rjurney

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by rjurney 17y ago
And then exports some of that back to sushi restaurants the world over.
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by rjurney 17y ago
Plus, your edit resulted in two tweets from the newsbot - win!
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by rjurney 17y ago
Its dickish to not change the name. Its kind of evil. Google isn't supposed to do that. So maybe they'll change it? I would.
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by rjurney 17y ago
I think most surfers have a more intuitive sense of physics than normal people. We are after all the only ones that actually ride waves - and waves, be they sound or light, are pretty important in physics :) This doesn't excuse programmers
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by rjurney 17y ago
No offence, but you're making more statements out of prejudice than she is.
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by rjurney 17y ago
The fork is just bacteria all up in your hard drive.
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by rjurney 17y ago
Can't believe you had 0 on this. Great comment.
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by rjurney 17y ago
Linux is great for a desktop if you like to tinker. If you have time and inclination to tinker with your desktop OS. If you don't like to tinker with your workstation, and you just want a good GUI and a bash prompt to get some fucking work
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by rjurney 17y ago
Indeed - if you have a website, any website, being able to trivially parse your logs and look at things like top referrers, is pretty neat.
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by rjurney 17y ago
You can avoid Java if you have a team of guys that do write Java, to make Pig work for your dataset. Lots of shops have exactly this - and so Pig allows regular developers across the organization to conduct ad hoc analysis of web scale dat
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by rjurney 17y ago
Have you never heard of using a personal account 'Doing Business As'? Its not 'fake' in the sense you're thinking about, its done all the time.
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by rjurney 17y ago
Some languages are structured so that the hardest parts of concurrent programming are solved for you by language features. C is not one of those languages. That is Joel's point.
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by rjurney 17y ago
I think Joel's point is that for the following two statements: 1) You can do multithreaded programs in C 2) You cannot do multithreaded programs in C the common belief is 1, and it leads to much suffering. If everyone believed what Joel is
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by rjurney 17y ago
What a great story :)
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by rjurney 17y ago
Its not too late, you just can't afford to be in Ramen mode unless you save money ahead of time or your wife has enough income to float you on a startup salary. My advice: get in a startup as early as you can afford to. If that means being
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by rjurney 17y ago
It probably says a lot about the dogshit alternatives VCs are looking at as the inflated dot com leftover VC industry is about to come crashing down - acquisition market dried up, no IPOs in sight... buying a piece of twitter at a gagillion
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by rjurney 17y ago
Doesn't it go like this?: You're starting a company on $15-20K, so you need to get a usable app out within a few months - to get some users loving you - to raise money to go after a bigger market with a 'grander app. You could simply not s
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by rjurney 17y ago
Yes. In fact, the entire private space race is so fantastical that it all seems fake. A bunch of hackers going to space? But its real. I love it!
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by rjurney 17y ago
That is correct. He made an assertion of fact, and the assertion was scientifically false.
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by rjurney 17y ago
I would suggest you actually parse what it says - that was a review of multiple studies. There are studies that swing either way.
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by rjurney 17y ago
Relatively low? Organic foods are about 150% of the price of non-organic foods. Producing them is much more labor intensive. If you don't use roundup, you have to weed. Boutique: small scale, upper crust.
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by rjurney 17y ago
People aren't interested in making informed decisions about this, they're interested in making a religious decision, which is why the labels must stay off. Its for the good of the planet, not first-world consumers. We need their food doll
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by rjurney 17y ago
'Instead, why doesn't the blame lie with GMO organizations that engaged (and continue to engage) in behavior that does not appear to be in our direct interests?' Because GMO research is absolutely vital to continuing to feed our species. M
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by rjurney 17y ago
The authors said they were statistically insignificant - which means they have not been demonstrated as being present. Some studies showed organic had inferior quality. Vegetables have incredible amounts of variance.
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by rjurney 17y ago
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/29/organic-fo...
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by rjurney 17y ago
Nitrogen fixing for fertilizer production seems about the only sane and rational use of natural gas that there is, long term.
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by rjurney 17y ago
Borlaug takes the stance that even if having 6 billion people on earth is 'unsustainable,' that we should still feed them all. At the root of all the 'sustainability' counter-arguments is the idea that we shouldn't feed everyone no matter
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by rjurney 17y ago
You don't have to believe that GMO companies are do-gooders. Just take a look at the agricultural efficiency charts over the last century, global population, and rates of starvation. Seriously, the data is on wikipedia. Check it out. As
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by rjurney 17y ago
Have you ever grown a traditional garden, vs. an organic one? Try it on any kind of scale over 100 square feet, then tell me about the work involved, and tell me whether 'boutique' fits organic or not :D
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by rjurney 17y ago
Amen. There's nothing wrong with buying organic. Not respecting the differences between the first and third worlds is what is irritating in the food debate. Maybe people don't want genetically modified food domestically - but these innov

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