azanar

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by azanar 17y ago
It is only difficult to deal with average people if you believe yourself to be above them and look down on them. Nonsense. Unless you are going to insist on two things: that everyone has the same cognitive capacity, within some delta; ass
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by azanar 17y ago
More likely to question things and annoy people in the process is again a social skills issue, really clever people can work out lots of stuff without having to ask for it, and when they do it's a matter of timing, tact and packaging. The
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by azanar 17y ago
Jack up x based on participation and commits/edits/reversions that "stick" I would rather a more sophisticated metric than this. The metric of stickiness seems to work off of the idea that, in the average case, every reversion is a net wi
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by azanar 17y ago
Computer Science is one of the places where dead tree publication is going the way of the dodo pretty soon I think. The flag day for this, as alluded to in another thread, will be when fund-raising and faculty appointments stop being clos
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by azanar 17y ago
This has the same failings as a system of information distribution where an aristocracy is given the authority to decide what is and is not important and correct. This introduces all sorts of random factors having nothing to do with any sor
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by azanar 17y ago
The system needs to be redesigned, yet there is very little catalyst for it to be redesigned. People are still more motivated to turn their interests inward, to things like funding, publication lists, tenure, etc. The system is designed to
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by azanar 17y ago
However, most members of society need to be working and at least marginally productive so they can continue to keep themselves functioning. Better or worse, it is the way we've organized the markets that bring people the essentials. Sentime
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by azanar 17y ago
Right, but I think projecting an opposing philosophy onto a rule that fits people for the most part is equally presumptuous. Talented people who are laid off could end up quite demoralized based on what you wrote, sealing their own fate as
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by azanar 17y ago
Salarymen who quit are not likely to be salarymen again This I don't think is true anyway. It has always seemed to me like a socially manufactured platitude to keep people erring as much on the side of safety as they can possibly reach. F
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by azanar 17y ago
The difference between one perspective of reality and another is quite striking as well. That is all any of us have to offer: perspective. Past that, reality is largely how you handle the situations presented before you, and a person will r
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by azanar 17y ago
I think GPA is a better measure of "I can work inside a system and play by its rules" Does having a high GPA indicate that this is what the person was trying to prove? Does it even suggest that following rules was the motivator that got the
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by azanar 17y ago
People who make 4.0s are the exact kind of people they need-- discipline, reverence for authority, people pleasers-- people who won't rock the boat. Wow, really? High marks is an indication of a person's servileness? It can't be that they
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by azanar 17y ago
But to turn that into a system of thought and to consider non-intervention to be the default - I don't see the logic in that. Wrong interpretation. I am not saying we not intervene at all. I am saying that we understand our cure may, in s
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by azanar 17y ago
This analogy is a bit off. Manhattan is no longer under a glacier for the same reasons cyclones form. Climate change has been a part of this planet's behavior for the whole time it has been inhabited by any forms of life. To complete the
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by azanar 17y ago
You read my call for education as a call for indoctrination. That's not what it is; it is a call for realizing the implications of our actions go deeper than just the immediate consequence, and that if we try to gain control over a system a
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by azanar 17y ago
I am disturbed by the larger philosophy it represents; that things will be much, much better if we can just stop all of the destructive forces of nature from occurring. If we can prevent tropical cyclones, tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanic e
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by azanar 17y ago
This NOAA FAQ covers the infeasibility of doing this, but even if it were possible, via nuclear detonation or otherwise, there is still the conversation of whether it is wise to do so even if we could. What lasting effects this might have u
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by azanar 17y ago
Even better, once they've learned one, see how they perform relative to one another at learning one or more of the other languages. See if there is a language that is further upstream than the rest, and also see if there is a language that
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by azanar 17y ago
I had a similar experience when helping a friend with a bug in his code from an introductory programming course at my alma mater. The programming assignment involved manipulation of an array of data in C, and there was a counter variable in
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by azanar 17y ago
I agree with a vast majority of this, except for the qualification of time. There are many brands of mediocre programmer, some of which would claim a finished product well before the good programmer. But, the code will prove a nigh-unmainta
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by azanar 17y ago
There might be hypocrisy, but I suspect that is not the case. It is possible that the A player 20% he encounters is enough to make him feel like the value he gets out of working at HP is greater than the value he might get going somewhere e
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by azanar 17y ago
the 60% that he hates have personal goals other than promoting HP's agenda. So do the much of the other 40% percent. Does someone wanting to get things done and the passion to get interested in what they are working on immediately make t
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by azanar 17y ago
They have the skills to get things done, the passion, and perhaps most importantly, the patience required to make elephants dance (big companies get stuff done). Every time I meet one of these gems, I walk away believing a little more in t
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by azanar 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_series_database I suspect this is what you are asking for. This page has links to a number of time series database systems.
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by azanar 17y ago
The _why_ is likely to remain obscure. The why might remain obscure, but that depends on two very important things: your documentation, as you noted; and your data structures. Show me your flow charts and conceal your tables and I shal
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by azanar 17y ago
when other people are signing her paycheck, she either does it their way or finds a new job If the people who hired her were thinking straight, they hired her for more than just her ability to write code to a strict specification under st
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by azanar 17y ago
understanding that not doing something right doesn't necessarily mean you're doing it wrong But it might; that is the other half of pragmatism. Being pragmatic is not just a softer way of saying self-defeatist. And don't be so dismissive
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by azanar 17y ago
How do you know which? Experience. I wish I were learning it was even that easy. Maybe it is, and I'm just thinking about it too hard. To borrow your analogy of the can of worms module, that it runs well but will become a bomb as soon as
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by azanar 17y ago
The comment responses to this post are really depressing. They seem to encourage the original poster to adopt a short-term, sycophantic perspective where she punts her desire to keep the code-base clean and maintainable in exchange for blin
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by azanar 17y ago
He was not attempting to hurt people. That some people reacted that way to his posts is not an indication of intent. Of the posts of his I read, it seems that he would go that direction only when someone else already painted themselves th

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