beefheart

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by beefheart 8y ago
I'm not sure about you, but there were no cellphones in my school days, so we got our distractions by chatting or doodling or doing virtually anything else except focusing on class . Kids don't concentrate during lessons, they ne
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by beefheart 8y ago
In the US, the idea that the federal government could issue such a ban would be preposterous. It's a matter of principle. The state shouldn't be regulating these kinds of things, it only makes a mockery of itself.
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by beefheart 8y ago
A lot of these points are highly subjective and therefore dangerous points of friction. If you're going to start having a discussion about the "business need" when some presumably competent developer needs something they have
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by beefheart 8y ago
> The reviewer gets to see a another dev's code along with a good description of what that change does so if there's an emergency someone on the team might actually know where to look. In an emergency, you need developers to be
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by beefheart 8y ago
Unpopular (?) Opinion: In most "modern" environments, with constant online updates, where shipped defects are not that costly anymore, code review is a net loss. You can just skip it. This study fails to compare with "no code
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by beefheart 8y ago
I learned to type blindly informally on QWERTY and I use only my index fingers and my pinkies. I actually move my arms a little when typing. I'm reasonably fast, certainly fast enough for anything I do. I have never had any problem wit
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by beefheart 8y ago
Try expressing not such a vague concept, but a concrete, real world application that actual stakeholders would be interested in investing into. You will find that: A) It's probably not that valuable B) None of the hard problems are t
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by beefheart 8y ago
It was the answer to a problem that nobody had, straight out of the dotcom bubble days where those answers could be sold as a business cases or for university grants. Basically any form of structured data, be it in XML or JSON, served throu