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by readymade 14y ago
If he feels that the primary source of value in an education is its contribution to the GDP, then I feel sorry for him.
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by readymade 14y ago
The politics of antidepressant medication is a political minefield, all the more dangerous because it seems everyone has to have a strong opinion, regardless of a professional or personal experience. While it's true that the efficacy of SS
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by readymade 14y ago
By "poor" do you mean information poor, or plain? I can't speak for everyone else, but in my experience the reference manual is quite complete, and Programming in Lua is perhaps one of the best technical books I've ever read when it comes t
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by readymade 14y ago
A shirt mocking the TSA doesn't come close to that analogy, even if you consider it bad taste, since it doesn't legitimize, condone or make light of terrorism. If it said "Terrorism rules!", then perhaps you'd have a point, although it's s
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by readymade 14y ago
Please re-render your response in predicate calculus
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by readymade 14y ago
what an asshole
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by readymade 14y ago
We all profit in some way or another from people following their passions, often in the face of hardship. The Spotify or Rdio playlist you're probably listening to as you work is the result of untold legions of people following their dreams
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by readymade 14y ago
Oh please, yourself. From the abstracts, several of those New York Times articles you linked to are actually about US probes. Those that report on Soviet activities appear to mostly be about the failed missions from the 1960s, as opposed t
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by readymade 14y ago
IMHO you can't effectively ask this question at such a broad level. A better question would be "is C/C++ worth it for my project?". Or with respect to the contents of the blog post, "is C/C++ worth it for performing a cumulative sum?" Thi
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by readymade 14y ago
who hires B's?
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by readymade 14y ago
IMHO, The biggest problem with the oft-repeated meme "just a tool" is the word "just". It dismisses out of hand the powerful ways in which tools (e.g. media) nudge us in certain directions and shape the way we work. Any time you hear someo
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by readymade 14y ago
Hacker News! (just kidding)
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by readymade 14y ago
This just in: San Francisco possesses inflated sense of self-importance
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by readymade 14y ago
Good for him and all, but it's still a questionable product idea. He might be better off spending his 3 months figuring out a product people actually want and then moving up north.
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by readymade 14y ago
Are they?
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by readymade 14y ago
he's probably better at making websites than you are at making music.
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by readymade 14y ago
Because they're stupid and lazy;No because they're oppressed and victimized LOL ROFLMAO TLDR
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by readymade 14y ago
I love it when insane discussions like this come up on HN because it gives you a great pool of people and companies to remind yourself never to work for, or with.
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by readymade 15y ago
You've said at least a few times that you think the bot was designed to annoy, but I'm still curious as to what you think was or was intended to be annoying (let alone impolite) about it. Is there a way, in your eyes, that she could have b
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by readymade 15y ago
What do you think is wrong about writing an IRC bot that responds to "that's what she said" with quotes from famous women? I'm curious. Because the only answers I can imagine are (a) you think writing IRC bots is wrong, (b) you think that
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by readymade 15y ago
What makes you think it was intended to be, or is, annoying?
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by readymade 15y ago
You don't need to know how it's implemented, you just need to know that you have to pass an object that can be closed. You can get that simply by reading the docs. The exception that's thrown in your first example above certainly makes it
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by readymade 15y ago
The documentation for with-open explicitly states that the expanded form calls .close on the provided names in reverse order. I'm not sure I get how this is a leaky abstraction. Would the author simply prefer to not have to read the docs b
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by readymade 15y ago
5 years later and Steve Yegge still reads like a teenager.
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by readymade 15y ago
This blog post is knowledge hipsterism.
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by readymade 15y ago
Lets have a contest to see who is the oldest!!!!!
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by readymade 15y ago
Step back and look at the big picture, if you will. Nobody can force someone to change their mind about anything. That's entirely up to you. Most readers here are probably pretty damn smart and capable of creating incredibly detailed just
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by readymade 15y ago
The only part of the equation you have any control over is the quality of your own work, and when you see others who value technical expertise over compositional sensitivity, you can choose to take it as an indication of what you intend to
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by readymade 15y ago
What a needlessly posturing rant. Who cares if some nerds buy expensive cameras and take pictures of babies and flowers? How is this different from guitars, or pastel sets, or any other art form where gear is required? As long as they're
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by readymade 16y ago
I have to concede here – by the time I wrote this comment I was responding more to the general tone of the thread than to your article. I apologize for making you sound like a douche. Touchy subject for many.

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