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by CharlesMerriam2 6y ago
"Love is the Killer App" is great book on reading. It discusses how to take notes in books, review them quickly, retain information, choose books and so on. Like all great business books, it has a wrong and misleading title. It h
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by CharlesMerriam2 6y ago
How about English? This is just programed as: > Puppy is an app OK, you run 'Puppy'. It doesn't do anything. > RandomHost is ' https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random' OK, &#x2
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by CharlesMerriam2 6y ago
The "reopen" campaigns are simple strategy for recruiting members. The states will reopen, eventually and inevitably, and your raw recruits will claim credit for forcing a change on 'the establishment'. Making an assump
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Health Monitoring Rings for SF Medical and Emergency(sfchronicle.com)
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by CharlesMerriam2 7y ago
iPhones and most other devices are limited. After a few tries, you will start down an increasing lock-out time for the next guesses. The back out does not apply to changing the PIN of an unlocked phone to see if that PIN gives a warning.
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by CharlesMerriam2 7y ago
Everyone gets micromanaged for a moment until they move on. On your first day, someone micromanages showing you where the restrooms are and how the breakroom works. Then they never do it a second time. In practice, you can revisit even a
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by CharlesMerriam2 7y ago
The best is the enemy of good here. When I manage engineers, I insist on people having the old-fashion pen and paper notebooks: not scratch paper; not pads; not post-it notes. Simple 5 by 7 grids. During my weekly one-on-ones, I encourage
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by CharlesMerriam2 7y ago
Er... why do you say that?
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by CharlesMerriam2 7y ago
If it is labelled clearly when you buy the fridge, its far. If it is hidden, then it is not. Perhaps Libertarians would jump in? Choice made with knowledge founds their original philosophy.
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by CharlesMerriam2 7y ago
Leaving with bountiful abundance to all who come after is the true sign of character. I heartily say, "Well done!"
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by CharlesMerriam2 7y ago
The Grrranimals standard worked. People would match up symbols to see what worked together. Why cannot technology do the same? Yes, the cables plug together, but one has a turtle icon and one has a car icon?
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by CharlesMerriam2 7y ago
Pretty
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by CharlesMerriam2 7y ago
Comments are likely to stray far from actual information for this story. It is an app. It is only an app.
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by CharlesMerriam2 7y ago
One person studying climate change at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories opined that the U.S. would not take climate change seriously until it loses a major city. New Orleans doesn't count.
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by CharlesMerriam2 7y ago
This is an important step in safe guarding our collective experience of power plants. Consider that the way we currently interact with power plants: "Someone needs to stay behind and manually make the boilers explode! I'll do it!
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by CharlesMerriam2 7y ago
The bar for a new programming language is higher than ten years ago. Introducing a language should now include "What are the cool new things in this language?" The short list where this shines, e.g., "Go - compiles really fa
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by CharlesMerriam2 8y ago
As I read this story, some moving advertisements start along the top and sides. After ten seconds, a floating bar covers the text. After a few more, a modal dialog. Then the 'share me now' buttons, obscuring the text. Then I l
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by CharlesMerriam2 8y ago
Just to remember the 1990s, Harvard was also shown to colluded with other good schools to maximize the number of scholarships awarded. For example, one might receive a full scholarship from MIT or Harvard but not both. As in that case, the
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by CharlesMerriam2 8y ago
Hmm.. 1. This is being announced on GitHub, a Microsoft entity; 2. there are typos everywhere in the documentation; 3. the code is generally undocumented. This is a single author's work to write a demonstration piece. Odd that is mad
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by CharlesMerriam2 8y ago
Can we stop with the random posting of non-technical nytimes.com articles?
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by CharlesMerriam2 8y ago
Some reading this will claim any criticism is the fault of the critic. Others will jump in claiming it is all revealing the emperor's clothing and promoting an alternate religion. A few will deconstruct the criticisms and look for the
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by CharlesMerriam2 8y ago
I know that mall. The usual happened; developers wanted to build lots of housing and no infrastructure. The builder had recently reneged on elderly housing units in another development and were not believed about building a park on top of t
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by CharlesMerriam2 8y ago
We used to moderate supports of the Wiki Foundation (4 figures a year) and dropped in recent years. It does seem rudderless.
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by CharlesMerriam2 8y ago
Let's talk about real killers, which kill far more. https://on.cc.com/1hCMleQ . Falling Coconuts kill dozens of times more people but no one is seriously looking at active countermeasures.
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by CharlesMerriam2 8y ago
There is often an I love {Scala|Rust|Erland} post showing an simple type issue and claiming that using a bunch of new syntax would somehow fix it. <rant> 1. I want a minimum of typed syntax for safety. For example, remember Hungaria
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
Business Ethics is the art of finding a company whose ethics are close enough to your own. Asking the business to reconsider before leaving is legitimate.
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
Truly, a financial news feed about financial news of the intraday trading of a financial instrument will affect the technology I select this year.
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
An interesting parallel can be found in the anonymous review of grant proposals. See "Fund ideas, not pedigree, to find fresh insight", https://bit.ly/2Fy64cP . It ends with "peer review may be the worst sys
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
I work in California, specifically in Silicon Valley. What is the "Non-compete Clause" of which you speak? The only time I have heard of is a snippet of conversation that "Judges just laugh at them." In practice, there
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
This is one of those articles interesting to new programmers. The actual answer is that currency is complicated; any small library you will write it likely to forget some complication; and, absent new open source you should go commercial.

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