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by ak39 11y ago
But then, for the love of Linus, don't actually click send. Quotable classic! LOL. True, anger can be a fuel to get things done. But it's not a good fuel to use for long term sustainability. Blood pressure and stress are
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I am much better at writing less code, though. In other words, your thinking is organised. Organisation is a skill you learn through experience. No other way. You can attempt to teach a newcomer about the virtues of refactoring (b
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Only 30%? That's nothing. Were in the world would you pay less? Ironically, countries in the Middle East.
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Lessons from film-making about working with different ego personalities(youtube.com)
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by ak39 11y ago
There are many that meet these criteria: Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Hive, Spark, Greenplum, Vertica, Impala (the list goes on!). The largest technology companies (Amazon, Google, Microsoft) ar
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by ak39 11y ago
Touche, my friend, touche! But you see, said skull is constantly buffeted by the paradoxes of the following three EWD maxims: 1. "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull"; 2. "I
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Probably originally attributed to Alan Kay: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Edsger_W._Dijkstra Quote: I found an amusing quote from Alan Kay on Dijkstra, from his 1997 OOPSLA keynote: 'I don't know how m
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. My very limited sk
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by ak39 11y ago
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening A poem by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must
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by ak39 11y ago
Number 11! Just that! I've noticed that when I fix my sleeping, I am less wasteful, less tired, less distracted and ultimately less anxious about my lack of productivity. The truth really is that we will never finish our respective &q
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by ak39 11y ago
Chances are you are already productive. So, an anecdote: I noticed that when I make lists of things to do, and I see progress on the items ticked off, I know I am productive. No anxiety after that. (I usually write down the number of hou
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by ak39 11y ago
(Thanks for the link. DC looks awesome.) This is the feature that most users of QlikView, PowerView and Tableau are buying from an end user experience point of view. There are essentially two types of dashboard experiences: 1. Static:
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For EDW, yes. You might see smaller federated data marts or even separately managed relational dbs all over the place. But for OLTP systems for the vast majority of enterprises out there, the vertical single instance big hunk database is
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by ak39 11y ago
If we were to use the wall analogy, I'd put it this way: the customer should care about the structural integrity of the wall, how much load-bearing weight it can carry, or whether extensions can be added easily to it etc. So while gett
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by ak39 11y ago
Fair enough. This sort of standoff with pointy-haired managers is always politically tricky. You have to show the manager that there is business value in creating effective and efficient user interfaces and that "getting it right&quo
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And the foundation of a good write up on the "Foundations of a good UI" should always include screen shots of good and bad examples per point. Wrong type of windows, those.
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Wikipedia: Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge(en.wikipedia.org)
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"Get yourself, your team or whatever to sit next to your damn customer." Well said. The customer is the final and only arbiter on our disagreements about tech tool choice, style and architecture. In front of the customer, all our
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An Ode to "CRUD" Apps: There's nothing unexciting or less complicated or challenging about producing good CRUD [sic] applications. I don't understand the industry cynicism towards producing good quality "bread and
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Take it easy fellow "extension of this universe"! We are all in this together. Like Alan Watts said " You are something that the whole universe is doing .... in the same way that a wave is something the whole ocean is doing&
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Not necessarily. I'm not being contrarian for the sake of it. This approach that takes the first third of the time presenting the problem to an audience that arrived to hear the solution to a known problem can sometimes be annoying.
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Correct. That's science. And if you can't say that ("I was wrong"), it's simply dogma.
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What would you conclude to be the single most important issue/hurdle/constraint about Angular when moving from simple app to a non-trivial application? (Genuine question)
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Wow, I see Rami had his cancellation fee waived! I had to fork out another $75 for cancellation and wasn't even allowed to use the product for the remainder of the period. Adobe? Never again. Using Inkscape now for Illustrator replac
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No action is truly perfect, or without blunders. Every choice one makes is a unique expression of one's being in this universe, and all actions have consequences. You alone are the actor of that fantastically unique path. So the &qu
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by ak39 11y ago
I will, I will! I want to read your story to my eldest, 16 years old, who says he is struggling to find what he really wants to do with his life (career choices etc). He is a good kid. The truth is, I am going to read that story again mos
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You don't have to watch them. The article itself is a fascinating read.
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And this, dear friends, is how Noah Bradley actually became a writer! What an excellent piece. I am reading this to my kids.
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I loved your airplane pilot analogy. The Turbulence Paradox: act not to remove the turbulence, instead slow down to make the flight more enjoyable once again through the turbulence. Zen for the 21st century.
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by ak39 11y ago
No, I'm quite sure that would be black holes. Edit: I think you're right. Black holes would be the equivalent of a segfault.

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