Morendil

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by Morendil 13y ago
> I take many people being bad at programming as evidence that programming is hard, not that it's easy. We are in violent agreement. Note that "hard" is not the same as "abstract and intellectually demanding". Ru
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by Morendil 13y ago
> Of course developing software is a highly abstract, intellectually demanding activity I don't mean to sound harsh, but "of course" and "it's absurd" aren't much of an argument. My advice is to dig in
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by Morendil 13y ago
> dismantling the 10x claim (writing an entire book about it) "Leprechauns" is by no means entirely about 10x developers. In it I also tackle things like the "exponentially increasing cost of bugs" claim, the Cone of
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by Morendil 13y ago
"singling out some myths for critique rather than others gives a misleading impression" Article author here. Agree with your first para, so the above has me puzzled, a bit. Would you please expand: what impressions do you think th
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by Morendil 13y ago
Where are you reading all that? The article says: > at its best, labour offers us a chance to externalise what's good inside us (let's say, our creativity, our rigour, our logic), and to give it a stable, enduring form in some
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by Morendil 13y ago
France here. down too.
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by Morendil 13y ago
Want to make your 10-minute drawing breaks more fun? Try Drawception: http://drawception.com/
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by Morendil 13y ago
Holy crap. An article with the words "cites research", with a hyperlink which actually goes to a PDF of the actual research being cited ! Would love to see HN rise to the occasion by discussing actual facts and data, rather than
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by Morendil 13y ago
For what purpose? Employability, intellectual well-roundedness, zeitgeistiness? Each of these could pull you in a different direction. My current hunch is that statistics/data science/machine learning will satisfy at least two of
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by Morendil 13y ago
No, Wikipedia, in the context of space missions a DTO is not a Data Transfer Object. (Fixed, so see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quantum_vacuum_pl... for the lulz.)
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by Morendil 13y ago
But Y would I want to do a thing like this? http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/02/but-y-would-i-want-to-do...
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The "New Deal" for Software Development(the-new-deal.org)
3 points by Morendil 13y ago|0 comments
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by Morendil 13y ago
I'll just leave this here. https://plus.google.com/+LaurentBossavit/posts/VBJTGru3PeW Or this. http://leanpub.com/leprechauns
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by Morendil 13y ago
The original paper is clearly a joke, but the LA Times article falls afoul of Poe's Law - at first glance it looks like the reporter just got trolled, though if you squint a little bit it could look as if the LA Times is trying to in t
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by Morendil 13y ago
She's talking about paraconsistent logics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraconsistent_logic Feel better now?
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Node.js at PayPal(paypal-engineering.com)
15 points by Morendil 13y ago|1 comments
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by Morendil 13y ago
> How did you go around to finding him? If you're going to shop around for a change agent, I recommend reading Jerry Weinberg's "Secrets of Consulting"; although this is targeted at consultants rather than their clien
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by Morendil 13y ago
> the behavior of adults in the workforce Not the same as "the men in the workforce", agreed?
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by Morendil 13y ago
> I am more infuriated by the idea that if women are underrepresented in technical fields, it must be the fault of the men in those technical fields. Who's saying that? > If we want to actually solve this problem, we need to go a
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by Morendil 13y ago
Forty-something programmer (diversified into various forms of consulting). Self-taught from printed matter before the Internet existed. Started coding on a ZX81, moved up to Apple ][, then to Macs. Dropped out of college to start working as
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by Morendil 13y ago
And that doesn't happen elsewhere?
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by Morendil 13y ago
Question seconded. The OP strongly implies that, and if it's not the case then the description of the process is oversimplified.
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by Morendil 13y ago
Citation needed.
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by Morendil 13y ago
This. If the only thing keeping you from bailing is an attachment to past decisions... don't let it keep you.
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by Morendil 13y ago
Except, of course, when a traffic spike brings it down. :(
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by Morendil 13y ago
I've been using Commafeed for a while now to replace Reader, and it's working like a charm. For my needs it's an excellent fit - I don't have a huge list of RSS feeds, perhaps a dozen that update with any regularity, and a completely run of
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by Morendil 13y ago
Not quite ready for prime time? Reader import fails for me too.
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by Morendil 13y ago
Read the article carefully, and quote me the part where she agrees there is a problem. The balance of evidence is that she is dismissive of the problem. She says she disagrees with Debra Mastaler, she uses scare-quotes around the word "bias
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by Morendil 13y ago
Fallacy of the excluded middle. Just because quotas are a wrong solution doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist. A tech conference that ends up with 95% male speakers is Doing Something Wrong. They have no right to be "happy with their pr
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by Morendil 14y ago
This, a million times. (Which is how many I feel like I've said it so far.) Conversely, this particular dysfunction of standups is a useful index of how much the corporate culture leads people to feel like they must justify their existence.

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