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by hanleybrand 13y ago
A friend told me recently that they liked Python because it was an easy language to start a project with, but they loved OCaml because it was an easy language to finish a project with. My point? The best language to learn first is the one y
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by hanleybrand 13y ago
A part of me likes this, and a part of me ❤s this. The rest of me wants to hear what a lawter like Lessig (or someone with a silar amount of experience and stake in the legalese of sharing) would say about it. My guess is this has as much l
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by hanleybrand 13y ago
Hopefully there's a twist in the article, but I'm not going to be able to find out. I'm going to point out that any good university has a wide range of factors they consider for accepting applicants - there's no reason you should be able to
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
It's kind of a shame that two people got fired - but I did think it was weird when the person having a private convo was fired but not the person who used their corporate position to launch a public attack on the former was not. But for the
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
On the other hand - I'm not sure which problem AZ is solving here. Maybe enough women weren't calling the police saying "there's a man in the bathroom!"
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
I can't help but think gender-less bathrooms are a better solution.
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
Word. For the record, not all women insist on a diamond, except reflexively... I actually know few couples that have bought diamond rings (for many reasons - some financial planning (a young couple should be worried about a house, insurance
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
Are we sure that Microsoft/Google/Samsung/Etc project managers aren't telling themselves that they're "doing it like Apple does it?" I also believe that apple has/had a design critique culture that most people in technology and business wou
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
The assertion/snow clone "[x] makes you dumber just for hearing it" can sometimes be more accurately formulated "I do not have an adequately developed set of reasoning tools to grapple with and understand [x]." Usually it's paired with that
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
I'm curious if home garden farming is big among the "preppers" - but then I think that planning a more self-sufficient food supply is only valuable to non-nuclear/chemical warfare doomsday thinking (such as the author's economic collapse bi
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
The first problem is in the second sentence of the report: "The study lasted for approximately eight weeks." Based on my limited knowledge of outcomes assessment and the current scholarship of teaching and learning, eight weeks is not a lo
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
As someone who's suffered under at least one megalomaniac's attempt to be the next whatever, I would caution any future CEO reading this article and dreaming about following its advice to be careful that you're not building a fantasy brand
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
I was surprised at how thorough the article was. I went in assuming the article would be an ideological argument, but after reading it seems fairly straightforward (spoiler alert: the basic argument is that people will pirate entertainment
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
'"Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is."' - Charles Dickens
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
I was super surprised that the "key findings" section of the executive summary in the actual report give a very different feeling of the contents of the report than the summary provided by the Heritage Foundation researchers: From the actua
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
If problems is shorthand for "has a lot of cease and desist paperwork to file" I agree. I'm not clear what Adobe did wrong here, other than actually try to not completely screw people running very old versions of their software. Sadly, no
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
It's the same reason I like having a macbook - I can currently also boot into windows natively or several flavors of unix via virtualization - every os has strengths and weaknesses, why not have them all? If people can run linux, it helps l
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
Given that this has been solved in Spanish seeking cultures for quite some time - well, I guess I'm surprised that either no one at NPR speaks Spanish, or was willing to point out that this isn't an unsolved problem.
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
Punk is the new black.
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
I realize that "data" and "thinking" are shorthands for something more fleshed out, but doesn't the title read as somewhat obtuse? Like calling an article "why facts will never replace understanding" or "why Wikipedia will never replace peo
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
He had almost lost me until the section "people buying things they don't need with money they don't have" and the prime example was "education" - then he really lost me. Cranky crank is cranking, apparently.
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
I think it's possible to likely that Apple would implement something along the lines of sub-accounts for iOS, so that you could hand your iProduct to your kid without worrying that they could read your email, delete pictures, whatever - but
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
You are correct - the 2nd amendment prohibits the US government from infringing the right to "to keep and bear arms" - it does not specify what kind of arms, so knives and swords (and theoretically but not actually) nuclear weapons would al
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
How could you unsubscribe an email address without asking which one?
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
Except that laws that deal with morality and other behaviors that people never agree on (drugs and alcohol, sex, public behaviors, etc.) are political suicide to repeal, so few legislators would ever be willing to try, so (fill in the blank
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
I pretty much only work with static pages for documentation, but besides github repos even docs/help is done with a cms or knowledge base app behind it.
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
People make fun of me for doing it, but I can't stop. It's the one thing that makes google reader hard to use, because I forget and clicking on a news story makes it jump to the top of the page (note to google reader devs - your thing is aw
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
"I'd love to have an easier way to get involved in some open source project for improving my skills, enhancing my CV, etc." Not to sound trite, but I don't think the reasons you enumerated for contributing to a project would give most peopl
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
"Re-rendering navigation is not acceptable" Why? Does the tiny electronic miracle on your lap or desk that is more powerful than the sum of all computers that existed in the world in 1970 have something important to do or something?
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by hanleybrand 14y ago
A conceptual problem with this analogy is that when a corporate whale dies in a community the people that live their wouldn't be represented by other separate organisms - they would be the cells of the whale and cells of other whales. This

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