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by rquantz 15y ago
Could you talk more about your experience working with agencies? Are there any in particular you would recommend?
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by rquantz 15y ago
Yes, in fact, there are. There are any number of things that are more important/fulfilling/interesting to fill your head with and make life decisions based on.
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by rquantz 15y ago
I like this. Sipser is already on my reading list. I'll make sure I get to it once I finish working my way through SICP.
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by rquantz 15y ago
Exactly -- nature isn't doing any calculations. The correct statement would be "it takes difficult calculations to describe what nature does using numbers."
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by rquantz 15y ago
And specious authority at that, see my above comment.
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by rquantz 15y ago
That quote, while frequently attributed to Jefferson, was probably never written by him. The earliest attribution for a similar quote is from 1837, and in the current form it comes from Thoreau in 1849 -- Civil Disobedience . http://www.m
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by rquantz 15y ago
It could use some camelCasing.
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by rquantz 15y ago
I'm not sure that this is the reason politicians don't understand the Internet. It's not because they're old, it's because they're fraternity-pledging C-student jocks. you see in the video they keep saying "I'm not a nerd" -- that's because
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by rquantz 15y ago
Isn't software development already kind of gamified? It's full of little bursts of dopamines and adrenaline -- from that first little "Hello World" to finally tracking down a bug, to seeing your code in production. Its addictive and it alre
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by rquantz 15y ago
I'm interested in the relationship between this argument and the one going on elsewhere on HN today concerning 37signals' looking up the name of their 100 millionth file in their logs. For MegaUpload, the implication seems to be (from the g
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by rquantz 15y ago
Well, to be fair, the article does start with the warning that this is not the opinion of Adobe. But yes, it seems absurd to say that JIT compilers will never get better, especially given the improvements we've seen in the last few years.
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by rquantz 15y ago
I stand corrected.
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by rquantz 15y ago
the original German doesn't mean the actual journey but the act of dragging or being burdened Yes, Mahler writes all over his scores the instruction nicht schleppen -- don't drag
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by rquantz 15y ago
Everything that China blocks with their national firewall is considered "illegal" in China. Yes, but the statement refers to existing US law, not Chinese law. In the US, speech is protected.
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by rquantz 15y ago
Yes, I've never heard schlep defined as an unpleasant task, except in that schlepping your suitcase all the way to Newark airport and back (or any other schlep) is unpleasant. The main conclusion I draw from this article: Paul Graham is not
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by rquantz 15y ago
That article was posted here last spring, I believe (forgive me, but I'm on my iPhone at the moment and too lazy to look up a link to the discussion). Reading that article planted the seeds that led me to start barbell lifting three months
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by rquantz 15y ago
What am I missing here? This statement and your response seem utterly unrelated. This is what I read: targeted only at sites beyond the reach of current U.S. law A gap exists in current law, and new laws should be aimed at that gap instea
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by rquantz 15y ago
This is the first I've heard of it, but a quick glance at its website suggests that ProcessWire may be very promising. Do you have any additional thoughts on it, having worked with it before?
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by rquantz 15y ago
And what do you propose we do with our long lives without literature and the arts?
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by rquantz 15y ago
Those poses show spinal extension, not flexion. It may be the GP was using the wrong word here. I've never seen a yoga class that focused on spinal flexion, but there are a lot of poses that extend the spine, and if done wrong they can caus
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by rquantz 15y ago
Yes, but Miami and Salt Lake City aren't the center of the world.
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by rquantz 15y ago
Jer-what?
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by rquantz 15y ago
Gem compatibility already causes a lot of headaches. Am I wrong to think that this would add to that?
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by rquantz 15y ago
I think the process of becoming an expert at something has a lot to do with building your own model for how it works -- producing your own set of assumptions. This certainly can take the form of eventually returning to the assumptions you w
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by rquantz 15y ago
Howdy, professional musician here. I both agree and disagree with you, but I definitely disagree with the OP. "Playing by ear" is a way of learning new music, and it is a skill. Beginners do use the trial and error method you describe, and
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by rquantz 15y ago
Additionally, the conductor frequently asks individual members of the orchestra to stand -- section leaders, anyone who had a solo, etc. -- or asks sections to stand together if they had a particularly prominent role.
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by rquantz 15y ago
>> How did he spend the last 8 years of his life? Enjoying himself? No. He drove himself and Apple to build the next generation of the personal computer. Make no mistake: he loved every minute of it.
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by rquantz 15y ago
Thank you. At least in the United States, sharecropping has historical associations with racism and Jim Crow. Suggesting that sharecropping is a low risk way to farm is ignoring the cultural implications if the term. As if former slaves and
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by rquantz 15y ago
I think a bank aimed at providing a good service to consumers, with a great user interface and features that are beneficial to low income customers, has the potential to be truly useful to that demographic. The two things that could get in
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This is the myopia of the affluent. Many people, not just 23 year olds, do live paycheck to paycheck, and need to know on any given day how much they can spend without overdrawing. The answer to this question is hard to find from most banks

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