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by tsally 17y ago
As the author describes, one reason technical people don't dress well is because they never learned how. Another reason is that techies are unconventional and don't place a high priority on mainstream standards. That being said, I've been
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True, but the scale of the war on terror (based on populations of the countries involved) is a few orders of magnitude larger than the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. If you adjust the number of casualties for population, the two numbers be
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A fair number of innocents get caught in the crosshairs of the Israel. A targeted assassination by Mossad killed the wrong man [1], Palestinian civilians have been used as human shields [2], Amnesty International found that Israeli militar
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For what it's worth, I found your posts linking to duplicates extremely valuable.
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This is the type of post that is contributing to the decline of HN. It's mean spirited and inflamatory, veiled by a thin layer of actual argument. You critize the author for a lack of credentials, yet claim that no one knows better than yo
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The temptation for smart people is to reject the system and secretly congratulate themselves for being enlightened enough to do so. This is the approach the author advocates. I will admit, I had similar thinking when I first started colle
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I'm not sure what argument you are trying to make with this fragment of a sentence. If you're trying to imply that Microsoft is a larger company than Red Hat because Microsoft takes advantage of open source developers and Red Hat does not,
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On the other end of the spectrum, you could be awarded $20 million dollars in stock options by Red Hat and VA Linux. And of course, there's everything in between, including getting hired and paid by the company that likes your open source
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I am (as many of you probably are) the go-to guy in my family and non-technical friends for computer issues. I tell people about Dropbox because once I tell them, I know they wont have to annoy me for help again.
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Lawrence Lessig does presentations like this [1]; I've always been a fan. A great example of this type of presentation done well is Cal Handerson's keynote at Djangocon in 2008 [2], "Why I Hate Django". Previous discussion on this presenta
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In this context you're giving a subset of a general category a name precisely because it has meaning. Some but not all art is Art because it is of higher quality. Similarly with work and Work, but separated by importance to the worker. I
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by tsally 17y ago
You're right that the current Congresses have been extraordinary in their dysfunction, but a little late on your timeline for Supreme Court appointment battles: Reagan's Bork was shot down 42-58, GHWB's Thomas was confirmed 52-48, with bot
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True, but you're really dodging the issue here which is the current dysfunctional Congress. There have been a record number of filibusters this past year; Congress hasn't been so divided since the Civil War. Requiring 60 votes (the number
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It is interesting that Clay Shirky (the presenter that the article is based on) reverses the usual roles of capitalized and uncapitalized nouns. Capitalization denotes importance or emphasis and it is strange that emphasis would be put on
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Fair point, but you have to consider where the distinctions come from. For example, at MIT I'd be willing to bet the quantitative focus comes from the fact that many engineers who go there pick us business as a second degree as an undergra
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I never watched Pink's talk, but based on his bio I can see what you are basing your opinion off of. However, it's my impression at least that speakers like that are a minority.
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Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification.
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the almost stereotypical Stuff White People Like content and tone of some talks. I'll take a wild guess, East Asian or South American? Yes, there is a cultural difference in a conference like TED and the rest of the world. But it is an
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...the talks are 18 minutes or less. If any of the talks seemed lacking in intellectual content to you it's most likely because of time constraints. For example Ken Robinson's talk on education was 100% motivation/life-philosophy, simply
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UChicago teaches business differently that basically every business school in the country, so take this anecdote with a grain of salt. The have a quantitative/scientific focus that many other schools lack. Your example shows this perfectl
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Don't use these guys for hosting: http://nodaddy.com/ .
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Even if you interpret it that way, she isn't qualified to reject the body of scientific biological research because she thinks the authors have ulterior motives. Such a claim would require strong evidence. Are there scientists with agenda
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On a philosophical level you may be right, and you make an interesting argument. :) My only goal was to point out the factual error in believing that there is no biological component of behavior.
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Agreed; that's not at all what I'm saying. See my edit. I've made several posts supporting her position on Google Buzz in the past few hours. You'll notice that I lead off my post with an expression of support for her. It's the other 99
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Sort of... it doesn't really lessen the emotional impact of thinking that a crazy ex might have just found out where you live, what you've been reading for the past few years, and what you've been saying to your current significant other.
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What happened to the author of the blog in regards to Google Buzz was inexcusable, but had I encountered her writing in any other context I probably wouldn't have responded well. In case you haven't caught on, she's a pretty crazy feminist
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Just because most people don't share your viewpoint doesn't mean you are correctly questioning the mainstream assumptions of society. There has to be some novel or persuasive reason why your viewpoint is correct and I don't see that here.
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First of all, not Hacker News. Daily stories about how the police are dumb belong on Reddit. There was no egregious violation of your rights. Second, what would people say about the police if they allowed a teenager with a mental disabili
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That's not what he's saying; he's saying the product of his company is not suitable for those with very high privacy requirements. Similarity, many commercial operating systems are not suitable for those with very high security requirement
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As I pointed out two months ago, this quote is taken out of context [1]. I'll reproduce the full quote here: Judgment matters... If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

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