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by RogerL 12y ago
Then start with Herb Sutter, because that is exactly his advice at the latest CppCon.
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by RogerL 12y ago
Or, more likely std::map<unsigned int, std::map<int, std::vector<std::string>::iterator> >::iterator getSomeIterator();
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by RogerL 12y ago
Some info to consider: When I was a child, my parents banned reading (I kid you not) for mostly the same reasons. It was horrible; and not in a "now I'm older I appreciate it" way. Creativity, thinking, and passion is not som
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by RogerL 12y ago
> The spike won't last, but it doesn't mean that it won't grow consistently from where it is into something much larger than it is today. That is absolutely true, but investors don't invest based on "doesn't
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by RogerL 12y ago
You like building things. Okay, I'll run with that, understanding that I don't know you well and will get the specifics wrong. Just trying to kick start your thinking. First, there is product design. That is not just 'make th
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by RogerL 12y ago
He was infamous for not bathing, and hence bad body order.
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by RogerL 12y ago
E. T. Jaynes' book "Probability Theory" is a tour de force and freely available[1]. The preface and first chapter answers your first question; it exceeds anything you'll probably read here, certainly from me. [1] http:&
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by RogerL 12y ago
Agree, and having worked for the government (as a contractor) for over 20 years before leaving, I'll point out another issue. They want budget and schedule. Somebody has to pay for a system, and they can't go to the hill and ask f
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by RogerL 12y ago
I can create 100% growth by changing my customer base from 1 to 2. Google can create 0.001% growth by adding another 100,000 customers (made up percentage, you get the idea). Is 100% > 0.001%? Not by my math. You know who is changing the
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by RogerL 12y ago
One can learn facts. In fact, it is incredibly trivial to do so if you are smart. I need to do it dozens of times a day to do my job, as does any programmer. I don't program javascript at all, but am vaguely aware of the terrible impli
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by RogerL 12y ago
Do your check ins in the morning - 7, 8, 9 am. You will build a body of work that no one can dispute. Though it doesn't sound like this place is for you, so perhaps that is just rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.
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by RogerL 12y ago
So is the argument that only a police officer can judge this situation? Because allowing them to do that got us into this paramilitary mess in the first place.
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by RogerL 12y ago
I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but your site is pretty bad. The text reads like it was written by a non-native speaker. I had to puzzle just to figure out what some sentences were saying. Then the interaction was a bi
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by RogerL 12y ago
Stroustrup doesn't think so. I don't have a link - it was in some recent conference. He stated that every time he added a new feature everyone would be up in arms and demand a really verbose implementation, which he added reluctan
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by RogerL 12y ago
May I prescribe a course in reading? Read Zola's Germinal. Read Moby Dick. Leaves of Grass. Pride and Prejudice. King Lear. Les Miserables. Lysistrata. The Odyssey. Anything great. We all (for reasonable values of 'all') yea
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by RogerL 12y ago
Please, no. As soon as someone starts trying to maneuver me to take money out of my wallet, I'm gone . It's not my problem that you don't know if your product is good or not. There is no way on earth I'm signing any
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by RogerL 12y ago
Okay, this makes a burger, and let's assume it can handle all the variations a normal place would want. I don't just order burgers. Fries, drinks, ice cream, chicken, salads, wraps, and many more, are the typical items on a fast f
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by RogerL 12y ago
I like thinking and solving problems. My earliest memories are of solving problems, taking things apart with screwdrivers, etc. 45 years later, and it is still the same.
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by RogerL 12y ago
Depends on what that other co-worker is doing. If you are both aligning buttons on a windows form, sure. If the person being interrupted has 10 minutes of debugging state in her head, well, there goes over 1/2 hour of work (10 minutes
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by RogerL 12y ago
I had a college professor like that. He was nearly unable to perform arithmetic, and would ask for the answer from the class. I wouldn't say he was dyslexic (I have no idea), but he certainly couldn't perform mental arithmetic. B
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by RogerL 12y ago
Then just say "I have a potentially life threatening illness, I need to take care of it". It's honest, no one will push you for details (a withering look will take care of anyone who does). Take care of yourself. Your life an
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by RogerL 12y ago
Other people lie, so lying is okay? You (not you the person I'm replying to, 'you' the company/sales person) that are taking money from somebody based on an untruth. It's outrageous, regardless of how often it happe
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by RogerL 12y ago
It is my understanding that the AGC is the computer within the PGNCS. Terminology varies, as the last link below from NASA notes. So far as I can tell, the AGC maintained the state vectors for the KF. Ground control would run batch mode lea
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by RogerL 12y ago
'We are going to RED alert' There are endless procedures about handling classified information. You are dealing with state secrets, girding for war, and what have you. From the perspective of security, you are 'arming' y
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by RogerL 12y ago
It's achingly beautiful to the pocket protector set (me!). This source code, for example, contains the very first Kalman filter ever used - Kalman was invited over to Moffett field to give talks about his paper, which led to his theory
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by RogerL 12y ago
I hate this thinking (I know it is not yours, it's a hiring meme). If an interviewer makes some crazy assertion, then I pretty much flip into the mode of "how do I get out of this interview ASAP, as there is no way I'm workin
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by RogerL 12y ago
I always just said that I left for a few semesters for financial reasons, and discovered that I preferred industry over academia. It has the virtue of being the truth (for me), and no one will ever press you to explain your finances.
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by RogerL 12y ago
Can you put this in terms of dollars and cents? If the two pieces of code are largely equivalent, then your co-worker is wasting a lot of the company's money. If his truly are much better (in a way that matters to the execution of the
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by RogerL 12y ago
How long before you are completely, utterly outsourceable? I don't know why you think business and marketing are useless. I'm a programmer, and had more than one conversation today on how to market our product. Most technical deci

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