Tamerlin

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by Tamerlin 17y ago
This is the most sensible argument yet. One thing we should be considering rather than questioning the value of an education is that we should be concerned about what ours are costing us. In most other first world nations, a college educati
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
1) sensors that small are very noise prone. 2) 2 megapixels doesn't translate to a significant difference in the size of the final image -- remember it's an area, therefore to double the size of the image, you need 4x the megapixels -- so t
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
History backs that up, as well; MS didn't dominate UNIX through technical superiority, but rather by providing a unified and open development environment. Note that "open" and "open source" are neither the same nor in any way exclusive.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
I don't entirely agree with the last paragraph. IMO you should ALWAYS write the best possible code. Any assertion otherwise is equivalent to saying you should be willing to put bad code into production. The trick isn't in reducing code qual
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
True. I didn't intend to minimize that, just pointing out that it does seem to be a trend.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
It's very telling that the US is losing technology leadership in so many areas, and instead of opening our eyes as a group and trying to improve, we're just going down the same road of putting in long hours. I guess when you're raised in a
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
This isn't a first for MS: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa569283.aspx http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm... The entire spec for .NET including the CLR and C# are under ECMA's control, rather tha
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
You're not. It's becoming an increasingly common sentiment as people spend time working with frameworks that are designed with productivity in mind, most of which appear to be following the example of Ruby on Rails (e.g. .NET MVC). That doe
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
"But it's absurd to say that pursuing open-source models would improve this. Whether the software is open or proprietary, the real barrier to what the author writes about is that hospital IT departments aren't up to the job." That's also wh
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
"Caucasian families moving out of the area so that their kids will escape going to schools that have high standards" Now that epitomizes pathetic. Or maybe the American way 2.0: "If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards." It's ha
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Talented or not, if you boost their self-esteem without making them earn it, why would they bother putting in the effort? Someone who's quick on his feet and unusually coordinated would be worthless on a tennis court if they don't bother to
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
"Airbus's design is an UNlikely culprit for the Yemenia crash near the Comoros" "If the author is reinforcing the argument that the A310's design is not likely to be a factor in the crash, then the title could be misleading." The title impl
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
I'd love that, especially after working with Ruby on Rails and C# and .NET MVC. Going back to Java after those is almost painful it's so tedious.
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I assert that it is both.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
No, it's because they're constantly evaluating and updating their plan to adapt to obstacles rather than attempting to ignore obstacles and proceed obstinately along the same route that they had in mind at the beginning. If anything they're
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
True, but it's also the best answer available.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
I agree. I think that's a good idea.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Scaling? People keep using that word. I don't think it means what they think it means.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
My situation is similar; the manager who decides on reviews for our "team" THINKS he's technical, but he's basically useless. He hinders communication between team members, reassigns people to projects arbitrarily and without warning, and h
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
I agree, he's full of it. I know some environmentalists who are not scientists themselves, but work closely with scientists to make sure that they are pushing to do the right thing (these folks are members of the Sierra Club, and they're ve
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Which is exactly the wrong attitude. Any company that emphasizes how long the employees are working in this industry is clearly misguided. The correct goal should be how much is the employee accomplishing, not how long his ass is stuck in t
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
I personally think that you're both right. I find myself procrastinating at work because what I do for work isn't intellectually engaging, and with tasks that I want to work on for myself (like building my web site) I get hung up on details
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Exactly. He's specifically targeting his methods to hire one of the most harmful people to a software shop -- the ones that burn up lots of hours writing bugs, and spend even more time hacking around them.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
"Personally I would have walked out if I got a negative vibe from the interviewer during this. Questions like this are deliberately obnoxious bullcrap pulled by recruiters and interviewers who don't understand what they're actually after in
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
"You have an implicit assumption that rapid iteration means poor quality control. It doesn't have to." I would actually go a step farther and assert that strong quality control facilitates rapid iteration. My 15 years of experience in softw
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
"Basically you can do two kinds of products: evolutionary and revolutionary. Evolutionary products can start as something simple and evolve into something more complex. They are the ones we usually talk about because they are easy to do, an
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Agreed, but then they could have been putting their efforts into fixing both of those problems, rather than playing the blame game. That may have been too little too late, though. It takes quite a bit of effort and time to overcome the repu
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
My theory: Yes. When things start going poorly, they cast blame. Since they were busy casting blame rather than doing their jobs, things got worse.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
It sounds a bit like my management here, though it's not as severe; the dev manager picks a date out of his ass, and if we hit it, he takes credit for being a great manager, and if we don't, we get blamed for not working hard enough.
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by Tamerlin 17y ago
Building a processor that can compete with the x86 juggernaut is expensive. Look at Intel's budget -- they have the production capacity and engineering resources to do pretty much whatever they feel like doing. For Apple to attempt to compe

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