williamdix

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by williamdix 12y ago
Yes, you are just an aging fuddy duddy.
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Why Are We Settling For This In Clojure?(blog.softwarecurmudgeon.com)
1 points by williamdix 13y ago|0 comments
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Build A Marketplace on Braintree(braintreepayments.com)
5 points by williamdix 13y ago|0 comments
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Playing with Scala Play(blog.softwarecurmudgeon.com)
2 points by williamdix 13y ago|0 comments
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An Action's Tale(blog.softwarecurmudgeon.com)
1 points by williamdix 13y ago|0 comments
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by williamdix 14y ago
It's not that NERDTree makes one unproductive. It's that using NetRW on default vim installations allows you to get going without installing NERDTree.
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Show HN: HTTP and Websocket Testing for Go(drewolson.org)
4 points by williamdix 14y ago|0 comments
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Braintree finally delivers on Venmo promises with Touch(pandodaily.com)
27 points by williamdix 14y ago|5 comments
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Pairing for Developer Interviews(dan-manges.com)
3 points by williamdix 14y ago|0 comments
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No Fighting in the War Room(braintreepayments.com)
3 points by williamdix 14y ago|0 comments
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by williamdix 14y ago
I'm a fairly junior developer at Braintree. I spent two months this summer working in our West Coast office pairing with one of our most senior developers. I spent almost the entire time at the keyboard. The senior developer provided gui
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When REST isn't Good Enough(braintreepayments.com)
94 points by williamdix 14y ago|92 comments
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by williamdix 14y ago
I agree with the OP, not because I am trying to prove to others/convince myself that I am not racist. I agree with them precisely because I recognize that I benefit from privilege as a white male, and that I suffer from biases towards those
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by williamdix 14y ago
The margin of victory does not correctly sort.
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by williamdix 14y ago
Take up the White Man's burden-- Send forth the best ye breed-- Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild-- Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child. Take
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Greece Using Cashless Currency (guardian.co.uk)
3 points by williamdix 15y ago|0 comments
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by williamdix 15y ago
People with Ph.D.s are not that frequently called Dr. Also, if there is one source that I am pretty sure would know how to refer to professors and Ph.D.s, it would be the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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by williamdix 15y ago
I have used both and the only real difference for me has been the availability of music. However this is probably just a result of a US Rdio account and Swedish spotify account. I have found finding new music to be slightly easier in Rdio.
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by williamdix 15y ago
I think Ratatouille may in fact be the most productive academic endeavor in 10 years. 7 papers from that film! Did Ratatouille produce more papers than the LHC? I hope so.
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by williamdix 15y ago
I thought this site was very cool, but some of the problems could be explained more clearly. I was getting things without any idea why my answers were incorrect.
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by williamdix 15y ago
I'm not sure that the dictionary definition of currency really matters here. I assume/hope that there is a legal definition of currency. Also, I think it will be very difficult to discuss this constructively without legal opinions on the
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by williamdix 15y ago
I'll try to post the original article in science once I get to work.
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All of Worlds Languages May Share A Common Ancestor(online.wsj.com)
2 points by williamdix 15y ago|1 comments
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by williamdix 15y ago
I think it's very worthwhile to read the original article in this case as it supports something far less strong than what the Ars article does. It's argument is pretty compelling when you get to what it's actual argument is/should have bee
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by williamdix 15y ago
I mean something along the lines of if head-first and complement-first are the only possibilites for phrase rules and that they must apply to all phrase rules for a given language, i.e. for all X, s.t. X is a grammatic category which ca
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by williamdix 15y ago
The Ars article way over-states the significance. It should really say something like "Chomsky was wrong, languages are not only head-first or complement-first, and they only appear that way because of cultural inheritance, not universal r
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by williamdix 15y ago
I think Ars and maybe the authors of the original article are way over-stating the significance of this article. I think the evidence presented in the article is convincing but it is not convincing as a refutation of UG. It seems at best
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by williamdix 15y ago
So here is the issue that the actual article discusses. In generating sentences, you have grammars with rewrite rules like PP(Prepositional Phrase) := P(Preposition)NP(Noun Phrase). In such a rule, the preposition is the head. Ther
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by williamdix 15y ago
Oh yeah! Working at a university pays off again. I'm glad you raised that point, I was about to start commenting about the text of the article and now I realize that everyone may not have access.
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by williamdix 15y ago
I have spent probably 30 minutes trying to figure out exactly how I wanted to respond to this post. I want to be able to justify the huge amount of money my parents and I spent to attend the University of Chicago. I can't really compare it

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