baguasquirrel

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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
I couldn't disagree more. I moved back to NYC because after six years in the Valley, I thought I needed some change. I have two major gripes with the Valley. The first is that it is a bubble chamber. People there follow their passions. This
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
Make NCAs illegal. Make it so your employer doesn't own what you do in your spare time. A truly nuclear option is to bar discrimination based on previous employment history. One major peril for erstwhile startup founders is that if you fail
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
I wonder how much of this is due to Facebook deciding that location check-ins aren't that big a deal. Most of my friends still don't "get" what is the big deal with this.
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
Well that's not much different from how we play right? Make the future happen, literally. But they ultimately have to face what we will face. The markets may not buy. All that real estate stock for example.
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
I don't think the military shot anyone. There is a paradox here and it's that the military response would put the republic in danger if it indeed turned violent. But the mere presence of the military put the riots down. As others have point
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
I was pointing out why people think the way they do. No need to get condescending or shoot the messenger here. More than that, you are merely being pedantic. It makes little difference that Hollywood made it when it was people who made a
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
Whatever dude. Just ask anyone who grew up in anything resembling a ghetto. There's lots of us who begin to think that shooting rioters on sight is not a bad idea. Where do you think Boondock Saints came from? Honestly, at some point, you j
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
What is the state of patent law, especially regarding software patents, across the world? If patents really are going to be a murder on innovation, then the least broken system should enjoy an advantage, no?
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
I can't shake the feeling that it's because they didn't want to play the bad guy. Sun was hemorrhaging money. Layoffs were going to have to happen.
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
Maybe it would've been nicer if we just said "deep shit" instead of "default." When you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank owns you, but when you owe the bank a trillion dollars, you own the bank. Greece knows that there are lots of i
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
"30 years, and accept a modest coupon of 4.5%", I rest my case. This is comical.
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
Even if it does get repaid over a longer period, this more or less means those bonds are shot as an investment. Moreover, this means that no one is going to lend the Greek gov't any more money. I didn't see any terms in the agreement wher
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
It just means that instead of having the train quickly derail, they're going to stretch it out like it were a Hollywood movie. Seriously. No one believes that debt is going to be repaid. The politicos are just praying that the train doesn't
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
Well it works , doesn't it?
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
Maybe it has something to do with the reporter being from NYC. [full disclosure: I am from NYC]
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
If they want to help build one here in the U.S., it may help for the sake of rhetoric to make a scapegoat out of the one they have over there. It's just a PR sleight-of-hand. The title is white-lie misleading. Cisco has been doing this sort
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
Actually, I was originally of the same opinion, but then I read some lecture slides from Simon PJ. He has suggested that laziness was perhaps not the best default. It is hard to reason about space leaks with laziness. Likewise for typeclass
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
You know, this almost reminds me of the ML vs. Haskell debate. I remember fondly, hearing the 15-312 kids talk about how ML is right and everything else is wrong. The CMU PL dept was kind of adorable that way. One of the classic examples is
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
I've actually been trying to prove people like this guy wrong for years. My takeaway is that Haskell is not the problem. The real problem is that solving people's problems is hard. Designing and iterating on a product or service is hard. Fi
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
I'll tell you what doesn't work. Overbuilding the place. Staten Island is a tragic example of this. In Manhattan, it's like they're repaving the streets with park. You need a certain amount of density. But the overriding purpose of the dens
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
One word for you. Copenhagen.
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
until a scientist runs the experiment, it could be said that our wisdom is anecdotal. that having been said, I don't think you should wait for science if you know from experience what's right.
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
Some teams may be more experienced than others? I just noticed the strain relief on my latest-gen power adapter. I never noticed that before. It is so cool.
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
Existential types? The author alludes to this, and then proceeds in ignorance of what he'd just said for the rest of the post. In Java, all you have for these is interfaces, so it's no wonder people think that types are problematic. Types a
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
They are agreeing on a protocol, they aren't saying that they're going to share their mined and ranked data. No way in Hell is Google going to agree to that. My bet is that Google is worried about its relevance in a world where an increasin
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
They are scared of Facebook and Twitter.
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
It's horrifying because a young boy, with many years left in his life, in all likelihood gave one of his organs to someone who's probably got 10-15 years left tops.
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
That's funny... Americans don't have an economically rational aversion to becoming movie stars in much the same way.
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
There is truly and honestly a crab mentality going on, and it's because of guys like this. Personally, I'm getting tired of all this raging against the stereotype. What if some of us actually like math? What if some of us actually like
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by baguasquirrel 15y ago
It's worth noting that Toyota has its plants primarily in the states that have scored the highest in this survey. San Antonio is one of their biggest plants, IIRC? If you want to be in tech, OTOH, the two worst states are the only ones wi

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