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I've been wondering the same thing. For me, I think the new site feels slightly sluggish and the design and/or implementation feels clunky. I switched back to classic though so no productivity gains for me.
My favorite illustration is the monoidal pirate ship:
No one is arguing that people belong to their employers. Poaching is a standard term to describe the process of strategically hiring people who are already working at a specific company.
Thanks for the comment. Are there any books or resources about mindfulness that you found particularly helpful?
This argument is pretty disingenuous. Some wealthy individuals were born into very privileged families and some poor people remain poor due to exploitation, but that certainly does not apply universally.
Highest bidder would work great and allow excellent prioritization if everyone had roughly the same means.
I'm not sure why this system only works well when everyone has the same means. As the article points out, a price increase for a good or service can actually incentivize people to increase supply (people who initially decided to take the night off from driving now decide to work in order to cash in since demand is high). In other industries this can lead to more competition and innovation as well.
the argument that says medallions are bad public policy because they're monopolistic applies equally to many other forms of licensure, for instance zoning.
True; many of those other forms of licensure are also bad.
"Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?"
No matter where you come down on the political spectrum, examining the correct role of government in our lives is a worthwhile pursuit. Painting these debates as "lazy" and "simpleminded" makes no sense.
There is only one logical explanation. Hidden meth lab.
What I can't stand is that they completely broke search for chats. Previously you could prepend your query with "is:chat" and get individual conversations returned as you would expect. These days you're given your entire "hangout" histories with various people and when you click them you have to frantically scroll to locate the relevant portion that matches your query.
As a newbie to Python, my biggest issue when coming up to speed on a new project is chasing down the types of arguments to and return values from functions. Previously I was a Java programmer and while I don't miss its verbosity, I do miss how I always knew what types I was working with. Does anybody have any tips that make this easier?
This illustrates the folly of big government. The politicians in congress are not lacking intelligence, but are simply trying to do too much. It would be impossible for these 535 men and women to each have a thorough understanding of all the industries they attempt to regulate. Although the tech community is up in arms over SOPA right now, how many equally bad laws have been passed that affect other industries? The government is the entity that enables corporations to violate the rights of the people.
Check out the excellent book "Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now" by Burka and Yuen. I discovered it via a HN comment and figure I should repay the favor.
Hopefully an equally (it not more) stupid follow up by the city council would be shot down when coming to a vote. Perhaps McDonald's is banking that lightning won't strike twice?
Or by ceasing to make stupid laws.
I tried Eclim a couple times, but didn't like it. Currently I use Vrapper and am content to have the basic motions and marks. I've also heard good things about Viable.
http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/ http://viableplugin.com/
Depending on the work environment this might be good advice. On the flip side, however, I think many people have or remember having coworkers who ask questions any time they get stuck without hardly trying to solve the problem for themselves.
Spinning your wheels for too long doesn't help anyone, but a lot can be said for people who are independent and don't needlessly distract those around them.
Can Haskell be next?
Automating tasks allows us to work on tasks that we don't know how to automate and leads to innovation.