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by anthonyb 14y ago
Or Bill Gates and his (apocryphal?) quote about airplanes and weight: http://thinkexist.com/quotation/measuring_programming_progre...
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by anthonyb 14y ago
The cultural issues are usually the largest issue (qv. Conway's Law). You don't need to stop writing new code, but you do need to stop adding crap code (or at least stop adding it faster than you can clean it up). It's why I'm a big fan of
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by anthonyb 14y ago
For me it's the opposite. All those phones look basically the same, except with slightly different corners and colours. Form follows function in this case, I think.
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How Scott Hanselman (This Developer's Life) got started in programming(hanselman.com)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I saw the NYT piece earlier today, and I'm amazed that he even considers himself a skeptic. Everything in here has already been said by other scientists already, eg. his analysis apparently consists essentially of fitting temperature to CO2
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I'm amazed that he even considers himself a skeptic. Everything in here has already been said by other scientists already, eg. his analysis apparently consists essentially of fitting temperature to CO2 levels: "Our result is based simpl
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Oldies but goodies - The Mac is not a typewriter and Beyond the Mac is not a typewriter by Robyn Williams. It's not Mac-specific, and both have a lot of examples of how you can improve design. Fairly eye-opening if you're not used to ha
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by anthonyb 14y ago
The headers are not visually associated with their paragraphs. So you have this: para para para para Header para para para para instead of: para para para para Header para para para para Not sure that the asci
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Not sure in that case. If B can prove that they were using it first, then it's possibly prior art (or else obvious) and A's patent may be invalidated.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I think your analysis is somewhat off - at the same time in western Europe, people weren't using carts, they were carrying everything by hand. So it's not wheelbarrow vs. cart, it's wheelbarrow vs. nothing. Also, narrow tracks would be much
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by anthonyb 14y ago
It's not charging an extra "late fee", it's removing the "discount for early payment".
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Refactored for rapind's benefit: "Internet expert" == (! expert) ;)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
It's completely different. For starters, there's the "reasonable person" test. No reasonable person is going to think that murder is legal. Intentionally infringing a patent is punished much more harshly, and it's impossible to keep up with
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by anthonyb 14y ago
They don't lose their trademark, they're just not allowed to sue where the use isn't confusing.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
That's right, but it would increase your cost of litigation substantially, since you'll have a much longer court case trying to prove that. It's not something that you really want to rely on. edit: Just an addendum - most of the deadbeat we
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by anthonyb 14y ago
One person holds the cart, the other fills it. Two of you dump it out where it's supposed to go. As long as your cart can carry > 2-3x the load, it should be more efficient (or you can load it with buckets).
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I'm not sure how attacking SSH would help you crack a web app (the users in the app won't be unix accounts), but I'll take your word for it :)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
It's also easier to get it over bumps, since you're pulling upwards, rather than pushing down into the ground. I'm not 100% sure that applies so strongly to the chinese design though.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
If you have a contract, you're already well ahead of the game. Most contracts will include all of this sort of stuff for you, and all you have to do with non-payers is wave a threatening legal letter at them. If there's no contract, the bes
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Mike Monteiro already did it better: http://vimeo.com/22053820 edit: He also covers a lot more ground in terms of negotiating, having a contract, etc. Well worth the 38:40 to watch. edit2: There's also a book - Design is a Job - which goe
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by anthonyb 14y ago
The design really is better - can you imagine pushing a western style wheelbarrow for 20km? Try some of the other articles on the site (eg. http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/12/hand-powered-drilling... ) and you'll see he just has a pro-
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Low Tech Magazine: The Chinese Wheelbarrow(lowtechmagazine.com)
96 points by anthonyb 14y ago|18 comments
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I have no idea how it would be implemented (other than "some sort of web server plugin"), and I was thinking from the PoV of a web app, so ssh would (might?) be out of scope. The concept was just that no request for paths related to logins
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Would it be possible to limit these via an outbound filter? I'm thinking something like a 'do not respond before' header and a web server plugin. That would be relatively expensive, but if you just do it for login/registration/password rese
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Not if you're limited to 100 participants.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Except that it's mentioned on the very first line: > About a month ago, Hack’n Jill organized a hackathon with a simple goal: get 50 men and 50 women in a room to build something to improve their summers.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Mean SATs, not their variance. I don't think that overcomingbias link is really adding anything to the discussion. The paper that roguecoder referenced is just pointing out that SAT scores are not a perfect predictor, and adjusting the in
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Counter hint: It doesn't. Look at figure 4 in the paper. I suspect that the reason for this is that when you exclude women in general, you're also excluding women who are just as good as men are. Which is the unspoken assumption in your pos
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Applying evolutionary theory to a computer programming event is a whole new kind of odd...
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I understand some people having trouble with reading comprehension, but.... that's the very first line of the post. I'm not sure what the problem is with that, but getting 50 women to a hackathon, much less any event, is quite an achievemen

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