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by wlievens 11y ago
It's about the standard, not any program
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by wlievens 11y ago
Isn't there a (big) difference between just buying ack shares and keeping them in a pool, or actually destroying them to reduce the number of outstanding shares? Or are those two equivalent?
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by wlievens 11y ago
If you believ in property appreciation, you could by REIT stocks. Obviously not the same but maybe the closest you'll get.
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by wlievens 11y ago
That one's more about returning to the mean, right?
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by wlievens 11y ago
Well in theory, if your shares are diluted /2 but the company's capital is x2, and all that capital is used efficiently, you have not lost anything either. Half slice of twice the pie.
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by wlievens 11y ago
Software Development Engineer I assumed. Maybe a slash in there.
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by wlievens 11y ago
LOC-based metric tied to money... What could go wrong?
98.
by wlievens 11y ago
You could just have really short or even empty commit descriptions, if that's your worry.
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by wlievens 11y ago
Lisa, I want to play your game.
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by wlievens 11y ago
Damn that was a scary piece of writing.
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by wlievens 11y ago
I actually use that as an interview question: "A user reports a bug. What do you do?". Ideally they mention "writing a failing test" somewhere before "fire up the debugger". It depends strongly on the circumsta
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by wlievens 11y ago
Egan doesn't sound like the stuff you want to read when your brain is not in a great shape :)
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by wlievens 11y ago
Devout Lisp afficianados tend to be a little... opinionated.
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by wlievens 11y ago
That would be an order of magnitude more work though, right?
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by wlievens 11y ago
Peak at thirty? You're depressing!
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by wlievens 11y ago
Good point. Language-level modular dependencies are one way to divide an architecture. Networked services are another.
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by wlievens 11y ago
> In reality, the man is following his convictions to avoid touching women other than his wife. I don't get how that works. Just because you sit next to someone doesn't mean tou have to fondle them, right?
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by wlievens 11y ago
You can't really compare costs of managed funds and ETFs.
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by wlievens 11y ago
Customers being owners is not that odd; it's called vertical integration.
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by wlievens 11y ago
Would symbolic arithmetic help with that? Of is that just too slow a priori?
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by wlievens 11y ago
That's abhorrent. As a father of three-months early twins, this hits home. It's pretty much Saudi-Arabia levels of cultural villainy.
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by wlievens 11y ago
But at the library API level it's a much smaller mandatory change.
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by wlievens 11y ago
Same in Belgium, except for public sector jobs.
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by wlievens 11y ago
"Unfair Advantage" compares to "Creative Destruction" that way. Neither mean what an un uninformed reading of the word pairings would suggest.
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by wlievens 11y ago
Loved that book. Despite the cardboard characters :-) Please tell me that last act made your think of Cellular Automata too!
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by wlievens 11y ago
Yeah there's common sense in accepting that some produce is only available some of the time. There's plenty of decent fruit even in winter; I don't need strawberries right now.
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by wlievens 11y ago
And the metaphors for relativity hold up longer than a few seconds once you start asking questions.
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by wlievens 11y ago
But that could only be the case if those laws are very, very complicated. So far physical laws have been on the side of "understandable if you invest a couple years of study as a reaonably intelligent person".
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by wlievens 11y ago
True, but we've come to seek more than just predictive models, we want understanding and "truth".
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by wlievens 11y ago
I have a similar sentiment. I know nothing's of physics beyond high school stuff and popsci, but to me Dark Matter feels like "aether 2.0". I'm probably wrong.

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