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by spenrose 15y ago
“What if I could take out my phone and say, ‘Zipcar, come here,’ ” he asked an industry conference last year, “and a moment later the Zipcar came around the corner?” So nice to see an organization with so much wealth and power spending it o
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by spenrose 15y ago
Magic Ink is my single favorite statement on software design: http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk
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by spenrose 16y ago
One thing the richest people are VERY good at is paying themselves. If double taxation of capital were a problem, they could solve it by paying themselves salaries instead. They don't. I'm speaking of the executives here, of course. A bunch
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by spenrose 16y ago
I map Ctrl-Fx for F1 to F8 to each of my 8 virtual desktops, and have specific tasks (and window sets) open on each of them -- mostly xterms and emacs buffers. A couple of keystrokes always finds what I need. The key is establishing a task-
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by spenrose 16y ago
The thrust of this post is wrong; while I'm looking for a good breakdown of tax burden by quintile I'll just observe: "We live in NYC and according to our accountants, we pay a marginal fully loaded tax rate of 47.62%. That means we keep ab
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by spenrose 16y ago
More on this theme: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230401740457516... http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/09/harvardperetz-cont... http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/11/the-best...
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by spenrose 16y ago
Excellent stuff. One issue Murphey's slides mention only glancingly is the Javascript-as-visual-design-aid vs. Javascript-as-programming-medium conflict. If jQuery is DOM-centric, well, a whole lot of JS jobs are "make it look professional
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by spenrose 16y ago
The reason is race: http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/7871.pdf and many others. Search for "Truman health care reform". As in many other democracies, America's right wing party is a coalition of the military, established business, th
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by spenrose 16y ago
"the exclusivity of Harvard isn't "an excuse to do something mean", but rather an effort to create conditions where our smartest youngsters can get together and really change the world." Where by "change the world" you mean "continue to see
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by spenrose 16y ago
While I think several of the responses to petervandijck are on target WRT Horowitz, Peter nails two major HN dysfunctions in one short post: - executive hero-worship - living in a fantasy world where parenting is not a fundamental a
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by spenrose 16y ago
He doesn't use the cPickle binary format, which is significantly faster: http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html#pickle.HIGHEST_PR...
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by spenrose 16y ago
Those professions are characterized by the value of replicating previous work. The "problem space" involved in removing an appendix or flying a Cessna on a specific route is just much, much smaller and simpler than the problem spaces softwa
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by spenrose 16y ago
If SF were a low-tax place that noticed a bunch of businesses coming in and decided to harvest cash from them, this line of reasoning would make sense. Instead, SF is a high-cost, high-tax place where businesses are founded in droves. Twitt
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Twitter wants to leave SF for a suburb over $1,500/employee in taxes(sfexaminer.com)
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by spenrose 16y ago
Evaluating regulations by count is like evaluating software by lines of code. Cato is DEFINITELY using Orwellian language: http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2011/03/the-kochs-and-the-...
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by spenrose 16y ago
"Preventing the government from regulating the Internet" is not on offer by anyone. Existing government regulations give certain companies oligopoly power, whose rents they are using to finance (via Boehner) opposition to further regulation
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My point is that Cato's professed ideology is contrary to the fights it actually undertakes, while the fights it undertakes are in service of those who pay its bills. Cato's corporate funders are opposed to free markets, and so is Cato. Cat
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by spenrose 16y ago
The problem with this line of reasoning is that it requires a starting point of free actors entering into commerce with each other. If "government" were not involved here, none of these service providers would exist at all. They have been g
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by spenrose 16y ago
Cato supports its corporate masters: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Industries#C...
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by spenrose 16y ago
If you look at http://radar.oreilly.com/upload/2011/02/AllYearsLanguages.jp... , what Java did was no so much "retake the top" as "slide backwards, while watching the languages previously above it slide back further." One might go so far a
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by spenrose 16y ago
Yes, it's a wart. You learn the patterns he mentions pretty quickly.
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by spenrose 16y ago
Felix Salmon argues that the stock market disconnected from the real economy some time ago; I think he's right: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/opinion/14Salmon.html
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by spenrose 16y ago
Because we are social animals who automatically situate ourselves in hierarchies with those around us, and non-managers with grey in their hair create instant conflicts for many young adults' social-hierarchy construction reactions. We have
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by spenrose 16y ago
I almost sent them a critic-gram about this one, then I stopped and thought. I suspect their method is measuring the fraction of JS activity which is self-perceived as "programming" in the sense of software engineering . Rightly or wrongly
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by spenrose 16y ago
I'm with uvdiv here: the idea that the modern oil industry exists due to path dependence ignores the massive fact that petroleum was by far the most concentrated, easily transported exploitable form of energy on the planet in the 19th centu
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by spenrose 16y ago
It's common because the legal environment around hiring is so fraught. It's not merely a cultural habit; there's significant money at stake.
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by spenrose 16y ago
Ken Auletta got outstanding sources at Google because he had already climbed his way to the top of the journalistic food chain. If he hadn't, his sources would not have spoken with him. See also: why can't all students with decent grades ge
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by spenrose 16y ago
This is a terrible article. The heart of the projected deficit is increased medical spending -- if you don't deal with that, nothing else matters much, and vice-versa. Social Security is projected to be in balance for decades, then modestly
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by spenrose 16y ago
Is the antimatter arsenic-based?
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by spenrose 16y ago
(1) Healthfulness of food is a continuum, not a boolean. (2) "Ready made" meals covers almost the full spectrum. (3) Achilles heel of the best (really, all) frozen meals (say, Gardenburger with side of broccoli, or vegetable-centric Amy's)

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