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481.
by rw 18y ago
Someone please compare Clojure to PLT Scheme.
482.
by rw 18y ago
Additionally, professor wages are among the most compressed. At my university, it is often cheaper to keep on professors who are old enough to retire, instead of hiring fresh talent.
483.
by rw 18y ago
Write a vim plugin for scheme!
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by rw 18y ago
Don't get open-ear headphones. I received some nice entry-level ones (Grado SR60), and they sound wonderful - but background noise is a problem. The coffee shop-office strategy takes some experimentation to get right.
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by rw 18y ago
On the "getting started" page, there is a heading called "Register Machines". The first thing I thought of was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_machine . Given your audience, that choice of words might be confusing :)
486.
by rw 18y ago
This sort of story is important; I don't care if we call this "Hacker News" or not. [edit]: If you disagree, reply .
487.
by rw 18y ago
As opposed to a small hologram? :)
488.
by rw 18y ago
Transcript?
489.
by rw 18y ago
What was the most negative score?
490.
by rw 18y ago
Let us not forget the salaries of administrators. Administrative bloat is a huge problem at many universities, and a large number of these people get higher salaries than tenured professors. Is this personnel overhead necessary? Why can't p
491.
by rw 18y ago
Counter-intuitively, we must be willing to be playfully creative if we want to make serious money. Let's reintroduce enjoyment into what we do. Sustainable creativity is not possible without levity and experimentation.
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by rw 18y ago
There is apparent homogeneity in the mass media, especially TV. This is a problem for those who want a vibrant and effective civil society.
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by rw 18y ago
Not voting for someone does not mean you have no confidence in her ability to act in a correct way. It means you preferred her less to others. There's a problem in the U.S. in which, once the presidential candidates are narrowed down to the
494.
by rw 18y ago
1. - 0.2 = 0.8 is typically a B-. Is there a different grading scale there?
495.
by rw 18y ago
I often fail to provide enough examples when explaining my intuitions to others.
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by rw 18y ago
Final quote: "So let me spell out my thoughts explicitly: If success is the carrot, then failure is the stick, and I think we do our best work when we are conscious of both."
497.
by rw 18y ago
Learning to consistently (>25%) hit the very edge of the table, so that the ball drops almost straight to the floor, is so awesome .
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by rw 18y ago
Krugman and other macroeconomists do not generally dispute those commonly-held microeconomic assumptions. Where they differ, and what the original article is referring to when he says "Keynes vs. Friedman", are in the macroeconomic models.
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by rw 18y ago
Often, the discussion will focus on a few sticky points, and skip much of the interesting or least-debatable content in the original article.
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by rw 18y ago
False dichotomy. Interesting, anyway.
501.
by rw 18y ago
Your sample size sounds small, given the collection of books O'Reilly has. Regardless, even idiots can say wise things (perhaps accidentally). So, your initial complaint amounts to an ad hominem attack. Do you have a problem with the post,
502.
by rw 18y ago
Many would say O'Reilly books are good or great. How did you come to your opinion?
503.
by rw 18y ago
I hear Revelation Space there :)
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by rw 18y ago
I recommend NetLogo. It is simple to learn, LISP-inspired, and makes it trivially easy to do all sorts of graphical work. It runs on the JVM. (I took a class in which we used NetLogo to run agent-based economics simulations. Lots of fun,
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by rw 18y ago
The right, naturally, hates you.
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by rw 18y ago
Do you agree with that quote? Do you think "less distortionary taxation" is a reasonable price to pay for, say, no public grade schools, especially in at-risk communities?
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by rw 18y ago
I think of ideas and their implementation(s) as complexity classes. Your situation is one of the following: EE: easy idea, easy implementation (Plenty Of Fish) HE: hard idea, easy implementation (arithmetic coding) EH: easy idea, hard imple
508.
by rw 18y ago
Yes.
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by rw 18y ago
For those of us unable to watch the video - what is the explanation?
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by rw 18y ago
Summary?

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