davidmathers
Re:Money and wealth
on Saturday January 11, 2014 @07:27PM (#7044517)
> Historically this has been true, but nowadays it's not (at least in the US).
Not true in 1990. Very true today. The Bush tax cuts inaugurated the current era of class warfare. I'd say 2010 is when it really got going.
Re:The Lost Chapter
on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @09:30PM (#4546504)
Re:A Functional Programming Influence Graph
on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @07:20PM (#3921683)
A presentation by SPJ left me with the impression that FP should be pointing to Miranda and several other languages that became Haskell, rather than to Haskell itself.
Re:To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus
on Saturday December 31, 2011 @12:23PM (#3411306)
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1164391
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024101
Re:Category Theory for the Java Programmer (2007)
on Saturday December 31, 2011 @12:21PM (#3411299)
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668198
Re:Time to end the war on drugs
on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @05:54AM (#3395406)
The Cato paper that Branson references was written by salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald and is available to read online at Cato's website: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080
Re:Why TechCrunch is boring, SAP is not, and the world has gone mad
on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @12:02PM (#3319929)
The equivalent is actually "A copy of Oracle at home." SAP started with just the ERP product.
Re:Galaxy Nexus + data plan + VoIP support = free calls
on Monday December 05, 2011 @08:16PM (#3317339)
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans
It's the one with this disclaimer: "New activations only. Available exclusively in-store at Walmart, on Walmart.com, and T-Mobile.com."
They also released this $200 phone to go along with the plan: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/26/samsung-exhibit-ii-4g-to-...
Re:Is Google Chrome the New IE6?
on Friday December 02, 2011 @12:45PM (#3304864)
No.
Re:At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future
on Monday November 14, 2011 @04:51AM (#3233483)
Re:Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired
on Friday November 11, 2011 @03:44AM (#3223930)
Re:Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.
on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @01:12PM (#3216620)
Yeah, that's what I'm using now.
Re:Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.
on Monday November 07, 2011 @11:05PM (#3209464)
I'd buy this if I could use it as an MPD client.
Re:Klout Is Odious
on Sunday October 30, 2011 @08:08PM (#3175792)
This is similar to the complaint 37 Signals had with Get Satisfaction: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1650-get-satisfaction-or-else
Baroque.me visualizes the first Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suites
Re:Recruiters are, by and large, a waste of your time
on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @02:50AM (#3157482)
$50 to the person in the office who can keep a recruiter on the phone the longest using only Emacs Eliza.
I think you should take it to the next level and use the zippy quotes from psychoanalyze-pinhead.
Re:The Full Walter Isaacson/Steve Jobs Interview From 60 Minutes
on Monday October 24, 2011 @05:45AM (#3148889)
Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died
on Thursday October 13, 2011 @03:39AM (#3106497)
Shame on Hacker News's audience that the front page isn't filled up with Dennis stories right now.
Right now 14 of the top 15 stories are about Dennis Ritchie.
Re:Meet the New Super People
on Sunday October 02, 2011 @04:01PM (#3063841)
Nietzsche isn't calling you a slave. He's saying that your morality is a slave morality. Meaning your moral system was invented by people who were, in fact, at the time, slaves.
How anyone feels about that is up to them. He mostly just wanted to point it out.
Re:Meet the New Super People
on Sunday October 02, 2011 @03:10PM (#3063672)
Harvard is not fungible.
Re:Meet the New Super People
on Sunday October 02, 2011 @02:55PM (#3063628)
1. You're attacking a straw man, which actually is a fallacy.
2. Even if the passage you cited were about "getting less in an absolute sense", there's still no fallacy. zafka already pointed this out in his #1 above. What's so hard to comprehend?
Re:Promising HIV vaccine passes phase one human trials with 90% succes...
on Thursday September 29, 2011 @12:05PM (#3052991)
It was a late 80's / early 90's thing:
Re:Java Vs. JavaScript
on Sunday September 11, 2011 @03:48AM (#2983432)
"Ten days" is a verbatim quote from Brendan.
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-...
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-...
Re:Google to announce "new programming language for structured web pro...
on Thursday September 08, 2011 @04:19PM (#2975507)
I've been reading Gilad Bracha's blog for a while. He believes the future belongs to languages that compile to javascript.
Re:Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds
on Monday July 11, 2011 @03:21PM (#2752100)
The OP doesn't even mention that Hemingway was a one-time KGB spy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/09/hemingway-failed...
Re:Go Rocks - How Can We Avoid Something This Bad In The Future?
on Monday July 11, 2011 @03:05PM (#2752027)
I tried Googling, but why are Scala and Haskell automatically classified as "academic"?
Because they are inspired by 20th century mathematics rather than 18th century mathematics. This quote from wikipedia explains it:
These developments of the last quarter of the 19th century and the first quarter of 20th century were systematically exposed in Bartel van der Waerden's Moderne algebra, the two-volume monograph published in 1930–1931 that forever changed for the mathematical world the meaning of the word algebra from the theory of equations to the theory of algebraic structures. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_algebra
The academic languages are the ones aware of that change in the meaning of the word algebra. Everyone learns Euler in high school. Nobody learns Mac Lane.
Re:Why Samsung is about to become the smartphone king
on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @07:45PM (#2659552)
Samsung also makes cars: http://www.autoblog.com/2011/06/14/renault-samsung-previews-...
Re:Higher-Dimensional Type Theory
on Monday May 30, 2011 @11:05AM (#2599571)
Well, Benjamin Pierce has a 600 page book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262162091/
Followed by a 600 page book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262162288/
Re:Why I’m Putting All My Savings Into Bitcoin
on Sunday May 29, 2011 @10:24AM (#2596689)
George Soros shorted $10 billion worth of British Pound and then made $1 billion in a single day. I don't know what would have happened if things had gone the other way but I think he was mostly-in, if not all-in.