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by Pamar 8y ago
I do not understand if you have actual practical experience with medium-complexity projects with visual languages. Also, wM have been around for more then 10 years now. I am not using it anymore but I have colleagues who do. The "low h
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by Pamar 8y ago
Disclaimer: I haven't yet read the article. My experience: a few years of (intermittent) work with webMethods Flow Services (which is "Visual"). Conclusions: text-based programming allows you to: - grep for all files where yo
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by Pamar 8y ago
What I mean is that some of the powerful components we can leverage today solve problems that did not exist in 1985, so having these available then would not really help. I mean: what would you use Node.js for - in 1985 - even assuming you
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by Pamar 8y ago
This is... debatable. I was around in 1985 and if I had proposed using "an eventually consistent schemaless DB" to tackle a bank or a manufacturing project I would have been laughed out of the room. And not because it sounded t
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All the laptops that came out at CES 2019(engadget.com)
1 points by Pamar 8y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Scavenging Google+ for knowledge?
3 points by Pamar 8y ago|0 comments
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by Pamar 8y ago
On the other hand, while I read only Accellerando and all the Laundry novels so far (so I might have a limited viewpoint on his work), I would argue that "interpersonal relationships among the cast" is not really his forte...
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by Pamar 8y ago
http://www.pilloledistoria.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/hed...
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by Pamar 8y ago
The benefit depends on what part of the system I decide to optimize. If I guess right (and enhance something impacted by many/big requirements in the future ) I will reap good results. If I enhance something which stays basically unto
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by Pamar 8y ago
Yes, but unfortunately our own SOX-influenced rules require KU signed approval for most changes.
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by Pamar 8y ago
The 200000 vs 10000 (and therefore the 20 vs. 780 man days) come straight from your example. Which is part of the problem: while I know for sure that are a lot of things that should be refactored/changed/improved/cut off it w
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by Pamar 8y ago
I am working on a legacy application which brings in 90% of the revenue of the company (imagine something managing bookings for an hotel chain: of course we get also revenue for what guests pay during the stay, and maybe for cups, pens, and
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by Pamar 8y ago
This has never worked. The project has a maintenance budget that covers everything (bug fixing, new features, migration to new versions of OS, DB etc.). Business requires a certain number of enhancements, the development team is already un
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by Pamar 8y ago
Oddly enough, my experience is that when IT asks Business "can we finally drop support for feature X? We are pretty sure that Roman Numerals are not used anymore for budget reports..." the answer is "I am not sure, maybe it w
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by Pamar 8y ago
Would it be feasible to use a combination padlock and send the number as a part of the address/shipping note?
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by Pamar 8y ago
a) As I specifically mentioned, "Bad Blood" is not the only title with this problem. Also, what if in this case we were talking of one of the dozens other books with "Bad Blood" in the title? b) It is a bit sloppy to jus
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by Pamar 8y ago
LibraryThing reports 854 editions of books identified by "Bad Blood". Please add at least the author's name to make life easier for people who want to check your suggestions. (I am not picking out specifically you , I had si
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by Pamar 8y ago
+1 for Introduction to General Systems Thinking
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by Pamar 8y ago
I wasn't trying to paint you as an hypocrite, I have my own "ideals" and I am painfully aware that I have also constantly to make pragmatic choices about these (specifically: I am an ethical vegetarian) - it was just that the
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by Pamar 8y ago
I'll wager that in order to write this message you used a device which had a certain number of plastic components, and I suppose that the probability of said device to reach your home or office entirely by muscle or wind powered vehic
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by Pamar 8y ago
Interesting, thanks. I will add this to my own article on this (featured already on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17794060 ) - Looks like loneliness (in the sense of "being alone") is more or less inesca
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by Pamar 8y ago
I gave a quick look at the article so it's probably my fault - can anyone explain to me why this are not just a new iteration of the concept of Portlet (1) which was supposed to totally renovate etc. etc. ... (1) https://en.
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by Pamar 8y ago
Ditto, except that I have 30 years professional experience.
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Pholosophers suggest Sci-Fi books(faculty.ucr.edu)
3 points by Pamar 8y ago|2 comments
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by Pamar 8y ago
I am not sure that your example is really appropriate.
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by Pamar 8y ago
I miss the G+ circles myself. Still posting on both Mewe and G+ for the time being.
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by Pamar 8y ago
Note - I asked there a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18173269 Currently I am using MeWe which is not federated etc. but is close enough to G+ (also, most of the communities I was following on G+ are th
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by Pamar 8y ago
Thanks for posting it - I rarely find anything interesting on Linkedin, and this is a very welcome exception.
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by Pamar 8y ago
Thank you for the answer, very interesting and much appreciated. So I suppose that something like the Judge Dee recent trilogy of movies is closer to Wuxia than stories with a lot of supernatural creatures, then? Would the Sherlock Holmes m
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by Pamar 8y ago
I have a question: are you familiar with the novels by Barry Hughart? If yes, what is your opinion about these? (I am genuinely interested in what a Chinese person would think of his own "Wuxia" novels - I enjoyed them very much,

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