babesh

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by babesh 7y ago
Quality of your code can be affected because your conceptual model is muddy. Makes it more complex, harder to understand, harder to change. Makes you implement a requirement in two different ways.
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by babesh 7y ago
It's not future requirement changes. Its that the conceptual model that you constructed for your original requirements doesn't accommodate a new requirement. Now if you construct a new conceptual model, you will have to modify the
873.
by babesh 7y ago
'technical debt' is a misnomer. The reality of most code, especially as it gets closer and closer to the end user, is that over time there will be requirements added and removed. It is really hard to perfectly design such a system
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by babesh 8y ago
Hololens found its killer app.
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by babesh 8y ago
Mostly true but you should then take college football revenue in the US into account.
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by babesh 8y ago
Uber is betting that it will consolidate all that. Always give it's drivers something to do: food delivery, package delivery?, transportation, etc....
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by babesh 8y ago
It doesn't matter if the end result is a duopoly. The two need only stop competing and raise prices. It will be hard for a third entrant to come in because of the large cost to enter markets. The only viable entrant is, as mentioned Wa
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by babesh 8y ago
Salary isn't the only thing people covet. Titles and responsibilities are also coveted since they increase future earning potential. When people don't feel that they can get them, they leave.
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by babesh 8y ago
No wonder so many people are kissing up to the senior engineers.
880.
by babesh 8y ago
Asking a question well takes skill. It is possible that an interviewer screwed up asking the question rather than that the candidate screwed up. Most interview systems don't have a systematic, ongoing way for accounting for this especi
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by babesh 8y ago
He isn't smart enough to adjust his offensive game. His go to move is to lower his shoulder. The best defensive players and teams give way and then he is off balance and he tends to miss the shot. He has done that his entire career. Se
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by babesh 8y ago
The problem is a tragedy of the commons. If you build a giant box in the Las Ramblas, you reap the benefits but worsen the neighborhood for others. If everyone does that, you have destroyed Las Ramblas.
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by babesh 8y ago
The logical stable point is that all city centers will be in effect hotels or homes of the very rich who can afford to bid against the expected return of those units.
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by babesh 8y ago
This is what other people are doing already but on a larger scale with VC backing.
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by babesh 8y ago
Maybe someone in that department has put options and when they have call options the spigots will be turned on?
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by babesh 8y ago
This is worse than silly. It misleads you in the wrong direction. If you were to follow the Art of War, a major part of generalship is intentionally not fighting battles if the situation is against you. This only measures generals when they
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by babesh 8y ago
Shinjuku Gyoemmae in Tokyo had lots of grass and people sitting on it including from what I can tell Japanese people. Hiroshima has green areas along the rivers complete with park benches. Kyoto has Arashiyama but that is on the outskirts o
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by babesh 8y ago
Is there any industry that wasn't and isn't like this?
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by babesh 8y ago
As to why the Internet didn't "solve" this. Not all things are virtual. Your physical self isn't virtual. Nor are other people. Physical goods are not virtual. You need to invent and continue to nurture equivalent virtua
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by babesh 8y ago
Its the self reinforcing ecosystem/market. For companies, you can find people if all the people are concentrated in a single place. For people, you can choose between companies if the companies are concentrated in one place. You get fa
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by babesh 8y ago
Wealth is a catch-all for all sorts of things. Some forms of wealth behave more like zero sum games (when resources are limited or where network effects means that winner takes all). Other forms of wealth are less like that (knowledge?). Ev
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by babesh 8y ago
You are wrong. Betsy DeVos Donald Trump Koch brothers They promote for profit schools but the vouchers they propose wouldn't cover the cost of better private schools. Google Koch pro school choice voucher Arizona. 90% voucher of previo
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by babesh 8y ago
Its designed that way. How else are the rich going to preserve their wealth?
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Bannon and Cambridge Analytica planned suppression of black voters(techcrunch.com)
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by babesh 9y ago
It was one of the reasons and an inflection point. I remember the rush of activity with the release of the platform. People were poking each other and sending game requests. These were all FB apps. It was one in of a string of hits by FB, c
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by babesh 9y ago
They've fracked with their developers so many times already. What's one more time going to do? I think many developers remember what FB has done in the past. They've changed virality, forced the use of FB credits, limited acc
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by babesh 9y ago
The developer ecosystem served its purpose for FB. It accelerated their growth to the mass market. It is probably a net negative nowadays. They have an ad business not a platform business.
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by babesh 9y ago
So has the US though through farm subsidies, defense contracts, blocked Qualcomm takeover by Broadcom, blocked purchase of Airbus jets in favor of Boeing jets, etc... Its all a dirty game.
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by babesh 9y ago
A person with common sense and a developed understanding of the situation would drive more slowly in situations like this. The law says that you don't drive faster than you can see. A similar thing (no fatalities, just a shopping cart
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by babesh 9y ago
That isn't correct. Culture is learning from other people's mistakes. The only question is whether the human can and is willing to accept the lessons (and whether the lessons are correct).

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