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by bdavisx 11y ago
Yes, but they were from the 18f team, not exactly representative of the typical government worker.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
My point wasn't that fundamentalist Christians as anti-left-handed because of their Christianity; it's that they hold on to ancient beliefs. * The Earth is 6,000 years old * Man walked with Dinosaurs * Being Gay is a choice * Yoga
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by bdavisx 11y ago
I wonder how she would feel if she was addicted to narcotics, went to NarcAnon and then had her name published when someone leaked/hacked their database because "those people shouldn't have done drugs in the first place"
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by bdavisx 11y ago
I've heard it put: "If you can't change your company, then change your company."
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by bdavisx 11y ago
That was why I put "(as well as other countries)" on the comment; but I probably wasn't as clear as I could have been. I specifically mentioned America because that's what I had the statistics around belief in evolution
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by bdavisx 11y ago
But also don't underestimate the stupidity, ignorance and/or anti-intellectualism of the general American (as well as other countries) population. Remember that 1/3 of Americans do not believe in evolution...
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by bdavisx 11y ago
I don't see a problem with using it for the reasons they used it. In a related video, if you've never seen it, this one is great, with the original Ctrl-Alt-Delete programmer (David Bradley) on stage with Bill Gates... https:&#x2
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by bdavisx 11y ago
If your current companies codebase is "terrifying", then you may end up finding a lot of resistance to writing cleaner code anyway. Many of the "senior" developers could be suffering from expert beginner syndrome and not
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by bdavisx 11y ago
What about retention? That's easily measurable. If you have 1/2 the turnover rate on developers would that convince people? I don't know if this kind of data is available anywhere though.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
I doubt the engineers would overlook anything like that. It's more like: Engineer: "We can't get the engine to work with the current airframe design if we use stealthy engine nozzles. It's going to require a significant
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by bdavisx 11y ago
I think the argument is that the iPhone (and other innovations) required a leap in creativity, not science or engineering; it's those leaps that power many of today's technology companies.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
So you're saying that they couldn't have designed two planes for 500 billion each?
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by bdavisx 11y ago
Unjammable by clouds? Wouldn't going into clouds be a way to evade in this case?
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by bdavisx 11y ago
If you're just talking taxes, then probably; if you're talking about logistics in general, then a spreadsheet isn't going to work.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
If you're using a modern IDE, you shouldn't have to ever type the name out after the first time. I almost never abbreviate anything.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
A contract to do something illegal isn't enforceable. You can't make a contract that says you can't go to the police (or other authorities) to report someone breaking the law.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
What a sick fucking "sport".
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by bdavisx 11y ago
Sometimes "Culture Fit" is a way around age (or other discrimination). Sometimes it really means you have a specific culture you want to maintain. But you better watch out if you do this, at some point, all the "yes people&qu
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by bdavisx 11y ago
> Here is the real question: how do you do community policing in the low-income black neighborhoods of Baltimore? How do you rebuild trust? You arrest and prosecute the perpetrators just as quickly and with just as much or more punishmen
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by bdavisx 11y ago
They don't have to wear all that gear to do their job.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
Google Docs is using what's called EventSourcing, in case you aren't aware of that. It's one way to make collaborative editing possible (probably the easiest?). http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcin
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by bdavisx 11y ago
That's because you can get someone with 10 years of "experience" who can't pass FizzBuzz. Although trick questions and the like are bad, and a sign that you should avoid the company giving those questions in an interview
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by bdavisx 11y ago
How about that the companies applying for H1Bs list the salaries they will be paying, and the highest paying 85,000 (or however many per year) are the ones that are awarded.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
Is that true in tech or just in "regular" big business? I don't see Gates, Zuckerberg or Jobs being real high in EQ as I understand it, but perhaps I don't fully understand it.
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by bdavisx 11y ago
And often, they don't get removed because the "good" police protect them with a thin blue line of silence. Those "good" police aren't really good the very instant they protect the bad.
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by bdavisx 12y ago
Do you have a link to the ad, or can you post it here? Perhaps the problem was in the wording of your ad...
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by bdavisx 12y ago
High-quality open-source text books covering the Common Core Material would be an incredible "force for good"...
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by bdavisx 12y ago
I don't understand your point. I've worked with mediocrity far too often in the programming world, and outright incompetence as well. These kinds of contests/games are designed to weed that out. If you're talking about t
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by bdavisx 12y ago
I'm not disagreeing, but I guess I was comparing a relational schema to a JSON "schema". I do agree a mapper is less intrusive than either. I think I have a bias right now because I've been working on an event sourced mo
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by bdavisx 12y ago
Resharper "Ultimate": https://www.jetbrains.com/dotnet/ . Actually a packaging of their dotNet tools into one purchase (Resharper - including C++, dotMemory, dotTrace and dotCover).

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