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by rml 13y ago
I work at a large tech co. in NYC, and we don't really talk about being in competition with SF at all. Besides, many of the really big SF-based cos. have offices here anyway.
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by rml 13y ago
Wow, this is one of the first things I've read on HN to give me pause in a long, long time. Thank you for writing it.
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by rml 13y ago
I love Edwin! It's my favorite Emacs implementation, even though I don't get to use it as much as I'd like. It even has a nice email client, IMAIL, written using a beautiful object-oriented style. Many years of Scheme wizardr
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by rml 15y ago
I'm also unable to read in Opera. Though I don't have JS enabled by default.
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by rml 15y ago
> Generally, when you move up the curve, there's a way to serialize it as text. Agreed. I think this has something to do with the fact that programming is not about the objects on screen themselves, it's about the interaction that occur
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by rml 16y ago
Rarely have I laughed aloud like I did upon reading this.
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by rml 17y ago
Dare we address the fact that anyone waving an iPhone in a mechanic's face has by almost by definition signalled that he has no idea what he is talking about when it comes to auto repair?
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by rml 17y ago
If someone farts in your face repeatedly and you go on to punch them or harass them in any way that is considered inappropriate by society, would you say that your actions were 'justified?' Call me "biblical," but where I'm from farting i
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by rml 17y ago
Most informative quote: "So when you hear about efforts to save newspapers (and, by extension, journalism), understand that answers that don't return the possibility of double-digit profits and perpetual top-down control aren't even conside
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by rml 17y ago
Thanks for posting this. A truly inspiring speech given by someone whose life is rooted in an awareness of history and whose actions today seek to serve those who will come next. An impressive man.
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by rml 17y ago
>But a credential and even the prestige of a university is rooted in its effectiveness as a learning institution. If these institutions are shown to be inferior learning environments to other alternatives their capacity to credential wi
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by rml 17y ago
Beyond initial capital investment, regulation, and entrenched competitors, there is the "long tail" of production: namely, that most engineered products are built from parts sourced from many different vendors, sometimes thousands of miles
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by rml 17y ago
Agreed. As Sophocles famously wrote: "Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial."
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by rml 17y ago
Anecdote: several years ago, I had some pain in a rather delicate area. I did some research online before seeing my doctor, and noted several likely causes for my symptoms. There was one minor ailment which seemed the likeliest culprit (and
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by rml 17y ago
Another one in the same (dull) vein by Brooks: 'Genius, the Modern View': http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/opinion/01brooks.html It seems that Mr. Brooks likes to do at least some of his editorializing based on actual research. We need m
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by rml 17y ago
Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.
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by rml 17y ago
I find that it helps me to assume the following: - whatever the topic at hand is, I haven't thought about it enough yet. - my attempts at humor will not come across in text (without context). - the person I'm corresponding with is smarter t
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by rml 17y ago
I think we shouldn't underestimate the fact that kids are told over and over by teachers, guidance counselors, etc., "Go to college." These (well-meaning) people often don't realize that what worked for them twenty years ago might not be re
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by rml 17y ago
From Jarkko Hietaniemi, the CPAN Master Librarian: http://www.cpan.org/misc/ZCAN.html
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by rml 17y ago
Brings to mind a quote from Minsky on his preference for sloppy, corrective programming: "Don't try to fix the bug, just put in some code that notices when it's about to happen, and heads it off." (From Stewart Brand's The Media Lab: Inven
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by rml 18y ago
I agree with you inasmuch as an economy is about people, but what if it isn't about people so much as some larger "thing" (an incomprehensible interaction of systems, perhaps?) that individuals, and even governments, have to deal/interact w
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by rml 18y ago
The problem I have with the idea of "managing the economy" is that we might not even know what that phrase actually means. I often read "economy" and translate that as "runaway complexity." I sense this complexity in a system of such magnit
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by rml 18y ago
As someone who has tutored a number of dyslexic young people, I have seen this pattern repeat itself over and over. The teachers at most schools just don't get it. They seem to think that trying to manipulate children emotionally with "inte
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by rml 18y ago
Was anyone else slightly perturbed by this article? The existence of well-funded and -connected companies like Intellectual Ventures, and their obvious influence over the authors such as Mr. Gladwell that serve to glorify them to the readin
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by rml 18y ago
As an American, I found this story pretty disheartening. I can't for the life of me understand why we are putting up so many barriers, financial and otherwise, to smart, qualified entrepreneurs who just happened to be born somewhere else. I
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by rml 19y ago
Yet another view would be that to remove one's self from political discussions with one's peers based upon other, unrelated criteria, such as one's perception of one's self as a hacker, only serves to underestimate the broad capabilities of
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by rml 19y ago
Frankly, at least as an American, I'll take a few more well-schooled philosophy grads who ask tough questions over technically brilliant bio-weapons researchers who do what they're told by Uncle Sam. (I know that's a false dichotomy, but it
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by rml 19y ago
Well, if they're doing it right, they're learning how to make arguments based upon evidence, and evaluate the arguments of others (which will also hopefully based upon evidence). Not all schools/depts./profs. do this, however; I understand
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by rml 19y ago
Classifying poverty as vice is worthwhile to a point, but works well only in very general ways (I know it wasn't your opinion, it's just worth discussing). The main problem that I see with that view, however, is this: Take a 12-year-old kid
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by rml 19y ago
I don't argue that lacking Unicode support makes the language more artistic. In fact, I don't even argue that Arc is artistic -- only that its author(s) didn't intend to adhere to any particular standards or tastes of our own age (which i

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