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by sabbatic13 13y ago
What I think you meant to say is that Latin does not use pronouns in its verbal conjugations. That's a feature of most ancient Indo-European languages. It did, of course, have a full suite of pronouns used in other contexts.
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
If you ever have studied comparative-historical linguistics, you know the abbreviation is frequent and necessary. So, the question is, what are the chances that someone familiar with it might use it and not even think about it? Your respons
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
Unfortunately, y'all gets used as a singular pronoun as well.
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
Selling a t-shirt with a parody logo of a company isn't the same as a company presenting itself with a parody logo of an another company in the same space.
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
Well said. For most problems in the world, people are quick to point to a certain country, race ethnicity, religion, etc. as the most glaring example or source, when in fact people are the problems. No part of humanity can boast the largest
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
Well, point taken, but when it comes to doing things under the radar on the web, you must admit, Russians are just really good. For a certain slice of the online population, such laws won't change much.
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
And people who willfully confuse a couple dopey activist legislators from the state's goofiest city with the entire state can...what you said. Also, none of that hate for NYC, or did you not bother to read that this BS is coming from b
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
That's what I was thinking. As I read, I kept thinking "but you're just making up terms and definitions and pretending that there's some objective standard." Even for fairly standard tech terminology, usage drifts a
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
This should be getting more upvotes. It's a very interesting topic that provides a framework for understanding our society better and ourselves.
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
It's not the large tech companies that poach employees from small startups, it's other startups. Small startups pose more of a threat to the large, established companies. Some tech giants successfully obtain people by dumping seve
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
Well, I think the idea that one can deform natural language at will to conform to usage in code, and that this is somehow analytically superior is what strikes people as pretentious. Natural language is rather more complex than artificial l
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
The main problem with the article, I think, is that it tries to align the oppositions between native-born and new comer, tech and non-tech, rich and poor, educated and not, advantaged ethnic groups and disadvantaged. They don't really
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
Actually good vs. bad advertising is tricky. When ads are very targeted and try to show you things the system thinks you are looking for, you get a small number of relevant ads vs. a bunch of spam ads. In that sense, they are actually very
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
From a quick read of the census website linked, it appears that what unemployment data there is comes from the 2000 Census, whereas income data is much more current and numerous. That's rather concerning. It's also the case that u
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
It's a Latin noun, derived from an adjective, that literally means "a something of some size." That's it. The first meaning in English is "some quantity." Uses which denote or connote 'large' or &#x27
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
The CIA is a poor example. The motivation isn't there, it's not really their style, and they are rather incompetent. More importantly, if it were an American plot of some kind, the US news media wouldn't be ignoring it, they&
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
The specific rationale wouldn't be something one could really explain in less than a few pages for each of those. The overarching reason is that each of these books had a huge effect on intellectual and cultural history across a long s
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
The problem with these places is what happens, when you need to hire people to build your company. The tech world is full of impressionistic statements like 'they have a startup scene,' but when you start getting numbers on availa
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
Bullshit. 4500 undergrads, 1500 graduate students, and hundreds of faculty, and you think that every little paper they give or study they conduct is a product of the whole in a meaningful sense? The study was practically just a thought expe
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
But he's sure to get his own History channel special now, airing right after the alien guy.
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
In my experience, some narcissism is a requirement to be a startup CEO. And I don't mean that in a smart-ass way. The incessant representation of the company seems to require a strong identification of one's self with the company.
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
I wouldn't even qualify this by saying "normal." VCs are hyper-capitalists. Other people give them money with the mandate to turn a profit...period. That's the whole job. Most of us "normal" tech folk get migra
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
This fluff piece doesn't quite make sense. The tech sector is and has been for some time spread across most areas of the greater Bay Area. While nothing North of Menlo Park or in Alameda county is part of the "Silicon Valley,&quot
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
For those who think Linear B irrelevant to Hacker News except as trivia, as a non-technical person at a software company, I was casually consulted by a member of the W3C CSS3 group on arcane writing systems. One of the questions was "Do Aeg
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by sabbatic13 13y ago
The last time I checked (ca. early 2012), there were tens of thousands of untriaged bugs in the Moz Bugzilla instance. Add to that unresolved bugs in the 3M+ lines code base and multiple platforms supported, and the job is obviously huge.