Comments for Dragons in the Algorithm

Comment on Setting Low Prices by mcherm

mcherm — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:50:58 +0000

Rob:

My apologies: it was myself who generalized it to most any service. And I’m sure there are exceptions.

Comment on Setting Low Prices by Rob Walling

Rob Walling — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:56:44 +0000

>> in which he advised someone not to charge $1/month for a service–almost without regard for what the service was

Actually, I was answering a specific question about an application geared towards teachers, a small niche market. With that in mind, charging $1/month is a bad idea.

Good post; thanks for raising these issues.

Comment on Election Guide – May 2011 by mcherm

mcherm — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:48:17 +0000

Roy:

All I meant is that even though the voting by the bar is anonymous, I still believe that sitting judges are rarely judged as harshly by lawyers as others who have not served as judges.

Comment on Election Guide – May 2011 by Roy Beatty

Roy Beatty — Tue, 24 May 2011 12:39:31 +0000

> Rated well-qualified by the bar
> (always a little questionable
> for sitting judges).

A refreshingly open mind regarding incumbent judicial candidates !

Or did you mean that the Bar may be loath to sully the reputation of a judge who will decide their cases ?

That’s an interesting hypothesis, and probably a testable one, if the data is readily available.

Comment on How Wierd Is That! by mcherm

mcherm — Thu, 05 May 2011 11:15:06 +0000

Ivan: Sorry about that… was there anything in particular that was confusing you?

Comment on How Wierd Is That! by Ivan Dulin

Ivan Dulin — Thu, 05 May 2011 07:50:57 +0000

I did not get anything.

Comment on Viewing a dependency tree in Maven by Dave Golpira

Dave Golpira — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:26:09 +0000

Here’s another approach to visualizing dependencies:

http://www.alternatecomputing.com/node/11

Comment on Resources by Josh Burger

Josh Burger — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:21:11 +0000

FireCookie rocks.

Also, I think less of you as a geek as there is no Vi variant listed.

Comment on An Important Victory for the US Military by mcherm

mcherm — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 01:24:01 +0000

We have many pressing issues, but I think that this is one for the beginning of this century, not the last. To our founding fathers was given the task of establishing democracy, to a later generation was given the task of ending slavery; to another that of women’s suffrage; to one more recent was given the task of equal treatment for blacks.

Not that any of these generations fully accomplished their task, nor was this the sole issue of the day for any of these generations. But when the history books look back on the ongoing struggle to raise the human condition, there was a primary test each of these generations faced.

In just this sense, I feel that our generation faces the task of establishing equal treatment to those whose sexuality differs from that most widely practiced. In many ways, we have made great strides (how many prime time TV shows feature gay characters?). In others, like the military and marriage rights, we have actually backslid from the previous situation.

Until this week. As of this week, we have actually IMPROVED in tolerance within the military over what our parents passed us.

Comment on An Important Victory for the US Military by Brent

Brent — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 06:55:26 +0000

An important milestone. One more success to look back at as we push forward towards full and equal rights for gay individuals and gay couples in our country.

The time of secrecy and misdirection should be behind us, not just in the military, but in all of our society. We have too many pressing issues in this day and age to still be fighting a battle from the last century.