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by Dove 16y ago
It would be interesting to see companies genuinely compete for talented developers. I don't think the guys that are 10x as productive would be making 20% more anymore.
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by Dove 16y ago
You've missed a key piece of information: The labels are all wrong. Not just unreliable. Wrong. (P.S. You can do it in one ball.)
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by Dove 16y ago
He is right that you want to study 'tactics' -- ways of making code good. More generally, methods of expression, their benefits and drawbacks. He is wrong that you want to study it by critiquing code and devising your own improvements. Th
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by Dove 16y ago
I don't mean that I can't buy food. I mean that I can't trade between dollars and calories. For example, a scoop of premium ice cream costs me $1.25 and 250 calories. The currencies are independant and inexchangeable; if there was an exc
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by Dove 16y ago
If someone pirates Minecraft instead of buying it, it means I’ve lost some “potential” revenue. . . . But what if that person likes that game, talks about it to his or her friends, and then I manage to convince three of them to buy the gam
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by Dove 16y ago
They aren't. Here's the spectrum of beliefs as I understand it. YC = Young Earth Creationist PC = Progressive Creationist TE = Theistic Evolutionist NE = Naturalistic Evolutionist ID = Intelligent Design - -
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by Dove 16y ago
While we're talking about unusual epistemic tools, emotion has a really bad reputation, but what people are criticizing is not emotion as a properly used tool, but its improper use. The improper, oft-criticized use of emotion is saying, "I
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by Dove 16y ago
I think both science and logic (what the article calls Reason) are poor tools for studying complex systems--things like software and people. The guess-and-check methodology of science works great when one is studying simple, consistent, sta
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by Dove 16y ago
I already consider food to have costs in two currencies: one in dollars and one in calories. There is no conversion between them; I must meet both budgets.
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by Dove 16y ago
Once upon a time, my very favorite manager wanted to review the high level schedule for his software product. So he called a meeting among all the managers who worked for him. At ten, maybe fifteen minutes past the hour, everyone had fina
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by Dove 16y ago
Have you observed this purchase to actually cause happiness?
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by Dove 16y ago
I hate this phenomenon. Allowing fear to prevent friendship just isn't worth it. There are just too many interesting, friendly people in the world who happen to be of the masculine persuasion. I go out of my way to encourage strangers--me
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by Dove 16y ago
Really? negative points . . . ? Well, you opened with, I'm guessing you've never tried to live on $12.50/hr. I consider this aggressive and personal. Rather than stating your position and evidence, you've attacked the credentials of an
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by Dove 16y ago
Yeah. You should see some of the other stuff that makes it into production code. I said there was a process. I didn't say the result was good software. ;)
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by Dove 16y ago
Here are the numbers from when he quit his day job and went to a full time: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/11/11/quitting-the-da...
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by Dove 16y ago
Well, see, over here "getting rich" means earning millions in a few years through sheer entepreneurial perspiration. Over there, it means eliminating debt and reducing expenses, building up a nice, six figure retirement account over a lifet
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by Dove 16y ago
There is no certification to distinguish software that lives can depend on. Actually, there is. Google up "safety-critical software". And maybe "trusted software". I work in military avionics; every dang line of code in the product, inc
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by Dove 16y ago
The opposition between wealth and spirituality is well known and ancient. In a Christian context, you see it in such biblical remarks as "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for the rich to enter the kingdom o
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by Dove 16y ago
Some of my most treasured memories, even years later, are epic games with friends at the peak of our skills. You may not see the art in it, but that doesn't mean there is none. Some people juggle geese.
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by Dove 16y ago
Certainly, but "God created it" is the ultimate wild-card explanation. It's identical to saying "because." Not at all. It could be used that way by lazy and irresponsible thinkers, but that is not an inherent property of the explanatio
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by Dove 16y ago
It is, of course, literally true that data is composed of a collection of data points -- you could call them anecdotes if you wanted to. But the point of the aphorism is that you can't go the other direction. Anecdotes are isolated instanc
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by Dove 16y ago
As a further friendly jab to atheists in present company, I've always found cosmological discussions funny. Here they are, willing to believe in an infinity of infinities of parallel universes, with varying physical laws and constants. Th
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by Dove 16y ago
I find the anthropic principle unpersuasive. It is entirely irrelevant to the question it tries to answer. Imagine applying it in a different circumstance. Imagine two people coming upon a computer terminal, upon which was typed an elabor
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by Dove 16y ago
Well, it's not a horse race. It's not a question of being able to beat the other guy, but of capability. It's not about who you can beat, but what you can do. (Though the amusing answer to your last question is yes -- for many recent yea
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by Dove 16y ago
Be careful with that. Warfighting is every bit as complex, technical and dynamic a discipline as computers. Maybe more so. Do you have a developed opinion on ballistic defense, our nuclear posture, our relative emphasis on COIN vs. conve
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by Dove 16y ago
If you like this concept, I recommend looking into the FairTax. It is a very well thought out attempt to replace all taxes with a single sales tax. I am a fan, but even if you are not, the analysis of the situation in the papers at fairtax
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Shallow Water Blackout(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Dove 16y ago
Amusing anecdote about the social dynamics in that situation: When I was in high school, the options for phys ed class were Weight Lifting and Aerobics. While the entry wasn't restricted by gender, all of the guys took Weight Lifting and m
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by Dove 16y ago
This video inspires a mixture of emotions. Awe at the lego models. Confusion at the strategy of the players. Admiration at the attention to detail in the motion of the units and the animations. Rage at the outcome of the battles because
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by Dove 16y ago
I hear you on the differences. I've had tomatoes from my mom's garden, and they're a completely different beast than what one finds in the supermarket. With that said, supermarket romas are my snack of choice: tasty, affordable, healthy.

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