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by abraae 8y ago
Good news for IFTT, who presumably can afford to pay this (and could use the results elsewhere). Bad news for smaller players.
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by abraae 8y ago
I have AF and once you're aware of it it's pretty easy to tell when your heart's "gone out". Quick check of pulse confirms it as you say. The trouble is really when you're first getting to grips with it. That&#
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by abraae 8y ago
That's a pretty dark view. I imagine that Gates played to win in business, as many others do, it's just that he was particularly good at it. Now he's playing hard and to win in philanthropy. I doubt he gives 2 bits what the a
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by abraae 8y ago
When I was a lad, wirewrap was the thing. You can prototype quickly, and make changes easily too. (It seems like it's still a thing in fact http://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/wire_wrap_is_alive... )
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by abraae 8y ago
This already happens, Facebook sometimes tests features in specific countries e.g. New Zealand before wider rollout. https://i.stuff.co.nz/technology/social-networking/103511194...
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by abraae 8y ago
It's funny to hear you say this and I certainly respect your experience in this area. But when my brother in law was coming to the end of his life with motor neuron disease, on one day we got him down to the grass by the beach with his
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by abraae 8y ago
Chainsaws used in forestry is one use case that is still common in many countries, first world or not. But your point is valid.
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by abraae 8y ago
That's great! I'm thinking more of people hiking in to build e.g. remote huts.
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by abraae 8y ago
See parent comment, which references scooters and outboard motors
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by abraae 8y ago
If you're carrying your tool in to somewhere remote for a day's work, filthy old two stroke is the easiest, most energy dense power source. As opposed to a truck load of batteries.
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by abraae 8y ago
That is definitely not the case, at least not in NZ. This is the kind of terrain you might see: http://woolshed1.blogspot.com/2014/08/new-zealand-agricultur... If you got up close you'd find land slips, cracks
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by abraae 8y ago
Also a rule from the CEO in the book "Soul Of A New Machine", who commanded his engineers "No mode switch".
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by abraae 8y ago
Or perhaps some more positive phrasings: - If you know this much about memory, you'll know more than 99% of programmers. - What 99% of programmers don't know about memory.
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by abraae 8y ago
Yeah, I get that, I really do. But what you mean is that you are able to interpret these statements. Plenty of others, maybe less experienced, are not. Next thing you know, they are spreading the word - "hey, did you know there&#x2
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by abraae 8y ago
Some day you may want to look into the impact of privacy legislation such as GDPR when it comes to your position of "Searchlight references are private (hidden to the candidate but viewable to employers that candidates give permission
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by abraae 8y ago
This space is gigantic and there is plenty of room for multiple solutions. As others have pointed out, LinkedIn recommendations are public, which skews their content, and they are also subject to recommendation trading and general puffery.
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by abraae 8y ago
Which is entirely inconsistent with the statement "Performance is never a justification for anything if you haven’t measured it".
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by abraae 8y ago
I'm saying there are very few real black and whites, and everything in life and in software is more kind of grey. As such there are very few black and white rules you can follow and succeed. The correct approach is somewhere to the lef
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by abraae 8y ago
One absolute rule for success in software is that there are no absolute rules. From their post mortem https://medium.com/@gabriel_20625/technical-lessons-from-bui... > Performance is never a justification for anythi
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by abraae 8y ago
> "code that doesn't get touched dies" - so you want to "touch up" code as often as possible and get into a habit of small improvements. I've seen many cases where this is far from true. Tightly and well-wri
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by abraae 8y ago
The counterpoint to Chesterton's Fence is the psychology experiment with the monkeys, the stairs and the banana. This is long but very pertinent to the "that's just how we do things around here" attitude: > This human
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by abraae 8y ago
It's not a slam dunk that more CO2 == good for plants. As per https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrie... > As best scientists can tell, this is what happens: Rising CO2
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by abraae 8y ago
Incredible. This is the sort of thing my non-programmer friends think that my work entails. Thank god it doesn't.
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by abraae 8y ago
That would be fantastic, but I would be happy if someone else was to actually come across it in the bush rather than me.
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by abraae 8y ago
Very familiar with that disease. I admire people who have immunity.
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by abraae 8y ago
It doesn't often happen because of Conway's law - that "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations." Its always possi
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by abraae 8y ago
Those old green screen apps (CICs etc) supported enormous key stroke rates all right, with nary a mouse in sight. But productivity was not as high as a rosy colored view of the past might suggest. Operators had to be highly skilled. Enterin
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by abraae 8y ago
I took a valuable lesson from the book that has served me well over the years. At one point the CEO injects a critical piece of wisdom by telling the engineers they are not allowed to use a mode switch to preserve backwards compatibility. I
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by abraae 8y ago
Data modelling/design (closely related to SQL of course). i.e. distilling business problems down into tables and columns. Skills acquired decades ago are still extremely useful.
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by abraae 8y ago
One use case is generating contracts. The end users can maintain and author the contract templates because they are in a familiar environment. Then use the API to plug data into the placeholders to create the finished doc.

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