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Mathematically, the beginning, more or less. I had the advantage of having dropped out of my undergrad, so I went back (after 13 years), changed my major to math (from CS), finished in two years and applied to graduate school.

If I hadn't been able to resume my undergrad, I'm not sure what I would have done. Masters? Part-time classes until I'd bulked up my background and impressed a few professors to write me recommendations? I don't think I would have done very well applying straight to PhD programs.
I have to wonder if you're asking too much out of macroeconomics. There's so many variables, you can't do clean let alone repeatable experiments, etc.

It does make testable predictions, but given the above one can always argue about how thus and so made the result irrelevant (either way).

Look at the current remaining faithful Keynesians, who say the only problem with the "stimulus" was that it wasn't big enough while the more honest admit it wasn't Keynesian at all to begin with.

So let me ask you this: can you or anyone else extract rigorous useful data WRT to all this from Japan's two lost decades?
No real mention of capacity. Also, why the swarm method rather than scaling it up? Smells like vapor to me.
find it difficult to think there isn't something else he could have chosen

Why do you care? How does this affect you in any way?
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Sorry. I'm quite young and I've never lived in a non-capitalist country, or anywhere outside of Ireland or even Dublin.

But I'm not a communist, I'm an anarchist. I guess that doesn't significantly change your point, you probably still think it can never be done right or whatever. Basically, I disagree, but like I said above, I think we're disagreeing about the axioms.

You did admit though that capitalism is flawed. Ever since I realised that, all I want to do with my life is to help those (anarchists) who want to destroy it and create a better world. I just can't justify casually living my life in the capitalist system when I could be out there trying to replace it and helping those who suffer because of it. It feels like my life is meaningless otherwise.
they make qualitative predictions rather than the quantitative ones you need to be considered a science. Of course AE claim that economics is a deductive discipline rather than the inductive ones orthodox economists assume. I sympathize with this view because it would seem that social sciences can never really meet the prerequisites for actual empiricism (controlled variables). statistical regression often has elements of hand waving as well.
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What's with the obsession of spending money on the "best" bed. I find I sleep best on a very thin ~$20 mattress on the floor or on a polyfoam mattress when camping. In general a plain flat and hard surface seems to feel best for the back. The more advanced beds remind me a bit of the other big scam: running shoes. (end of rant and I didn't even mention chairs :)
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Unit testing... I think you missed what the real problem with django is about, or just your projects don't demand to use that kind of features etc.

How about something simple like pretending there we have django 1.0 (not 1.2 which is quite new), and let us try to connect to 3 databases at once with django's ORM?

Oh, we are screwed it can't do that. Ok, then lets try to swap out our ORM to sqlalchemy.... crap all nice plugins broke, admin panel doesn't work etc. This is why REALLY django lack quality and maturity - it's components are not versatile enough - and in my book this is a very serious issue because if my requirements are diffrent from what django makers assumed then I'm doomed. This is why people mention other (in my opinion superior, but not that easy to use), solutions to the problem. My point is - majority of people fail to notice such serious flaws like unability to use more than 1DB at once (yes i know it got finally fixed after few years). I'd rather use one tool that should cover my needs than be forced to switch them because they don't fit the needs of project.
The flip side of this is that you can do deep refactoring with more confidence if you have thorough test coverage (and/or a smart type system).
It's obviously not my place to say what other people do with their time. It just seems like wasted effort to me; that's all.

I guess arguing against the groupthink (replete with reddit style mob downvoting) is an even bigger waste of time, though.
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First: in the spanish version the adjective "legal" could be referring to content too. But even if it didn't...

Second: if I told you "you are free whatever you like", that doesn't mean killing people or robbing old ladies. Obviously other laws are still in place.
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Are running shoes a scam? My legs and feet say they aren't. With beds I tend to agree with you, but try sleeping without a matress when camping. It's doable but you tend to still be tired in the morning. So it's possible that a very good matress makes you sleep even better.
Lately there's been a lot of good news from South America: the successes of Brazil's economy, Argentina (a very christian country) giving equality to homosexual and heterosexual marriages, and now this.

I am really happy for it! And it's starting to raise the bar for the rest of the world. :)
> Not sure why you see implementing a simple language to learn the underlying techniques as "artificially limiting" the project's potential.

Even a simple language like Hecl is used for real things in the real world, something I wouldn't have imagined when I started writing it. An implementation of Brainfuck will never be used for anything more than learning.

Which continues to be my point: learning's great, but why not learn and do something that has a tiny chance of developing into something big?
Since the DirectX 11 parts (octobre last year), ATI is certainly not second-label.

And with the upcoming Fusion, the clean difference between a CPU and a GPU brand doesn't hold anymore.
Insanely addicting. I'm building out my own little peninsula of words.

Needs a minimap to get around.
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Even if this is a prototype, I feel BP should be held responsible to at least try it. Commit a few million bucks to manufacturing a few hundred of these and retrofitting a cargo ship to handle the processing of their nano fabric.

the question would be how does this thing deal w/choppy/unpredictable seas?
at the end it looks like a video of a real one.
Am I the only one that had a hard time understanding what they projects are for? The could really use 2 sentences on each page describing what the project is all about.
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http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2009/05/03/austria...

Also,

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/04...

And, this is the most readable, but keep in mind that it's written by a Keynesian:

http://www.slate.com/id/9593

Austrian economics, at its core, is based on praxeology and mostly rejects models, math and science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology
I'd simply add "buy the best bed _for you_." In your case, you lucked out, others may find only fancy mattresses are restful.
IMO, this is another nail in the coffin for FM radio, this song is very playable on Sirius/XM.
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Maybe they believe that the long term benefits outweight the short term damages? If ATI keeps being competitive, it will now make AMD look better. Plus the fact that people who are looking into powerful GPU's keep hearing the word AMD may unconsciously make AMD's CPU seem faster too.
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The one isn't necessarily mutually exclusive with the other: media has been held back, but that won't necessarily stop the FTC (or some other part of the government) from getting involved in other media.

I hope you're right that the FTC won't, but I don't believe it.
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I sea two problems with this:
1. Why not save energy, time and money and centralise these onto one big ship?
2. What about the chemical oil dispersants?
Emperors often died at the end of their terms, often only a few years, and often because they did something to piss someone off.

His saying that from his position is a lot more difficult than you saying it from yours I can assure you.

And not caring what people think (or limiting how their thoughts affect your actions) is probably the biggest secret in life, period.
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Not a great track IMHO. If it wasn't called "fuck you" I don't expect many people would care about it.

And really why is this on HN?
My Web of Trust Firefox add-on declares this site to be on the lowest of low ratings and recommends I don't visit it. Quite funny, guess he's disagreed with some pro-active people.
Do you mean the FCC, or are you making a trade argument?
Parsing the value is not the best idea (you have to watch the types and still cannot apply the comparison query to string columns).

DataMapper resolves the issue via :age.gt => 29 and Sequel got its stylish filter{age > 29} syntax.
Both sex and eating can be orgasmic, as opposed to being mundane.
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I'm confused. json.cpp is pure C code with custom atoi and atof implementations. block_allocator.cpp uses malloc and free with reinterpret_cast and some STL (max and swap).

The other C++ is in main, which can of course be ignored if this is embedded into another system.

It's clean code, very easy to follow, and probably works great, but why isn't it just written purely in C? Wouldn't that be faster and smaller?
I still don't understand the words "fuck" and "shit" still being censored. Their shock value is long gone, isn't it?

The song, and the video are great by the way, and the distribution a perfect example of why the internet works so well. It's also great to sing along to. Loudly.

Edit. This song has had some fun 'remixes' too, check out Dirty Dancing: http://vimeo.com/14363611
Why should they be "held responsible" to try untested technology? Better to spend their resources on things that are known to work (and will work now), and contribute to a general R&D fund or something like that.
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Indeed. I think that also goes for the about page, which functions more like a FAQ right now.
I hate to say it (because robots are damn cool) but I see the real ships going out to clean up both the oil and all the busted seaswarms before its all over with.
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"The term “freeware” has no clear accepted definition, but it is commonly used for packages which permit redistribution but not modification (and their source code is not available). These packages are not free software ..."

I think FSF would do itself a favor by not hijacking the term "free software" to mean something that has to explained .
I think generally you have to go to the repository page, and then the README.

Djangodash was organized by volunteers, and for many groups, their scope (README) changed over the course of the weekend.
> If there was no minimum wage, they could work $2 an hour of value and then gradually work their way up.

Wouldn't panhandling itself be far more lucrative than this? Based on walking by many beggars every day in a downtown area and seeing people giving them money, I'd estimate most of them make more than minimum wage anyway.
I'd be a lot more interested in publications and comments from Austrians; the above are all from their critics and could all too easily be strawmen.

The only useful way to approach this is to look at what Austrians themselves have said and what then happened.
They make predictions, but they tend to be more qualitative and less useful for central control than Keynesian policies.

The main reason for that is Keynesian economics reduces the many sectors of our economy to a few simple aggregate quantities - e.g., rather than having demand for housing, demand for pizza, demand for computers, we simply have "aggregate demand". An uncharitable person would say that this is simply because Keynes was not very good at math.

If you simply do this calculus, we should never have a recession. Therefore, Keynesian economics assumes these curves behave in certain tricky ways - this imposes recessions and stimulus comes out as the remedy.

Austrian economics, or at least their more modern variants, does not accept the reduction of a complex economy to simple calculus. It views recessions as being caused by misallocation of resources between sectors (i.e., too much housing, too little something else) and recessions as being caused by a lag [1] in re-adjustment. Fine tuning such a complex system is tricky (not to mention many parameters are unknown), and most predictions would simply be qualitative. Such a system is also not amenable to simple calculus (you need big ODE/graph models), which makes it somewhat unpopular.

[1] An unemployed construction worker may be unwilling to accept a non-construction job or to leave his hometown. Or he may be willing to make such a move, but not know where to move to. Until his attitudes change or he becomes more knowledgeable, he remains unemployed.
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But how are you going to prevent that from happening on your site too? Wouldn't brokers try to inflate the prices on your site as well?
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I though the expression was "less is more that more". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_(Unix)
Certainly. But you can remove the ones you create (to reach "zero"), and patch some of the ones you don't (to reach... "-zero"?).
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'Peter J. Boettke, shuffling around in a maroon velour track suit or faux-leather rubber shoes he calls "dress Crocs," hardly seems like the type to lead a revolution.'

The Austrian school is not new. Why does Boettke have to be leading a 'revolution' to justify the article? It should be enough to be interesting. Or even just right.
The shoe scam quip references the resurgence of barefoot/forefoot running, which eliminates the need for heel shock absorption or "motion control" shoes (aka, the costly ones).

It's referred to ask a scam because running shoe retailers typically teach heel strike running and then offer costly shoes to mitigate injury.

If you're interested check out the book "Born To Run," google POSE running or check out crossfitendurance.com
For those that don't know:

Django Dash is a competition to build a django-powered project in 48 hours. There were not many other guidelines.

It is organized by volunteers, and sponsors shilled out for prizes. Judging was based on "Innovation, Polish, Code Quality and Design". There were three judges.

Lots of interesting projects came out of the dash, and two of my favorites are. Read the Docs, a sort of community place for Sphinx based Docs http://readthedocs.org and Django Packages http://djangopackages.com

My company was a sponsor and I also competed, it was fun, and I learned a lot about Google App Engine. (http://permachart.appspot.com was my team's entry)
It's still a much hyped valuation - while facebook's technology, brand and information of its millions of users certainly worth a lot, it's not generating real returns for its investors. Funny how a company can survive solely relying on external funding.
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If you're looking at optimization apps, there's a bundle for sale for the next ~24 hours at http://appsumo.com/, where you can get Performable, CrazyEgg, Visual Website Optimizer, Clicky, and UserTesting for $25. They aren't full licenses, but you're still getting $500+ worth of apps for $25. If you only convert one new user because of the tools in the package, it'll have paid for itself.

I don't know of a centralized site where people talk about specific UX / funnel optimization apps, but would love to know of such a place.
I completely agree with your conception of meaningfulness. I too value spending time with family, making and shipping products, writing poetry and producing music. For me, listening to music is a meaningful experience as well, because unlike drugs and sex, the creation--and consumption--of music is an intellectual endeavor. If you've ever studied music theory, music has structure and logic, just like poetry, and just like architecture. It needs to balance. It needs to make sense not only melodically, but also harmonically. Composers suffer, innovate, and triumph as much as artists in any other profession, and it's inspirational to listen to their products when you know, say, that Beethoven wrote a particular piece while grappling with the anguish of going deaf. That's beautiful. It's inspiring. It's an example that someone can overcome a disability to create some of the most meaningful and inspirational art ever conceived.

The way I see it is that we appreciate order, structure, logic, symmetry, yes? This is true for painting, drama, computing, nearly all art. I don't see why you make an exception for music. Maybe it's because it doesn't contain spoken language, or because it is abstract. I submit that any beauty you can derive from architecture, sculpture or industrial design, you can derive from music as well, for all of the reasons relating to the qualities I've outlined. The only difference, as you aptly put in your comparison to drugs and sex, is the "delivery mechanism" of the artistic content. Thus, I cannot see a reason to discriminate and single out listening to music as a waste of time.

I think that if more people appreciated the complexity and richness of classical music, chances are they would forgo other what I call cheap products in our world: bubblegum pop music, underdeveloped political arguments, and terribly unusable technology. Good music is on your side of intellectual achievement. Listening to and understanding good music is the mark of high artistic and intellectual standards, a good, positive willingness to explore and expand one's aesthetic horizons. I think the PRODUCT of this attitude, is far from, as you say, some kind of negative counterproductiveness, where time spent listening to music is time not spent doing science. The product of this kind of attitude is a high standard of achievement that is completely compatible with doing great science with passion and dedication. At least that's my view.
Praxeology doesn't reject models or science at all. It rejects reductionism - the claim is that you can't predict human behavior in a complex system based on observations of human behavior in simplified systems.

Praxeology simply claims that you can't predict the economy based on experiments where you stick 30 college students into some iterated prisoner's dilemma scenario.

Austrians strongly favor models, math and science. They just want robust models which are not sensitive to parameters, and econometrics of revealed preferences rather than highly controlled experiments.
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Ignoring what one considers appropriate for children, I personally just find them to be incredibly ugly sounding words, and I generally don't enjoy being around people who can't speak without using them. So regardless of what the FCC will choose to censor, I for one just wouldn't listen to a radio station that made a habit of broadcasting it.
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Thanks. I almost linked to the RSpec Book, but since I haven't read it myself, I didn't feel comfortable endorsing it. Good to know it's shaping up! Maybe I'll have to pick up a copy.
It is usually quite a mess whenever a de facto partnership is formed without the parties intending this result. In effect, once this happens, the parties have pooled resources to accomplish a joint aim and they can disentangle themselves at that point only by formally settling up, agreeing upon how to divide rights, giving mutual releases, and parting ways. If they can't agree, the situation gets very sticky, usually necessitating that one party or the other go to court to get a formal "dissolution" of the venture or related forms of relief such as "declaratory relief." A dissolution action is a full-blown lawsuit and is by no means a simple step (minimum cost in the U.S., thousands of dollars and likely in the tens of thousands - if it is reasonably contested and goes to trial, easily six figures).

Parties can also try workarounds but, as the TC/FG case illustrates, something such as a joint product development ipso facto defines the subject the matter as the product itself and even a so-called independent-development effort doesn't give the party trying to walk away a clean way of doing so because the other party simply claims that it breaches fiduciary duties by doing so.

All in all, such situations usually result in an unholy mess. A good lesson here for documenting your relationships and for not too casually "partnering" up with people (this type of case also happens on occasion with founders and ill-documented relationships - even if one of them is not "on the papers," that person can often claim a "partnership" and, hence, a percentage of the enterprise supposedly promised to him in exchange for undocumented startup efforts).
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I went through 15 experiences like what I described above and gave up and found my current place through a friend. I don't find it that "slimy." I just figure this is New York and that's how everything works... there's always some middleman trying to screw you. It's what the entire economy of the city is based upon.

As far as I can tell, almost every price listed by a management company for an apartment in a new development is "net effective," whether they list it as such or not.
A former colleague of mine used to say that their role was to "align individual goals with corporate goals."
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I agree that it's very middle of the road, but people like that.

As to why this is on HN? If you don't think it should be here, click "flag" just below the headline.
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So basically you can be someone who provides insight to 99% of the population who doesn't want to delve into the neuroses of "film criticism", or you can be a self-important blowhard who seems to mostly talk to himself in the dark. Most "film" is not cinema, and not art in a "deep" form. It is entertainment. To pretend that it contains more meaning than that is nothing but mental masturbation.