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I agree with his assessment. Any data representation can be construed as a graph - this is the basis of garbage collection. Besides the areas where graphs (or networks) are explici…

Depressing stuff.

The best opportunities aren't the ones being screened by HR. Most job postings look like someone got a description of the job from the manager, looked for the sentence fragments th…

I expected an article decrying unions, but found one decrying the licensing of doctors and lawyers. To use the case of florist licensing to condemn all licensing is an egregious le…

You are confusing the pragmatics of the decision to take the plunge into marriage with the underlying relationship. I'm interested in entrepreneurial risk-taking, and the kinds of …

I thought the obsession with the clock and nefarious ulterior dating motives didn't start until 30-something. Now that you mention it, though, when did marriage and children become…

The second sentence of my earlier post was my idea of comedy.

This article isn't about sex, or even relationships per se, it's about evaluating the riskiness of a particular kind of venture, and how women evidently miscalculate the opportunit…

First, "settling" is a highly offensive term. Anyone using that term is living in a fantasy world. I read the author as using it facetiously, though, since that is pretty much the …

It would certainly be nice for work supported by public funds, but that isn't the way it is now. I'm assuming the OP needs the information in the journals now or in the near future…

I think they're trying to reduce the impact of the superhuman levels of concentration displayed by the uberhackers. I don't like it.

If you need more than a few ACM papers, it probably is.

I have to strongly agree with your second paragraph, but finding the good opportunities is the trick.

I agree with your assessment of learning a new language != getting better at programming, as well as how you become an expert in a particular field. After reviewing these comments,…

A recent thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1176962 about a Giles Bowkett blog post went long on the solicitous nature of the article but ignored the most interesting claim…

The paragraph that hooked me has not been addressed in other comments. That is: Most programmers I know seem to respond to job searches by learning new programming languages. The l…

They forego revenue in exchange for the loss control. It's economically equivalent. This is like those discussions of whether taxes that are charged directly to businesses are paid…

Offered as an addendum to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1160552

To some extent, they do in the form of a premium rebate, though it is unlikely to be large enough to be a substantial reimbursement for a single policy period - perhaps over the li…

I have no idea what definition you are using for "standard insurance." Health insurance does cover routine care, but that's actually a loss control mechanism in the longer term. He…

The problem for healthcare insurers is that healthcare is a product often obtained while under duress. Patients have to trust their doctors, so they'd much rather call their insure…

You would be wrong - reserves are there to pay for liabilities already incurred. Social Security is basically a Ponzi scheme without the deception. You're right about the "Social S…

And what makes you think you aren't lumped in with your neighbor? Every rational form of insurance relies on distributing risk over groups of independent risks to obtain the benefi…