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by thras 18y ago
Madness tends to happen during wars. Look at the final months of Nazi Germany or Tsarist Russia.
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by thras 18y ago
Surface ships are just floating targets anyway. Nations like the U.S. and China will go to war with nuclear submarines shooting thermonuclear tipped ICBMs at each other's cities or not at all.
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by thras 18y ago
When I use Blueprint, I like to add a "colborder-left" and "border-left" class (which isn't hard).
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by thras 18y ago
Oh no, mild misogynism. What would my kindergarten teacher say? Groups differ. If you can't deal with people noting imperfections with the opposite gender, then close your ears.
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by thras 18y ago
Where? On their site, I see some Ubuntu packages which would probably work. But once I get to the point of "probably work", I might as well install the gem version.
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by thras 18y ago
I'm more than a little impressed with Passenger. It didn't exactly adhere to Debian conventions, but it's new and nothing in Ruby-land does. Regardless, it was a breeze to set up, and seems to be running great. It looks like a lot of effort
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by thras 18y ago
Stereotypes don't happen by accident. Yes, everybody already knows about exceptions. My kindergarten teach spent a godawful long time on the subject, eh?
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by thras 18y ago
Well, I thought that the cornerstone quote of the article was this: "Deep technical competency is overrated compared with the ability to make excellent decisions and to create a culture where forward motion is valued and personal initiative
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by thras 18y ago
Oh, I agree with the exception statement. That sort of shoe-horning is exactly what goes on when you REST up a rich web-app. But how does it simplify anything?
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by thras 18y ago
The problem is that REST only makes sense when your UI is all about data entry. Sure, it's great there. You update things, you create things, you delete things, you replace things. Wonderful stuff. But as soon as your application steps beyo
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by thras 18y ago
To quote scripture: "Hast thou seen a man speedy in his business? Before kings he doth station himself, He stations not himself before obscure men!" Modern paraphrase: Even Obama gets to put up with this guy's shit.
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by thras 18y ago
Use REST because it's a convention. As far as I can tell, there is no other earthly reason to use it. It certainly doesn't simplify the coding of web applications. In fact, REST barely exists in the Django world. The problem that Rails solv
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by thras 18y ago
Some people are worth 10 average people (some people are worth 100). If you want your startup to outcompete, you need them. You may have to put up with some amount of shit, but hiring talent is a non-negotiable requirement for business succ
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by thras 18y ago
That's exactly what the author is not saying. The other frameworks were better for them, he says. They didn't like Rails. But Rails has the most industry and community support. And since nobody plans to write all the code themselves, that m
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by thras 18y ago
What exactly did Google expect to happen when they created the service and published the protocols?
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by thras 18y ago
I wish it worked that well for me. (It evidently works that well for my girlfriend, a Mac user.) But no, I don't want to manage my own music. I want, for instance, all the duplicates to go away. I want podcasts that failed to download prope
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by thras 18y ago
I'd have more belief in Apple software engineering genius if I didn't have to use iTunes on Vista to sync with my (otherwise wonderful) iPhone. What an awful, awful, product. And god help you if you try to do any management of your music fi
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by thras 18y ago
Only they don't, because when you measure it, you can predict 80% (studies differ on the exact number) of IQ from parent's IQ. The rest is mainly unshared environment (what we don't know how to fix).
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by thras 18y ago
Oh hey, I remember you from last time. No, I'm a number of years past that age. I am a little depressed to be arguing with people who think that calling names is a valid way to argue this sort of thing. The closest I've gotten to a real int
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by thras 18y ago
Okay, you have a hypothesis. It seems a little unlikely, but I agree that it could be true. Now, let's get to the proof side of things. What evidence makes you think this is a good explanation for the range of phenomena that you see? What e
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by thras 18y ago
I think that's an absolutely fair comment (as opposed to your "must be the water" brush-off). Now, if you'd also be willing to end chain-migration, I would be all for your proposal as the best solution.
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by thras 18y ago
Sure, here's a reference: http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&#38...
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by thras 18y ago
Okay, sure. But then I'd have to think of an explanation for why adopted Asian-Americans do just as well (or better) academically than Asian-Americans raised by their own parents. Culture can't explain that. Maybe you could help me out?
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by thras 18y ago
Sure, education is a fairly good indicator of IQ. Could you care to explain what you mean by "racist consensus"? Why don't you explain to me what right-thinking people believe about the genetics of intelligence.
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by thras 18y ago
I'm confused. Are you claiming that the populations of all countries score the same on IQ tests? Are you saying that it's all explained by culture and that all that culture goes away when someone immigrates? Do you believe in creationism? W
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by thras 18y ago
At the risk of getting modded to oblivion again, I'll say it again: we need to change our immigration policies to encourage high-skill immigration from high-IQ countries, and discourage low-skill immigration from low-IQ countries. We don't
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by thras 18y ago
Wow. Are people impressed by that article because of the sonorous prose? Because the content definitely isn't impressive. Rand's first mistake is not realizing that the love of money quote speaks to individuals and not to societies. An indi
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by thras 18y ago
thras~$ grep -c -e "group|individual" chiffonade_comment.txt 0 Ah yes. I was repeating what you said. I see that now. Goodbye.
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by thras 18y ago
The Left doesn't believe in evolution any more than the Right. There is no magical equality fairy even if it would be a nicer world if so. Still, that is never any excuse to mistreat someone due to their race -- which is what racism really
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by thras 18y ago
The problem predates NCLB by several decades. Besides, why do East Asians and Europeans do so well under similar circumstances?

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