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by thunk 17y ago
Hrm. Well, you don't write for the auction site any more than eBay sellers work for eBay. You're your own brand, and win or lose source-cred on your own merits. And it's called "stringerbell.com" :)
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by thunk 17y ago
I think this would actually produce higher quality and better paid journalism than the current system. Since there's no formal approval process required to enter the market, good journalists who were previously stymied by old-style institut
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by thunk 17y ago
But the solution is simpler, and the consumer's definitely not paying. I mean, everyone's a stringer now, right? Sites run on ads and buy content from stringers through an auction market that takes a cut of each transaction. You are that
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by thunk 17y ago
Heh. I'll pay a few karma to crack necessary wise. What else can you buy with it, right? It is interesting that so much info is lost by only displaying the net, though. A comment with zero activity is indistinguishable from one with 100+
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by thunk 17y ago
:)
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by thunk 17y ago
ur gay, lol
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by thunk 17y ago
CS departments are just less and less able to maintain illusions about what they really are -- trade schools for cranking out interchangeable corporate programmers. And there's nothing wrong with that. Honesty and unity of purpose are good
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by thunk 17y ago
Good point. But you can't reach the simplifying insight by any other road than your own initial stupidity. It's the way you learn Lisp. At least Lisp breaks you with grace -- quick and painful. Most other languages spare you the pain of ins
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by thunk 17y ago
You have to realize: the hackers before us lamented our arrival. And the Real Programmers lamented theirs . If anything, it's only right and proper to steal the term and make it suck in a new way. The point is, it doesn't matter: the rea
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by thunk 17y ago
1) Connect 2) Nauseate me 3) Go
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by thunk 17y ago
... with the most perfectly named package manager ever. Period.
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by thunk 17y ago
Arg. Must remember not to post random shit when delirious. Deleting.
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by thunk 17y ago
Bwahahaha. Your jib: I like the cut of it. "Are you joking?" "I don't even know anymore."
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by thunk 17y ago
I really like the name. It's an instance of what I hope is a trend toward a sort of surreal micro-poetic naming scheme.
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by thunk 17y ago
"Is the new" is the new "fucking annoying".
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by thunk 17y ago
It's not strictly math, and I can't recommend it from experience, but I've always been curious what a beginner's reaction to _Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics_ might be. It's free here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/SICM/book.
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by thunk 17y ago
Doug, cutting leaves; "Yahoo for cloudera," the groudskeepers say. Dawn dew burns upward -- a fine mist.
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by thunk 17y ago
But saying there is much we don't know, so therefore it's reasonable to conclude we know nothing I'll remember not to say that next time. :) Edit: By which I mean "That's not what I said."
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by thunk 17y ago
Hi there. I'm TV's thunk. To stay healthy and happy, just follow these simple rules: 1) To prevent cancer, go have some fun in the sun. 2) But to prevent skin cancer, stay out of the sun. 3) Avoid carbs and meat and regular produce. 4) And
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by thunk 17y ago
I love board meetings. Oh man, do I ever. Top five board meetings -- readeeee, Go! How can I even choose? They're all so great ! Sometimes I just sit and think about board meetings; About the board, and how they meet. There's no board like
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by thunk 17y ago
Sure, "most people" probably would. They're not the ones I'm talking about. The people I'm referring to generally look on "membership" with scorn, and react by ... leaving. I know I would.
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by thunk 17y ago
irony Edit: That's a little mean. Sorry, couldn't help myself.
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by thunk 17y ago
No way. You may raise the low bar a wee bit, but you'd drive away the outside makers, who are only here very tentatively in the first place.
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by thunk 17y ago
There are words for proper "bigger Lego bricks": HLLs and libraries. There's also a word for the kind he wants: Duplo. Also, you haven't known pain until you've tried to actually accomplish something by stringing together pretty boxes in a
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by thunk 17y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7tazcxWUwk
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by thunk 17y ago
Yup, same here. Being able to Slime into your WM is occasionally very useful.
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by thunk 17y ago
You know the information you're searching for is readily available, but you don't know the unique string to get you there.
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by thunk 17y ago
Right there with you, man - I'm mesmerized.
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by thunk 17y ago
Protip: the less you think about this the better. Bics and napkins, your editor, whatever.
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by thunk 17y ago
Word. That itch inspired my current Big Scratch.

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