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by wordplay 12y ago
I'm interested in where this is going. Do you have a citation?
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by wordplay 12y ago
I frequently get thrown into projects with aging codebases, technical debt, and few people around who wrote the original code. In this scenario using this kind of verbose state logging starts to sound like a huge win, especially if tools ex
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by wordplay 13y ago
I think this is more about the control you lose with a phone conversation vs. a text conversation.
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by wordplay 13y ago
I am continually impressed with Warren. If only more of the politicians in this country were as interested in serving the public interest as she is.
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by wordplay 13y ago
Subjectivity doesn't mean it's bullshit, we might just be measuring the wrong thing. Genetics + a oral chemistry test might be a far better predictor of what wines you'll enjoy than an expert's opinion.
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by wordplay 13y ago
I've been thinking about the general business plan problem for years. Not only because it's a very real problem, but also because as I'm walking through a swap meet or a grocery store I'm perpetually curious about margins and return on cap
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by wordplay 13y ago
You may have hit on something here. There is no guarantee that any item will be worth any amount of another item. You can make claims about the relative likelihood that some item will be exchangeable for some quantity of another item, but
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by wordplay 14y ago
TDD done correctly should allow the validation of "speed of thought" changes. It happens to me often that ideas spawned between my ears break functionality in the actual application if the application is complex. It doesn't mean that the
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by wordplay 14y ago
Add to that a willingness to deal with the absurdities of running for and holding public office...that may be the scarcest resource of all.
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by wordplay 14y ago
Would a true libertarian society view nations as pseudo corporations and citizens as shareholders? Would the more highly compensated individuals be considered to have a larger stake in the state?
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by wordplay 14y ago
Can this also be applied to CPU assembly?
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by wordplay 14y ago
http://youtu.be/MShbP3OpASA?t=20m50s "If you think like a computer, writing C actually makes sense."
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by wordplay 14y ago
There's a difference, subtle though it may be to some, between common legal practices in food and drug production and conspiring to criminally poison consumers for profit. Many of the items you mention are likely bad for the long term heal
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by wordplay 14y ago
They should have a tutorial that walks me through how to accomplish example project in the promo video. From what I can tell I would have to import all those prime minister pages from Wikipedia manually? PS. I'm very interested in the idea
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by wordplay 14y ago
Fascinated by the nascent eco-system of apps built on top of email. To PG's point in one of his essays about fixing email...I wonder if the transition to the future of email lies in using email as a protocol. As applications are developed