bslorence

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by bslorence 4y ago
Except you probably didn't get permanently banned from using the library when you tried to search for that.
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by bslorence 4y ago
thanks much for the tips!
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by bslorence 4y ago
Well and honestly most of War and Peace is pretty easy and pleasant to read as well (I'm setting aside the philosophy-of-history stuff) -- there's just so much of it.
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by bslorence 4y ago
What is a "large company" in this context? My employer is on track to run about $5m through Stripe this year, which will be our fourth full year using Stripe. Our first year we did about $2.75m. This year I've been getting oc
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by bslorence 4y ago
Or you can offer substantial tax incentives for founders to cash out by selling to their own employees; e.g., the ESOP system in the US.
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by bslorence 4y ago
Maybe "asking 'why'" isn't the right way to express it. Perhaps what the OP was really after here was a concrete illustration of the formula, rather than a rigorous derivation of the formula from first principles. T
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by bslorence 4y ago
This goes to the question of why anything other than basic arithmetic is compulsory. The famous 10th-grader's whine "what are we going to use this for", which infuriated my own 10th-grade Algebra 2 teacher, and even made me
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by bslorence 4y ago
Fair enough. Maybe I should have just said that it's possible to give concrete illustrations of basic algebraic concepts, and that doing this would probably help some students learn algebra, and might help others retain it. But for wha
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by bslorence 4y ago
> there ARE points in a student's academic path where they HAVE TO memorize stuff and do rote operations like the multiplication tables. Sure, but imagine learning multiplication tables without having any idea what it means to &
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by bslorence 4y ago
Am I the only one who finds that quote-searching sort of kind of sometimes works in Gmail, but usually doesn't?
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by bslorence 4y ago
I suspect most of us have a serious imbalance in our lives between productive work, leisure, and recreation. See Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler's book "The Capitalist Manifesto" for a rich discussion of these topics. They def
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by bslorence 4y ago
Similarly I would doubt that anyone actually thinks that the past was good simply because it came before the present. The desire to return to "the way things were" is born of a critique of specific aspects of "the way things
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by bslorence 4y ago
This is an interesting take on conservatism. I suppose it must be a fairly common take among people who consider themselves progressive, and helps makes sense of some things I've observed recently. I consider myself generally conservat
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by bslorence 4y ago
> In the early seventeenth century, for example, the French Jesuit missionary Pierre Biard complained that the Wabanaki did not have to work hard enough to feed themselves ... “Had he ever gone fishing…? Gathered nuts, or berries deep in
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by bslorence 4y ago
I could not get into Lord of the World although I really enjoyed another novel of Benson's.
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by bslorence 4y ago
worth it for book 3 though
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by bslorence 4y ago
> a much later add on. Yeah that's what I was thinking too. I'm going to re-read Canticle soon-ish but I wonder to what extent Miller endorses even the latter. I feel like his concerns were much more immediately spiritual than
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by bslorence 4y ago
Interesting take, I would have thought that the early moderns were not too interested in vindicating monasticism. Do you have particular thinkers in mind here?
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by bslorence 4y ago
Yeah I think Miller was using the nuclear holocaust as a vehicle to reflect on original sin (i.e., the inevitable tendency of human beings to engage in self-destructive behavior) and the antidote to it offered by the Catholic Church. If he
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by bslorence 4y ago
Reminds me of Jakob Nielsen's rule for writing a good "About" page. If you can insert a "not" into a sentence and get something that no other company would ever put on their own About page, the sentence is worthless
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by bslorence 4y ago
Your password was probably reset: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31255450
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by bslorence 4y ago
I can't be the only person who uses the Quickbooks Online API for private, non-interactive integrations between internal systems. This new process – a 40-minute legal/security questionnaire that includes questions like "how d
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Intuit “makes it easier” to get production API credentials(blogs.intuit.com)
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by bslorence 6y ago
ah, ratpoison. I passed many a fair hour doing network-appliance dev with ratpoison + screen + vi (not even vim) back in the day.
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by bslorence 6y ago
It seems like this is your argument: 1) If some religions are false, then all religions are false 2) Pacific-tribe cargo cults and ancient Greek mythology are clearly false, plus there are some stories in the Bible that are hard to swallow
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by bslorence 6y ago
Twice a year we have to deal with calendar screw-ups because a third of our employees are in a locale that doesn't observe DST and the rest are in locales that do observe it. If an employee from that first group sets up a recurring mee
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by bslorence 6y ago
I suppose everyone's experience is a little different. I started writing code when I was about 7 and I really don't think the K-12 curricula I went through had much direct impact on my career. Maybe some people catch the bug in sc
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by bslorence 6y ago
I wonder how many STEM professionals' K-12 education has anything at all to do with their career. Zero connection for me, and I went to a flagship Silicon Valley high school and maxed out the math curriculum there. I can't think o
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by bslorence 6y ago
The main thing Euclid did for me was to enkindle a love for math as such. Geometry done that way is just so ... beautiful. Unfortunately I didn't have this experience until I was an undergraduate. For the prior 12 years of formal schoo
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by bslorence 6y ago
If I'm reading bundler's docs rightly, the new 'source' syntax only appears to prevent this: https://bundler.io/man/gemfile.5.html#SOURCE-PRIORITY

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