beckingz

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by beckingz 5y ago
Turns out, the world is really really complicated. So it's better to say that our models are simplified, not lies.
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by beckingz 5y ago
If UFOs don't exist why would we need to give money to the military industrial complex to track UFOs and Chinese air traffic?
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by beckingz 5y ago
Gotta have exactly 501 random connections so it says 500+ connections and looks good.
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by beckingz 5y ago
If I haven't consented to receive your marketing emails or have not entered into a business arrangement by purchasing something, I do not expect to receive emails even if I expect that my information has been received by the server.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Going to be reading: - Staff Engineer - Thinking in Systems: a Primer - Team Topologies And for fiction: - The Master and Margarita Might re-read peopleware again as well.
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by beckingz 5y ago
It's so good to see the Discovery servers still running after all these years.
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by beckingz 5y ago
One growing trend in the US is outsourcing to South America. Lots of great value developers down there in the same timezone. The second issue that still comes up is communication and culture. Successful cross cultural communication requires
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by beckingz 5y ago
This is amazing. Both a good forklift training video and a hilarious award winning short film! Thank you.
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by beckingz 5y ago
When you have billions of rows the performance savings can be nice.
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by beckingz 5y ago
out of the frying pan into the fire...
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by beckingz 5y ago
The first time I installed Windows 7 on an SSD it started in less than a second. Less than 1s boot time. To desktop.
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by beckingz 5y ago
It runs on more modern hardware. And has more adware!
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by beckingz 5y ago
This is sometimes referred to as digital humanities. Guy I knew was doing some really cool history work around German settlers in early America based on data collected by early life insurance companies.
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by beckingz 5y ago
To continue the article's metaphor: This is like being late to a meeting because you're struggling to knot your tie in the bathroom. Being prepared and in control is part of the point of a good setup.
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by beckingz 5y ago
quality is an issue though.
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by beckingz 5y ago
If it worked in SevenEves I don't see why not?
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by beckingz 5y ago
Right! The Oberth effect for a smaller body is not as large as it would be for earth, but would still be non-zero.
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by beckingz 5y ago
What is an acceptable duration for someone to stay at your outfit?
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by beckingz 5y ago
Aristotle would disagree. You're mostly correct though, that they are separate things. For teaching technical topics well, both are needed.
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by beckingz 5y ago
There are meetings which should not be thought of as "meetings" Labeling them as collaboration sessions or more social one-on-ones helps though.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Good luck doing this for a huge modern AAA game.
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by beckingz 5y ago
This website is a blast from old web design. Nice!
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by beckingz 5y ago
Yeah this sounds about right. If they were in a fancier place and were hitting $4000 per month in housing costs (parking spots aren't cheap I guess), that'd put them down to $4k savings per year with the rest of the spending held
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by beckingz 5y ago
What if it counts as a bug fix?
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by beckingz 5y ago
This is exactly right. I find this most useful for asking better questions. People in X Situation typically experience problem Y so I know that "Have you tried Z?" is likely to be a good question that either provides a solution or
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by beckingz 5y ago
No. Heuristics allow for rapid extrapolation if the domain and likely patterns are known or inferred, but that's not deep thought. Looks insightful and gets good results most of the time though.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Looks like USD may be losing qualities 1 or 2 depending on how you define stability or integrity.
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by beckingz 5y ago
Sometimes people will insist that sticking beans in their nose is absolutely necessary. https://archive.uie.com/brainsparks/2011/07/08/beans-and-nos...
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by beckingz 5y ago
http://thecodelesscode.com/
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by beckingz 5y ago
That last one is true for most cars now...

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