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by SKILNER 4y ago
If you follow The Economist they consistently have very clever artists.
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by SKILNER 5y ago
Web3 - Solution to a problem that only Silicon Valley elites care about. I.e., it's an IT project, not a user project. Not only that, if you assume the problem, it's not clear there's a Web3 technology that is even a viable s
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by SKILNER 5y ago
The real answers about complexity come from thinking about why we even care. It's because our feeble minds have to build internal models of the code so we can work with it. The cognitive aspects of building those models is why complexi
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by SKILNER 5y ago
You're saying that viewing your csv data via a SQL query is having it in two places. I don't think that's the normal concept of having multiple copies of data.
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by SKILNER 5y ago
The advantage would be that you do not have your data in two places and can avoid all the problems and confusion that can result.
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by SKILNER 5y ago
Interesting! Can you point to any references?
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by SKILNER 5y ago
I have a Model 3 after maybe 7-8 new Beemers and Lexuses over the years. The Model 3 is easily my favorite car. Everything else seems like a heavy, belching dinosaur. I don't say that so much from an eco POV, as the lightness of touch
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by SKILNER 6y ago
Not only do we not know how to predict how long a software project will take, we don't even know how to predict what the end product will look like. So who are we kidding? Another way to look at it: take a small one-person project and
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by SKILNER 6y ago
Every tool or language has unknown quirks and limitations until you know them.
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by SKILNER 6y ago
Just to be clear, they are saying this is NOT low-code
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by SKILNER 7y ago
Yes, it's this simple. The important point is that some things are just beyond the ability of average programmers, let alone, bad programmers. There are some things that only top programmers are able to actually finish before the end o
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by SKILNER 7y ago
I agree, this video is about learning, with surfing as an example. "It can't be taught, it must be learned." I immediately sent this to a friend who decided to learn guitar and has spent the last two years trying to achieve a
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by SKILNER 7y ago
The REAL THREAT to developer salaries is GROWING OLDER. It's very similar to the arc of professional athletes, as the mental abilities needed for programming degrade at a comparable rate to physical abilities.
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by SKILNER 7y ago
Many comments here by people who would have said the iPhone was impossible, or Tesla could never succeed. Or that the iPhone is actually bad or a Tesla is actually bad. Not a lot of facts though. Such gleeful negativism in our gene pool. &q
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by SKILNER 7y ago
The Economist had a good essay on taxi companies going back to the 1600's. Basically it's always a race to the bottom and no one wins for long. Four hundred years of history there through all kinds of changes in transportation. P
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by SKILNER 7y ago
Most of this discussion comes down to "it's harder to read code than write it."
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by SKILNER 7y ago
That's a valid question, but the title of the post begins with "Math Basics..." The title of the paper is totally different. Maybe my point should have been directed at OP rather than the authors.
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by SKILNER 7y ago
Very first sentence of 2.1 is full of notation, symbols and terms that I, as a prospective student, might not understand. So many teachers seem incapable of stepping outside their sphere of knowledge and seeing what they know and others do
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by SKILNER 7y ago
> every subculture of humans has fractal complexity that is not captured by any representation Yes, and the facile reduction of that complexity is the source for much of the political stupidity making us miserable. Also, thank you, Inter
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by SKILNER 7y ago
> Never do a fixed bid. A little more nuanced view of this: if you know the client, their business and their systems well, there can be nothing more profitable than fixed bids. I have quadrupled my normal rate this way and ended up with
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by SKILNER 8y ago
Should make us all realize how little we know.
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by SKILNER 8y ago
I don't see that anyone has mentioned the obvious - Sandler Sales Training https://www.sandler.com/ Get actual training as opposed to watching videos or reading books.
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by SKILNER 10y ago
Claim Your Voice, the one in the Bay Area by Jonathan Bender. http://yourtruevoice.org/claim-your-voice/ This course is not cheap, but if you're serious, this was put together by a guy from a theatre background. I
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by SKILNER 12y ago
Years ago I read a sort of autobiography by J. Paul Getty, "How To Be Rich." His succinct advice: "Know as many people as you can."