tjgabbour

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by tjgabbour 16y ago
He also mentions that new tools designed to alleviate problems and up just causing more. I think this is a symptom of inflexible computing "architecture" -- what Alan Kay refers to in "The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet". Our own t
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by tjgabbour 16y ago
I do have a problem with going to say a programming conference and seeing that all the programmers are men, while those serving them (like receptionists and waitresses) are women. And generally these women are managed by men...
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by tjgabbour 17y ago
Yes, that quote seemed odd, so I looked deeper at Le Guin's position. * Most authors weren't represented in the Google Book Settlement, though they will be severely affected by it. * The settlement is extremely complicated, and it's difficu
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by tjgabbour 17y ago
Dean Baker is a good economist, who predicted the housing bubble early on, as well as the resulting recession. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Baker#Financial_crisis_of_... I think it makes sense that some economists are a lot better at
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by tjgabbour 17y ago
Yeah, I didn't understand the reasoning either, and he didn't explain. The context was that a mutual friend introduced us, because he thought we'd work well together. (He knew that the WeatherBill fellow was actually going around to local C
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by tjgabbour 17y ago
I've seen things like that in the west... for example, in the corporate world, they're often straight to the point about disciplined damage control. Which might not sound so bad, except that corporations are so omnipresent that the media is
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by tjgabbour 17y ago
There is a company named WeatherBill which I personally know is interested in hiring Clojure users. (I think the only online advertising they did was a tweet which was maybe picked on disclojure.org.) One person there recently told me that
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by tjgabbour 17y ago
Oops, I accidentally wrote: "Note: [...] and be more maintainable than alternatives." That's intended to mean that the the recursive solution is more maintainable than alternatives. (Or so I glibly claimed...) And of course, I meant "masked
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by tjgabbour 17y ago
In cover letters, I've made clear that I enjoy and welcome interview puzzles. You may never actually be asked such a puzzle; but since the vast majority of interviews are non-technical pageants, it "signals" some confidence and that you "ge
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by tjgabbour 17y ago
What is the advantage of XML over JSON for nontrivial, non-naive data structures? Do you mean things like XLink/XPointer? (Or where can I go to read more about this?) I've gotten the informal impression that incidental complexity (you know,
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by tjgabbour 17y ago
There's nothing wrong with voicing an opinion on the economy which you depend on, particularly if you've thought about it a lot. The world would probably be a better place if this were more common. (After all, wars are even fought over econ
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by tjgabbour 17y ago
I think it's similar the right to food. _Human Rights, A Very Short Introduction_ mentions that the right to food is shorthand for a complex set of obligations concerning "food security": * Obligation to respect: Immediate, basic obligation
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by tjgabbour 17y ago
I think countries often inflict these problems on themselves. For example, systematic unemployment/underemployment isn't a particularly natural phenomenon (above a minimal level when people shift workplaces and so on), but is a known conseq