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by readymade 13y ago
It's worth revisiting the original HN post from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097155 IMHO she deserves kudos not just for accomplishing her goal (which really is impressive enough on its own) but doi
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by readymade 14y ago
OH WOW ANOTHER FUCKING PROJECT THAT USES PROFANITY IN IT'S NAME TO TRY TO MAKE IT SOUND COOL WHERE THE FUCK DO I SIGN UP
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by readymade 14y ago
In most endeavors you can divide people into roughly two camps – those who talk shit and those who bring the shit. You happen to be talking shit, in a domain that you (presumably) have no experience in. Add to that the angry, hyperbolic t
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by readymade 14y ago
Perhaps instead of treating "haters" as a pejorative term one should feel inclined to stand by it. I don't see what's so odious about wanting to see assholes fail. If there's any justice or karma in the world, I'd expect it.
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by readymade 14y ago
I'm well aware that English isn't a formal language, that's why I added the qualifier "mostly". The great majority of expressions in natural languages can, in fact, be accounted for with CFGs, and purely CFG-based Phrase Structure Grammars
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by readymade 14y ago
The answer is pretty entertaining, but in context it's pedantic to the extreme. The poster's question was about matching opening tags that don't contain a closing slash, which is a tiny (regular) subset of HTML. You don't need pushdown aut
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by readymade 14y ago
A "no trespassing sign" doesn't cary any force on its own. Were there no laws against trespassing on private property, then yes, you'd have a point. Whether someone has a sign or not, the law is the same, and if the police show up and the
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by readymade 14y ago
Usually when people say that something is "voluntary" they mean that you are not compelled to do so under threat of force.
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by readymade 14y ago
By that logic, no law is regulation.
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by readymade 14y ago
Agreed, I nearly laughed out loud when I read that line. Ironically, this is a situation where one of those useless college degrees everyone here loves to hate (Art History, for example) would come in rather handy.
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by readymade 14y ago
Ugh. Edit the title and try again.
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by readymade 14y ago
So you read blogs in order to flatter your preconceptions, then?
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by readymade 14y ago
So you don't have any experience in the area, and you don't want to do any cursory research to figure out what a university administrator does, but you do want the juicy details of an "insider's apology" that confirms your suspicions (yes I
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by readymade 14y ago
The snark is shorthand for the observation that you don't seem to have bothered to look into your own question, and judging by your reply, it sounds like you still haven't. If you had, you'd likely find that academic administration is actua
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by readymade 14y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=responsibilities+dean
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by readymade 14y ago
If that were true then there would only be one wheel design in all of human history.
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by readymade 14y ago
Talk is also cheap when you're talking about somebody else not knowing what they're doing.
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by readymade 14y ago
I could have guessed this would turn into a massive flamefest, but c'mon people. So what if he's green? This will be a learning experience for him. And I'll hazard that in the end, even if he never ends up writing a whole OS from scratch
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by readymade 14y ago
most other content on HN isn't newsworthy either
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by readymade 14y ago
Way to link to a Climate Change denial blog, HN.
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by readymade 14y ago
News Flash Corner: there is always somebody who thinks your electoral opinion is line noise in the system.
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by readymade 14y ago
I like Ariely but he's off the mark here, and ironically I think his "conversion" is just as much a rationalization as any he represented in this post. It sucks to work hard on something that you're not renumerated for to the degree you'd l
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by readymade 14y ago
Unless you're willing to take a long look in the mirror and recognize that the primary fuckup here was in abusing someone's trust, I hope this story serves as a cautionary tale to others. You can tell yourself whatever you want.
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by readymade 14y ago
I initially bristled at the word "poaching", since it implies ownership. But I'm actually far more repulsed by the fact that he laid the kid off just a few days later. Ethics protip: don't try to convince someone to leave behind a paying jo
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by readymade 14y ago
While I genuinely believe that documentary saddened you, you're basically saying that skilled workers in the first world don't deserve words connoting sympathy or outrage when they're fucked over by their employer. You don't think Elvis was
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by readymade 14y ago
Seriously?
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by readymade 14y ago
Unless you're getting sued or threatened with jail time, it's not disruption.
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by readymade 14y ago
I think you're misreading my reply. It's not that real world innovation isn't tested and iterated on, quite the opposite. The Wright Brothers are exactly that model and I don't dispute that at all. What I'm drawing a distinction between i
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by readymade 14y ago
Khan Academy and Bret Victor are apples and oranges -- they're not even playing the same game. In order to make any major strides, we have to reconcile the need for PRODUCTS, NOW! with the conceptual, exploratory approach taken here. Real w
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by readymade 14y ago
What I mean is that if education is the imparting (or rather "drawing forth", from the Latin) of knowledge, a definition of useful knowledge that only hinges on its immediate economic value to the graduate is depressingly narrow. Firstly, t

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