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by Dove 16y ago
Very fair considerations. I think it is easy, as a programmer, to think of refactoring only in terms of cost, and to ignore risk. That is a mistake. My own rules to keep myself honest in that regard are these: - Never rewrite anything you
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by Dove 16y ago
never ask for permission for things you know are vital to your work I agree to an extent. It can be easy to fool yourself about what constitutes good code -- in the sense of making a product better or work on it easier. Sometimes bad co
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by Dove 16y ago
I find it disturbing when conversations about the validity of studies (or criticisms thereof) center around things like funding or ideology rather than methodology. It is another way of saying, "I don't take seriously anyone who disagrees
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by Dove 16y ago
I didn't follow your links, but I do want to point out that the statistics you mention strike me as the wrong ones. You're discussing how many pedophiles are men, but I want to know how many men are pedophiles. It's like saying that one sh
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by Dove 16y ago
Oh, certainly. But it's hard to write a lot of perl code without accidentally writing an array slice. At least, I find it hard.
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by Dove 16y ago
Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-Fourth_Air_Force This stuff isn't new -- it's just new to most people.
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by Dove 16y ago
I'm of the school that measuring trivial knowledge is not a good way to identify good programmers I'm right there with you, but this list isn't trivia. It's a broad set of basic questions. In fact, these three . . . - What's the di
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by Dove 16y ago
The links from the article are fascinating. I had never heard of Arimaa before, and am quite intrigued. And from the linked article by Kasparov ( http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-che... ) comes this gem: In wha
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by Dove 16y ago
I was in a similar egg drop contest in which devices were scored by weight. The winning entry was helium balloons attached to a basket. It had a decidedly negative weight.
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by Dove 16y ago
Perl 5 runs on more platforms than the CLR and JVM do. In theory. In practice, if it runs on one JVM, it runs on any JVM. No questions asked. Perl is full of, "Oops, that crashes on Windows" traps. If you know where they all are, you c
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by Dove 16y ago
The median household income in the US in 2008 was $52,029. Probably with health insurance, but still. If $60k is pretty tight, most of the country has it pretty bad. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
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by Dove 16y ago
I think it would be more compelling with a metagame offering an incentive to play. Edutainment games in which solving the equation slays the zombie are generally lame, but something along the lines of achievements might work. You could sep
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by Dove 16y ago
On the other hand, Erik Demaine was homeschooled by a father whose educational philosophy consisted of "the child should pursue his own interests." [1] His furious creativity represents a kind of academic achievement that cannot result f
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by Dove 16y ago
That's a good thought on how to represent the volume, though. A 1000 TEU ship is a medium size feeder. A bit of googling around gets me the Logan James, 1055 TEU: http://smithholdingsgroup.com/Shipping.html A trillion dollars fits on a
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by Dove 16y ago
No, it's $1 million. http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/calculations.html It's just that dollar bills look pretty small next to feet. The perspective also makes it look smaller.
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by Dove 16y ago
That is overstating the thesis. The article is saying only that it is possible carb restriction is the sole cause of weight loss. While the writing suggests that the author believes that, the explicit point is that until we control for
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by Dove 16y ago
Well, the typing is not the reason we're looking at lines. With exceptions for outliers like APL, a line of code is generally a decent approximation to a unit of thoughtstuff. Within any program, you have nitty gritty bits that deal with th
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by Dove 16y ago
Scala provides tools that allow highly competent developers to write very concise code, and if you give them those tools they will use them. Developers who are less competent may then have trouble understanding that code. A wise co-worker
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by Dove 16y ago
> just require long passwords, no other requirement. I particularly liked the suggestion (elsewhere) to set passwords to a random combination of three dictionary words. It's hard to remember 7Gw$kW_ws, but I bet I could come up with a
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by Dove 16y ago
Their demands seem entirely reasonable to me. I'm ashamed to belong to a society in which such demands must be made, more so that they would be ignored.
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by Dove 16y ago
The main argument for working at a big company, in my eyes, isn't on the list: You need a big company to work on a big product. If you want to work on something as complex, massive, multidisciplinary, and grand as, for example, the space sh
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by Dove 16y ago
Yeah, there are a whole slew of religious curse phrases -- "oh my God", "mother of God", "for God's sake", "for heaven's sake". Or even exotic variants like, "sweet mother of mercy". I find it interesting that they are generally used to ex
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by Dove 16y ago
There is a pregnancy condition called PUPPP -- itchy hives. I don't have a reference to the study on hand, but it is known that most women who suffer from PUPPP give birth to boys, and that male DNA is present in the hives. One theory abo
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by Dove 16y ago
If you're trying to do actual real work of tracking down terrorists, you don't want the whole world to know(at least until years later). But if you're doing something EVIL behind our back, the world have the right to know. The main safegu
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by Dove 16y ago
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
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by Dove 16y ago
But I just can't see much benefit for anyone else. If the mountain climber's goal is to be a stronger person, both he and the people around him benefit from his achieving it. If he comes out of the experience a strong, unintimidatable le
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by Dove 16y ago
See a doctor. I repeat for emphasis: See a doctor. This is treatable.
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by Dove 16y ago
I think the point is a reasonable one, if overly specific. A programmer who does no outside reading on his profession will be ill-equipped to do research when the need arises, and is more likely to want to be spoon-fed easy problems and co
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by Dove 16y ago
Such a sentiment says more about the speaker than the world.

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