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If you think that being a doer would be a downgrade, it seriously sounds like you should try it out.
Why go through life imagining you are better than other people when there is a way for you to know for sure?
The assumption behind this statement is that the list from the article is "Spike Lee's Top Films"
This list isn't about movie quality, it's about forming the minds of young directors.
Spike Lee speaks his mind. Nobody tells him what to say.
If he updated his list, it was because he felt the new list would do a better job helping new directors grow in their craft.
Makes me wonder which is the perfect text editor that everyone should use, is it emacs or vim?
It becomes a "Team up? What for?" situation
In the article Mr. Nelson says the intended audience are people who have "spent a couple hours investigating" already.
The United States can spend according to their projections for the value of US Treasury Bills. US Treasury Bills, in turn, are an investment in the future US economy as a whole. The connection between them is fuzzy and distant but at least in theory the government is run on tax-receipts even though T-Bills are doing so well they are self-sustaining.
Venezuela was borrowing against their own future and their economy was tied up in energy. They are in a different situation.
This one motivates virtual memory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kRBVdnLBW4
This one gives a high level view of how everything works:
If you bought a NE Patriots season ticket in 2000 and sold it in 2010, you made a pretty penny and you hopefully enjoyed 8*10 NFL games with your friends/family. If you bought a Tennessee Titans season ticket 10 years ago, you can't name your selling price today, but it is still worth hundreds of dollars.
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There are a couple of differences between comm and join:
comm compares whole lines; join compares fields within lines.
comm prints whole lines; join can print selected parts of lines.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7234028/bash-difference-b...
It seems to me that we do not disagree. From my point of view the CEO/guild leader discovered that he/she enjoys working and that they do not enjoy anything that is very expensive. That is great!
All I am saying is that making a lot of money should go hand in hand with asking 'What will I use this money for?'.
To your point, if you ask the question and decide that you get a lot of personal fulfillment from activity that makes money, you might not be able to spend it as fast as it comes in.
In this lecture, Dr. Alfred McCoy claims that there was a bitter debate in the 2000s between the Justice Department and the Judge Advocate General's Corps [Famously broadcast television's JAGs] over torture [1]. He alleges that the JAGs were against the vast expansion of Executive power under the Bush administration (continued under Pres. Obama).
It is tinfoil-y to make broad sweeping narratives about the powers that be. All the same, on the basis of Dr. McCoy's speculation and public knowledge about John Yoo [2], I presume that if the Justice Department and the Navy are fighting that the Navy are the good guys.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy_jjwid3YM#t=52m21s [portion of immediate interest at 53:45]
[2] http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/04/08/they-did-authoriz...
My teeth are really big and I was really bad about wearing a retainer. If I didn't have 4 teeth removed, my bottom set would have become more crooked than my baby teeth were if I let my wisdom teeth come in.
The point of "Money can't buy happiness" is that happiness doesn't have a UPC. The connection between money and happiness has tangible intermediaries. You have to spend the money in order to be happy.
The wisdom of it is putting the ball in the hands of the listener.
A lot of times people can get excited just about making money. That's fine because there are so many wonderful things you can buy. On the other hand, I'm sure there is at least an inkling of a further goal behind the idea of making money. No one is trying to be the guy from the parable who dies with a ton of money in the bank (guy has no descendents/will either). Money can be a trap if it is used as a proxy for future desires that are never realized.
"Money can't buy happiness" leads to the question: What is it that you do want?
As long as GM invests in maintenance of the cars themselves and the software inside, this reads like a sound, time-tested business strategy to me.
Without the GPL and GNU, Linux would not have the same brand. The GPL is part of Linux's public image and a public image is what drives usage.
I have a very 'armchair' perspective, but when I think about Apple and networking I think about iMessage and iCloud photo storage and that's it
The examples of difficult subject matter the author gives (particularly math) are so intimidating to some people that they miss out on a lot of great stuff because they conclude "I could never do that".
I don't think the author wants people to make poor time estimates and suffer budget overruns.
To me, the message of the article reads: "If you think something looks worthwhile but difficult, take a stab anyway. Often the hairiest, prickliest parts of the undertaking from an outsider's perspective aren't that tough at all once you're in the thick of it"
I 100% agree with you about how valuable conservatism is when you're planning, but I think the author's encouragement is intended for people who haven't even considered planning yet.
Lean startup methodology was an inheritor of common wisdom such as "worse is better" and "best is the enemy of the good" but they're all in the same family tree.