a not so technical explanation. Though, the article promises a defense in a later post, so perhaps it will turn into an apology then.

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