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> Does good writing really outweigh that ?

Does it matter? If one limits their reading to authors who are "good people"—whatever that is supposed to mean—they're not going to be left with much to read.

She's a great crime novelist, regardless of how she was as a person.

> Would we praise Mengele's writings ?

(1) She's no Mengele. (2) If Joseph Mengele is a good writer, then yes we should praise his writings. Why would we not? John Lennon was a heck of a song writer; beating his wife doesn't change that.

“Lady, I’ll call you when we have have Addams Family Values!”

“Eet”/“Xu”

> If you like C, you will love Go

That may be true. But if you love C you’re going to hate Go like you’ve never hated any thing ever before.

> The first thing that popped into my mind is depression, drugs and alcohol overuse.

Same. A shadow story that eclipses the text.

"Delivering Happiness" is explicitly about delivering happiness. The subtext or implicit story is about someone who could not find happiness for himself. It's worth re-reading in the context of his passing. RIP.

The link to https://www.righto.com/2020/06/a-look-at-die-of-8086-process... is worth clicking

Mister, we could use a man like Ronald Reagan again.

"лове"* -->

  Lovable Love as early as possible
  Love as early as possible
  Lovable Love as early as possible
  Love as early as possible
  Loving Love Loving Love Loving Love Loving Love
  no preference one-to-one-to-no-first-time
  jobseeker ascending
  Company name ascending
  First name descending
  Last login Ascending
  Descending Ascending
  Descending Ascending
  Descending Ascending
  Lovable Love as early as possible
  Love as early as possible
  Loving for love as a lover as a lover
  no preference one-to-one-to-no-first-time
  jobseeker ascending
  Company name ascending
  First name descending
  Last login Ascending
  Descending Ascending
  Descending Ascending
  Descending Ascending
  Descending Ascending 
  Lovable Love as early as possible
  Love as early as possible
  Loving for love as a lover as a lover
  unborn love as good as new or oldest
  first name or last name: Lovable Love
  e-mail to the real estate model
  as % of person read in author's name
  spain number of years more than 1 year
  old Lovable Love as early as possible
  Love as early as possible
  Loving Love as a Lovable.
  Lovable Love as early as possible.

See also: Fraud in the Imputation of Fraud: The Mis-measure of Stephen Jay Gould, 04 October 2012

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-folly-fools/201210/...

Obama had trouble with intra-party relationships, as your third link points out:

> “You and Mitch work it out,” Mr. Obama said coolly, cutting off any discussion.

> Mr. Reid seethed quietly for the rest of the meeting, according to four separate accounts provided by people who spoke with him about it.

…

> But nearly six years into his term, with his popularity at the lowest of his presidency, Mr. Obama appears remarkably distant from his own party on Capitol Hill, with his long neglect of would-be allies catching up to him.

Great campaigner. Willfully bad politician.

From memory. I'm wrong. 20% went to Republicans, not Trump: https://www.opensecrets.org/states/geog.php?cycle=2016&state...

Vote % is from the registrar of voters: http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/64404... (from https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Pages/Registrar-of-Voters.a...)

The problem with visas is that they're restricted at all. Human beings should be able to pursue the American way of life w/o winning a lottery or convincing some company that they're worthy of a valuable "slot".

> No one in Silicon Valley voted for them or fundraised for them.

20% of Santa Clara County voted for Trump. 20% of funds raised in Santa Clara County went to Trump. That's a small fraction by two-party system standards, but it's not no one.

> extremely influential reach in DC

Including the Washington Post, aka Jeff's Blog.

I love Snow White. It could work today for an entry-level Apple brand.

Yes, open-plan dogma is at the root. I'd gladly give up free dog-boarding, massages, and meals for walls and a door.

Retaliation and escalation aren't solutions. Conscientious self-noise-reduction sets the example for others & makes it easier to politely ask the loudies to take their noise pollution out of the common area.

That's a good point: typing [1] may be fine background noise for some; speaker-phone conversations, giggles, farts, and expletives for others. Being conscientious by considering and adjusting one's volume level when typing, speaking, farting, or swearing will help us survive our open-plan dark age as we await the facility-clerics' re-discovery of ancient door and wall technologies.

[1] https://soundcloud.com/shanemcretro/ibm-model-m-five

If you work in one of these (misguided) open-plan offices, ask you co-workers if the noise bothers them. Whatever they say, take your mechanical keyboard home and play with it there. There's no good reason to inflict that noise on your co-workers. They'll appreciate it even if they won't call you out on it.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07772 http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07772v2.pdf

San Bernardino International may be emptier: http://www.scpr.org/blogs/economy/2014/03/26/16181/san-berna...

American Rivers has a map of dam removal projects: http://www.americanrivers.org/initiatives/dams/dam-removals-...

When I query for "Software Engineer", I get:

    {
    "@type" : "EntitySearchResult",
    "result" : {
      "@id" : "kg:/m/0y49634",
      "name" : "Software engineer",
      "@type" : [ "Thing" ],
      "description" : "Fictional Character"
    }

Dave Cutler's team writing NT came from VMS which has multi-version files which are pretty much the same as multi-fork files.

Inside Macintosh Vol I, II, II: http://www.weihenstephan.org/~michaste/pagetable/mac/Inside_...

I'm enrolled in that class. In the introductory lecture Professor Klein shows a flowchart of the course†. This is the best course overview I've ever seen in any math class! I've spent /semesters/ in math sequences thinking "how the #@%! does this all fit together?!?!"

He says: "Don't try to read it all. It's a map... It's there to help you keep track of where you are and where we're going." Every professor should do that for their course. And every department should put up a big poster with something similar: these are the subject areas you will study, how they relate to each other, and the courses that cover those areas; if you choose this specialization these are the areas you'll focus on. Put-out a mind-map of the subject area that relates to the available courses—help students start building Elon Musks' mental-hyperloop / semantic-tree.

†: http://picpaste.com/Screen_Shot_2015-02-05_at_1.58.47_AM-AnX... available on the course website: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs053/current/graphical-outline.... ††: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2rgsan/i_am_elon_musk...

Not yet. But I will when it's worth looking at. Thanks again.

An S3 bucket thanks you, too, for keeping it full & busy :)

This buildpack and halcyon work very well. Heroku hit a wall with a little web project & Mietek's buildpack saved the day. Thank you!