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by sqrt17 7y ago
In that case it's the regional "Guitar Center" or "Yamaha Music School" or whatever that provides (i) a marketplace that also lends credibility to the instruction and (ii) scaling via group lessons and as a result t
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by sqrt17 7y ago
The article gives a definition of what they mean by middle class in absolute terms: - being able to afford durable goods such as motorcycles and washing machines - not having to fear extreme poverty due to illness or unemployment right aw
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by sqrt17 7y ago
> fighting change vs just not trusting someone who didn't come from where they came from Maybe they just did a sensible assessment of the options. - Is there a risk in being dependent on an SaaS business that may rise prices or go o
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by sqrt17 7y ago
Brave Browser has micropayments for exactly this Ads-vs-Micropayments rationale
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by sqrt17 7y ago
Python as a text processing language has been less convenient than Perl for a long time Python+(Django, Flask) as a Web service language hasn't been as convenient as Ruby on Rails for some time Python+numpy as a numeric computation lan
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by sqrt17 7y ago
> Single author, no affiliation, snarky language. I'd say that all of these are factors that don't add or detract from the value of the paper itself - it's a "hey I tried this and it works ok despite not going in the
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by sqrt17 7y ago
The pertinent question would be: why would you exclude sales and marketing from the gross margin, but include support costs. Ostensibly you are able to scale back sales and marketing without alienating your existing customers, but realistic
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by sqrt17 7y ago
> they get an IE6-sized kick in the teeth. as in: people will continue to suffer for about a decade while good alternatives readily spring up but suffer slow adoption?
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by sqrt17 7y ago
The Amstrad CPC (under CP/M I guess) had a French LOGO, where it wouldn't be "forward 10" but "avance 10". I think what mostly kills the appeal is 1) The actual keywords in the language are not that many (<5
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by sqrt17 7y ago
So many times this - there are many factors that are correlated to being rich and healthy which are do not present a suitable intervention opportunity.
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by sqrt17 7y ago
round() is specifically about rounding to decimal places, and there are other, faster functions for the more common cases
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by sqrt17 7y ago
KeepassXC - it's not as comfortable as Keepass on MacOSX but it does the job. And it's open source with no one in danger of running away with your passwords.
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by sqrt17 7y ago
The academic origins give the language a clarity that's great, at the same time macros and implicits and other language features make IDE support slow and error-prone and the compilation process as a whole rather slower than Java'
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by sqrt17 7y ago
The only way I've seen this addressed is using the idea that late responders are more similar to non-responders than early responders - so in a study where you suspect that non-responders have a different bias to responders you'd
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by sqrt17 7y ago
To quote from the article, > We polled our users and asked them what they would be willing do donate and the average was twenty seven dollars, and of course we have thousands of users Which is based on the illusion that you get an unbias
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by sqrt17 7y ago
The point being that calling a book exchange a "Little Free Library" introduces the term Library. Effectively, people are paying license fees to a company in the midwest because they want them to be a Little version of something t
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by sqrt17 8y ago
> If fork() can't even handle multiple threads, what is the real point of having it when a 8 core 16 threads AMD processor ... These threads and those threads are not the same. The 16-threads SMT processor will happily chew on 16 di
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by sqrt17 8y ago
Ethics is about humans in general, while Free Software primarily cares about the freedoms of software tinkerers. Most people won't magically feel more free or more ethical when their Wifi card stops working because something or someone
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by sqrt17 8y ago
> Nobody has the responsibility to do anything for free. In general, yes. If you call something an Open Source project, however you take on certain responsabilities that you wouldn't otherwise have, such as not playing bait-and-swit
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by sqrt17 8y ago
What's the difference between a "docker run ubuntu:latest" and this?
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by sqrt17 8y ago
> when they are not allowed to share their land with the landless. this seems to be aggravated by zoning laws and NIMBYism in the US where localities will not tolerate high-density housing that is an eyesore but provides little homes to
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by sqrt17 8y ago
Having to debug closed-source software is not fun either. Plus in many cases you're left with crappy documentation and no access to the source code.
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by sqrt17 8y ago
My art history example does fly if we're talking about students. The question then would be - what about faculty? Why is faculty still mostly male when students are mostly female. And the answer is that the faculty selection process is
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by sqrt17 8y ago
> "They are not interested in computers" is a huge cliché. So which non-cliché reasons do you see? Motivation goes beyond "being interested" in something. If you ask why there aren't more men studying art history
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by sqrt17 8y ago
> and your evidence for this is ....? If we look at other professions (business, law, medicine), we'd find more discrimination but also more women. So discrimination is unlikely as a sole cause. > Only when the job became prestig
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by sqrt17 8y ago
The difference being, being a doctor is (in many parts of the world) both more challenging/competitive and better paid than programming. You explain with discrimination (which was real in the 50s according to most evidence we have) wha
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by sqrt17 8y ago
> a computer that can't access the internet is just a toy or a paperweight to them. which would be a thing unheard of if we were still in 1993. We aren't, and you find people happily using iOS or Android devices that do mostly
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by sqrt17 8y ago
> Scientific method is a great tool - for the type of questions that it is designed to deal with - and a disaster waiting to happen if used for other areas of inquiry. ... which is why the actual sciences (and other research disciplines)
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by sqrt17 8y ago
Yet another example where a user data profile is created and anyone but the actual user whose data it is will claim that the data is theirs. It's the (now-)unsavoury point of platform businesses, who step into the business relation bet
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by sqrt17 8y ago
use Apache-2.0 then. It's longer in text but people are already using it and know what the terms mean. The point of the whole exercise is to use a small set of well-known licenses and keep things out of the hands of lawyers (which is a

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