This blog post is worthless shit. Edit: let me clarify. This blog post is written by an infantile, narcissistic know-it-all and exudes the odor of vomit and feces. The fact that it appears here lowers my esteem of HN…
I think this article is much better: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/5289.html
Here is a fun trick: imagine Bernard Madoff, Kenneth Lay, or George Bush Jr. reading this. All of these people "went somewhere", but I certainly don't aspire to be any of them.
Good grief this is low-hanging fruit, just like a big fat guy reaching over and gorging himself of a big mac a coke. Ick.
Cool, this way it will never be possible for a small group of people to exploit everyone else for their own gain. Oh, wait.
This is related to Python 3.2 only. In other words, this is not noteworthy.
In this article, Rolling Stone abused its cultural influence by glorifying career criminals. Young people read this magazine, and the technical quality of the articles is very very high. In my opinion, if you are going…
Today, in the USA, dealing marijuana is a crime. Making a (highly profitable) living off dealing marijuana is, at the very least, a "career of crime". The individuals in this story did much more than deal in marijuana -…
This is simply not true. I work for a major internet company that has millions of users. We use SQL for all of our data (images and SWFs excepted, of course). We do all logging to SQL tables. We use key-value cache…
This is absolutely correct - the average FB gamer is a middle-aged female. Farmville is a substitute for soaps and being superior to members of your peer group (just like tennis, car, golf score, the plays you see,…
The above articles are not at all convincing. They are also hosted at sites that have a vested interest in selling you weird shit to put in your body that will supposedly make you live longer. I'm going to eat my…
I doubt that.
The arguments have been laid out elsewhere, so let me summarize: 1. The memory requirements are massive 2. The chosen approach is substantially more complex than CPython 3. The claimed performance improvements have not…
Actually Matt Taibbi is, apparently, one of the very few members of the press to have the intelligence, motivation, and opportunity to attack Goldman repeatedly. Everyone else is on a 24-hour news cycle, and as far as I…
c) http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/s/SNAFUprinciple.html Generally speaking, it is difficult for useful information to flow in organizations. Most of the time, this lack of circulation is not remarkable, but this looks…
This blog post is worthless shit. Edit: let me clarify. This blog post is written by an infantile, narcissistic know-it-all and exudes the odor of vomit and feces. The fact that it appears here lowers my esteem of HN…
I think this article is much better: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/5289.html
Here is a fun trick: imagine Bernard Madoff, Kenneth Lay, or George Bush Jr. reading this. All of these people "went somewhere", but I certainly don't aspire to be any of them.
Good grief this is low-hanging fruit, just like a big fat guy reaching over and gorging himself of a big mac a coke. Ick.
Cool, this way it will never be possible for a small group of people to exploit everyone else for their own gain. Oh, wait.
This is related to Python 3.2 only. In other words, this is not noteworthy.
In this article, Rolling Stone abused its cultural influence by glorifying career criminals. Young people read this magazine, and the technical quality of the articles is very very high. In my opinion, if you are going…
Today, in the USA, dealing marijuana is a crime. Making a (highly profitable) living off dealing marijuana is, at the very least, a "career of crime". The individuals in this story did much more than deal in marijuana -…
This is simply not true. I work for a major internet company that has millions of users. We use SQL for all of our data (images and SWFs excepted, of course). We do all logging to SQL tables. We use key-value cache…
This is absolutely correct - the average FB gamer is a middle-aged female. Farmville is a substitute for soaps and being superior to members of your peer group (just like tennis, car, golf score, the plays you see,…
The above articles are not at all convincing. They are also hosted at sites that have a vested interest in selling you weird shit to put in your body that will supposedly make you live longer. I'm going to eat my…
I doubt that.
The arguments have been laid out elsewhere, so let me summarize: 1. The memory requirements are massive 2. The chosen approach is substantially more complex than CPython 3. The claimed performance improvements have not…
Actually Matt Taibbi is, apparently, one of the very few members of the press to have the intelligence, motivation, and opportunity to attack Goldman repeatedly. Everyone else is on a 24-hour news cycle, and as far as I…
c) http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/s/SNAFUprinciple.html Generally speaking, it is difficult for useful information to flow in organizations. Most of the time, this lack of circulation is not remarkable, but this looks…