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by tjic 18y ago
Calling [1,2,3].inject(0) {|sum, ii| sum + ii } has a cleaner smell, but it's a lot more typing. I wonder if the solution might be to have all arrays support sum (in the responds_to() sense) only if they can can actually perform the operati
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by tjic 18y ago
> I'm not a native English speaker but the wording of "Ask a Question of Cyberdyne Customers" seems odd. Did they mean "to Cyberdyne Customers"? Your phrasing might be more logical, but the phrasing that the page currently has is the ph
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by tjic 18y ago
Great article ... err, matrix. So, how do we stack up here? With 15 years of experience, I SHOULD be a "3" in every category... but in reality, I'm more like 2/3 '2's and 1/3 '3's. Chalk the shortfall up to laziness, I suppose. How about th
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by tjic 18y ago
Under "all press is good press", I note that whatever their sins, getsatisfaction.com has achieved name recognition. I doubt that any other startup posting "Help us design a web page" post would rise to the top of the front page in 20 minu
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by tjic 18y ago
> because you own a gun, you're more at risk of killing yourself If you've got a cite that shows that the presence of a gun increases the chance of suicide, I'd like to see it. Of course, correlation != causation. Lots of suicidal peop
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by tjic 18y ago
> If Google had been started in Pittsburgh, they still would have been successful. I'm not a huge Silicon Valley booster (I like MA, thankyouverymuch), but I think the idea that Google would have been able to hire as much top notch tale
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by tjic 18y ago
This sounds like well orchestrated PR to me. For better or worse, intellectual property laws exist, and Desire2learn.com seems to have infringed on Blackboard. If Blackboard wins, Desire2learn suffers a big hit in their profits. So Desire2l
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by tjic 18y ago
Personally, I expect that the current recession will not end before then. Wall Street is up a bit (and by "up a bit" I mean "it's still way way down, but from time to time it's up a few points"), but the fundamentals are as bad as they've e
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by tjic 18y ago
Don't be fatuous, Jeffery. The commenter was clearly referring to this: > If you look at pictures of US presidents in Japanese newspapers, they look slightly Japanese
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by tjic 18y ago
I think that rampant F-bombs, like anti-semitism, lower the tone of discourse.
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by tjic 18y ago
> read an article about a 28 year old Jew The most salient adjective that you can think of is "Jew" ? WT* ? I'm not someone who sees racism and anti-Semitism under every rock and leaf... but, seriously, WT* ? I, for one, enjoy Hacker Ne
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by tjic 18y ago
> Lots of people are fearless and can make anything happen Not in my experience. It's a pretty rare trait.
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by tjic 18y ago
Please provide links to articles, like http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/03/googles-entrance-into-ventur... ...and not links to comments, like http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/03/googles-entrance-into-ventur... It's quite annoying to click a lin
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by tjic 18y ago
What's your team so far? 1) you: the "idea guy" 2) a designer ("another" designer ... so you're a designer too?) A great hacker is more key to making something great (and profitable) than a great designer. IMO, the team should be either: 1)
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by tjic 18y ago
My understanding is that there are (a) minor personality issues like neuroses, for which therapy is sometimes useful and sometimes useless and (b) major organic mental illnesses like schizophrenia, for which therapy is almost entirely usele
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by tjic 18y ago
I personally think that new uses for old spaces is quite cool. If you agree, you might enjoy the book "How Buildings Learn". http://www.amazon.com/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/... HOWEVER. The cost of demolition and new construct
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by tjic 18y ago
I enjoyed your manifesto on why seatbelts in cars are bloatware.
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by tjic 18y ago
Can interpretive dance save NASA?
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by tjic 18y ago
A better title than "The 15 most disturbing documentaries" would be "15 partisan left-of-center documentaries...including some for lunatic conspiracy theorists". 9/11 was a demolition job done by American forces? Fractional reserve banking
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by tjic 18y ago
I like this idea because I've clicked the wrong arrow on more than one occasion. It's galling to try to mark a comment as stupid and instead end up giving it my seal of approval...and vice versa.
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by tjic 18y ago
So why should any of us read your blog? If you're not going to talk about what you know, what's in it for us? People contribute to Wikipedia and OSS because they enjoy the work and they get a bit of street cred. People contribute to their d
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by tjic 18y ago
Why am I seeing "7 comments" listed ... but no actual comments?
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by tjic 18y ago
> What are the continued operating costs [?] ... When I lived in Toronto I could have an all-access unlimited subway pass for $100 a month, This does not speak to operating costs. Mass transit fairs are usually subsidized from general t
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by tjic 18y ago
> This bugs me like the idea that public companies are legally obliged to maximise shareholder value. ... Aren't you supposed to build something you want? Yes ... if YOU OWN IT. If you are the EMPLOYEE of a company OWNED by other people
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by tjic 18y ago
> You can't have an attorney represent you in small claims court Laws vary by state. In Massachusetts, you CAN have an attorney.
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by tjic 18y ago
> two million kilograms of seafood Tsukiji handles every day ... The Fulton Fish Market, in New York City, the second-largest fish market in the world, moves only 115 tons a year, an average of less than half a ton each working day. The
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by tjic 18y ago
> one Texas legislator [ filed ] a bill that would exempt any private, nonprofit institution from certification by Texas ... the broadly worded bill will allow anyone to set up a nonprofit diploma mill in the state. Oh Noz! Without legi
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by tjic 18y ago
> worrisome trends in CS education ... Mathematics requirements in CS programs are shrinking. Speaking as someone who had to take several attempts at differential equations to pass it, and has (a) had a very solid career since graduatio
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by tjic 18y ago
> there are all sorts of articles that tell you that cofounding a company with someone is like marrying them You're responding to a guy that just told you that he launched and grew a co. to $9M/yr. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt
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by tjic 18y ago
> Once we get funded we can hire a programmer/hacker to bring our dream to life What makes you think that it's going to be easier to get a dedicated, driven hacker with cash (which you don't have yet), rather than with stock (which you

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