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by riprowan 10y ago
> If you subject you thoughts to strict formal rules of rational thinking, than it would be hard to manipulate you. If the brain was fundamentally a linear processor, you might have a chance. But the brain is almost entirely a pattern-m
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by riprowan 10y ago
The point isn't to optimize for contentment at the end of life. Rather, it's a technique for getting to the 50,000-foot view of one's life. There's a saying "what you focus on gets bigger." If you live in the
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by riprowan 10y ago
... and therefore, if you actually do see more colors (since you were given more names for them) then you're more likely to need a new name for the new color that you just saw that nobody has named yet, leading to even more color-n
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by riprowan 10y ago
In fact, at this moment, a united Europe may represent the last significant hope for Western liberal democracy. Past Europe, the superpowers are USA, Russia, China...
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by riprowan 10y ago
> Why would I even bother "owning" a car? Talk about superficial thinking. Half the time I get in the car it's for a spur-of-the-moment run to the store. And while the bus stops 300 ft from my house I've never ridden
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by riprowan 10y ago
I spend a fair amount of time outside the USA. Your comments are representative of how most Europeans see the entire USA. So I guess everything is just a matter of perspective once you start overgeneralizing. Also, what's the problem
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by riprowan 10y ago
> What you're seeing is a backlash to the way GANTT charts have been misapplied to projects that are less well defined, and to managers that ask for estimates and then are unpleasantly surprised when an estimate isn't entirely
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by riprowan 10y ago
The answer to al your questions is: in a perfectly competitive market, the two pricing strategies lead to the same price. However an hour of one person's life does not have the same market value as an hour of another person's life
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by riprowan 10y ago
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - Blaise Pascal I think a lot of people crave work or spend all their "alone" time having a relationship with a computer because they
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by riprowan 10y ago
I've long told my recording clients, "real musicians have a day job" because it described so much of the best talent to come through the studio.
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by riprowan 10y ago
Everything you build becomes your code library that you carry forward. Smart devs know this and cultivate their personal repetoire. For example in the veeeery first days of .NET I had the opportunity to build a nice internal application for
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by riprowan 10y ago
I started to make a witty post implying that you just signalled for some sort of terrorist attack using an encoded message, then I checked the calendar and posted this instead.
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by riprowan 10y ago
Excellent anecdote, thanks for sharing.
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by riprowan 10y ago
Sure, any amount of work could have been done to replatform the app. They were already using WordPress for blogging. A custom WordPress implementation would have easily solved their CMS problems and devs are trivial to find. The point was
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by riprowan 10y ago
In theory, an open blockchain like Bitcoin eliminates the need for a trusted authority to be the system of record. A spreadsheet needs someone to manage it. That person, and that data, must be very trustworthy, else they can simply change
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by riprowan 10y ago
I appreciate your different perspective enormously. I have spent the bulk of my career working in larger, team-based environments. In my experience, being able to conform to cultural norms is essential to being a high-performing team leade
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by riprowan 10y ago
> Ranching. Not farming. Not two things. One thing. Polyface is a farm and a ranch. How can you do sustainable farming without animals? You were the one asking for examples, so you should have used Google yourself. I thought about r
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by riprowan 10y ago
> Ok. I'm being a dick. I should calm down. I apologize. Apologies always accepted here. No problem. > I predict ranching will become a niche source of protein as vat-grown meat comes online (20 years) and taxpayers decide to s
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by riprowan 10y ago
I am working on a project now that bears some study. I built this extranet app for a Fortune-class / NYSE company in 2001. They were a Lotus Domino shop so for that and various other reasons the extranet was deployed in Domino. The i
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by riprowan 10y ago
So what about the Music Genome project? http://www.pandora.com/about/mgp
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by riprowan 10y ago
It even goes past that. Try doing sustainable farming without animals. It can't be done. Animals are a requirement for sustainable farming.
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by riprowan 10y ago
Sure, here's the first two that I looked up: http://juharanch.com/ http://www.yellowstonegrassfedbeef.com/node/100 QED. I'm sure if you bother to research this you'll find many others.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> In Texas you have two kinds of diversity: white and Hispanic uffi... where to start? Maybe you exhibit prejudice and ignorance of your own? Did you know that, for example, Dallas has one of the largest gay communities in the USA? I&#x
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by riprowan 10y ago
I must add that I have undergraduate and graduate technical degrees and spent from 1983-2005 building lots and lots of apps (I started coding at ~ age 15). So I pursued "generalism" only after being a reasonably qualified (but no
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by riprowan 10y ago
Ah, I see. I agree. I think "management" includes lots of quasi-technical roles, in which people and project leadership are the core skills, with one's technical base serving as a platform for managing others with highly fo
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by riprowan 10y ago
> As a coder it is important to understand that most problems in technology are not solved with more code, but less. That you will generate less code at 50 should be seen as a benefit. This is precisely my argument as a generalist. I may
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by riprowan 10y ago
I don't understand the question. Can you help me understand why the idea that raising animals cannot be sustainable, when clearly grazing animals can live perfectly well on their own with no care whatsoever from humans (as they have fo
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by riprowan 10y ago
Thank you very much for sharing that. What ever happened to "small is beautiful" and "less is more?" These used to be core "hacker" values. Had Twitter followed such a strategy it might still be sustainable. Ed
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by riprowan 10y ago
I agree with you on most of your points including that grass-fed beef is not sustainable at the current rate of consumption, but that does not mean that it isn't sustainable at a lower rate of consumption / higher price.
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by riprowan 10y ago
I completely agree with you. I started in this field in 1992. I've seen the coming and goings of many flash-in-the-pan technologies. If you are a dev and are selling yourself on your skillset, ask yourself, "is this sustainable?&

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