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by Morendil 15y ago
For a second there I thought you meant Moravec-type uploads. (Not that there's a problem with those. No, nothing could possibly go wrong there.)
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by Morendil 15y ago
This is a one-year old story. What's the "news" angle?
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by Morendil 15y ago
I'm French; my estimate is 39,400. I've been reading English since I was 13 or so - quite possibly the bulk of my reading has been in English (a quirk of mine).
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by Morendil 15y ago
I'm quite sensitive to bullying, having often been a victim, online and off. Part of me wants to agree with you. Richard does "name names" and directly voice an opinion of another person's abilities and a judgement of their actions. One of
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by Morendil 15y ago
This, exactly. I don't know Richard but this thread has triggered my curiosity, so I've looked at a few of his bug comments and the pattern is that they are funny and strongly worded, but the strong language isn't directed at a person - it'
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by Morendil 15y ago
This is severely biased toward things that require no in-person interaction. So I'll add two: 0. talk to other programmers 11. attend a Coding Dojo
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by Morendil 15y ago
Doesn't look like it, but perhaps a closer analysis would show some. One thing it shows for sure is a change, early on, in GMail's algorithm for deleting old mails left in the Spam folder - that's where it goes from jagged to smoother. And
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by Morendil 15y ago
That's one reason I set up this cron in the first place - I wanted to see if "my spam" was the same as "everyone else's spam". I wish I'd had your foresight and set this up earlier, but now I'm glad I didn't let that prevent me from doing i
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by Morendil 15y ago
It's per-month, not per-day - GMail only stores 30 days' worth of email in the Spam folder. As to how - cron job on my server querying GMail via IMAP. Source below. Manually copy and paste the resulting text file to a GDoc spreadsheet; use
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by Morendil 15y ago
Yes: http://bit.ly/lerK1S (This is a time series graph of the count of my GMail spam folder since 2009, updated daily.)
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by Morendil 15y ago
Fan noise.
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by Morendil 16y ago
Kudos for pointing out that it's the shape of the distribution that matters, not how far apart its endpoints. Interestingly there are articles out there which suggest that one distribution (of competence, rather than productivity, but intui
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by Morendil 16y ago
Which part of the above did you have trouble with? "Citation" is the topic being discussed. It's a technical term that refers to how scientific papers refer to other scientific papers. "Modality" is the concept I've been introducing for thr
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by Morendil 16y ago
I wouldn't start with a data set. I would start by stating clearly enough the question we are looking for an answer to. Doing that might involve getting clear on the terms. "Productivity" is too abstract and ambiguous to be used as-is, so w
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by Morendil 16y ago
You're missing the point: I didn't set out to refute the claim of 10x . I set out to refute that the claim had been proven. > If you're going to refute McConnell or even Peopleware, you've got to do a study. What McConnell has publishe
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by Morendil 16y ago
I've just been pointed to a recent article by Tom Gilb on measuring productivity, I'll post it when I've had a chance to read it. http://www.gilb.com/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=144
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Fact and folklore in software engineering(morendil.github.com)
135 points by Morendil 16y ago|90 comments
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by Morendil 16y ago
Now translated here: http://morendil.github.com/folklore.html
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JUnit '76(portal.acm.org)
1 points by Morendil 16y ago|0 comments
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by Morendil 16y ago
And when you can do triangles, you can do 3D: http://www.uselesspickles.com/triangles/ (That page was published in something like 2006... "Nothing new under the sun" indeed.)
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by Morendil 16y ago
> I don't understand how "suitability for teaching" and "suitability for industry" differ Industry is made up of people who have by necessity cultivated a patience with excessive complexity. In particular, I suspect that many unnecessar
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by Morendil 16y ago
BTW, I'm just being a messenger here - I got this link off Twitter and thought it'd be of relevance here. I can't muster much enthusiasm for the initiative myself. My gut reaction is "oh no, as if we needed one more", and I winced at the bl
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The Grace Programming Language(gracelang.org)
23 points by Morendil 16y ago|22 comments
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by Morendil 16y ago
Bizarrely the article makes no mention at all of the various cognitive consequences of our evolutionary history, such as confirmation bias, which certainly have more impact on our lives on a daily basis than do hiccups. (I get hiccups maybe
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by Morendil 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation#Continuations_in_W...
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by Morendil 16y ago
> to insight ire Ouch. Nothing hurts your credibility quite like an egregious spelling mistake just as your rant is taxiing onto the runway.
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Learning the Craft: Coding Dojo(web.cs.wpi.edu)
2 points by Morendil 16y ago|0 comments
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by Morendil 16y ago
Some relatively lucid observations there. (Disclaimer: I'm an expert. I was into Agile before it got named that.) There's one point that I starkly disagree with: > “Hero developers” make most of the big differences made in software deve
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by Morendil 16y ago
Stuck at 2kyu on KGS for two years, I've set the game aside temporarily, until my life situation is such that I can immerse myself in serious study. Love the game - got half a shelf of books including Invincible. There's a saying, "Go is li
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The return of the final serial comma’s vital necessity(nielsenhayden.com)
15 points by Morendil 16y ago|2 comments

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