owinebarger

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by owinebarger 17y ago
I agree with his assessment. Any data representation can be construed as a graph - this is the basis of garbage collection. Besides the areas where graphs (or networks) are explicit in a problem, the most powerful use comes in analyzing a
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Depressing stuff.
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by owinebarger 17y ago
The best opportunities aren't the ones being screened by HR. Most job postings look like someone got a description of the job from the manager, looked for the sentence fragments that could be classified as skills or experience, then put th
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by owinebarger 17y ago
I expected an article decrying unions, but found one decrying the licensing of doctors and lawyers. To use the case of florist licensing to condemn all licensing is an egregious leap. In general I believe it is sound policy to license prof
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by owinebarger 17y ago
You are confusing the pragmatics of the decision to take the plunge into marriage with the underlying relationship. I'm interested in entrepreneurial risk-taking, and the kinds of considerations and miscalculations discussed in the article
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by owinebarger 17y ago
I thought the obsession with the clock and nefarious ulterior dating motives didn't start until 30-something. Now that you mention it, though, when did marriage and children become either nefarious or ulterior reasons for dating?
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by owinebarger 17y ago
The second sentence of my earlier post was my idea of comedy.
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by owinebarger 17y ago
This article isn't about sex, or even relationships per se, it's about evaluating the riskiness of a particular kind of venture, and how women evidently miscalculate the opportunity cost of finding "Mr Right".
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by owinebarger 17y ago
First, "settling" is a highly offensive term. Anyone using that term is living in a fantasy world. I read the author as using it facetiously, though, since that is pretty much the point of the article. Second, she soundly observes that marr
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by owinebarger 17y ago
It would certainly be nice for work supported by public funds, but that isn't the way it is now. I'm assuming the OP needs the information in the journals now or in the near future, so he has to operate under current conditions.
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by owinebarger 17y ago
I think they're trying to reduce the impact of the superhuman levels of concentration displayed by the uberhackers. I don't like it.
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by owinebarger 17y ago
If you need more than a few ACM papers, it probably is.
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by owinebarger 17y ago
I have to strongly agree with your second paragraph, but finding the good opportunities is the trick.
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by owinebarger 17y ago
I agree with your assessment of learning a new language != getting better at programming, as well as how you become an expert in a particular field. After reviewing these comments, it seems the interesting aspect of Giles Bowkett's paragrap
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Ask HN: How to look for a programming opportunity
26 points by owinebarger 17y ago|22 comments
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by owinebarger 17y ago
The paragraph that hooked me has not been addressed in other comments. That is: Most programmers I know seem to respond to job searches by learning new programming languages. The logic there is pretty weak. "I can't get a job with a
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by owinebarger 17y ago
They forego revenue in exchange for the loss control. It's economically equivalent. This is like those discussions of whether taxes that are charged directly to businesses are paid by the business or by their customers. As for the other,
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Offered as an addendum to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1160552
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Public Pension Funds Are Adding Risk to Raise Returns(nytimes.com)
1 points by owinebarger 17y ago|1 comments
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by owinebarger 17y ago
To some extent, they do in the form of a premium rebate, though it is unlikely to be large enough to be a substantial reimbursement for a single policy period - perhaps over the life of the policy the cumulative rebate might cover the up-fr
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by owinebarger 17y ago
I have no idea what definition you are using for "standard insurance." Health insurance does cover routine care, but that's actually a loss control mechanism in the longer term. Health insurance sold on a group basis is underwritten on a g
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by owinebarger 17y ago
The problem for healthcare insurers is that healthcare is a product often obtained while under duress. Patients have to trust their doctors, so they'd much rather call their insurers greedy than the people to whom they entrust their most v
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by owinebarger 17y ago
You would be wrong - reserves are there to pay for liabilities already incurred. Social Security is basically a Ponzi scheme without the deception. You're right about the "Social Security Trust Fund" - can you imagine a state allowing a pr
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by owinebarger 17y ago
And what makes you think you aren't lumped in with your neighbor? Every rational form of insurance relies on distributing risk over groups of independent risks to obtain the benefits of the central limit theorem. There are some very special
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by owinebarger 17y ago
CA appears to be imploding. I went to a college in LA in the early 90s. I recall it with the warm fuzzy lens time provides, particularly in the winter, but the property values need to be heavily discounted by the government's debt, built-
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by owinebarger 17y ago
TeX has a lot of shortcomings as a language. When I was writing my dissertation I would have been able to list plenty of them, but the most obvious was the gratuitous use of dynamic scoping instead of lexical scoping. It can be very tricky
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Why Layoffs Should be Avoided | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com(itbusinessedge.com)
1 points by owinebarger 17y ago|0 comments
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Become a "Minipreneur"(insidetech.monster.com)
1 points by owinebarger 17y ago|0 comments
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Actually, it's a decimal point shift, which is a little easier than general division.
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by owinebarger 17y ago
You might be surprised how widespread the non-understanding of division is among the normal population. That includes the accounting profession, who have mastered addition and subtraction, and possibly multiplication as well. It's not clea

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