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by slurry 13y ago
Coase's book The Nature of the Firm , which I read for some reason for pleasure while I was in grad school for a completely unrelated subject, stands out to me as one of the most elegant, lucidly-thought and well-presented books I&#x2
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by slurry 13y ago
I'm old enough to remember a time when minicomputers and mainframes were where 'serious' computing was done. Microcomputer platforms like Windows and Linux gradually cannibalized their way up until practically nothing was lef
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by slurry 13y ago
That's certainly true now, and the Android team is on record regretting the decision. It would have been the correct engineering principle for a general purpose computer but obviously fails for a consumer content consumption node. Curr
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by slurry 13y ago
The smoothness thing is actually an architectural choice. On Windows and iOS, the multitasking subsystem will stop the world for a user gesture. On Android it treats a user gesture as one task to handle among many.
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by slurry 13y ago
Viruses.
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by slurry 13y ago
It's especially interesting in light of shareholder activism by Value Act. Value Act had been against the devices strategy. Two days ago they struck a deal to get a seat on MSFT's board[0]. Was this part of the deal? Or is this an
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by slurry 13y ago
> This essay makes a fallacy case, "it is this way, therefore it must be this way". It takes a lot of liberties with evidence to come to a crazy conclusion. "A trend doesn't make a law" is a better argument when
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by slurry 13y ago
All those microcomputer designs you cited were very important but they depended on decades of military-industrial funding for transistor miniaturization to work.
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by slurry 13y ago
I know I characterized your argument a bit harshly. It's probably true? In some cases? All? I don't know. The paper doesn't rule it out. It does purport to show that causality does run the other way [as well]. Anyway, I just
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by slurry 13y ago
If you're curious about causality could have saved yourself the trouble of constructing these thought experiments by reading the abstract: "[W]e examined the cognitive function of farmers over the planting cycle. We found that the
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by slurry 13y ago
Bull market for acetylene gas and mountain wranglers.
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by slurry 13y ago
Only in the sense you can convert PDFs to native format through your Amazon account. It works fine when you have a clean PDF with nothing but serial text (e.g. a novel). Completely useless if your document is a less than perfect OCR job, if
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by slurry 13y ago
The information you're curious about does not seem to be in the public record. It's not easy to convey things like that through journalists, especially business journalists. Some of it may not even exist: some of the best coders I
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by slurry 13y ago
a. What's wrong with a fashion magazine? Vogue adds a metric ton more value to civil discourse than most business magazines combined. b. Given the borderline-soft-porn treatment Elon Musk gets around here, I think we should collectivel
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by slurry 13y ago
I remember it. It wasn't as loud (because anyone with half a brain would be ashamed to say it) but it existed.
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by slurry 13y ago
should be shocking only to the recent generation of coders who have become "code hipsters." The guys looking for the Next Big Thing™ in programming languages. This was written in 1983: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl
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by slurry 13y ago
I have a couple of older relatives who were gentleman's-C athlete types at an Ivy League school. Majored in History or something. Both very successful in banking. Some things they have in common are: they're both very slow to form
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by slurry 13y ago
Had an old boss who was a Romance languages PhD dropout. He told me that Borges' first language was English (his father was half-English and it was the primary language at home), he went to boarding school in Switzerland, so he basical
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by slurry 13y ago
At the same time, it's naive to look back on the past as a monolith, where just everyone was racist, sexist, etc. until - what's our cutoff point, the 60s, 70s, 80s? 90s, even? Borges' best work was arguably done in the 40s
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by slurry 13y ago
I noticed that too.
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by slurry 13y ago
"(One could theoretically hope that gender-studies departments at various universities should find it productive to scrutinize the differences in these patriarchal, sexist regimes in order to understand the nature of the cultural diffe
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by slurry 13y ago
"Actually, in strong patriarchal societies, these sort of behaviours are NOT tolerated, mostly because women are assumed to always "belong" to someone else (be it her dad, husband, tutor... whatever), and when people DO try f
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by slurry 13y ago
In the really large server-side systems we're talking about here (banks, defense, etc.) both developer productivity and maximum speed rank way, way below other factors, such as having long-lived processes.
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by slurry 13y ago
I don't agree, but why's this relevant here?
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by slurry 14y ago
First rule of internet tech blagging: desktop/consumer space is the only thing that matters. See: Linux everywhere on servers and embedded devices, internet still obsessing about whether "grandma" can use it to play solitaire. See also: PHP
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by slurry 14y ago
Microsoft had licensed Java code under a trade agreement and was found to have violated the terms of that trade agreement. Google had not licensed Java code, and was sued under patent law. Totally different kind of case.
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by slurry 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A4germeister
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by slurry 14y ago
This is one of the reasons why German universities consistently underperform in international rankings.
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by slurry 14y ago
>Perhaps, but it's worth noting that Toyota and Nissan took something like 20-30 years of persistence to gain respect and success in the American marketplace. I had a great uncle who used to get drunk rant about how (this is probably in
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by slurry 14y ago
> The question is whether electric technology is so revolutionary as to require a complete redesign of the car, (e.g. body panels and frame) in which case Tesla's approach may win out. Aren't the body panels and frame of a Tesla basical

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