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by rgoddard 15y ago
What might make sense would be a combination. Have some barrier to entrance to limit the people to choose from, but then select randomly from the remaining candidates. For example, to be considered for an elected position, you first have to
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by rgoddard 15y ago
With location aware advertising that pays attention to the current conversation topics and that is capable of dropping you off at a businesses physical location which also gets charged on a CPD (cost per drop-off).
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by rgoddard 15y ago
Plus the technology involved in storing, organizing, formatting and printing the data. This is more an example of an effective use of technology to solve the problem. Plus it serves as a reminder that the system to be created extends beyond
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by rgoddard 15y ago
The design of the memory hierarchy is dictated by the fact that in general the faster your memory is, the more it costs. As a way to balance this you have a hierarchy of memory, with the fastest closest to the cpu and also in the smallest q
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by rgoddard 15y ago
The idea of an "inborn" trait in this context seems to me as a person who was able to learn something without really knowing how they learned it, which prevents them from being able to effectively teach it. Hence the inborn trait as an expl
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by rgoddard 16y ago
Not at all, given that he was an active member and prolific member of HN and now that he has taken a break from HN he has all this free time to just write.
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by rgoddard 16y ago
Flightcaster was using clojure as a core part of their infrastructure.
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by rgoddard 16y ago
I would refer to it as delusional perfectionism. You build up this image of what a great job you are going to do, but well you never end up doing it, until you encounter some outside pressure to just get it done. So that in the end you just
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by rgoddard 16y ago
Seems like the same phenomenon described in the python paradox essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
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by rgoddard 16y ago
But given that dark colors also radiate heat, wouldn't the white be better year round anyways?
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by rgoddard 16y ago
Although given that this seems to be run as an experiment, so far it seems to be rather successful. Granted, in the long term it might not be sustainable, but for the short term it can provide a number of benefits. First of all the designer
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by rgoddard 16y ago
Or use Paint.net along with a photoshop plugin to open it for free.
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by rgoddard 16y ago
I have been experimenting with using the 30/30 technique posted earlier this week,and I have found to provides an interesting dynamic of carrot/stick. After having rested/played for 30 minutes, I feel guilty about not working so it helps to
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by rgoddard 16y ago
Something like depends on the context of the whole application and how you want to organize it. The first way puts the emphasis on the /doctors/mjones/... If you have other actions related to doctors like /doctors/mjones/contact, this way c
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by rgoddard 16y ago
From my reading, this combined with the use of the unclean hands defense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unclean_hands , helps to protect them against both types of damages.
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by rgoddard 16y ago
I would see it as a case of premature optimization.
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by rgoddard 16y ago
As of now I am just using my own. The user can create an account with username/password. When they login, it will associate the user with the session object. Session management is handled by ring, although the session data resides in memory
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by rgoddard 16y ago
I am using hiccup for generating the html, compojure and ring for routing and request/response handling, jetty as the webserver and postgresql as the database
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by rgoddard 16y ago
I have just finished the first iteration of a web app written in clojure and in the several hundred lines of code, I have a single variable which changes state.
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by rgoddard 16y ago
Basically it add physicality to the virtual world. Part of the trend of the internet is to help connect people who are not physically present or close. So people can form groups with other people based on interest rather then on location. B
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How Microsoft And 9 Others Make Their Billions(arstechnica.com)
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by rgoddard 16y ago
I find that when ever I am working on something new or difficult, I feel stupid. The act of working on it reveals my ignorance and makes me confront the fact that I am not as smart as I think I am.
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by rgoddard 16y ago
This is more due to the shift from buying albums to buying singles. This shift is made possible by digital distributions. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/the-death-of...
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by rgoddard 16y ago
I don't think such an approach can work with Clojure since the concepts that you bring from other OO languages do not really apply. I originally tried learning on my own by just using the documentation that is there and what I already know.
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by rgoddard 16y ago
You are going to see a pattern along the diagonal because every other number is even and never prime (excluding 2). So the only way for two primes to be touching is along a diagonal. Given that and our brains tendency to group items which a
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by rgoddard 16y ago
The difficult part is the burning the 2000 calories. You do not have complete control over how many calories you burn. In the example DrSprout gives, if your body senses that you are burning too many calories it may adjust what is it does t
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by rgoddard 16y ago
No. They successfully raised money for StackExchange. That is part of the reason for the change. Here is the post from the blog explaining the change. http://blog.stackexchange.com/post/518474918/stack-exchange-...
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by rgoddard 17y ago
Having a consistent load factor reduces risk. One risk is not being able to transfer luggage from one flight to the next, and if this happens then the airline loses money by having to fix the problem. One of the biggest costs for an airline
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by rgoddard 17y ago
What I also find useful is getting practices with bottom up approach. In math the way ideas are developed and presented are first with the low level definitions and axioms, and then from there using logic those ideas are combined to prove m
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by rgoddard 17y ago
Mostly it is a reaction to the over use of XML and how and why in many situations using something other then XML is beneficial. If a large swath of people of start using JSON without thinking about you will probably start seeing a similar r

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