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by wes-exp 15y ago
The flaw (or shall I say, "limitation") of this HTA index is that it apparently ties affordability to the median income of the region. I think this would be subject to a kind of selection bias, for example punishing rural areas for employin
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Fully five top DOJ officials are former RIAA lawyers. You think they will treat MegaUpload in a "fair and balanced" way? http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/obama-taps-fift/
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Just wanted to say: thank you for helping to restore SICP.
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Indeed. There are levels in cut the rope that require multiple simultaneous touches.
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by wes-exp 15y ago
I suppose I should be happy that authority figures are getting in touch with technology. That said, I'm pretty sure Bloomberg learning to code marks the peak of the second tech bubble. That, or Ashton Kutcher becoming a VC.
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by wes-exp 15y ago
I find the shoplifting analogy decent, but the main flaw I see is that it keeps the discussion framed around crimes being committed and what is the punishment. Even if the punishment is seen as really extreme, centuries of legislation have
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by wes-exp 15y ago
'Monopoly' is a good one too. I don't think the terms are mutually exclusive: "They want the Government to create a Prohibition so they can have a Monopoly on content" That said, I do think 'Prohibition' is an accurate description. SOPA may
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Agreed. So here's how we do it. This is the word: Prohibition . It's our "death panels". This is how you tell it to grandma: - The music & movie industries want a Prohibition on user-created content. - When radio was invented, th
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Obligatory Steve Jobs reference: Google's don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.”
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by wes-exp 15y ago
I'm a fan of the idea of public transit, but, like tptacek, I don't end up using it much. Mainly the trouble is this: - In many situations, even with good public transit available, you're going to want to own a car. - If you do own a car, i
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Well, on the bright side there is no "car piracy" that can be blamed for the decline. (Since you can't download a car) Seriously, though, I think there are just a lot of things competing for people's attention, young or otherwise. There are
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by wes-exp 15y ago
I'm not a lisp pro (more like aspiring to be), but, for what it's worth, I think your use of eval is fine. It doesn't suffer from the "double evaluation" problem, and evaluation at compile time is actually what you want. If you really want
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by wes-exp 15y ago
What's uglier than a protest mob? A world without Youtube, Flickr, Etsy, and Vimeo. Plus the suppression of future innovative startups, all at the behest of dying media companies grasping for control. If you think SOPA is a moot issue, you
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Any recommendations on alternative services?
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Actually there are some compelling arguments for home birth aided by a midwife. There is a documentary about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Business_of_Being_Born I think it's interesting that we've mitigated naturally occurring ris
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by wes-exp 15y ago
I haven't heard the term "A2K" before but it's ingenious. Is there a process for granting exceptions to the timeline restrictions? Even real Amish have exceptions like, "it's okay to use a gas-powered engine to harvest crops as long as it's
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by wes-exp 15y ago
What evidence is there that iPhones have Carrier IQ? The articles out there seem to be about Android. I would at least like to hold out hope that Apple's approach of not letting carriers screw up the iPhone with a bunch of third-party crap
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by wes-exp 15y ago
The 10:1 productivity gap is well established in the academic literature for software engineering. There are not many concrete quantitative statements one can make about the profession, but this is one of them.
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Mono didn't work for me. I think it might be okay if you targeted it specifically as your official runtime. But it is not, and I don't think ever will be a drop-in replacement for the MS stuff. I summed up my thoughts here: https://news.yc
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by wes-exp 15y ago
I am a C# refugee, so I feel I can respond with some authority. Yes, the enhanced auto-complete capability that static typing enables is a great feature (I should note that dynamic languages can offer completion too, just not as comprehensi
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by wes-exp 15y ago
I'm using both Linux and OS X regularly. Apt is awesome, without a doubt, particularly for the breadth of software available. And on the whole, I agree that Homebrew is considerably inferior. But there is one aspect I'm liking better about
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by wes-exp 15y ago
FYI, I just installed duplicity and rdiff-backup through Homebrew and it worked flawlessly. Agree that MacPorts is crap. But Homebrew is actually pretty good.
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by wes-exp 15y ago
The price you're quoting is for the US. I suspect his price has UK VAT or something added in because a similarly spec'd MacBook Air is only $1299 in the US. So it is not "double", we're talking about $200 - an 18% price difference. Furtherm
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Sign me up. Ubuntu has been a decent attempt at a desktop Linux, but there is no "great" laptop hardware for it. Commercial Linux so far seems to be about two things: server, and cheap crap. There does not seem to be any interest in the pow
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by wes-exp 15y ago
What about iMac?
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Even if we assume that Wozniak was much more essential than Jobs, the fact is that Jobs persuaded Wozniak to do the startup in the first place. And if I recall correctly from the biography by Isaacson, it took quite a bit of convincing on J
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Why is lisp worse at path-finding?
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Seems so: "In Mac OS X v10.7 and later, placing your application in an app sandbox is a great way to minimize the potential damage caused by successful exploits" http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Genera...
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by wes-exp 15y ago
The new full-screen capabilities in Lion can help with reading on small screens (in fact I think that's why they added it). Combined with bumping up the font size in applications, it can be quite readable.
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by wes-exp 15y ago
Imagine an "iPad Pro" that had similar battery life and even an integrated keyboard. In addition to supporting the SSH workflow, it can run traditional GUI applications if you really need them. You don't have to wait: it's called the MacBoo

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