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by bdavisx 11y ago
No, they don't always flop and still exist privately - sometimes they are bad enough that they don't ever see the light of day anywhere - even internally to the company.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
A good movie about the insanity of the trench warfare and some of the French commanders of WWI is Paths of Glory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paths_of_Glory .
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by bdavisx 11y ago
Yep, there's no way to filter on things that I really care about. 217 results, sure, I'll read each one, make notes and then choose.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
The text font looks very bad at "normal" size on my very typical enterprise corporate Win7 1920x1080 monitor. It appears to be the Source Sans Pro font, if I remove that everything looks OK.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
Yep, Excel is the best way for a business person to build an MVP for their needs. Then "real developers" can take that MVP and build a full-blown application if that's what the business needs - often though, Excel is enough -
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Ask HN: Could a “Patent Clause” Be Added to Open Source Licenses
4 points by bdavisx 11y ago|2 comments
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by bdavisx 11y ago
As a side note, Kotlin does properties very much like C# - take a look at it the next time you're doing Java and have a choice in the language.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
I would say some of the students in the article probably aren't SV material - "They’d begun studying computer science in college"? So you've been involved with computers for 4 whole years and you think you're qualif
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by bdavisx 11y ago
So without knowing more details, without some special effort on the nonprofits side, I'm guessing this will lock them into an Azure architecture. That could be OK if MS continues the donations after the initial $1B runs out, otherwise
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by bdavisx 11y ago
Both, but for different reasons: The "overdoses" from prescription opiates are often acetaminophen vs. the opiate (no direct sources w/ numbers, but example: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/820039 ).
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by bdavisx 11y ago
There's no way to add unit tests to a multi-thousand line method. There's almost no way something that long was written in a testable manner. You can probably add some tests around the inputs/outputs, depending on the struc
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by bdavisx 11y ago
Sometimes they even lose what they had earned - pensions for example.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
And when they check your cars mileage and it has a boatload more than your phone recorded? After you signed something that agrees you'll always (or almost always) have your phone with you?
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by bdavisx 11y ago
Blacks were 26% of the deaths, but only make up 13% of the population.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
Yes, but: the population of England and Wales together is about 55 Million; the us 319 Million. So that's a ratio of 1:5.8. There were 3 shootings vs 984, so that's a ratio of 1:328. So it's still a very valid point.
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The Best Way to Hire Developers(daedtech.com)
5 points by bdavisx 11y ago|0 comments
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by bdavisx 11y ago
I've had dual boot on my laptop for a while (Win7 and Ubuntu), but a few months ago I wiped the Ubuntu and reinstalled the latest Ubuntu desktop and forced myself to use it for several weeks. So much better for development purposes, ev
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by bdavisx 11y ago
How many drug overdoses are caused because of bad quality control that would be eliminated (or mostly eliminated) by legalization and regulation. IOW, how many people overdose because they get a batch of 90% pure heroin when they are used t
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by bdavisx 11y ago
If the software remembered that there was an off-brand bulb in the socket that went out, it could do a nicely worded "I told you so" to remind the consumer. The hub (I'm assuming this system has a hub or something) could keep
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by bdavisx 11y ago
You don't have to raise the rates of someone who doesn't use the tracking; you simply lower the rates of someone who does - that's how the current tracking systems work, several insurance companies already have them.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
What about Hydrogen? Too reactive with metals?
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by bdavisx 11y ago
It appears that this should be "Coding Math for Games and Graphics". I work in the actuarial space and the math I work with is quite a bit different.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
If the site had a page where they listed all of the videos in order, instead of having to go thru pages of (I'm assuming) Wordpress entries, it wouldn't be struggling. Not that it's not a great idea, just a poor implementatio
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by bdavisx 11y ago
I think you misunderstood what I meant, people are less capable technically, but more capable from a "relationship building" standpoint will often spend as much time becoming friends with management so they are not laid off. This
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by bdavisx 11y ago
And at some places, the people who get laid off are the people who aren't friends with the right people in management. It has nothing to do with dead weight. I have seen this exact thing happen in a company I used to work for. It was t
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by bdavisx 11y ago
>Koch can't buy all the universities. They are billionaires. And this was only a $1.5 million dollar donation, so how many can they afford to buy this way? I'm thinking it's enough to have a real impact on higher education
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by bdavisx 11y ago
How can it get better: Legalize drugs and drug trafficking. It's not a perfect solution, but it would take away much of the reason for the narco-gangs existence; as well as the corruption of the government/police/military.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
But people created those processes and people keep then in use. So aren't people really the issue even if process is the visible issue?
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by bdavisx 11y ago
I should probably have been more descriptive and said "typical US Federal government IT worker". And I would describe a typical USFG IT worker as someone who's OK with lots of process (because otherwise they would likely have
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by bdavisx 11y ago
If we ever get to a "post scarcity" future, then art would be one of the few things there would be a scarcity of (or at least good art).

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