harryjo

It seems like you are saying that the headline is nonsense because the authors of the article are using non-standard meanings for their words.

Any system with optional components has a factor of 2^n in its count of configurations -- each optional component might be absent. That's an interesting fact of math, not of any particular system.

India obviously has a huge English influence, going back to the colonial days.

That's a strange way of saying "BBC UK's UK monopoly prevents BBC Worldwide from serving UK users"

Time to update the old canard. "If you could have invented Slack... you would have invented Slack." Execution is everything.

He was also harsh in a dishonest way, picking the pockets of his business partners and employees.

I don't doubt (or endorse) claims of mafia connections, but I don't see how "recruiting at a strip club" is shady or criminal.

That sounds like extreme short-term thinking that is used to fool investors and partners until the gig is up next quarter.

Got a DMCA hit pretty quick: https://github.com/FullScreenShenanigans/FullScreenMario/

It's not true in this case, though. People who have the power to choose, are voting with their feet.

Still, many people have short term thinking or knowledge (better to get higher pay now than realize it will hold back by career trajectory), or they aren't too worried about success of their company or their productivity level.

Some people are less sensitive and are able to tune the noise out. Some are not.

Sometimes success depends on willingness to use ear coverings and stimulants (caffeine, ritalin, adderall), and willingness varies.

I'd rather pay for a wall than overload my body with drugs and a clamp on my head.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html #8

joel used to (still does?) host a job board that used Joel Test as a factor. Maybe it died when StackOverflow launched.

What was the price compared to a cab, though? $10 vs $30?

You are referring to, for example: http://clojure.org/reference/transients

Combining the two ideas

Transient imperative logic in the core (5%), Functional mantle (90%), Side-effecting imperative crust (5%).

What happens when everyone chooses the same good school?

Does Amazon sell those? I can't find and planning that favors alternative modes in my local shopping district.

> I don't make them memorize anything -- I agree that's a waste of mental capacity -- they just learn it through tremendous repetition.

I don't understand. You are drilling them to memorize through repetition.

Previous discussion, almost exactly 1 year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10125523#10126308

Sounds a lot like gold, then, $43/gram for elemental nothing. OK, it's something, but not nearly justifing its price relative to other metals, except the shared delusion that underlies all currency.

Or inventing a conspiracy theory around the JFK assassination?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_(film)#Critical_reaction

So, EULAs and TOSes have no meaninful legal effect?

Ugh, that's clearly a joke that got converted into a factoid as it passed through a dim NYT reporter and then Wikipedia

This is a bad flaw in Wikipedia -- it only cares about sources, not credibility of sources.

It's relevant to the local context of the story. The time of year doesn't really matter, the season does.

The point is, lying is bad, it rips the fabric of society. Fiction is not lying, it is useful, contextualized nontruth.

GE went for a puff piece in the Times, and then tilted their hand and undermined their whole campaign. Just another hamfisted attempt to copy the visible trappings of successful software companies, which unfortunately are those companies own hamfisted attempts at trying to force re-create the startup success that they had in the past, before the early innovators departed.

It's like Year of Linux on the Desktop. Every year it gets better, and some long-suffered pain point is solved. But every year the world moves on and users want more. Without a massive investment, it just can't keep up.

It was an opportunity for a Google feminist PR cycle, that started with the followup comment from another investor who congratulated Google on diversity, the statements from the people on the dais, and the ladyday promotion.

The trigger event is just the stone in the stone soup, the macguffin, the tiny impurity that the crystal nucleates on. The specifics of the event have no relevance.

No one complained by unnecessarily gendering "Mr." Drummond and downgrading his Juris Doctor's title to "Mr". Why not?

Remember when restaurants used to serve a chocolate mint with your bill? Andes Candies kept the restaurant industry afloat.

People being jovial doesn't mean they aren't working. It just means they aren't stressed out about deadline or other pressure.

The deadline is extrinsic (At best, arbitrary at worst), missing a deadline doesn't mean the product was not getting made.

> The surgeon noticed he was sleeping and told him to take a walk.

Pardon me?! The surgeon didn't say "take a nap" ?

Your girlfriend's brother should see a doctor about possible apnea or other sleep disorder.