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by slpsys 17y ago
Hot News: Bullshit Metascience Calls Bullshit on Science. "Odds are, it has." If you're going to call out research as pseudoscience, don't write unvalidated statements like this.
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by slpsys 17y ago
They do communicate, it's only CA law that sales tax on phones are for the unsubsidized price; it's not like either party is unaware of this. You also don't ostensibly pay a 'subsidy', they're 'giving' you the $400 in exchange for a 2 year
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by slpsys 17y ago
Not so sure about that, Matt Taibbi is pretty well known for being up on his shit, regardless of the fact that it's published in Rolling Stone. I think the actual distribution of the publication is more of a limiting factor than any potenti
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by slpsys 17y ago
A-ha, yeah. I read that originally as Java and C# pulling in opposite directions in a fundamental way, not as a mind-/market-share sense
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by slpsys 17y ago
"with C# pulling the other way" Care to elaborate (I'm legitimately unsure what you mean, not being snarky)?
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by slpsys 17y ago
Siebel mentions this point, off-handedly, in covering Guy Steele's take, and yeah, I agree.
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by slpsys 17y ago
I'm not sure what's more egregious, Pepsi's app, or PCMag's ads.
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by slpsys 17y ago
Yeah, I saw the words 'design' and 'manufacture', and thought, "This is not Zappos for pants."
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by slpsys 17y ago
Yeah, what's wrong with lower haight? It's way nicer/more unassuming.
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by slpsys 17y ago
In my humble opinion, it doesn't matter so much where you sleep as much as where you hang out/hack/work (you are an entrepreneur, yes? why are you sleeping?). I presently live in NOPA, and for me, it's easier to find cheap housing, and a qu
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by slpsys 17y ago
Ok. Normally, the articles on HN with similar titles about quitting this or that are an exposition having to do with some technical or moral appraisal of the service; this is just a complaint that he no longer finds himself needing or wanti
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by slpsys 17y ago
Re: the hockey stick--m..maybe? This is entirely anecdotal evidence, but the "San Francisco" network spreads pretty far across the entire Bay Area (which is pretty quick to adopt services like this, obviously), and you can still find yourse
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by slpsys 17y ago
There are also a limited number of players, and those players are employed only by the good graces of the league. In the case of broadcast, there are a very limited number of distributors, and they distribute live images of the game. In the
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by slpsys 17y ago
Not the same at all--the HN title is a little misleading. Membership (pricey!) buys you access to $500,000 worth of tools and facilities, not just outlets and comfy chairs/wacky furniture. I've been complaining for years about not being abl
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by slpsys 17y ago
While an interesting find, this looks like basically like a slower-moving, less insightful (no/hobbled comment system) version of HN.
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by slpsys 17y ago
Sub ASK HN: Where's the best place to view these in the Bay Area?
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by slpsys 17y ago
Nice! I've been waiting for the Clojure A-Z serious interview for while.
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by slpsys 17y ago
How do you know they would have?
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by slpsys 17y ago
That's not being fair, that's being contrary. If StackOverflow was a stupid idea or poorly executed, no one would use it. Yes, they announced it from a pretty tall pulpit, but if no one cared what either of them had to say--for or against--
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by slpsys 17y ago
“I think it’s not a technology problem,” he said. “I think it’s a human problem, that there are very few people like you and me.” While I can certainly sympathize with someone whose dream goes unfulfilled, blaming the Internet at large for
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by slpsys 17y ago
This was my first thought when I read the entry, as well. I felt somewhat silly sharing it for its own sake, but I found that line to be very poignant.
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by slpsys 17y ago
That actually makes a lot of sense, in context; I was wondering why/how Rich had enough time to pore over some random guy's implementation of ants, not knowing much about Pascal (until this HN thread). I think if people ignorant to his own
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by slpsys 17y ago
I completely agree with this statement. Further, what scares me about this article is that he's basically reasserting every programmer's mindset in a different context: "Writing new code is awesome! Maintaining this giant mass of code sucks
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by slpsys 17y ago
I'm also confused by their own summary: "According to the results, the quicker a cultural item rockets to popularity, the quicker it dies. This pattern occurs because people believe that items that are adopted quickly will become fads, lead
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by slpsys 17y ago
Long after the point, but I explicitly stated, ".. not in that it shouldn't have been posted, .." The line 'having much to do with tech' was also referring to the human capital he was talking about, decidedly _not_ the article itself. I agr
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by slpsys 17y ago
I'm not sure how relevant this article is to HN; not that in the sense that it shouldn't have been posted, but it's focused squarely on human capital as it relates to Wall Street. A perfectly fine approach, and relevant for Yahoo Finance, b
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by slpsys 17y ago
Awesome write up! We're evaluating moving from m1.large software load balancers running HAProxy, and the newer EC2 services go woefully underdocumented for periods of time.
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by slpsys 17y ago
Underrated response.
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by slpsys 17y ago
And this was written before Java's garbage collector was even good.
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by slpsys 17y ago
Came here to post the same. What a wacky assertion. Incidentally, I searched for "alan sugar ipod will die" (no quotes), and this page was the #1 Google result. The IndiaTimes article was #3. That doesn't make me confident it was an accurat

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