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by thunk 17y ago
Maybe, maybe not -- we'd be the last to know. I suspect a lot of people just quietly disappear, like Zhiyong. But their carefully crafted public image of beaming, docile support for the government seems hollow from a nation that housed betw
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by thunk 17y ago
Wow. Words are so slippery, especially for a bad writer like me. Let me be clear: I have no desire whatsoever to see a bloody revolution in China. I am by no means advocating a revolution. The "lifting a finger" bit was a joke about our
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by thunk 17y ago
Well, my preference is irrelevant. I was just airing an acute hunch. :)
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by thunk 17y ago
I was thinking of revolution of a less pleasant sort, for which the urban immigration is a necessary prerequisite. There's a Tank Man streak in the Chinese psyche, which, when multiplied by a few hundred million of the recently enfranchised
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by thunk 17y ago
I honestly believe there's a massive social revolution sitting squarely between China's present and its much touted Glorious Future. They have some painful lessons to learn about the explosive force of information confined. Careful now, Chi
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by thunk 17y ago
Damn, I've got to remember: "Straight face. No fooling around -- it's a slippery slope. We hackers don't appreciate that sort of thing." :)
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by thunk 17y ago
... on Gossip Girl.
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by thunk 17y ago
If you like that you'll love his autobiography: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/148 It's a short read. It's in my top five of all time.
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by thunk 17y ago
"SkunkWorks - When the free world depends on your creativity, Skunk Works!"
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by thunk 17y ago
I thought someone might try that tack. Math is completely decoupled from its representation, so you can use whatever notation you want and not lose anything. I'm not gonna guess to what extent linguistic communication is bound up with its
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by thunk 17y ago
Maybe, but a notation arrived at by an accretion of historical accident is not the way to introduce this stuff to beginners, inertia be damned. Edit: No ta tion
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by thunk 17y ago
See also Sussman's talk on how terrible math notation is: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2726904509434151616...
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by thunk 17y ago
Don't miss the badass cover to the original Emacs Manual for ITS: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/its-cover.png Or rms's only cartoon (It's ... funny?): http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/self-doc-extensible-editor...
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by thunk 17y ago
I'm fascinated by how few of you agree that it failed because it looks smug. It seems so obvious! People on Segways look like they feel entitled to coast around standing at a podium, a mobile soapbox. That's it, plain and simple. Price: irr
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by thunk 17y ago
Hunting for a name to better capture this essence, I settled on: Mopodium. Mopode for short.
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by thunk 17y ago
A market's efficiency is inversely proportional to its complexity -- proportional, that is, to the average understanding of its participants.
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by thunk 17y ago
Does anyone else find "currying" the cooking process to be a useful mnemonic for "currying" the functional transformation, like you're partially combining the ingredients of the full recipe?
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by thunk 17y ago
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
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by thunk 17y ago
The development snapshots have been perfectly usable for a while now, but this is news nonetheless. It's purdy with droid sans.
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Emacs 23 is very near(emacs-fu.blogspot.com)
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by thunk 17y ago
Markets whose delineations tend to coincide with those on the map =).
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by thunk 17y ago
Well, Groupon is the least interesting manifestation of the idea. I'm interested in two other takes on the idea: group purchasing collectives on the consumer side, and limited editions on the maker side.
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by thunk 17y ago
The central concept here -- a transaction triggers when a threshold of participants is met -- is bigger than group coupons. It's a sort of "Group Transactional Economics" by analogy to the atomicity of db or stm transactions. I think it cou
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by thunk 17y ago
Lots of tea (camellia sinensis: green, Earl Grey, Oolong, Lipton, whatever). Water. No soda.
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by thunk 17y ago
Ditch the seasoning packets, stir fry with garlic, vegies and spices =)
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by thunk 17y ago
There's another beneficial aspect to not smelling of desperation beyond avoiding being taken advantage of: projecting an "I don't need you" aura is actually attractive -- occasionally maddeningly so. This also applies in dating and job hunt
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by thunk 17y ago
Damn you, will wheaton, I can't stop loving you.
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by thunk 17y ago
Then they laugh at you. Oh, wait...
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by thunk 17y ago
Tron Guy better get a cameo.
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by thunk 17y ago
Calling an FFI tutorial an "attempt to make the language more cube-farm-friendly" is needlessly incendiary. The fact is, there are lots of C wheels out there that don't need reinventing, and calling them from a REPL is useful and mischievou

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