Delmania

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by Delmania 12y ago
Ecclesiastes 1:9: What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Uber, Lyft, and the whole "sharing economy" is nothing more than another iteration of line balancing. Retail
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In various business publications, it's referred to as the "sharing economy".
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I do not want to ignore the fact that society has changed, and with that, the risks and dangers children face have grown. There was an incident at my home where my youngest daughter was playing outside alone (my mom was inside), and a rathe
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by Delmania 12y ago
The easiest way to get to simple is through specialization. Rather than focus on trying to learning it all, focus on a core competence, and build from there. Having a computer science or software engineering degree is a great first step, bu
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It's hard for many people. There's plenty of theories out there that state that much of what we do and much of what we by are motivated by our fear of death and our desire to ignore it. The best way to face death, however, is hea
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by Delmania 12y ago
"An arbitrary deadline, often forcing you to interrupt your flow and then spend extra time next sprint reorienting yourself to pick up the same task again. And artificial accountability. (Did Alice overrun her time-box because she was
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No, they do fit into sprints, quite nicely. Time boxing gives you a deadline and accountability. Using research and development as an example, you go off, spend months researching a new search algorithm, only to come back to hear the custom
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The problem is your company has no idea of what it's doing. You don't estimate bug fixes or research and development. You time box them, and once you've spent all the time allocated, you report back to your team on your findi
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Reading over his points make me think the OP is a PM who doesn't understand Agile nor his role in it. The number of misconceptions he presents reads like someone who has never bothered to research agile, but only knows what consultants
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by Delmania 12y ago
Dash is 100% real: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-amazon-dash-button-... .
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He doesn't understand OCD, but then again, most people who throw that term around don't. For most people, it comes down to an extreme attention to detail or commitment to some form of perfection, when others would call it good eno
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by Delmania 12y ago
In response to the response to my first comment, a lot of what is missing from these discussions is an understanding of how the brain acquires knowledge and builds skills. I recommend https://www.coursera.org/learn/lear
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"If they are a league above other average programmers, what's an acceptable description that you'd use?" Dedicated. These individuals have mastered their domain; they have spent years learning and practicing. They have b
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The problem with this mindset is that it conveniently ignores the fact that these people pay into this handout programs every pay check. It's akin to paying for health insurance every 2 weeks and then paying all costs out of pocket bec
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by Delmania 12y ago
Regardless of how much trouble you're in, reliable transportation is needed. Cars are an expense, but in the situation described, the Mercedes was fully paid off. The cost of maintaining it (gas, repairs, insurance) is no greater than
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by Delmania 12y ago
That's pretty much a knee jerk reaction. The car in question is over a decade old, but is fully paid off and in good repair. It was also the couple's only car at the time, as her Honda has broken down. Reliable transportation is a
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As I've working my way through the How to Learn course on Coursera, this seems to correlate with the information presented there. A core component of learning is taking the idea presented and condensing it into your own words. That hel
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by Delmania 12y ago
You need to stop talking and start learning. There is NO way to correctly employ corporal punishment. At all. Time and time again, hitting a child for misbehaving has proven to increase aggressive behavior and decrease self confidence. It
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by Delmania 12y ago
Learning. I have some ambitious goals, including learning management skills and data science, and I thought it wise to bootstrap this by learning about learning. I'm going through Coursera for this: https://www.coursera.org&
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by Delmania 12y ago
How about empathy and self control? How about humility? These 3 skills are sorely needed.
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The cost is a compelling reason. Last year, my spouse and I terminated our Verizon contracts, bought used iPhones on Glyde, and switched over to Page Plus Cellular. Our monthly bill dropped from $110 to $65. Factoring in the cost of the pho
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by Delmania 12y ago
I am neither poor nor poorly educated (MS in CompSci). Yet when I read about the social and economic injustices in the United States, when I read about the atrocities that ISIS/ISIL and Boku-haram commits, when I see how the NSA and G
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by Delmania 12y ago
This article is timely. For all our advances in technology, terrorism remains a social and economic issue. Technology can help us scale a solution, but it can't do it for us.
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Unless it's specified in your contract, there is no obligation to give your employer 2 weeks notice. It's nothing more than courtesy.
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Outside of offending people, how exactly did her tweet impact anyone else?
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No language that is developed is perfect on release. The timeless wisdom of Lisp, as you call it, rest largely on macros and lambdas. Those ideas are powerful in their ability to allow you to build abstractions and customize the language to
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I'm not sure they will migrate Visual Studio. First they'd need to move WPF, which is implemented in DirectX. Second, Visual Studio and MSDN are still profitable. Third, there's the Omnisharp project that;s working on providi
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Yes, I think I can agree with the idea the goal is to change the past. However, this just further leads you down the rabbit hole, since now in addition to being angry about the event, you're also angry about your inability to change it
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Given the man's dedication to his job and impacts his actions has to health, it makes financial sense for the company to help him out financially in either securing a car or a closer place to live or risk losing a valued employee.
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The funny thing about venting is that it doesn't work; in fact, research indicates that it makes you more aggressive over time. The pseudo psychologist in me suspects that by venting, you're reliving the event, and reviving those

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