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541.
by russell 16y ago
It's hard for us to judge which side is being (ir)rationally stubborn without knowing what technology stack you are proposing. More details, better advice.
542.
by russell 16y ago
Ah the cynic in me. This sounds like a new generation of bubble memory (1970) with the physics and hype scaled for the times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_memory
543.
by russell 16y ago
Back in the 90's my son got arrested for getting in the way of a campus cop trying to arrest a Berkeley protester. He was charged with Lynching. So, yes, it's real and used. He was let go because there was no provable case.
544.
by russell 16y ago
Here's EFF's list of printers: http://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-di...
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by russell 16y ago
No, the distinction is that the Athenian democracy was a direct democracy where every citizen could vote on legislation, as opposed to representative democracy where representatives vote in a legislature. The US was a democracy, albeit imp
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by russell 16y ago
What the critics seem to forget is that when these wonderful places were built they were out of reach for most Americans. My grandparents did not have running water or central heating. In the cities most people, especially immigrants, liv
547.
by russell 16y ago
I made a good living as a contractor for about 2 decades, although the aftermath of the .com implosion almost did me in, even though I had nothning to do with it. But I recovered and soldiered on. I finished a lucrative contract Sept 15,
548.
by russell 16y ago
Probably because she was the sexist pig. People who assault you, physically or verbally, dont need an apology. I think it's pretty rude to let the door slam in someone's face.
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by russell 16y ago
Pitty us old C programmers. Every for loop was indexed by i, j for inner loops. Every string was indexed by sp, or cp if you were a purist and considered strings a figment of the imagination. You never used names longer than 8 characters
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by russell 16y ago
It felt awkward when I wrote it. You are right. The wealth is absorbed/destroyed, but the money is still there with fewer goods to purchase, hence inflation (eventually).
551.
by russell 16y ago
Actually I agree with you completely. The 5x improvement is what it takes BigCo management to notice you. However startups are getting the 5x advantage all over the place. Nimble platforms plus smarter people plus stripped down organizat
552.
by russell 16y ago
The curious thing is that they are already here, e.g. Python/Ruby vs Java. According to Clayton Christensen it takes a paradigm shift of over 5x improvement before anyone notices. I dont think the shift will be programming language based b
553.
by russell 16y ago
I am curious to know your reasoning. In a post in this thread I was leaning towards inflation in a few years, with the other possibility being a long recession or Japanese style stagflation. The downside would come from an austerity progra
554.
by russell 16y ago
Wow, Ireland is in a world of hurt. External debt is 10x GDP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_d... . The US is at 94%, but Europe is way worse. Luxembourg is 38x. Could that be correct? Where is all this mon
555.
by russell 16y ago
This is a curious expectation, but it feels right to me (with a degree in economics). Recessions are usually preceded by inflation, not followed, However, wars are usually followed by inflation. Since 1960 inflation has been over 600%, en
556.
by russell 16y ago
This is one of those issues that the HN community needs to think about. The solution is not simple. A simple do-not-track option in a browser breaks a great many sites, facebook for one. do you have a do-not-track policy version 3.4, add
557.
by russell 16y ago
One thing that's missing, particularly in the tax cuts for the rich debate, is the difference in actual tax rates for us middle class and the rich. From my pay check withholding (single) I'm paying about 30%, plus my employer is paying ano
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by russell 16y ago
Many clients require a business license to avoid having you classified as a Employee. (The IRS doesnt like you. There are a dozen or so traps that they lay for you, easily avoided if you know about them. See http://ohioline.osu.edu/cd-f
559.
by russell 16y ago
I have done a little PhotoShop. My GR has done a lot of CS4. I cant imaging how MS could make it less intuitive.
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by russell 16y ago
Note that the suit was brought in east Texas which is a favorite haunt for patent trolls. As far as I know the trolls always win and the awards have become increasingly huge, way out of proportion to the actual value of the work. Gelernter
561.
by russell 16y ago
Skyline Drive: avoid it on a bike, as he says, there are crazies. However there are 30,000 acres of parks and hundreds of miles of trails and roads off Skyline. El Corte Madera a few miles north of the 84 junction (Alice's Restaurant) wh
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by russell 16y ago
Rather our oligarchical market system, where regulation is for the benefit of the regulated not the consumer. Bring back Teddy Roosevelt and the Bull Moose Party.
563.
by russell 16y ago
Thank you for pointing that out. tltrbc (to long to read between compiles. And why too long? Coding in a Java framework.) Which goes back to my original question: What are these "extra expenses".
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by russell 16y ago
Reminds me of a Science Fiction novel I read, where one of the characters was a starship based super-AI. At the bottom-most layer of software was an emulation of MS-DOS. In software, in the name of backwards-compatibility, our worse mista
565.
by russell 16y ago
Here's my problem with it: 60+% (by eyeball) of the costs are not categorized, so there is no real guidance for reform. Outpatient care is quite high, but part of that is because hospital visits are shorter in the US and many in-hospital p
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by russell 16y ago
English Channel: until about 9000 years ago you could walk across. Stone age people had boats too.No historical analogy can come close to interstellar distances.
567.
by russell 16y ago
This is the kind of thing that Jacques Littlefield (RIP) could have rescued. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Littlefield I once visited his place. Believe me, 200 tanks, vehicles, and a SCUD missile on its launcher is a sight to b
568.
by russell 16y ago
I am not an artist, but my GF is. She never uses black and rarely uses white. Instead she uses two or three pairs of complimentary colors in a painting from a (virtual) color wheel with much more gradation than the one shown in the articl
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by russell 16y ago
Early in the year I was job hunting. I live half-way between SF and LA (no jobs near home), so I was looking for jobs in both places and have worked in both. First there were way fewer jobs in LA than in The Bay Area, maybe a factor five.
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by russell 16y ago
Actually, if you click on his profile, you will see he is on the other side of the Atlantic. ;-)

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