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by spenrose 15y ago
What a wonderful sense of values are on display here. Let's all be like this. "Now I just had to figure out how I was going to tell me wife that we are about to move to Seattle as I should point out, at this point I hadn’t told her I was in
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by spenrose 15y ago
Thanks for all the replies. My common rejoinder is that Libertarians, including A.T., support the political choices that create the current situation (untaxed gas externalities, police budgets funded by fines, highways for private cars over
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by spenrose 15y ago
I'm a daily MR reader, so I like them, but this is classic Libertarian exercise in manipulative framing. Gasoline consumption does, in fact, increase non-linearly with speed at highway speeds. Police departments do have to pay their officer
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by spenrose 15y ago
Where did the Tea Party come from? Committed Republicans with ... strong views on race: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/opinion/crashing-the-tea-p... http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/04/new-data-on-tea-party...
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by spenrose 15y ago
What you miss is that income taxes are a small fraction of the total for the non-rich, and almost everything for the rich. Total taxes as a fraction of income are fairly flat by quintile, dropping for the very rich (multi-millionaires and b
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by spenrose 15y ago
Upvoted. I disagree with your perspective, but your comments are entirely relevant and appropriate.
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by spenrose 15y ago
Yes. The Fed has spend 30 years ensuring that labor never has the upper hand: http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/09/14/319359/how-asym... http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/the-federal-reserv... WRT manufacturing: http://ror
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by spenrose 15y ago
I've been very happy with yappi: http://code.google.com/p/yappi/ . The output is a little clunky to work with at first, but it tells you what you need to know.
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by spenrose 15y ago
Is it just me, or does the timing sound like the tech boom/bust cycle which could be expected to affect the results of all VCs, fat or lean? "In the first two or three years of Flatiron, it was basically just me and Jerry. We were deeply en
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by spenrose 15y ago
That's awesome -- and not an example of the thinking I find problematic.
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by spenrose 15y ago
I know a U.C. sufferer who is doing much better after making ... no dietary changes at all. Please don't take this the wrong way, but intermittent chronic diseases (such as auto-immune disorders like Crohn's and U.C.) might as well be desig
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by spenrose 15y ago
See also: http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20110613232554data_trunc_sy... . More broadly, the piece has a crude understanding of the complex issues around energy and cost.
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by spenrose 15y ago
Really good stuff. Well done.
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by spenrose 15y ago
Feature request: readable URLs. /title-of-story, /title-of-story/comment/username, etc.
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by spenrose 15y ago
Three of the five, by my debatable assessment, use technology to have a direct impact on human lives. Really impressed to see YC going after "stuff that matters".
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by spenrose 15y ago
The problem with viral* marketing is that you give up control of the message. * (or whatever the correct term is for HN-linked recruitment-ads-as-blog-posts)
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by spenrose 15y ago
Can someone please tell me what Myrvolhd actually DID when he was leading MS Research? I remember no innovations from MS in that era.
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by spenrose 15y ago
"In court, Amazon would have to painstakingly muster credible legal arguments and present them to a judge who, more often than not, is no fool. In a California ballot campaign, one can try to mislead voters by deploying half-truths, outrigh
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Amazon takes the low road(latimes.com)
2 points by spenrose 15y ago|1 comments
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by spenrose 15y ago
Never. iOS is constrained by the size of fingertips and its current widget system. You can make a useful UI with a smaller screen, but reworking the current code base to that screen size will never happen.
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by spenrose 15y ago
See http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/06/12/243047/a-follow... . "The Mercatus Institute’s freedom score was significantly linked to (by state)- lower educational attainment (measured by percent of Bachelor degrees or higher), lower
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US Supreme Court won't weaken presumptive strength of patents(nytimes.com)
13 points by spenrose 15y ago|4 comments
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by spenrose 15y ago
Upvoted b/c I think your rejection of Cringely is right, but the reason is different. Jobs/Apple are not in this for the money. They simply believe that iOS + cloud is a better way to compute.
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by spenrose 15y ago
Your piece nailed it. I'm not sympathetic to mmeadows' caveats. They ignore the fact that Agile (aka XP, Scrum) has sold itself as a Magic Bullet (per Brooks) for a long time. Big-A Agile proponents need to chose between big claims and plau
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by spenrose 15y ago
Now you need to write the followup, which shows how agile and Scrum are so often used to shift power from the business people to the developers without actually solving the underlying problems. (You'll have to edit parts of this piece where
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by spenrose 15y ago
I believe his description of document-based databases is mistaken WRT versioning: it's a central concept for couchdb, but not for mongodb.
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by spenrose 15y ago
Fog Creek's marketing has always seemed to me to center on Joelonsoftware.com, and then Stack Overflow, and also posts like this one. Unless I'm missing something we are part of the target market. Now, I don't have a problem with that, but
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by spenrose 15y ago
Indentation. Monospaced fonts allow much easier scanning of indentation levels. For Python this is crucial; for brace-delimited languages it's merely important for many of us.
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by spenrose 15y ago
Thanks so much for taking the time to write this. Do you have recommended followup resources? Opinions on recent books such as New Jack or When Brute Force Fails?
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by spenrose 15y ago
Did my terseness come across as sarcasm? I was actually quite sincere, and agree with everything you've said.

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