RogerL

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by RogerL 13y ago
My bad, I brought up 'start up', but that was not the point of my comment. Big as in Excel? Well, we have OpenOffice, Google Docs, and so on. They were written from scratch with the aim to compete with Excel/Office. As for th
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by RogerL 13y ago
I've come across many people that program as a means to an end. They don't enjoy it, it is just what they need to do to get the machine do what is fun, which is folding proteins, modeling ocean currents, driving the CNC, or what h
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by RogerL 13y ago
We have plenty of empirical evidence that you can rewrite from scratch - every competing product in the marketplace is essentially a 'rewrite from scratch' from the perspective of all the other products. Almost very start up poste
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by RogerL 13y ago
Fantastic. Date of the post might be nice.
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by RogerL 13y ago
The idea is to pay during write, at about any cost, to avoid paying during read. Of course that does not fit all usage cases, so the advise has to be taken with a huge grain of salt.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes, and no. ;) These are important things to know. But, they are also easy to know. I don't care too much if somebody doesn't know them, it's just knowledge. All I care is if they can learn and understand it. I am not always
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by RogerL 13y ago
Along with other responders to your post, I have dealt with plenty of really smart people that cannot program. I don't mean 'pick up a framework' - learning an API is right up a clever person's alley (I frequently carefu
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by RogerL 13y ago
So, I have lots of ideas. You want to share your idea with me, and I sign an NDA prior to hearing it. Turns out I already had that idea, and with that NDA, haven't you basically just stolen my idea from me? No thanks. I am not a lawyer
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by RogerL 13y ago
Same here (ate it up). We bought the 2nd edition as a library book here at work recently. I couldn't get into it at all. I wonder if there is a qualitative difference between the editions, or if perhaps I internalized the first book en
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by RogerL 13y ago
I don't think it is clear at all. Woz's description of their respective role is crystal clear, and Job's description is clear only if you already know Woz's description. But, convince me, don't belittle me. What w
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by RogerL 13y ago
I would suggest the tag at the very bottom "Build a beautiful marketing site for your startup in minutes." is your biggest selling point, and so perhaps it belongs 'above the fold' so to speak (at the top). I would also
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by RogerL 13y ago
There will probably be a decent algorithm to do it in the future How could that be possible? Consider the following, very typical scenerio. You write 2000 lines of code, implementing a feature. I write 2,200 lines of code, implementing a
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by RogerL 13y ago
You will like this story from Apple, when they for a time required engineers to report LOC produced that week. http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Neg...
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by RogerL 13y ago
I'm confused. I was pointing out that you cannot do something simple like count LOCs, run a CASE tool that spits out cyclomatic complexity, or other things, and instantly measure productivity. How is that not what Brooks was saying? Yo
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by RogerL 13y ago
Sure, here [1]. First video, at 2:30. He keeps using "we" (I don't feel like transcribing the video). Now, if you parse the wording very, very carefully you could argue that Jobs never exactly says that 'he' designe
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by RogerL 13y ago
I agree with a lot of this, but Jobs made plenty of blunders as well. Computers without disk drives, keyboards without arrow keys, etc - all things that were put on the market with Jobs vehemently arguing that it was the only, and correct c
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by RogerL 13y ago
I surely hope I never have to work with you.
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by RogerL 13y ago
Okay, sure, I was a bit blithe in that statement, aiming for a catchy, not all-inclusive statement. Good point.
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by RogerL 13y ago
A very wise man said "there is no silver bullet". Yet we keep trying all these schemes to automagically solve what are hard optimization problems only amenable to heuristics and deliberate, intelligent introspection. Very simply,
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by RogerL 13y ago
Jobs was extremely smart to brilliant. What he didn't do, and what he said he did, was design the Apple I. There was a front page article a few weks ago linking to a bunch of Jobs videos, and again and again he'd stand in a front
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by RogerL 13y ago
Yes, but people are reporting that the very expensive keyboards are not helping them. So, we are not solving a problem for $300 or whatever, we are taking a chance at solving a problem at $300. That's a different optimization problem
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by RogerL 13y ago
Okay, that is the MMPI. That is not evidence that any test that is not the MMPI cannot be gamed. The MMPI (and I disgree with it in so many ways) was researched and tested for decades, and perhaps they can detect lying. Perhaps. I don&#x2
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by RogerL 13y ago
Well, that's the thing. I happily stipulate that anyone that doesn't recognize that answering "strongly disagree" to "I think it is okay to steal office supplies" probably will not perform well on the job. Not
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by RogerL 13y ago
Well, really, how different is it from the Chinese Ground/Fire/Water/Wind personality traits system? You can explain anything with it: Roger is Water with some wind, and B-Con is mostly Fire with some ground mixed in. We need
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by RogerL 13y ago
we tend to say okay , you say that, but any empirical evidence that this leads to better decisions? Especially when, as in this article, the only one saying no is the one unable to judge the person's ability to actually do the job?
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by RogerL 13y ago
Why would I ever go there? If I go to their home page, all I get is a "sign up to read Quora". Umm, no, you don't get my email just so I can see what you are about. Okay, I've come across quora plenty of times in google
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by RogerL 13y ago
So, are you saying when I diff I am looking at textual representations of the graphs? Which is fine, that is what I'd expect. It's how I'd implement it. But isn't that a huge clue about the fundamental weakness of graphi
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by RogerL 13y ago
Thank you for providing an example. I look at that and I see a couple of things. First, this is procedural programming straight out of my old, old COBOL books. Batch processing - read some files, process the data, output it. That graph is p
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by RogerL 13y ago
Except, of course, scientists change their minds all the time based on the evidence. Look at all the work in QM in the 20s and 30s. These guys had competing hypothesizes, and some won out based on the evidence. The people that held the oppo
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by RogerL 13y ago
Starbucks roasts their coffee very dark - until there is a distinct char flavor. Can you tell the difference if I lightly parboil asparagus, or throw it on the grill until it is blackened? Of course you can. Are their flavor differences bet

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