johnnybgoode

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by johnnybgoode 14y ago
Wow, years later, even after her de facto demotion at Google, people still think she's some kind of product genius? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1028615 This is a hilarious situation.
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
Proof that I agree: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=788702
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
I hope you're still here! > Can you name some ways to actually do this? I'd love to hear about them, but have never actually seen a system like that. > Even if there was though, before you go yanking money out of the system, y
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
It looks like this whole story was manually pushed off the HN front page for some reason (or it was flagged and the sorting algorithm takes this into account?), but I just wanted to say while I'm here that I was really glad to read this par
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
> What's the evidence that libraries serve the poor more than universities? I take it you've agreed universities are skewed towards the middle class and higher in terms of direct enrollment (and this is easily verifiable). To co
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
> the idiots who made that movie used very similar language to the OP > immediately assume assume the OP was one Come on. This is an obvious case of unwarranted guilt by association. For the record, I've never seen Expell
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
We really need to separate certification/credentialing from education. Agreed. I was giving possibilistic the benefit of the doubt. If some need access to a lab to fully learn a subject, that's something that should be addressed. If not,
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
> terrible article > Awfully muddled thinking > right-wing propaganda > laughably poor argument > propagandist rant All of the above were unnecessary. I'll address the rest of your comment now. >
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
I agree hands-on learning in a lab is important. I'm not suggesting everyone should stop this and only read books instead. But learning in a lab doesn't need to be tied to a $100,000-$200,000 four-year university degree program. As a societ
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
To be perfectly clear, I'd love to cut military spending, bailouts, drug war spending, etc. This article was about a state funding issue, but I'm fine leaving that aside, since ultimately it's all government spending. In the first place,
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
The top story on Hacker News right now, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3607217 (also the link I start the post with), explains one of the problems with doing that. As many important functions move online, the library is one place som
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
Thank you, and I agree with you. I'd hope nearly everyone agrees with what you said. The way I see it, libraries are so incredible, and so important, that even the mighty university should be cut before libraries are.
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
Respectfully, I don't think I've done what you say I've done. I say "they're not the same thing" because, as I said in the post, a lot of people lump them together as "investing in knowledge for society" or the like. I didn't set out to ide
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
While this post focuses on universities and libraries, and I'm serious about preferring university cuts to library cuts, obviously there are plenty of other things that could probably be cut first.
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
Yeah, it's hard to attack libraries. They're one of the best examples of a truly equitable program I can think of. I'd much rather cut even university funding: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3608264
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Save the Libraries. Cut University Funding Instead.(jbgst.tumblr.com)
70 points by johnnybgoode 15y ago|61 comments
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
I'm not trying to be pedantic here. If this actually did get blown up the way I describe, it'd be indicative of some serious problems in journalism today.
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Jobs's nine-digit Dropbox offer — media loved it, but wasn't true?(jbgst.tumblr.com)
1 points by johnnybgoode 15y ago|1 comments
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
I really hope this works. It'd be fantastic to see this become a reliable way to fund new adventure games, especially if they're from Tim Schafer.
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
Is this a defense for Android's poor responsiveness (often blamed on a lack of hardware acceleration), or is there some other context I'm missing? Doesn't this make Android look even worse? I.e., "Android already has hardware acceleration b
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
I'd be curious to learn more about your thinking on this. A few years ago you were heading in the other direction -- i.e., you were talking about how people could or should start companies at younger and younger ages. pg, May 2005: "The thr
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
I don't think you understood my post at all. Instead it looks like some Mac fanboy(s) somewhere made you angry, and you're responding to me as if I'm one of them.
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
Since it obviously doesn't come with OS X, in a very important way the IdeaPad doesn't match the Air at all. I know I'm not alone when I say I'd gladly pay a lot more than $100 for OS X over Windows. I understand Lenovo can't just include O
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by johnnybgoode 15y ago
Leaving aside the arguments about prostitution for a moment, I think it's fair to say that a number of these women (not all) are uncomfortable with being prostitutes and are only doing it to pay for college. College is expensive largely bec
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by johnnybgoode 16y ago
This is one of those things that can amuse, impress, and horrify you all at the same time.
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Sega Brings Awkward Fun to the Restroom(singularityhub.com)
43 points by johnnybgoode 16y ago|17 comments
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by johnnybgoode 16y ago
The first thing listed under "Requirements" is "Bachelor's degree in Computer Science", which you would certainly not need to perform this job.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
My dream would be to be able to decompile JS into CoffeeScript, so I could make changes in either form. That would probably be difficult to do for some of the more advanced features, though.
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
Exactly. Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=580721 .
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by johnnybgoode 17y ago
I suspect you don't really care about our answers to your title question, and you just wanted to post the link and a quote from this paper. All of which is fine with me, by the way!

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