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by apalmer 11y ago
Yeah but he specifically said these are folks with quantitative degrees... I would expect want to be quants applying at a hedge fund to have an understanding of statistics.
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by apalmer 11y ago
Ummm windows even today, own 93% of the desktop market. You think giving it away would have improved on that? The only significant desktop OS that they could have taken share from is OSX where people are paying the same or more. Microsoft m
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by apalmer 11y ago
The psychological part of it was really not 100% the cause of its effectiveness a part of the reality of why it worked is the government couldn't print more URV. This is why it was a great trick, it was a trick to the people but also
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by apalmer 11y ago
I hear you, I think this article is really good for someone who isn't familiar with the term YAGNI. However as the above poster mentioned it sidesteps a big issue which is when YAGNI is wrong. Generally I feel like YAGNI is appropriate
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by apalmer 11y ago
There is neither anything inherently wrong with PowerPoint, and even more 'controversially' there is nothing inherently wrong with information dense slides. Especially in the case where it includes complex graphics such as maps an
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by apalmer 11y ago
Unlikely... A lot of the complexity is baked into the WS standards of which WCF is only an implementation. So until new standards are rolled out there is a limit to how much clean up can happen. Then the other thing is the fundamental conce
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by apalmer 11y ago
Cost,at least perceived cost. But most likely the baseline quality to cost trade off doesn't justify it.
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by apalmer 11y ago
These are the richest of the richest people anywhere. They live where they want to live. A billionaire doesn't move his whole existence across the country to save 10 million dollars in taxes.
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by apalmer 11y ago
Please take this in the spirit it is intended: I would never under any circumstances ever share personal information with a company that behaved as you have documented. You believe this guy has scammed you so you went through his personal a
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by apalmer 11y ago
F# in particular is not a 'mainstream' .Net language, its community is more similar to the Haskell community than the general .NET community. For a young developer in 2015 really no reason not to use .NET. Other than its just not
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by apalmer 11y ago
Cool, Microsoft is a beast when focused. Wonder how long it will last.
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by apalmer 11y ago
This is the thing with Microsoft is this is never in doubt. It is Google who ends of life's things and stops support. Microsoft still has supports things in Windows 8.1 that were BUGS in MS-DOS in order to allow programs from that era
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by apalmer 11y ago
Ehhh, When Sun was at the helm Java was stuck in quicksand even worse than today. Its only a few years ago.
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by apalmer 11y ago
Kind of weird, there historically have been similar 'do it the old school way because its more reliable' fallbacks for other things in air transport. What happened to the planes that were mid flight when this bug occurred?
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by apalmer 11y ago
Thats a double edged sword. The thing is, it was not their job to make people feel better, it was their job to evaluate the situation. There is a good and a bad side of that trade off...
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by apalmer 12y ago
If you want to be an artist be an artist. Being a programmer is not going to get you there if thats what you need. I dont really understand the mindset, I think that is because I am an engineer. Meaning by training, schooling, and occupatio
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by apalmer 12y ago
Cool to watch, weird as a hobby. Thats what makes hobbies interesting though.
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by apalmer 12y ago
Wait what? Not sure what you are asking for "SELECT * FROM table WHERE age > 20"?
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by apalmer 12y ago
You are absolutely right. However bear in mind this thinking is a slippery slope. Meaning most good CIOs, architects, technical leads, etc shy away from betting the house on new or novel technology precisely because experience had shown th
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by apalmer 12y ago
Its generally not worth it to give smart answers to dumb questions. I guess its a pet peeve of the author though.
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by apalmer 12y ago
Why did R take over the world of statistics anyways? I remember about 8 years ago I had an interest in statistics. Everything was SAS, SPSS etc which i just didnt have the budget for... I happened to find R as it was a freely available for
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by apalmer 12y ago
Been hearing a lot about Visual Studio 2015 recently, as far as I am aware it is not even in Beta yet... I am a .Net developer in a Corporate IT job, so I am exactly in the demographic Microsoft aims for as users (not buyers though). Visual
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by apalmer 12y ago
I am not sure why i need to scroll through 6 screens to see the price instead of just being able to click an icon on the first screen and jump to where i want to jump to. Maybe there is a way that I just couldnt figure out. Why is it folks
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by apalmer 12y ago
In what context was that sentence spoken?
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by apalmer 12y ago
As stated in the top portion of the thread, the original paper is completely not horsesh!t. It is a reformulation of a 3 dimensional problem in 4 dimensions that significantly simplifies the specific calculations/relationships of inter
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by apalmer 12y ago
seems weird to raise so much money at this point in the game... a third of a billion dollars...
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by apalmer 12y ago
Not sure the correct choice is to just disable queries at runtime if there performance is a net negative. Would expect these decisions to be made at design time, or perhaps that alerts are sent to ops when these situations occur.
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by apalmer 12y ago
All valid but the caveat 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic'. The line between what is science fiction and what is fantasy in a future setting can be very thin.
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by apalmer 12y ago
I wonder how literal the parent was being. He seems to be walking the line. I think from the parents point of view he 'gets' what the original post was going after. Its just more... busting out the oscilloscope graphs to prove tra
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by apalmer 12y ago
are you saying that you are hiding money in secret accounts from your wife because she wanted to have a vacation?

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