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by susan_hall 7y ago
What new product can they offer? What new ideas do they have? Is there any sign of the originality that was on display 10 years ago?
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by susan_hall 9y ago
The Internet is part of the real world. Whatever you dislike about the real world, you will probably eventually dislike about the Internet. And to save what you like about the Internet, you have to go into the real world and fight for it. T
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by susan_hall 9y ago
I agree about Kessler. Why would she write an essay about Yegge? Slow news day? Writers block? Who cares about Yegge's blog post? How did she even find it? Still, QZ has a big audience. QZ is popular in Silicon Valley. I feel like once
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Why is MongoDB wildly popular? It’s a data structure thing(blog.mlab.com)
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by susan_hall 10y ago
I currently work for a client who has decided to shift away from PHP and towards Python. They had a monolithic PHP app with perhaps 250,000 lines of code. Now we are developing a series of Python apps in the microservices style. We've
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by susan_hall 10y ago
Regarding Muslims in the USA, I worry about those in government who might revive this line of thinking: "The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken.&q
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by susan_hall 10y ago
I loved jQuery when it first appeared, but it is from another era, for sure. The rise of the Single Page Application was one big strike against jQuery. Frameworks such as Angular 1.0 emerged which relied on jQuery, and the software built wi
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by susan_hall 10y ago
"when a community and its moderators tend toward free-speech absolutist positions." But oddly, this doesn't describe HN, because another aspect of the moderation is in favor of blandness, for the sake of avoiding flamewars. I
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by susan_hall 10y ago
From the Notes, this is a very sad story: "I am Muslim, born in Massachusetts. I love my faith. Muslims in the US are very scared. Both my mom and wife wear the hijab, so I'm always worried they'll be attacked in the street.
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When we (women) are Needed (2005)(weblog.burningbird.net)
1 points by susan_hall 10y ago|0 comments
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by susan_hall 10y ago
There have been some fantastic conversations on Hacker News about type systems. I've learned a lot about the different arguments for dynamic typing, versus strict typing, versus gradual typing. Java's type system may or may not ha
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by susan_hall 10y ago
I am surprised you were downvoted. The 4 points you make seem straightforward, and are accurate. The timeline for economic damage (from global warming) is fairly long. Even in the worst-case scenario, the Earth as we know it is still recogn
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by susan_hall 10y ago
So why can't Google find it? If it is an article, an essay or a series of lectures , Google should find it.
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by susan_hall 10y ago
It is strange that neither Google nor Amazon can find this book: https://www.google.com/search?q=Algorithms+Jeff+Erickson+sit...
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by susan_hall 10y ago
I agree, and I do wish that science fiction writers still had the social prominence that they had back in the mid 20th century. Because I think humanity needs a group that thinks about how things could be, and how things should be, and to w
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by susan_hall 10y ago
The elaboration on this bit is good: --------------------- "[C]onsider two indistinguishable workers, you and your clone. By definition, you/clone have the same gender, ethnicity, years of schooling, family background, skills, etc
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How Clones Can Experience Unequal Economic Outcomes(conversableeconomist.blogspot.com)
3 points by susan_hall 10y ago|1 comments
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by susan_hall 10y ago
No "we" don't. Not all of us. Many of us hold the Founding Fathers in deep contempt. There is now DNA evidence showing that Thomas Jefferson raped Sally Hemings. That means that all of Thomas Jefferson's writings, includ
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by susan_hall 10y ago
I'm not sure if "overwhelmingly mindless" is the right characterization. In my opinion, the most interesting story playing out among the Western nations is what is happening in Poland right now. In the USA, people fought for
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by susan_hall 10y ago
About this: "ideally they'll have been programming since before college" Lot's of people get into computer programming as a second career. Rich Hickey, who created the Clojure language, studied music when he was in colle
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by susan_hall 10y ago
At the moment, this post has 4 upvotes and yet it is in the #7 place on the front page of Hacker News. How is that possible? 4 upvotes gets a post that high on the front page?
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by susan_hall 10y ago
If the goal is to generate a lot of useless "just so" stories, then this is good advice: "Take any behavior seen in all humans, ie. not something that is due to local culture, and place that behaviour in the kind of tribal gr
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by susan_hall 10y ago
It is worrisome that the posts which are factually accurate are getting downvoted. This raises a question about economic literacy on Hacker News. Presumably the people downvoting this comment simply don't understand how the economy wor
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by susan_hall 10y ago
I can put this differently: if I had a CFO who confused gross revenue with net profit, then I would fire the CFO and hire someone better. We can easily list cool stuff that happened over the last 100 years: radio, television, cell phones, t
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by susan_hall 10y ago
You are avoiding the issue. I have to assume that you have no answer to the question. It is more difficult to raise children, and we lack metrics that show that decline. Listing a bunch of neat stuff doesn't show that the standard of l
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by susan_hall 10y ago
"In the 1800's, having children was a net asset because they were put to work as soon as they could walk" You are expanding upon my example without explaining it. My point remains: has the standard of living gone up? If peopl
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by susan_hall 10y ago
> where would the income come from You are confusing money with wealth (stuff people want). The money would come from the government, which can simply print it. Take a hypothetical situation where robots cause the total amount of wealth
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by susan_hall 10y ago
My great grand mother gave birth to 16 children, who had healthy childhoods and good educations. My family was not wealthy. Nowadays only the wealthy could afford to raise 16 children, with good childhoods and good education. If people now
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by susan_hall 10y ago
Many social factors often external to the economy would negatively change our understanding of our "standard of living" if included. In the USA, if you only look at the nominal median wage and then subtract the inflation tracked b
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by susan_hall 10y ago
Perhaps off-topic, but does anyone know why Twitter gave up on its effort to monetize its API? There was a moment, circa 2010, when that seemed like the obvious move. When Twitter first began to shut down access to its full firehose, it see

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