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Twitter and Google work to reduce US taxes(eu.techcrunch.com)
1 points by spenrose 15y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 15y ago
At the risk of coming off as a fanboy, I'll say that pg's essay on philosophy is my favorite of his writings: http://paulgraham.com/philosophy.html It matches my experience of getting a B.A. from a SLAC quite closely, and I regularly shar
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by spenrose 15y ago
We've only heard of Solyndra b/c the big-oil/big-coal GOP needed a talking point. Solyndra is what they came up with.
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by spenrose 15y ago
I am not sure why y'all are arguing. Either a carbon tax or better financing would help.
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by spenrose 15y ago
Wow, what a completely misinformed comment. Start here: http://energyselfreliantstates.org/content/solar-grid-parity...
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Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by spenrose 15y ago|0 comments
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Why are many Americans not working today?(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by spenrose 15y ago|1 comments
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by spenrose 15y ago
What should we make of the failure of PyPy's users to fund Maciej's work? The value of PyPy seems much, much greater than one engineer's salary.
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Hedge funds underperform in the long term(blogs.wsj.com)
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by spenrose 15y ago
Thought much of this applied to the mindset of a programmer entering their second decade of work. "the biggest misconception that non-mathematicians have about how mathematicians think is that there is some mysterious mental faculty that is
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What is it like to have an understanding of very advanced mathematics?(quora.com)
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by spenrose 15y ago
pyflakes compiles your code, pychecker imports it, which is not idempotent -- all top-level statements are executed. pyflakes will throw some false positives, but not many. pychecker will fill your terminal with opinions. pyflakes is IMHO a
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by spenrose 15y ago
The patient's mind no longer works, making suicide impossible. We aren't given enough detail about the earlier stages to know what choices she faced earlier, but being the mother of very small children would have complicated the issues arou
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by spenrose 15y ago
WRT this topic, I tend to agree with you. But Ron Paul is not some Valley Libertarian. Did you know that Ron Paul doesn't believe in evolution?: http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/08/29/307010/the-cont... More broadly: http://www.tnr
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by spenrose 15y ago
If you know what you believe about SOPA (and its Senate equivalent), ignore the stream, call your Congress critters, and tell them what you think. Then after the vote, call them and thank or complain. No, it's not much, but it's almost cert
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by spenrose 15y ago
Jobs ran Apple. He didn't run Pixar. He had a similar title at Pixar, but his role was completely different.
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by spenrose 15y ago
Greg Wilson did a book, which I did not enjoy, on this topic: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596808303.do and a slideshow, which I recommend: http://www.slideshare.net/gvwilson/bits-of-evidence-2338367 . My take is that there is mu
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The man who coined "software" and "bit"(nytimes.com)
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by spenrose 15y ago
More details: http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/07/362705/krugman-sola...
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by spenrose 15y ago
You provide a link from 2009 (!) which states that the "levelized" capital cost of nuclear is higher than that of solar PV. Fail and fail. Current solar PV prices are much lower than they were expected to be in 2009 -- that's part of why So
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by spenrose 15y ago
"Here’s what you do instead: write integration tests for the critical parts of your application." Yes! The "unit" in unit tests makes sense when "units" are what define your code -- because you are delivering units. If you are delivering ap
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by spenrose 15y ago
Many of the lessons he mentions here jibe with what I learned co-developing a system based on interacting single-threaded processes. I especially like the emphasis on how important and difficult it is to test and measure and the value of re
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by spenrose 15y ago
"Next time it could be you" is not the only or even best motivation for practicing compassion and tolerance. I have been cold called by inept recruiters and hired by companies with barely competent ones. Nurturing contempt for them does not
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by spenrose 15y ago
A large fraction of the 47% are the elderly. The evil rank dishonesty of the people who started this meme (not the useful ignorant who spread it) is highlighted by the fact that the elderly are their electoral base. Rich men are encouraging
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by spenrose 15y ago
More on this topic: http://www.selfsufficiencystandard.org/ It's bad out there. Most people live lives of quiet desperation.
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by spenrose 15y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/health/19babies.html And yes, it's not clear that iPads are a problem. But it's not clear that they aren't, and you are messing around with their brain wiring.
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by spenrose 15y ago
My bad; thanks to philwelch and saraid for flagging the error. The resulting discussion is interesting, as is 13 upvotes for a post based on a misreading :-). FWIW, my favorite bit on programmer's understanding each other's work is Yegge's
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by spenrose 15y ago
"Clients and fellow programmers are still happy with your work two years after you've delivered it." Disagree. The first system I wrote kept the client happy for years. It was a mess, but it was literally millions of dollars better than not
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by spenrose 15y ago
As a parent, I would be very wary of exposing a child that small to any screen for extended periods of time.
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by spenrose 15y ago
Agile "works" because neither "agile" nor "works" is well defined. (Some agile methodologies are well-defined, of course.)

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