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by skylan_q 14y ago
He's gotten remarkably good at not making testable recommendations or predictions. That's the problem with empirical economics with idealistic theories. You can't separate the variables, so there's always another excuse to weasel yourself
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by skylan_q 14y ago
I can give him a break on predictions, as no one can be good at predictions on this sort of thing. Just lucky. What really bothers me is what he advocates... To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring hous
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by skylan_q 14y ago
Actually, one of my favorite blogs is http://www.greaterfool.ca ;) I'm familiar with the greater fool theory. But people buy commodities, currencies and financial instruments on this expectation of increased future valuation. There could
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by skylan_q 14y ago
People value units of money because of their expected purchasing power; money will allow people to receive real goods and services in the future, and hence people are willing to give up real goods and services now in order to attain cash b
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by skylan_q 14y ago
I suppose I've just learned to really appreciate the "?" and "!" at the end of ruby function names...
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by skylan_q 14y ago
While looking through the slides, I was wondering: Is there some community-standard way of naming/declaring a JS function to let the programmer know just by reading the function's name that it will return a promise instead of a final comput
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by skylan_q 14y ago
I'm in southern Ontario. My experience: A few years mostly doing development on a LAMP stack and admin stuff on Linux/Windows systems along with some iOS dev thrown in there. Salaried at $50k from my day job and doing some part-time work.I'
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by skylan_q 14y ago
Google has been shutting down features left, right and centre. I'm left wondering: what useful thing has google done since gmail and ads?
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by skylan_q 14y ago
Where have all the grown-ups gone? What ever happened to those people who didn't have to make a scene of things that should have just been ignored?
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by skylan_q 14y ago
I've considered making a resume where the first half of the first page is just a paragraph filled with as many high-profile buzzwords as possible. I'm still curios to see what would happen.
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by skylan_q 14y ago
I've played this one too much. Very fun.
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by skylan_q 14y ago
That's because it's thousands of miles away and freaking in the middle of NOWHERE. Why, rationally, should it cost the same as sending a letter across town? That was the point of it; to socialize the cost of mail delivery. Now why would w
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by skylan_q 14y ago
I once spent a week tracking down a bug and I felt like popping out the champagne once we got it figured out and fixed! If they had been working on this for 30 years, I could only imagine the joy and exhilaration of squashing this bug...
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by skylan_q 14y ago
Because there are thousands of Canadians every year that go bankrupt because of health care costs. Actually, there are. They go the US to get care that's not offered in Canada. The care here is about as good as former soviet bloc countrie
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by skylan_q 14y ago
"Windows error alerts. If you’ve used Windows then you’re familiar with the limited help that happens when an error occurs. So this popup is actually pretty clear on what needs to happen, but WHY isn’t the URL clickable? Okay, maybe that w
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by skylan_q 14y ago
"I don't see what the problem being discussed has to do with how glands reduce activity in certain parts of the brain. Sounds to me like a fancy way of saying 'people don't perform well under stress'." That's how I read it as well. But this
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by skylan_q 14y ago
The way in which code is modified in Lisp is generally in the source code itself, and overtly in the run-time environment or binaries. The latter might be what you're alluding to. Allowing code to be treated as data is a very powerful thing
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by skylan_q 14y ago
There's a difference between "You're going to die" and "It is very unlikely you'll make it"
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by skylan_q 14y ago
The Wild West refers to the west when Americans first started settling in the West and were largely out of the reaches of the army and federal government.
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by skylan_q 14y ago
I never knew why they called it the wild west. It was very tame.
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by skylan_q 14y ago
No, I just believe that this is an attack on personal responsibility. No need to demonize.
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by skylan_q 14y ago
That's the correct conclusion. Now one has to ask why someone who didn't make the mistake of living in a flood plain has to pay for those who choose to continue to take that risk. This attitude is all about destroying the notion of personal
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by skylan_q 14y ago
>Some societies don't have the luxury of an idle childhood. I don't bother arguing this point because pretty much anyone who hasn't taken part in nor witnessed this won't be able to comprehend. For whatever reason, it's assumed de facto
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by skylan_q 14y ago
The beginning of the end of copyright. :)
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by skylan_q 14y ago
I guess some of this knowledge is helpful or necessary for people who want to know JS inside-out. Nevertheless, none of that code looked like anything a programmer would write if they respected readability and conveyance of code. Maybe I'm
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by skylan_q 14y ago
The gov't bodies largely determine the law, so they've determined that the farmer only bought the land above the mineral deposits. ;)
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by skylan_q 14y ago
I completely understand where you're coming from. I'm in Canada, and all the above is reasons why I rent right now. "Why do you want to own a house?" It's actually not a bad proposition now in the US. Housing starts are heading up, prices a
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by skylan_q 14y ago
It's hard to defeat dogma. Those who aren't willing to suspend disbelief and take on a reasonably skeptical mindset on these matters will get what they deserve. Believe the stuff is good? Believe it's bad? Either way, best of luck to ya. ;)
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by skylan_q 14y ago
I'd say #1 isn't an Objective-C issue, but a Cocoa issue. Do not tarnish the wonderful language with the terrible framework. :)
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by skylan_q 14y ago
"Why this works: This question is a minefield that traps most candidates. If you answer too honestly—"I'm irritable in the morning and bad at time management"—you're an instant no-hire." I love this question. To me, the above reads as "we d

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