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by ap22213 14y ago
For me, OS X has increasingly become too difficult for use in development. For a while there, it was the best, especially with tools like homebrew. But, it's just become too much of a headache. Too often, I find myself wasting hours tryi
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by ap22213 14y ago
What he says may be true, but convenience + cheap wins out (almost) every time.
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by ap22213 14y ago
This site showed me nothing about the bill in question. I would have liked at least a few references to sections of the bill that are considered bad. Anyway, a link to the bill is here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s2105pcs
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by ap22213 14y ago
I've worked on standards committees off and on for many years, and his experience seems typical of the issues that crop up. There are many problems with standards groups and the way that they work. One major one is that, often, the partici
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by ap22213 14y ago
How does one get a list of the most cited papers of the last 5 years? Or, see trends on how a paper has been cited? Is there a site that does this?
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by ap22213 14y ago
I think it's more about being forced into that business. The economics of cloud computing is so compelling, that it's going to be the rarest of companies that manages its own hardware and software (or even IT) in 10-15 years.
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by ap22213 14y ago
I'm out of town this week. I wish I could have made it!
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by ap22213 14y ago
I've heard of several cases of programmers getting ALS. This seemed statistically unlikely, since the ALS site stated that only 5 in 100,000 acquired the disease. Then, I googled "programmers ALS" and found this study: http://aje.oxfordjo
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by ap22213 14y ago
I'm willing to try it out. I usually get around the cited issues through dependency injection into the model. That is, instead of placing large amounts of logic in the controller, I let the model hold the logic. In a naive implementation,
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by ap22213 14y ago
In some ways, I agree with you. SQL is part of the problem. But, correctly structuring data is generally very hard, time consuming, has diminishing returns, and adds maintenance issues that never go away. I've seen teams spend months up f
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by ap22213 14y ago
Will PadLister provide a free API for everyone to use?
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by ap22213 14y ago
Since I live near DC and work in the energy field, I occasionally get the pleasure to attend seminars on nuclear power. I'll preface by saying that I know practically nothing about nuclear power. That said, people seem to be very pumped u
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by ap22213 14y ago
After I read it, I was so intrigued by his bold analysis, that I had to go read up on opposing views. I figured that there would be tons of economists in outrage on the Internet. And, from my point of view, I really like to understand dif
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by ap22213 14y ago
I just finished David Graeber's "Debt", and it really enlightened me on this subject more than anything in that reddit thread. It's one of the most scholarly, informative, provocative books I've read in a very long time. I'm actually readi
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by ap22213 14y ago
To me, this is one of the more bothersome parts of the modern US legal system. The other one being that most law now is 'case law' and therefore not accessible to the average citizen by reading 'the code'. Is this clever trick possibly acc
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by ap22213 14y ago
Agreed on DC - the places that I plugged in from northern va. (22102, 22213, 22046, etc.) all seemed to be showing the best-case times. Some places that it says are a 5-10 commute are more like 30-45 minutes at rush hour. Also, not related
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by ap22213 14y ago
I was actually surprised at how little it has changed relative to the amount of safety regulations and technology. I always pictured the years around 1900 as being much more physically dangerous.
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by ap22213 14y ago
In my opinion, it's because, outside a few rare companies, programmers are generally viewed as mental laborers: the digital, modern equivalent of blue collar workers. Some comments above seem to rationalize this by saying that software deve
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by ap22213 14y ago
Why would the police arrest you for spending a day in the park?
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by ap22213 14y ago
Great idea, and seems to be a relatively wide-spread one, at that. But, as others have mentioned, it faces steep adoption challenges. I recommend taking a look at Rogers' 5 Factors of Adoption [1] as a starting point. It would be extremel
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by ap22213 14y ago
It is great for this, or it will be ? I've been eagerly waiting to see what comes out of this group for a while now. The principles seem great, but I think they should apply their 12 principles to the initiation phases, as well. It's c
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by ap22213 14y ago
Sorry, I thought most people here liked smaller companies. A few advantages, off the top of my head: * more market diversity (e.g. more niche offerings) * less consolidation of power (e.g. Apple / Oracle / Google / Microsoft, etc) * more so
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by ap22213 14y ago
I don't see it that way. I see it as a society that that imposes big rules on big companies in a way to help keep many companies smaller. Maybe the details don't work out well. Perhaps 50 is too small. There are probably other issues in
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by ap22213 14y ago
To me, it seems like a decent structure, and I wish that the US had something similar. As the article says, there's nothing stopping the business owner from starting multiple 49-person companies. Therefore, the system isn't technically ho
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by ap22213 14y ago
Interviewing is a perennial topic because it doesn't make much sense. Case in point - over the past week I've interviewed for four positions. Three gave me offers within a day, with very little effort on my part. On the other hand, one told
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The Future of the Ph.D.(chronicle.com)
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What professors make(chronicle.com)
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by ap22213 14y ago
To be clear, the lack was in relation to my expectations, not in relation to the average. That is, I had very high expectations. But, when I came to know more people with advanced degrees, what surprised me was that they were generally mo
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by ap22213 14y ago
When I was a poor kid from the rust belt, I dreamed of becoming an adult and getting a Phd. and talking deeply with the intellectual elite. I never got that Phd. but I became happily upper middle class, and thus got to hang out with a lot
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by ap22213 15y ago
Sorry - I want my version control system to be really, really good at being a version control system, not at being a system to train other software developers. If you're an experienced developer, you should be able to pick up the static sou

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