DougWebb

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by DougWebb 17y ago
Perhaps they should have included a nuclear engineer on the team, who could have told them to use a breeder reactor to process the 'waste' into useful energy so that the remainder would only be dangerous for a few hundred years instead of 1
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by DougWebb 17y ago
I'm curious to hear what developers think of this development approach; in particular the idea of creating a separate version control branch for every ticket. My company has creates around 1000 tickets per month; at least half of which are
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Ultimate Quality Development System(divmod.org)
1 points by DougWebb 17y ago|1 comments
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by DougWebb 17y ago
This makes a lot of sense; bikes have a lot less extraneous weight to carry around than cars do, so it should be a lot easier to get a good milage/performance combo out of an electric engine than with a car. There's less room for the engine
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by DougWebb 17y ago
I think the point here is that i4i wanted to keep using it, but couldn't because Microsoft took everything they had and built it into Word for free. They destroyed i4i's business model (which happens sometimes) by stealing their design (whi
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by DougWebb 17y ago
I was once waiting for my flight and watching the activity out on the tarmac. A luggage cart dropped someone's suitcase, and it sat out there for at least an hour while the carts drove back and forth around it. Eventually, someone picked it
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by DougWebb 17y ago
Today's "younger individuals" who are less set in their ways used to be the old folks, back when life spans were much shorter. I think if life spans extended to 200, someone in their 50s would be considered to be at their peak of productivi
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by DougWebb 17y ago
I disagree. If you know that something is true, but can't really prove that it is true, you can still use the assumed truth to guide you. For example, I believe that Barak Obama is an honorable man. I can't prove it, but I believe it strong
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by DougWebb 17y ago
It's a local-market vs extended-market issue. Money is the medium of trade; it has to circulate or trade stops. If you have a local market, the people producing products, and getting paid to produce the products, are also buying the product
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by DougWebb 17y ago
I think the coolest of these is the Apollo 14 image with the footprint trail. Sure, after 30 years we'd expect the landers to still be there, but now we know that the footprints and other scuff marks are still there too. Neat.
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by DougWebb 17y ago
God told me that if you interpret the bible correctly, it proves that Man's fingers were designed to use vi, not emacs. But only on Windows. Discuss.
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by DougWebb 17y ago
I find one of the biggest challenges, and best skills to develop, is getting the customer to describe the problem they're trying to solve rather than the solution they think they need. My job, as a Software Engineer, is to figure out the be
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by DougWebb 17y ago
The 'win' that said they'd write a genetic algorithm got me interested, but I'm not looking for a job, so here's what I came up with: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; our $POP_SIZE = 100; our @GOAL = map
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by DougWebb 17y ago
Perhaps the design should be "everything is a Resource" (ala REST) rather than "everything is an Object". The beneficial aspect of "everything is a File" is the uniform interface: you can read a file, write to a file, seek to a particular p
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by DougWebb 17y ago
If we make something and sell it overseas, it brings wealth into the country. That's good for us. It's the opposite of what we've been doing: importing massive amounts of cheap products, sending all of our wealth overseas to other countries
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by DougWebb 17y ago
Like StreetFighter, without the action.
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by DougWebb 17y ago
My wife had a liver transplant (years before I met her) and I've learned from her and her doctors that pretty much all liver transplant patients have a rough first year or two. Expect to see Steve Jobs hospitalized a few times over the next
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by DougWebb 17y ago
That's not a great metaphor though, because there are many types of cars, but only one type of Unicode. 'Unicode' is not a generalization for character encodings the way 'car' is a generalization for car models. I think this is exactly the
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by DougWebb 17y ago
"Indian code monkeys are, IMO, better than American code monkeys because they follow instructions and work hard despite their limited talents. Rote memorization and checklists and "process" are necessary to get less capable programmers to f
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by DougWebb 17y ago
Wouldn't an NNTP server with an SMTP gateway and HTTP client serve basically the same purpose?
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by DougWebb 17y ago
You want a Waterwise 9000. Really. Trust me. WORLD of difference.
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by DougWebb 18y ago
I was a lot like you. My advice would be to do what I wish I had done: 1. Use your intelligence and self-teaching skills to make sure you get the best grades possible; this will help you get financial aid for college. Otherwise, you'll be l
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by DougWebb 18y ago
Stateful and REST can get along pretty well, depending on what's stateful. Your resources should be stateful; they don't disappear when the request is completed. Your client-side application should be stateful too; among other things, it ke
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by DougWebb 18y ago
I also recommend "Javascript: The Good Parts". It and the jQuery library can teach you a lot about how Javascript is really a functional language with more in common with Lisp than with C++ or Java. A second excellent book is "Higher Order