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by RogerL 12y ago
Or, you got served leftovers because throwing food away is exremely wasteful. I eat leftovers all the time. What's the big deal?
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by RogerL 12y ago
> no team member should be working in more than one thing at a time How do you do that? My company has many small products/projects. Can't staff them all full time, and can't schedule them to be independent (project A is
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by RogerL 12y ago
God damn it, everything you write on here is so valuable and good. You are making the rest of us look bad. Stop it! ;) I've heard it explained that the scrum thing was a way to start the journey. If you are in developer chaos, or utter
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by RogerL 12y ago
Okay, here is an idea. The Julia people are complaining that their language is great but it is not being picked up because their standard libraries are missing a ton of functionality. Start knocking out some standard library functionality.
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by RogerL 12y ago
Why does that matter? Your question isn't very good if you are selecting for people that know your question vs are smart/skilled.
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by RogerL 12y ago
Yes, I used that TRS-80 model while haunting the stacks at the Library of Congress in the 80s. A lot of people would ask me about it. It was great for basic text entry, and made life so much easier. It was a fantastic tool for the time.
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by RogerL 12y ago
"move fast, break things" is not a viable approach to aircraft design. Lead times on hardware is years. That helmet - how long would it take you to make one? You can't just tell that team don't sweat it, we are going to
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by RogerL 12y ago
Okay, extrapolate this to a weapons system. You can't expect a company to come up with their own version of the F-35 (which is extremely advanced) with the hope that, if you are satisfied, you'll buy 100 or so. If the government
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by RogerL 12y ago
Tonight when I drove by the substation that was shot at back in 2013 I saw it was surrounded with some kind of concrete walls; I go by every day and this was the first time I noticed it. It looked like a somewhat ad hoc set up, though I ad
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by RogerL 12y ago
Why is that a problem? Maybe Jacob should be doing enterprise development, or maybe he should be a chef. We aren't saying Jessica is a 10x human , just that she is 10x at the assignments that she has been given, or made on her own. Wh
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by RogerL 12y ago
Do you have any evidence for this? We pretty much get Gaussian distributions whenever we try to measure inherent skills. I happily stipulate the measures are difficult and flawed, but still, Gaussian distributions with a large variance is j
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by RogerL 12y ago
I agree. It is a handy catch phrase that describes a real phenomenon. I tend to think in terms of variance. Programmer A is 3 standard deviations 'better' than programmer B (again, no mathematical rigor implied!!!). Think of it in
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by RogerL 12y ago
Try something like "you can think of a vector as an array of numbers. More precisely, [formal definition here]'. If you give somebody an analogy it gives them something to 'hang their thoughts on', if you know what I mea
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by RogerL 12y ago
People roll out either depending on the situation. It is hand waving, not reasoning. IOW, you can explain anything away by taking one of the two sides of this argument. "You think you are good? Ha, no, dunning. Oh, you are not sure you
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by RogerL 12y ago
Please don't write such baseless assertions; we are trying to keep the post quality high here. Your other responder works in this field, and I have been on the other side (worked for a company that got this sort of help). We also regul
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by RogerL 12y ago
EE; I was torn between EE and CS as an undergrad, almost switched majors, and took almost all the course material required for EE. Glad I didn't; debugging hardware drives me bonkers, and I am probably 3 standard deviations better at s
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by RogerL 12y ago
It is, but as significant number of people have not gotten the memo, or have been told but refuse to accept it.
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by RogerL 12y ago
Right, and just to close the loop, it is a fact that gravity exists, and the theory of gravity is our current thinking of how it works and why it exists. Likewise, it is a fact that evolution exists, and the theory of evolution is our cur
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by RogerL 12y ago
It is not critical in the sense of being negative. It points out a known [1] problem and the steps that the Japanese government is taking to combat that problem (earlier English education, etc). Anyway, I found the article helpful, perhaps
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by RogerL 12y ago
The author is Japanese, the survey was conducted by the Japanese government.
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by RogerL 12y ago
If you want to measure giving a public presentation....have them give a public presentation. If you want to measure their ability to pair program ... pair program with them. If you want to measure their ability to mentor ... have them teach
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by RogerL 12y ago
Google will give me the dates in 5 seconds, and then I can reason about it. I doubt you know (remember) the date of everything that happened in history. I do not doubt that you can reason about, understand, and learn from history. No one is
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by RogerL 12y ago
So what if they fail? I had an programmer that didn't know that. I went to the whiteboard, explained it, and now she is perfectly competent at it (and the rest of her job). What's the problem? Where do we get the idea that if some
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by RogerL 12y ago
It's perhaps just due to this being a too brief article, but I don't buy the science as presented. Correlation is not causation. The children that did chores at 3-4 may have grown up to have good relationships due to other factors
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by RogerL 12y ago
You plant on memorial day, and harvest by labor day[1]. It is not going to make a dent in CA's food production. [1] source: my family's garden when I was growing up.
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by RogerL 12y ago
The premise is "don't burn bridges". Doing this will definitely burn every bridge.
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by RogerL 12y ago
"Consider a spherical cow in a vacuum on a frictionless plane..." That joke comes from the analytic calculus tradition of physics. I took a lot of physics while an undergrad, and I came out unable to do any useful physics. This is
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by RogerL 12y ago
We've been in this office for almost a year. Everyone sits in the same big room.
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by RogerL 12y ago
Thanks for the offer. However, I kind of don't want to do things in Javascript, as Python is a fantastic platform for numeric computation, and so staying in that ecosystem makes a lot of sense (people can take my matplotlib code and go
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by RogerL 12y ago
I'm sitting outside on my deck. Birds are chirping, dogs are barking. There was a clear 20kHz band, but the resizing rectangle was just randomly jumping around, and when I turned on the hands free scrolling the webpage started jumping

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