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by Pitarou 13y ago
Nokia. Plus some very enlightened Finnish policies designed to answer the question, "Where is our next Nokia going to come from?" Policies that go well beyond offering tax breaks in some government-designated "technology and
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by Pitarou 13y ago
And do it as least as well as he did it.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
As it stands, this unjustified hate in a particular technology comes across as childish. I think that's the point.
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I reiterate: I am not arguing against Jungian psychology. I am arguing against the well-known MBTI instrument that is promoted, and sold by the Myers-Brigg Foundation ( http://www.myersbriggs.org/ ) as a tool to support ther
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by Pitarou 13y ago
My agenda is this: I want people to stop using the Myers-Briggs test, because it is not a useful decision-making tool ("bogus" for short). It generates spuriously precise results that garner false confidence, and probably crowds
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Has anyone tried the Voight-Kampff test?
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by Pitarou 13y ago
> A simple 4-letter code is much more practical than asking a person for their ranked cognitive function preferences. Yes, the world would be much simpler if we dichotomised everything. My shoe size is (LARGE / small). My GPA was
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Oh splendid. Yet another theory that breaks down people into "types" and tells us that we have to handle these different "types" in different ways. I'll put it on the shelf next to Gardner's Theory of Multipl
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by Pitarou 13y ago
I was talking about the test, not Jungian psychology. Regardless of how accurate Jung's musings turned out to be, any test that insists on classifying people as either an introvert or an extrovert flies in the face of the best
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by Pitarou 13y ago
It seems to me that there's a continuum between introvert and extrovert ... people can be one or the other at some times That is, indeed, what most psychologists believe. The Myers-Brigg inventory is bogus, by the way.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
ILUE Keep a close eye on these guys. They will follow instructions to the letter and use all their power and ingenuity to go against the spirit of what was intended. Omigod. That's so me. These guys really
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Oh. I've actually looked at the Lipson-Shiu Test now. Looks like the joke was on me! :0)
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by Pitarou 13y ago
The perenially-popular Myers-Briggs personality inventory is utterly bogus. If Myers-Briggs classified body types, it would be something like this: "We're going to classify you in four different ways: height, skin-color, adiposit
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by Pitarou 13y ago
So I've sided with a troll. Oh dear.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
That's beautiful.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Or, to put it another way: Leave off, man. It wasn't THAT bad! Sorry for piling on, but it's my prerogative as an English teacher, and Marcus Brutus has a point. Phrases like: it's very dangerous to treat human beings as
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Leafing through it, I'm kinda' reminded of the first time I had a copy of Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming in my hands. Just me? Yes, I thought so.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Next to PHP, Java and Javascript are beacons of pristine language design.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
PHP's only real strength is it's ubiquity.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Can anyone explain to me what this does? I gather that it reorders the CSS statements somehow, but I'm not clear about exactly how it reorders them or why this is important.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Impressive!
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Well, that was fun! :-)
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Such a shame. I know why they do it: Java is the closest we have to an "industry standard" programming language. But, given the high failure rate in computer programming teaching (c.f. the FizzBuzz test) there's no excuse fo
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Customer: I wish to make a complaint. Shopkeeper: Go away. I don't know you. Dead parrot problem solved.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
G. K. Chesterton nails it every time.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Tokyo ¥2800 = $28.74 from Domino's Japan's protectionist policies on farm products pushes up the price of all of pizza's ingredients. You'll get much better value for money with a gyuudon (rice topped with beef) set m
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by Pitarou 13y ago
It says コンコン. Unfortunately, there is no English translation.
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Well, you're consistent. As I said earlier, I agree that implicit type-conversion is evil. But if I refused to use flawed tools...
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Even if Python 3's type conversion semantics has no dark corners, I still have a point. harshreality argued that, because PHP's implicit type conversion leads to weird behaviour, "PHP doesn't work. End of story." In
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by Pitarou 13y ago
Any programmer in almost any language who mixes types like that without understanding the implicit type conversion semantics is asking for trouble. Implicit type conversion is evil, and I don't see how PHP's sin of favouring s

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