sage_joch

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by sage_joch 17y ago
"New movements will arise and gain power very quickly. Obama beating Clinton was the first hint of this." I would argue that Howard Dean's 2004 candidacy was an earlier hint of this.
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by sage_joch 17y ago
My one complaint is that the the "embed image" link includes the key to let anyone edit it.
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by sage_joch 17y ago
Well it was useful for visualizing some of Yoda's lines: http://imgur.com/OZOxG.png
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by sage_joch 17y ago
The absence of Saudi Arabia is pretty interesting.
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by sage_joch 17y ago
It's a lengthy document. Luckily, they've highlighted the areas of interest.
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by sage_joch 17y ago
Your comment implies that Tetsuya might somehow get offended or discouraged by a friendly note that tries to put things in perspective. Please. I'd take real human contact over a swarm of psychologists any day in his situation.
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by sage_joch 17y ago
Banks borrow money at 0% interest and lend it to the government at 2% interest. That 2% has to come from somewhere (hint: us). Now suppose the government could also borrow at 0% interest (or print its own money, for that matter). Then taxes
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by sage_joch 17y ago
I don't have ambitions of starting a business, but I consider it a problem that I don't have any recent side projects either. Just throwaway code (from trying to learn a language), and/or notes (from trying to learn a concept). For me, the
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by sage_joch 17y ago
A bit of searching turned up this really interesting article about the two: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/07/johnson.htm .
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by sage_joch 17y ago
It comes across as hostile ("I thought of it as a kind of dominance, holding them in the kind of invisible grip you might have once seen employed by a villain in a DC comic...", etc). Am I interpreting this incorrectly? Can you elaborate on
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by sage_joch 17y ago
Play this (addicting) game in Firefox - http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm . It will record your high score. Open Chrome in incognito mode, die quickly, and see that it has kept your high score from Firefox.
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by sage_joch 17y ago
When I was interviewing for a development position, the interviewer quipped "it is interesting that you come from a testing background, but didn't even mention TDD as part of your approach." I reminded him that my approach involved adding u
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by sage_joch 18y ago
Time is at such a premium no matter what your goals are. And since this is HN, I should mention that this seems like a great idea for a startup.
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by sage_joch 18y ago
The importance of good documentation cannot be overstated. Clean code is not enough. While it can simplify the process of understanding its behavior unambiguously, it is limited in conveying its intended behavior . If a certain set of inpu
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by sage_joch 18y ago
To me it seems reasonable to have some kind of metering in place (a threshold could be placed at a high enough value that 99% of people would never run into it; the penalty for exceeding the threshold could be a slower connection, rather th
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by sage_joch 18y ago
I actually just decided to start learning Closure. I was really impressed by this introduction: http://clojure.blip.tv/file/982823 and http://clojure.blip.tv/file/982957 . I've tried to get into Lisp a number of times (largely because
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by sage_joch 18y ago
"...people kept trickling in, and I estimate there were about 400 people stuffed in the room by the end. It was standing-room only, and people were spilling out into the hall. The conclusion? The other talks must have been really boring." A
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by sage_joch 18y ago
"We ought to remember what we've had for breakfast for the past 30 days, but we can't." Bullshit - I've had Cocoa Puffs.
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by sage_joch 19y ago
I was hoping to see Feynman on this list (especially after reading the two qualities that these people had in common). Good read, though.
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by sage_joch 19y ago
He obviously hasn't read this sentence: http://ubersite.com/m/44213