three14

26 ms·

211.
by three14 17y ago
I'm offended by this "disproof by one liner." The linked article is a parable, and trying to do exactly what parables usually do; give you enough distance to revisit something that you already have opinions about. Maybe you like it, maybe
212.
by three14 17y ago
Not being a graphic designer, I can't explain why the site doesn't say to me, "company that's established enough to trust with my data," but... That being said, this is a great thing to offer as an appliance. I think that someone who's sav
213.
by three14 17y ago
The Flynn effect is too short a timescale. Maybe it was just recent malnutrition from industrialization. Aside from the fact that cranial capacity has been pretty stable, it's just impossible to believe that intelligence is substantially d
214.
by three14 17y ago
I'm always surprised at reactions from modern readers who seem to think that these sorts of observations are new. It's a particular type of blindness to history. People aren't more intelligent now than three thousand years ago. Note that
215.
by three14 17y ago
The caption says San Pueblan Milksnake, but still.
216.
by three14 17y ago
Even supposing Apple has perfect inspections, the workers only need money to buy goods on their local market - and their local goods and services going to be much cheaper because they're manufactured under those same poor working conditions
217.
by three14 17y ago
Several comments argue that democracy makes all the difference. Why? Theoretically , the copyright law can be changed to limit it to 20 years. In practice, it can't, despite the fact that more or less everyone who understands the issue
218.
by three14 17y ago
But here, reading the feature list makes it look exactly like a subset of Adobe Reader, with no advantages.
219.
by three14 17y ago
If you know that you're only going to be using the Microsoft stack, and you actually do get to use the tools that cover all this up, do you still end up regretting that there's SOAP under all of it? I've just found myself working on a proje
220.
by three14 17y ago
If I'm not behind the times, wouldn't there be antitrust problems from the huge percentage of the chipset market that would be held by the combined company?
221.
by three14 17y ago
I'm a "software engineer". I said can to try to hint that sometimes someone who's an expert at one thing, who, unlike your dad, happens to not be an expert at a second thing, fails to appreciate the challenges of that second thing, and
222.
by three14 17y ago
Of course, a good manager could add more value than the people she manages. Engineers can fail to appreciate all the fuzzy unmeasurable people-stuff it takes to keep a big team communicating and working together. Mediocre managers probab
223.
by three14 17y ago
There's a famous possibly true story about Gauss having to sum the numbers 1 to 100 as a child. Most versions tell it that he noticed that 1 + 100 = 2 + 99 = 3 + 98 and so on, yielding a general formula of n * (n + 1) / 2, so you could pro
224.
by three14 17y ago
I already have passive compliance down pat. I wait on lines at the Social Security Administration with the best of them. I do have trouble sitting down to comment my code, though. And I think certain skills are better learned as a child.
225.
by three14 17y ago
The Mozilla bug report doesn't make clear what the actual limitations are of this implementation - like how you can affect the DOM while running asynchronously. Any ideas about what actually happens?
226.
by three14 17y ago
I was pretty unreliable about homework, but the school I went to didn't necessarily take it out of my grades. At the time, I felt that the homework was unnecessary to learn the material being taught, so it was a waste of time. Now, with ki
227.
by three14 17y ago
Could someone who has time to kill to go through the "Microformats Process" please add the "parody" keyword? This would be a great help for the next time xkcd wants to demonstrate the beauty of HTML5.
228.
by three14 17y ago
The article is Not Even Wrong. Sure, quantum mechanics gives a special role to the observer, but that doesn't mean that the universe and the observers within it just popped into existence because it was being observed. That both begs the q
229.
by three14 17y ago
Not really. I bet carbon sequestration kills a few people one of these days. What if someone pumps a lot of CO2 into a mine, and it ruptures into a small valley? CO2 is denser than air. Everything has consequences.
230.
by three14 17y ago
The article says surrounding chemical conditions are quite different.
231.
by three14 17y ago
I still don't get it. I accepted that liquidity is valuable. This specific case adds no liquidity. None. Both sides are participating in the same market, and have enough information to make the trade. They will make the trade if no o
232.
by three14 17y ago
Did this answer my question? I'm really open to the possibility that it's just me, but I still don't get it. I see that some kinds of arbitrage could be useful to a market. I don't see how these microsecond-timing types of arbitrage can
233.
by three14 17y ago
I've never understood how this applies to arbitrage. Without arbitrage, the parties to the transaction would capture the money lost to arbitrage, and in a modern market, the same information would be learned. If I offer to sell 1000 at $3
234.
by three14 17y ago
I don't understand your comment. If you mean a Platonic Free Market, maybe. In the real world, the CEOs weren't penalized for their wealth-destroying choices, and the boards weren't penalized. Sure, they lost their jobs, but perhaps they
235.
by three14 17y ago
I agree with the basic thesis - you can earn lots of money, and deserve it. But the essay as a whole suffers from assumptions that the market is pretty efficient. It's really hard to believe that the market as a whole is anywhere near ef
236.
by three14 17y ago
I'm the consumer in question. Example: I went to the gas station - they had a promotional discount carwash. The windows on my car were filthy, so I went. I got upsold to an inside cleaning as well. It certainly needed the cleaning, but
237.
by three14 17y ago
Thank you. That was the impression I got. I'm still curious to hear if anyone else had a different experience. I'm not so much looking for what it takes to get code running optimally, as much as having idiomatic code run with "reasonable"
238.
by three14 17y ago
Yes and no. It's great that it's available. I'm just not seeing that it implies a workable routine for Joe Programmer. Write code. Run. Runs out of memory after 3 hours of protein folding. Check the GHC processed code. Discover that y
239.
by three14 17y ago
I personally only care about optimizations that enable someone who's a domain expert in something else to write code that performs well. If I know Haskell at an intermediate level, and I'm focusing on the equations for protein folding, o
240.
by three14 17y ago
From the linked article, it looks like the point is to prevent researchers from inventing a goal after the fact that's supported by the evidence they've collected. In other words, to make sure that the study is good science. So I don't th

More ›