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by zupatol 18y ago
That explains why the author is not known, and why the whole point is that you will get fired if taxes increase. I don't find that threat credible. If the guy wants to retire, he will sell his company, not shut it down. Even if it's unprofi
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by zupatol 18y ago
I was puzzled by his claim that pooswa is french for pussy. It sounds more like good evening with a very strong german accent. I guess the slang meaning implies that you're a pussy when you say good evening in french, and what I took for a
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by zupatol 18y ago
I discovered the fountainhead last year and I found it fascinating although it becomes more and more awkward as you progress. At the end it seemed to me like a journey into a sick mind, which makes it all the more interesting. I would recom
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by zupatol 18y ago
The raphael library he writes about looks interesting, it uses vml for internet explorer and svg elsewhere. I had never heard about vml. According to wikipedia it is used by google maps as a replacement for svg in ie. That surprised me too:
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by zupatol 18y ago
There would be something very wrong if every baseball team managed to lose every match. But the value of baseball comes from entertaining, not from winning, so I'd rather put it this way: There would be something very wrong if you would sud
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by zupatol 18y ago
There is a similarity between a ponzi scheme and the bubble created by the financial system: it works only as long as you find fools to trust it, and the last one to get out loses.
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by zupatol 18y ago
Madoff could have written that.
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by zupatol 18y ago
I had a lot of 'business management' lessons when I studied economics. Most of them were so full of emptiness that I came to think that most of a business degree is part of faking it, a kind of symbolic ritual. (There were however a minorit
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by zupatol 18y ago
I learned a lot from the java tutorial http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
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by zupatol 18y ago
My religion changes after work. That makes me think of the jews who live in Saudi Arabia and know enough of the Coran to pass as muslims. Java would be islam then. No wonder it sounds indonesian.
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by zupatol 18y ago
So they are selling a book, cds dvds and t-shirts. The concerts only just cover their costs. What about piracy? They won't be able to sell that much music and movies, will they? When electronic books mature the same will probably happen to
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by zupatol 18y ago
That looks even better. I'm going to try this out in my pet project. Thank you.
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by zupatol 18y ago
Latent semantic analysis can be used to measure the similarity of two documents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis I found examples in ruby and python in this blog, which is unfortunately down just at the moment http:
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by zupatol 18y ago
I wouldn't call it 'comfort with meaninglessness' but rather 'ability to find meaning'. Those who succeeded were the ones who came up with a theory about how things could work and then applied their theory consistently. The problems must ha
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by zupatol 18y ago
That's interesting. Could you be more specific about the numbers? Are these workdays? This would be the equivalent of 5 months. Or are they calendar days, which make it a little more than 3 months? Do they have to take the break after 12 mo
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by zupatol 18y ago
I write and draw comics
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by zupatol 18y ago
Have you tried working part-time? I'm not sure this would help, because I don't really understand how you can love coding and hate working at the same time. Here is what I do: I have an arrangement with my employer that I will not work full
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by zupatol 18y ago
I listen to my conscience. I can really tell when I'm going in the wrong direction. I am surprised no one else has mentioned anything of the sort in this thread.
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by zupatol 18y ago
People can also be bent. I saw a documentary the other day where neurologists explained that much of our perception of the world is a construction of our brain, that's why it can easily be tricked by illusions. One of them concluded that si
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by zupatol 18y ago
I'm surprised that a text praising an advertisement ends with the sentence 'Maybe honesty really is the best policy'. Honesty would be not to advertise.
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by zupatol 18y ago
I spent 3 weeks in Cameroon this year. It's not as bad as this article says, but almost. Some roads in Douala have been fixed, some new roads have been paved. I didn't see a working telephone line, but several competing mobile phone compani
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by zupatol 18y ago
Maybe my post is not very clear. Seth Godin implies that Newton became famous because of something that amounts to a cheap marketing trick, instead of just being a genius who revolutionized math and physics. I say if you want to find someth
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by zupatol 18y ago
You do sound like a mac user who has heard too much criticism. That's why I wrote I didn't hear a lot of criticism around me. If everybody was in your place, that simpson episode would indeed make no sense. I am in an opposite situation, an
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by zupatol 18y ago
Newton's cheap trick to get famous is not giving a name to something everybody knows. It's standing on the shoulder of giants.
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by zupatol 18y ago
Some of the best Simpsons episodes succeed at being critical and funny at the same time. Putting a well deserved criticism inside a joke actually makes it funnier. I don't find entertainment very entertaining when it's totally disconnected
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by zupatol 18y ago
Calling an Ipod MyPod pretty well points to the feeling of superiority you can get by buying a expensive fashionable product. This is just one example of a critical and relevant joke which was funny enough to make me laugh. What you call in
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by zupatol 18y ago
"In other words, Bartlebooth resolved one day that his whole life would be organised as a single project, an arbitrarily constrained programme with no purpose outside its own completion." Georges Perec, Life: A User's Manual
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by zupatol 18y ago
I couldn't help thinking some more about what you wrote. The things I want to do, like reading a specific book, only make sense if I am alive. If I die, my desire to read the book disappears. I would not say I want to live in order to read
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by zupatol 18y ago
You're right. The argument about overcoming the fear of death is really not sufficient to make that point. Let's leave at that: there are good arguments in Schopenhauer for not considering death as undesirable, and many of them are not nece
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by zupatol 18y ago
"Angry at the way things are" is like saying things are not as they should be because someone fucked up. But who is responsible for how the world is? The creator? Having this kind of anger is like believing in God.

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