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by weeksie 12y ago
Yeah, we were down at the Anchor a fair bit, too. Man, that was a long time ago. I remember my dad getting pissed with me for spending so much of his money on the Pac-Man game, so he gave me fifty cents and a milk crate, and taught me how t
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by weeksie 12y ago
I'm from Cordova and sometimes my dad and I would dock the boat in Whittier during closures. I remember playing connect four with Irma at the Sportsman and drink Roy Rogers (which is also where I learned how to play pool, I was between
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by weeksie 12y ago
I figured that semiotics wouldn't at all be required to understand category theory (or vice versa). More that the general language of sign/signified and so forth feels similar in some vague way. But again, you're probably rig
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by weeksie 12y ago
This is _incredibly_ naive because I'm a total layman when it comes to both, but is there a relationship between category theory and semiotics? It seems like indexes and symbols are similar to categories and morphisms. Again, I really
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by weeksie 12y ago
Increasing the wage of people who would otherwise earn far less will absolutely increase the velocity. It's preposterous to say that it would be one to one, I never made any such claim. However, your argument is that we are somehow at
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by weeksie 12y ago
It's intuitive, but I'm not sure if there's a causal link. The 20th century saw an incredible increase in income equality and that was the highest point in the recent crime wave. In fact, the increase in income inequality in
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by weeksie 12y ago
Check out the Mother Jones article by Kevin Drum. It's got quite a lot of references. The lead hypothesis is fascinating. The change in crime tracks lead levels internationally as well. While it is probably not the _only_ cause of the
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by weeksie 12y ago
I'm not sure you're responding to my post. I agree with regards to activity levels and caloric intake—but I'm saying it is worth investigating further. It reminds me a lot of the lead hypothesis in regards to crime. The simpl
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by weeksie 12y ago
Can you explain how V isn't going to make a difference? The statement that adding more people to the trades is going to have a crowding out effect strikes me as economically naive. On the surface it seems like you're arguing that
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by weeksie 12y ago
That may be, and on an individual level it makes sense to focus on diet and exercise. From a science and a policy point of view it makes a lot of sense to investigate what might be causing N% of the population to balloon in weight if they m
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by weeksie 12y ago
But what if genetics hasn't changed? I honestly don't know, and it certainly looks like the first world diet has gotten higher in calories and that people in the first world have gotten more sedentary—but, what if it's anothe
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by weeksie 12y ago
very reasonable point. On the surface. But MV=PQ
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by weeksie 12y ago
Let's see. Carpenters, plumbers, electricians, . . . . the skilled trades are pretty great. It's tough because trade work tends to be cyclical with the housing market and construction but it's not a bad way to go. The pay for
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by weeksie 12y ago
Three act structure with each act divided into quarters. Though, to be honest, three acts is kinda misleading since most second acts have a big turning point in the middle. So while yeah, there's a beginning, middle, and end, that midd
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by weeksie 12y ago
At the very least, it's going to be amazing to watch a master language designer build a new language from the ground up. That said, I'm incredibly optimistic about a new Matz language. If I was going to guess, the syntax will be m
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by weeksie 12y ago
You don't get to the airport an hour early? It doesn't take you a half hour to drive to the airport and park? No idea, I've never flown out of Boston, maybe Logan's closer to town than JFK is in NY. I'm just saying,
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by weeksie 12y ago
$50 each way to JFK or LGA. $50 each way from YUL to wherever.
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by weeksie 12y ago
Which is the least of it. There is anywhere from 1.5 to two hours on either side. And the additional $200 each way, given the distance of the airports from the city center.
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by weeksie 12y ago
Meh, I regularly take the Adirondack line NYC/Montreal and it's a regular old Amtrak that creaks its way through upstate NY. It's a lovely trip and it beats the hell out of having to trudge through customs. It's 10 hours
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by weeksie 12y ago
I immediately thought of Lua as well. A fine choice, Lua has the best C FFI I've ever worked with. I love everything about this.
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by weeksie 12y ago
Urbanization. The trend is continuing and is going to continue and as it does the rural areas of the country are going to see more and more resources drain to urban centers. Eventually the rural population will be entirely composed of mania
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by weeksie 12y ago
Ooh! Nice. I've been doing a bit of reading on meme theory lately and it's definitely caught my imagination. Still, I'm pretty skeptical. I think my general problem with memetics is that it's so hard to quantify a meme.
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by weeksie 12y ago
Carol Dweck hasn't done science? Why would you say that? Do you say that because you don't feel that psychology is a science or is it because of something about her work in particular? In any case my impression is that the article
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by weeksie 12y ago
Nice. I hadn't played around or even heard of SSE. I'm not _as_ worried about offlinable, to be honest. This post just tickled that part of my brain that had been thinking about React.
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by weeksie 12y ago
Interesting. I still think that the Flux (specifically Reflux) is the way to go with React. I know this solves a different issue, but I've been itching to build a truly unidrectional data flow application with something like a Rails RE
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by weeksie 12y ago
Gay Talese is one of the best profile writers. He has often said that he prefers to write profiles of famous people after their peak because that's when it's possible to see who they really are. He also wrote one of my favorite es
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by weeksie 12y ago
Yes and no, it's more nuanced than that. An analogy would be that LoC is not a great way to judge the quality of a program, but a good developer will produce millions of lines of code in many different applications before they master t
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by weeksie 12y ago
Well, I ordered the book. I've given the first couple chapters a read and (while the writing is somewhat agony-inducing) it's far better than I gave it credit for. I retract my earlier statements :)
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by weeksie 12y ago
This is why I hate business writing. Endless platitudes without any substance. Sure, each of those are models, but they are neither novel ideas nor are they prescriptive enough to leave a path toward building something that takes advantage
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by weeksie 12y ago
Also, I remember when this came out the first time and the discussion on proggit was replying using mainly Haskell examples.

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