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by tjic 17y ago
What really annoys me here in MA is that, now that tax revenues are falling, politicians have zero desire to cut spending. When SmartFlix's revenues fell, we cut our budget in a lot of places ... and some of those hurt. Here in MA, the mass
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by tjic 17y ago
Oh boo hoo. You get a full ride to Harvard. 20% of everyone at Harvard comes from a family making less than $60k/year. ...and yet, because some of the other students get driven to campus in fancy cars, you feel left out. I arrived at my
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by tjic 17y ago
Excellent, thx!
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by tjic 17y ago
If this was good enough that it got 18 upvotes, I'm curious to check out the link myself. Is there any way to get the URL referenced by a dead item?
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by tjic 17y ago
> Well, anti-trust cases do depend on evidence of collusion between market participants And the Taliban only execute gays where there is evidence of homosexuality. Sorry, the "evidence" bit by itself doesn't make me think that the law
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by tjic 17y ago
You're looking at some of the most interesting research from one of the most clever guys and then generalizing and saying "these guys are super bright". The best folks in any field are super bright. I'm not impressed by 95% of psychologists
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by tjic 17y ago
I did some contracting work at iRobot a few years back, and know a few people who are now at KIVA. Smart cookies - they deserve the success!
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by tjic 17y ago
Amazon describes the books as "an attack on the back-to-basics movement..." Publishers Weekly calls him an advocate. The data showing that Whole Language and New Math are widespread and repeated. I'll take that over one partisan guy (who is
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by tjic 17y ago
> The fight against poverty produces great programs but disappointing results... you meet incredible people doing wonderful things. Then you look at the results...these inspiring places are only producing incremental gains. That's beca
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by tjic 17y ago
> our vision is violated by garish sprawling advertisements from public places, so even if the property is private, it still infringes on the individual. Can you explain to me how your stance doesn't equally disapprove of people saying
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by tjic 17y ago
> I learned way too much from this experience to explain here. Too bad ... that's what I want to read about!
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by tjic 17y ago
We're in the deepest recession in half a century, and people are cutting back, and from ONE DATAPOINT, effectively, we're supposed to believe that it's the "end of the car culture" ? > To sort this out, I built a regression model that a
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by tjic 18y ago
This is interesting, and I'm a big fan of the Kindle, but I think the statistic somewhat overstates things, because there's a bias in the data: when someone has a Kindle, they're going to purchase ALL of their kindle material from the 200,0
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by tjic 18y ago
Guy sounds like a credentialed idiot. > He also derided my location as if some guy from a small town in Ohio couldn't build anything worthwhile. Yes, I know pg's thoughts on location and there is some merit to that, but the assertion he
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by tjic 18y ago
I bailed out of high school after three years and went to college. I tried to avoid getting my high school diploma (skipped my graduation), but they mailed it to me. I tried to avoid getting my college diploma (skipped my graduation) but
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by tjic 18y ago
I think the best place to lose your job is the US. The economy is dynamic, people are raised with tales of startups and success, folks don't feel bound by class or caste or good taste in not rocking the boat, there's not too much credentia
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by tjic 18y ago
This was down voted. I'm voting it back up. Not all language flames are useless. Coding in some languages can be 10x or more productive than coding in other languages. Picking the right language to give you that 10x speedup is far more impo
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by tjic 18y ago
anecdote != data
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by tjic 18y ago
I know that goats are cute and all, and give a very back-to-the-land sustainable vibe, but unless the goats get most of their nutrition from grazing, the effort (and carbon expenditure) involved in raising and harvesting food, moving it, ho
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by tjic 18y ago
> Determine a fair price That term has no definition. Instead "determine a price that you can live with and they would rather pay than go with their second best plan".
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by tjic 18y ago
remember on Apple ]['s DOS, where you could include a control character in the name of a file (thus making it impossible for someone else to run a file unless they knew the "real" name) ? I've got a dollar riding on one of the two "frosty"s
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by tjic 18y ago
> 57 percent of computer science graduates are working as programmers; at 15 years the figure drops to 34 percent, and at 20 years -- when most are still only in their early 40's -- it is down to 19 percent. That data is compatible with
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by tjic 18y ago
It's happened to me. I had to jump through hoops to get it back (a browser had it stored, so I set the browser to use a proxy, then had the proxy spit out the form including my password)
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by tjic 18y ago
In a certain online forum, I was once taken to task for saying "I assert". People criticized it because it was "just" an assertion, not backed up with facts. The thing is, I am punctilious about labeling the various parts of my arguments:
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by tjic 18y ago
Trademarks are per area of commerce, not absolute. McDonalds can stop you from running a McDonald's Hotdog Shop, but they can't stop you from running McDonald's Plumbing. Before you capitulate - is Foo a very obscure word, or is it fairly c
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by tjic 18y ago
I continue to be dumbfounded the the deletionist philosophy. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mergism ) If Hacker News is not relevant to someone, they'll never search on the term or look for a definition. If Hacker News is relevant to so
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by tjic 18y ago
You sound like a smart kid. I hated most of school up to college as well, because 95% of it was just a pure time waste. What are your Ruby skills like? Do you want a job? ;-) (Only 50% joking...)
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by tjic 18y ago
Any time I get to a page that is 100% ads and other cruft, and have to scroll down before I get even a single pixel of content, I get annoyed. I note that user 'honeytech' posted this, pointing to his own blog. I understand that a lot of gr
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by tjic 18y ago
I think it's pretty much SF author Ken Macleod who's labeled it that.
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by tjic 18y ago
> monopolies have a stranglehold on the telecom industry in the US. Name one telecom monopoly that wasn't created by the government. Federal government created the telephone monopoly. Local governments create cable TV and cable modem

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