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by stuki 19y ago
As long as America maintains a comparative advantage in producing startups and printing stock certificates, what's wrong with Americans trading these for stuff Europeans are better at producing, like fancy suits and deconstructionist manif
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by stuki 19y ago
Even then, widespread aversion to hiring from one of two equally productive groups creates a big incentive to break the mold. And that incentive will only keep increasing as long as no one steps out. In the limit case, you pretty much have
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by stuki 19y ago
Just imagine the level of job candidates you could be selecting amongst if you were the only one hiring from a population as big as the black community. In any competitive field, employers are fairly limited in how 'racist' they can be in
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by stuki 19y ago
Another big advantage for Silicon Valley: Rich (from tech or real estate) parents supportive of playing around with computers instead of getting a real job.
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by stuki 19y ago
....And IBM Intellistations for desktop use. They're almost studio pc quiet, built like a powermac, and I have never had a single problem with one. They even ship with a decent keyboard. Just can't go wrong buying IBM....
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by stuki 19y ago
IIS7 is Vista/Longhorn only. Major reason to upgrade for developers. Also, like mattmaroon above, I fail to see why people hate Vista so much. I have no problems with it. Its stable, has support for my hardware and seems fast enough. And
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by stuki 19y ago
Check out Gemstone/S. A distributed, persistent and transactional Smalltalk image. It's flat out cool. As far as I know, they have even ported Seaside to run on top of it, which would make it the ne plus ultra for rich object model web app
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by stuki 19y ago
Really good C++ programmers are often unwilling to give up the control and power (in practical terms) of the language + libraries. Any piece of code written in a higher level language can always be 'improved' upon / optimized in C/C++, whi
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by stuki 19y ago
I think the reason is simply that desktop software is in many ways already a mature field, with few earth shattering developments in the last decade or so, while web apps are a more recent phenomenon, and hence more 'exciting'. Most of th
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by stuki 19y ago
By encrypted mail, I meant end to end, pgp style encryption. For this to be of much use, Google (nor anybody else) would not have my private key, so all they see is a wall of random bytes. The very core of what makes Gmail so enjoyable is
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by stuki 19y ago
Reliance on mail content for search and ad placement makes it less than ideal if the world is moving towards encrypted mail, which it ought to.
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by stuki 19y ago
If my future choices are being stuck coding in JS, Flash/As or Silverlight, I'm rooting for MS, monopoly or not. Despite what Joel seems to think, though, I still believe the general trend will be for successful browser apps to move out o
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by stuki 19y ago
Frank Soltis used to gloat that Microsoft ran on as/400. They supposedly even tried to port to NT, but failed miserably and had to roll back. http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc/.5bfa7907
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by stuki 19y ago
Coke Zero, Diet Coke with and without caffeine, milk, oatmeal and cinnamon. If I exercise, I also get cravings for meat, veggies, fruit and pasta, which helps confirm the healthiness of exercise. I wish I could get caffeine free Coke Zero,
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by stuki 19y ago
The way I learned it is the natural alertness cycle is sinusoidal, and by taking stimulants strategically timed one can square it off. That way one can increase total hours of close to peak alertness, as well as make sleep deeper and heavi
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by stuki 19y ago
If the price of gas goes high enough (i.e. global peak oil with sharp declines like the North Sea), people will pay up front to lower gas consumption one way or the other. Even in Mississippi. That doesn't necessarily mean buying hybrids,
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by stuki 19y ago
Nice find! That guy has lots of good stuff on his site.
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by stuki 19y ago
"...100 of his vocal supporters can dictate the stories for a site with 100,000 users." Only for as long as the 100,000 is reasonably happy with what the 100 is providing them. Otherwise you'd think they'd have the sense to either start do
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by stuki 19y ago
Homeschooling doesn't have to mean preventing your kid from socializing with other kids. Most zip codes have a large enough home schooling community to provide plenty of similarly, and for that matter, differently, aged kids to interact wi
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by stuki 19y ago
Video conference units are awesome in work from home developer scenarios. When collaborating on code, the ability to see the guy at the other end coding away, is soooo much better than wondering if he hung up or got disconnected when he st
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by stuki 19y ago
" foo() is equivalent to foo " Man, I hate that 'feature' of Ruby. In Python, foo is the function, foo() the result of calling it. So much cleaner.
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by stuki 19y ago
Get a job at a game company. Many have huge turnover of coders, and are 'always' hiring. Unless you're a real superstar, they'll make you do shitty work for shitty pay for a shitty number of hours, hence are unlikely to dent your entrepren
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by stuki 19y ago
Does this almost weightless material really 'negate' acoustical energy transfer, as mentioned in this link? Considering the current cost and engineering effort required to build an upper floor recording studio with decent drummer insulatio
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by stuki 19y ago
Supposedly competent people trade billions of dollars daily based on models without looking beyond possible disruptions a few perceived standard deviations out. Heck, some hardy souls even drive across Minnesota bridges without much prior
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by stuki 19y ago
I, for one, would vote for you over any of the current major party candidates. I do, however, think you overestimate the need for government in some areas. I agree with point 1). I think most people do, other than Somali Warlords and their
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by stuki 19y ago
I love this article. Not because I'm convinced Dyson is right, but more because it helps point out the importance of being an impartial observer if one is to be taken seriously as a scientist. Postmodern academia's focus on activism as a p
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by stuki 19y ago
Police, courts and defense, with defense also including the 'most important' vaccinations for all who enter, whether through ports or by birth. Some reasonable upper bounds on the destructiveness of weaponry and toxins sold over the counte
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by stuki 19y ago
I suspect evolution dealt with 'bad parents' long ago. My parents certainly weren't bad. Not that they ever did much beyond enrolling and sending me off to public school, but still. If public school wasn't there, I'm sure they wouldn't ha
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by stuki 19y ago
It sure does look like you're right. I could have sworn I saw .asp pages there when I was a member, but that was probably 4-5 years ago. One less reason to use .net, I guess.
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by stuki 19y ago
I believe Netflix is built on .net. They might not be Google, Yahoo or Amazon, but damn... .

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