bchjam

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by bchjam 13y ago
It provides steps to get from the junk to something relatively clean. Many people could benefit from following that, but software that doesn't spit out the junk in the first place would be better
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by bchjam 13y ago
http://flowingdata.com/category/tutorials/ not web-centric but the best source I know of offhand (edit to add ..) http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/index.ht... is a viz
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by bchjam 13y ago
I also have a child with autism and I think that factors into it. Both in that it can be much easier for an auteur to handle one on one situations, and because it can be really draining dealing with the negative aspects of autism and I thin
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by bchjam 13y ago
I thought I had read something you wrote once (5. Most investors are momentum investors. from http://paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html ) implied that investor demand increases the volume of the more shallow type of copyca
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by bchjam 13y ago
If you change a link's title, I won't know if I've read the link previously. Also, crappy headlines are often a sign of crappy writing/content.
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by bchjam 13y ago
isn't that what Obvious is? https://medium.com/obvious/3cb1d19eae8
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by bchjam 13y ago
The thing is, name calling the author provides no useful information (being nice and being mean can be equally useless if you discount interpersonal dynamics). It's just injecting noise into the post. And it's how the post opens s
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by bchjam 13y ago
Did Microsoft really advocate for getting work done while driving? But the MS bit still sounds very much like it's selling to upper management the potential for them to grind more work hours out of salaried employees. Which still sucks
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by bchjam 13y ago
Owning up to posturing I think it's good advice to be aware of doing this but you can go too far in compensating. Don't derail other people's speech by riddling them with questions or admissions, but if they ask you if you kn
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by bchjam 13y ago
Cloudera seems to be sponsoring this class and both instructors are from there. I think that explains why the class has a "Big Data in Hadoop" theme, since that's what Cloudera does. (as a comic aside to the buzzwordiness of
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by bchjam 13y ago
My dad's 60+ as well. I've had him use Ubuntu on an older laptop when his newer one was broken (several times now). He only uses music players & browsers (he uses stock trading websites, so needs java & flash plugins). He
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by bchjam 13y ago
Does anyone else find it ironic that Obama's campaign was a picture of web execution but in his administration it's the opposite?
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by bchjam 13y ago
I've worked entirely remotely for multiple years in 2 separate cases. I prefer loosely coupled teams and remote structure works well for this. My main problem is when I need to interact with office culture. People in large conference r
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by bchjam 13y ago
Who actually uses the microsoft account login?
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by bchjam 13y ago
"The third culture consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of
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by bchjam 13y ago
Sounds a bit like drug courts, which are more dispersed around the US and other countries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_court
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by bchjam 13y ago
The legal industry changed after 2008, at least for larger firms. They started needing to compete on price for one thing, whereas they could largely charge what they liked before. Clients became very selective of what they chose to litigate
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by bchjam 13y ago
Thanks, that makes much more sense. I agree that webforms is bad. I worked on the framework side of things before ASP.NET MVC was an option and needing to roll our own was where most of my experience scaling .NET systems has come from. In s
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by bchjam 13y ago
>> From personal experience .... I can't comment on ASP.NET MVC >Then you don't have personal experience in the area of Scalable web-based systems based on .Net. I speak from personal experience. Why? I've played wit
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by bchjam 13y ago
From personal experience, the higher-level features and frameworks that MS puts out for .NET are what tend to get in the way of successfully scaling .NET systems. I can't comment on ASP.NET MVC but I don't trust EF at all, and eve
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by bchjam 13y ago
A program that consists solely of println("Hello, World!"); is pretty stateless and trivial, there's not much that a JIT could do with this. Somewhat anecdotally, I remember hearing Rich Hickey talking about how the JVM JIT l
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by bchjam 13y ago
As much as I agree with what he said, his neon green on black blog style really isn't pleasant to read. I almost didn't finish reading it because of it (and it's pretty short). But the point stands, don't hurt your users
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by bchjam 13y ago
I was thinking about the Oculus for physical therapy type applications just the other week (I have meniere's disease, I get prescribed all manner of vestibular PT involving eye movements). So happy to see that I'm not the only one
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by bchjam 13y ago
From the moment I heard that Elop would lead Nokia I assumed that the Nokia board wanted to be acquired and were doing whatever it took to become attractive to the most likely (or highest) perceived bidder. But to say that Elop sank Nokia i
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by bchjam 13y ago
45 minutes is better, and you can have 1 on 1 conversations while walking if you can't spare the time otherwise.
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by bchjam 13y ago
I think satire is the wrong way to approach this. It makes the author seem kind of immature and I really doubt it would do much to get the point across to the likes of the author of the article this was in response to. The cherry picking of
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by bchjam 13y ago
Studies have shown that people are much happier when they're doing self-directed work. I also think that lamenting losing talent to a bank might have more to do with the perceived negative value that modern banks bring to humanity.
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by bchjam 13y ago
ITV is a British TV network
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by bchjam 13y ago
This article implies that the entire UI is crap but then goes on to complain solely about the casing and spacing of a few variables and a button. He does have a point that this amounts to noise for the uninitiated but I wouldn't say it
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by bchjam 13y ago
I love it when musical and computational composition get paralleled. I just saw a different talk focused on this theme recently, focusing on Goldberg variations using the Overtone library in Clojure. You actually get to hear things build up

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