Goladus

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by Goladus 13y ago
Monkey patching is 3rd-party modification to the application itself; or specially modified inputs that simulate such a modification. It's not configuration. Dependency injection is a software design pattern. There's no point cal
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by Goladus 13y ago
Isn't source code basically a configuration file for the compiler/interpreter? Source code is input, not configuration. Every time you run the compiler, you give it different source code. The whole point of the compiler is to
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by Goladus 13y ago
I've generally heard few complaints from experienced DBAs about Oracle database software, other than it sometimes being overkill. Most complaints I've seen relate to stuff like this. Bad customer service and destructive behavior.
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by Goladus 13y ago
Exactly.
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by Goladus 13y ago
There are always financial concerns. Just because you have a huge budget doesn't mean you don't min-max where possible.
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by Goladus 13y ago
I've managed people in all of those environments as well, and I can tell you that openness leads to more synergy and more overall productivity. In my experience, synergy and productivity is far more closely tied to clarity of goals a
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by Goladus 13y ago
Suffers from the same flaw as most critiques of open plan: it focuses on individual productivity while failing to understand how it contributes to team productivity. For what it's worth, most of the open plan proponents have a simila
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by Goladus 13y ago
Pixar had a really cool idea put all of the bathrooms on one side of the building I'd be interested to know how much they saved on plumbing costs. That seems to me like an architectural decision driven by financial concerns and sold
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by Goladus 13y ago
The categorical term was necessary to the anecdote. Using a categorical term does not imply discrimination. In fact none of the sentences you list are real evidence of discrimination, especially in the context of a discussion where it&#x27
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by Goladus 13y ago
If that doesn't sound advantageous, I don't know what else can be said I mean specifically with regards to configuration management: that is, managing the part of software that developers intend to be modified so as to change th
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by Goladus 13y ago
So far, I'm not really seeing the configuration management advantage.
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by Goladus 13y ago
This looks really interesting but I don't see it as a magic bullet for configuration management. There seem to be a lot of advantages on the package management side but configuration management is a lot more than that. Generally the w
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by Goladus 13y ago
> Perhaps VC pitches should follow suit. Question is how to eliminate unwanted bias while keeping the relevant information. With an orchestra audition, it's easy to isolate and evaluate the relevant skill: ability to play the speci
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by Goladus 13y ago
Sounds like a strong case for intentionally skewing investment decisions towards women founders It's not. All the study shows is that a bias is present, and that the bias identified in the controlled test is somewhat similar to the
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by Goladus 13y ago
* I was half way through the lesson before someone noticed.* Were you halfway through before someone noticed or halfway through before someone decided to say something about it?
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by Goladus 13y ago
Playing devil's advocate for a moment: A straightforward lecture delivered directly from a powerpoint is not automatically a bad thing. I think students sometimes over-estimate their ability to learn from reading slides and incorrectl
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by Goladus 13y ago
The English prose used in comment threads like this is written natural language. Programming languages are formal languages. Different treatment should not be surprising. For further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by Goladus 13y ago
This is a comment thread. The language is informal, spontaneous, largely unedited, and participants come from a variety of language backgrounds. There are going to be grammar differences and mistakes. You clearly understood the author, as
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by Goladus 13y ago
This grammar policing is not necessary or helpful to the discussion.
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by Goladus 13y ago
One way to overcome a lack of motivation is to ruthlessly eliminate distractions. Tailor your environment and to be (and practice habits that are) maximally conducive to studying. If you have a hard time "taking a step back" to
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by Goladus 13y ago
How so? It would seem to me to say nothing on the issue. The added hardware may be a mix of profitable and non-profitable machines. The question is where is the equilibrium now and over time?
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by Goladus 13y ago
It's been around for ages perhaps, but for a long time has not caught on. Most of the time when I search google for a question that might be appropriate for programmers.stackexchange.com, I wind up with links to locked topics on stack
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by Goladus 13y ago
The form of the answer may be the same, but not the content. The idea that answers are subject to preference and different needs doesn't mean a question can not have objective answers.
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by Goladus 13y ago
As others have noted, this is explained in the video (and made to seem super-brain-dead-obvious, at that). Specifically, clickfarmers are liking the ads whether they have been targeted or not, in order to thwart automated detection. So you
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by Goladus 13y ago
Even at its height Myspace never had users at the scale facebook has today. Baby boomers never used myspace like they use facebook.
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by Goladus 13y ago
Fundamentally I agree, but I question why we do not teach computer science/coding the same way we teach music? There are many reasons. One is that the fundamentals of classical music-- the notation, the instruments, the techniques--
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by Goladus 13y ago
In day to day life, the most attractive faces tend to be rare. They're memorable simply for being attractive, meaning the face itself doesn't have to be memorized.
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by Goladus 13y ago
Interesting contribution to psychology, since unknown faces are usually considered most attractive when they are average but... My understanding it's that the average of various traits that tend to be found attractive, not "aver
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by Goladus 13y ago
Yeah I wondered that but since I didn't find the passage at all funny and thought it detracted considerably from his primary thesis (by suggesting that he wasn't taking the point seriously) it bothered me.
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by Goladus 13y ago
Facebook and twitter do their own image hosting. I think the slippery slope people are wrong about the slippery slope. Maybe I'll eat crow someday but until then if you want to share images on facebook upload them to facebook like fa

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