ColinDabritz

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by ColinDabritz 15y ago
Certainly, although you have to differentiate between confusion, which can be beneficial as you say, and being completely lost, which hampers learning. The subject matter being obvious and well understood can look a lot like the subject mat
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by ColinDabritz 15y ago
One omission that may fit this crowd well is "Daemon" and it's sequel "Freedom(tm)" by Daniel Suarez http://thedaemon.com/ These books are very well written and billed as a 'techno-thriller'. I think they are also near-term science fictio
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by ColinDabritz 15y ago
It seems the 'burglar sues for hurting themselves' theme is a popular one. I've heard it a few times from various friends and sources. As far as I can tell it tends to be miss-represented, or non-existent. One of the common ones is the 'fel
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by ColinDabritz 15y ago
This reminds me of the 'Digital Needle' project, which was a hacking project done by Ofer Springer back in 2002. The idea was to use a flatbed scanner to play a vinyl record. http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/ It came sur
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by ColinDabritz 15y ago
So it looks like 'Depression' is on the school schedule (see the spikes down for winter break, the heavy correlation with academic topics) https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=depression&... I wonder how much is psychology res
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by ColinDabritz 15y ago
Tracking 'latest' changes would be nice, once you've played for a while, it's hard to find all the recent updates. Also, I like identifying pictures more than drawing. If there are others who like drawing more, it would be nice to be given
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by ColinDabritz 15y ago
There was an excellent cs theory stack exchange question on this: http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/1168/what-papers... [pdf] The top two are nearly tied for: "A mathematical theory of communication" by Claude Shannon http://gu
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by ColinDabritz 15y ago
I've loved what little EWD reading I have done. The two points highlighted here I read as: 1. The program structure should reflect the problem structure as closely as possible 2. Thinking of every possible case ("enumeratively") is much les
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by ColinDabritz 15y ago
Isn't this a variation on the 'broken window' fallacy? It's true that at the moment it means less people employed, and that's certainly a problem. In the long term, though, this means less work that has to be done, which means more availabl
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by ColinDabritz 15y ago
Off hand, browsing the source, it looks like a web app (index.html, CSS, JS). "With offline support" makes more sense in that context too, as you would expect a native iOS app to be mostly 'offline' anyway (sans perhaps streaming video). I
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by ColinDabritz 15y ago
I think the 'diving in and figuring stuff out' approach is very empowering as well. The traditional 'hang ups' are pointers and recursion. I am curious what you mean that recursion is a natural way of thinking. Can you expand on that? (I fo
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by ColinDabritz 15y ago
In this case he has been very explicit about the number and types of people in the study. From the article: "In total, 16 iPad users participated in the new study. Half were men, half were women. The age distribution was fairly even for 14
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by ColinDabritz 16y ago
Interesting. So perhaps we're talking about the 'two things' that are specific to software development. Maybe it's worth considering the rest of the different 'two things' that apply more generally as well?
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by ColinDabritz 16y ago
1. Solving the right problem 2. Managing Expectations
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The Portland Saturday Market has some nice arts and crafts, and it's a nice place to hang out by the waterfront. It has a nice food court as well, good food and variety. http://www.portlandsaturdaymarket.com/ Most of the rest seems to hav
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by ColinDabritz 16y ago
Wow, that's an interesting point of view (as enshrined in law). For example, I own some DVDs or say Blu-Ray discs. Shouldn't the company provide me the key to decrypt them in case the police want to decrypt them? I suspect those companies w
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by ColinDabritz 16y ago
What if we looked at it as a competitive advantage? Teamwork is a competitive advantage because a good team can develop more complex systems than a single programmer. Clean and simple code with good architecture is a competitive advantage,
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by ColinDabritz 16y ago
Can we not solve this problem by storing energy in the longer term? It's true some 'burst' capacity is important, but can you not get a lot closer to 'average load' than the baseline by using the energy? Pumping water into a reservoir at ni
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by ColinDabritz 16y ago
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Grok Grok is a term from Robert A. Heinlein's book "Stranger in a strange land." I can see why finding out that these amazing words are not 'official' English could make you sad, but for me I
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by ColinDabritz 16y ago
I agree that recalled college classes aren't the sturdiest reference. Here is a better cited source: "Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering" by Robert L. Glass at the IEEE Computer Society website: http://www.co
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by ColinDabritz 17y ago
I don't know, he seems like a stand-up guy to me...