davidmathers

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by davidmathers 13y ago
> Historically this has been true, but nowadays it's not (at least in the US). Not true in 1990. Very true today. The Bush tax cuts inaugurated the current era of class warfare. I'd say 2010 is when it really got going.
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by davidmathers 14y ago
Previously: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/zuckerberg.html
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by davidmathers 14y ago
A presentation by SPJ left me with the impression that FP should be pointing to Miranda and several other languages that became Haskell, rather than to Haskell itself.
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1164391 Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024101
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668198
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by davidmathers 15y ago
The Cato paper that Branson references was written by salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald and is available to read online at Cato's website: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080
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by davidmathers 15y ago
The equivalent is actually "A copy of Oracle at home." SAP started with just the ERP product.
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by davidmathers 15y ago
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans It's the one with this disclaimer: "New activations only. Available exclusively in-store at Walmart, on Walmart.com, and T-Mobile.com." They also released this $200 phone to go along wit
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by davidmathers 15y ago
No.
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Can the quantum state be interpreted statistically?(mattleifer.info)
41 points by davidmathers 15y ago|6 comments
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by davidmathers 15y ago
apropos: http://valerieaurora.org/kitchen.html
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by davidmathers 15y ago
http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus...
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Yeah, that's what I'm using now.
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by davidmathers 15y ago
I'd buy this if I could use it as an MPD client.
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by davidmathers 15y ago
This is similar to the complaint 37 Signals had with Get Satisfaction: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else
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Baroque.me visualizes the first Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suites(blog.chenalexander.com)
3 points by davidmathers 15y ago|0 comments
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by davidmathers 15y ago
$50 to the person in the office who can keep a recruiter on the phone the longest using only Emacs Eliza. I think you should take it to the next level and use the zippy quotes from psychoanalyze-pinhead.
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Three: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385608n
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Shame on Hacker News's audience that the front page isn't filled up with Dennis stories right now. Right now 14 of the top 15 stories are about Dennis Ritchie.
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Nietzsche isn't calling you a slave. He's saying that your morality is a slave morality. Meaning your moral system was invented by people who were, in fact, at the time, slaves. How anyone feels about that is up to them. He mostly just want
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Harvard is not fungible.
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by davidmathers 15y ago
1. You're attacking a straw man, which actually is a fallacy. 2. Even if the passage you cited were about "getting less in an absolute sense", there's still no fallacy. zafka already pointed this out in his #1 above. What's so hard to com
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by davidmathers 15y ago
It was a late 80's / early 90's thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duesberg_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_denialism#History
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by davidmathers 15y ago
"Ten days" is a verbatim quote from Brendan. http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-... http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-...
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by davidmathers 15y ago
I've been reading Gilad Bracha's blog for a while. He believes the future belongs to languages that compile to javascript.
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by davidmathers 15y ago
The OP doesn't even mention that Hemingway was a one-time KGB spy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/09/hemingway-failed...
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by davidmathers 15y ago
I tried Googling, but why are Scala and Haskell automatically classified as "academic"? Because they are inspired by 20th century mathematics rather than 18th century mathematics. This quote from wikipedia explains it: These developments
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Samsung also makes cars: http://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/14/renault-samsung-previews-...
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by davidmathers 15y ago
Well, Benjamin Pierce has a 600 page book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262162091/ Followed by a 600 page book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262162288/
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by davidmathers 15y ago
George Soros shorted $10 billion worth of British Pound and then made $1 billion in a single day. I don't know what would have happened if things had gone the other way but I think he was mostly-in, if not all-in.

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