rohern

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by rohern 14y ago
If that is the strongest argument you can make, I think you've said all that needs to be said about intuition.
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by rohern 14y ago
The Hughes article is very strange, but the theme of the sentiment is remarkably (perhaps alarmingly) common among the university students I know who are not scientists, engineers, or mathematicians. This is enormously condescending to writ
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by rohern 14y ago
What does that mean? I intuit that your program has bugs, therefore it has bugs? I intuit that there is an alien race living on Mars that is able to disguise itself as red rocks? I do not see how intuition gives you anything other than -- m
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by rohern 14y ago
A friend of mine with a dark and cynical wit, with whom I was enjoying a good dinner at a large and crowded restaurant, looked around him and declared: "So this is what people do? They just exist." That is the end of the conversation on hap
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by rohern 14y ago
I am not trying to troll you; I mean this question honestly: Why do you care so much about being happy? I know that is the default goal of most people, but it seems rather like chasing gold at the end of the rainbow when you have no reason
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by rohern 14y ago
All I can think is that they are violating Apple's patent on page-turning. So much for not being evil, Google...
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by rohern 14y ago
I agree with you that it is tautologically true, though I do not think that is a point in favor of the author. It is also true that we can classify women as penguins and non-penguins.
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by rohern 14y ago
I do not think you understand what science is. Scientific papers do not present data and models and analysis because they are scientific papers. They do these things because they lead to testable claims of knowledge. It is not done for the
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by rohern 14y ago
I agree with everything you say about being childfree and I can tell you as a man that I hear the same things you do when you express your feelings about not having children (I am assuming that you are female from your username, apologies i
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by rohern 14y ago
I was intrigued by the opening paragraphs up until she got to: "Because no matter how many different kinds of public images women see of themselves, they're still limited. They're still largely white, straight upper-middle-class depictions,
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by rohern 14y ago
afterburner clearly understands this. His point is that in the US drug war, it is the government of the United States that is the main antagonist. This is not the case in with the ongoing violence in Mexico.
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by rohern 14y ago
Come on, come on, come on. Not to be an rms clone, but Linus Torvalds did not create Linux in the sense that this article implies.
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by rohern 14y ago
> Supporting local/small businesses is always a good idea! Why?
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by rohern 14y ago
This is crap reasoning, sorry jmduke. You might as well say that you need to read the writing of a racist while keeping in mind that he is a racist, so you should not worry too much when he makes racist statements. The criticisms that peopl
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by rohern 14y ago
I never made that statement. I did, however, claim that a major cause of the increase in the wealth of nations is capitalism. I made this claim because I have studied economics and history and I have read and heard multiple compelling argum
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by rohern 14y ago
Do you have any data to support that statement? You are going to need a pretty massive data set and significant argument to demonstrate both the cause and the negative aspect of the effect.
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by rohern 14y ago
"The answer is "maybe not", but the followup is that there is absolutely no moral compass on which is would be even remotely acceptable to take even the smallest step to prevent the global poor to become as rich as we are." The argument --
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by rohern 14y ago
We are talking about different things. I am not talking about class mobility. I am talking about the wealth of nations.
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by rohern 14y ago
His point is that one of the main avenues for the poor to leave poverty is through capitalistic action. If you are arguing for the restriction of that behavior, you are arguing for the restriction of opportunities to leave behind poverty. A
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by rohern 14y ago
I am not sure how shoddy engineering equates with too fast economic growth. That seems like defining your terms so generally that they can refer to almost anything. I also think it is ironic that you chose as an example an infrastructure pr
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by rohern 14y ago
> the patent system isn't totally breaking innovation This is like saying it wouldn't be so bad to be blind because blind people are able to live fulfilling and experience-rich lives. Yes, that is true, blind people do live rich and ful
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by rohern 14y ago
There was a terrific interview on NPR with the author of the recent NYTimes article on the patent wars among tech companies large and small. The patent system as become directly hostile to startup companies and to innovation generally. All
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by rohern 14y ago
I would subscribe to a news organization that met these standards. Startup!
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by rohern 14y ago
“The person who runs anvisoft company is not worth mentioning because he is unknown to you.” Now that is customer service.
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by rohern 14y ago
Brian Harvey was a wonderful, wonderful teacher. Most of what I have learned in CS since has been more-or-less an addendum to his version of CS61A. The world just doesn't make hackers (and teachers) like that enough.
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by rohern 14y ago
We could do quite a bit better than that. http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
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by rohern 14y ago
This is a very interesting proposal. There are a number of large-scale and long-term problems that require consistency of vision beyond election cycles. You should write up this idea in a formal way and see if you can get published as an op
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by rohern 14y ago
You should name it Madeleine. Ready-made logo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_%28cake%29#Literary_r...
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by rohern 14y ago
Agreed. razor, you should brainstorm and change your branding. That is not a good name. It's not even particularly pronounceable.
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by rohern 14y ago
> " If you're unwilling to provide proof you're not a bozo, you're probably going to be just awful to work with as well." I do not see any justification for this in the general case. It is true, I have seen it myself, that even students

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