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by bh42222 15y ago
This implies discipline and Agile (big 'A') are mutually exclusive. No, I would say big 'A' brings discipline, but if you already have tons of discipline, it can't add any more.
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by bh42222 15y ago
Sadly Agile has indeed jumped the shark. I have always seen Agile as a way to fight the Waterfall process. Another way to see it is to add professionalism and discipline to companies who don't have things like unit testing, code reviews, et
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by bh42222 15y ago
Right. But I want my car to drive me to work and back while I sleep or read. But to get there I think first business must commercialize it through their simple desire to increase profits, then it may become cheap and accessible enough for a
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by bh42222 15y ago
That would restrict it to big business. But the requirement that two drivers need to be in the car will restrict it to no one who wants to invest in it to be more profitable. Right now this is simply for experimentation and I wonder who'd
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by bh42222 15y ago
They are only hard to support from advertising. For any service which requires payment for access to the information, said information tends to be hard. Blomberg news and the Wallstreet Journal, are examples for this in terms of financial n
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by bh42222 15y ago
Of course, you could also just take a taxi. Oh it will be a taxi all right, just not driven by a human...
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by bh42222 15y ago
Scribd over-complicating things since they used PDFs to display text. I just visited their site again, I'm not exactly sure what they are using now, it does look good, but my god is it slow on my low end machine. I am not surprised to hear
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by bh42222 15y ago
Wikipedia recreates all the limitations of a physical set of encyclopedias. This includes doing a sort of OK job of summarizing relevant facts. This is a limitation for physical encyclopedias because paper, and even more so shelf space,
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by bh42222 15y ago
The original reddit, the one where pg article still made it on the top of the one and only front page, replaced Slashdot for me. Once reddit was taken over by trolls, HN replaced reddit. And now, it's HN with a small selection of sub-reddit
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by bh42222 15y ago
For autocomplete, I don't know enough about vi or vim, but emacs has it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1616753/make-emacs-semant... For refactoring, that's just an advanced text across many files manipulation feature, and emacs certa
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by bh42222 15y ago
Uhmm... what were the lawsuits about before he dropped his insurance? Parachute not opening?
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by bh42222 15y ago
Don't forget: The Constitution doesn’t constrain private actors, of course. This language would immunize them from liability under any and all regulation and under state or common law. Private actors would not be subject to suit for breach
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by bh42222 15y ago
I know reddit has a "cool story bro" meme, which means the opposite. But this IS a cool story!
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by bh42222 15y ago
I would be very surprised to find dog fighting in most of Western Europe. (The UK might have some) But in Eastern Europe, sure.
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by bh42222 15y ago
Well if you're shy enough it will stymie your social life. Also it has nothing to do with introversion. But I think the OP's point is that "introvert" now means anyone who could be either, shy, or socially anxious, or any number of other t
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by bh42222 15y ago
Yep, actually driving the car yourself becomes a purely vanity activity. Except when you build shelves in your garage rather than buying cheap ones at the store, you could actually build better shelves than reasonable money can buy. But it'
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by bh42222 15y ago
Autonomous cars don't drink, or text, or sleep, or get distracted, etc. Any politician against autonomous cars should be attacked for being for more death on the roads thanks to alcohol, texting, sleep deprivation, old age, etc. Call them p
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by bh42222 15y ago
Peopleware is a book every software manager should read. And ALL mangers I have worker for in large corporations had read it, but it did not matter! Noise and cubicles everywhere! So my question, is how do we prove to a majority of large co
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by bh42222 15y ago
I can't help but cheer for any kid (yes, I'm old, so they are all kids) who takes Peter Thiel's offer. Laura Deming is especially easy to cheer for, as she's working on age extension. (Did I mention I'm old?) It's great to hear she's meetin
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by bh42222 15y ago
For example, are there proportionally more Google employees from Caltech or more startups in YCombinator with Caltech graduates? Since they are all based in California now, I would think yes. But since Larry and Sergey Bin are both from S
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by bh42222 15y ago
The very last part covers potential solutions, none of which have a great chance of success due to the vested interests but should be tried anyway What happens if we try them all and they (as expected) do not succeed? If they don't have a
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by bh42222 15y ago
The fact that it's a whole book makes me nervous. A strategy which requires a whole book to be explained sounds like giving up on anything simple and claiming we can go through 1001 non-radical steps to eventually get to a happy place. This
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by bh42222 15y ago
The lack of diversity I am talking about does not come from averaging a large number, but from the fact that unlike Mississippi, all of Japan, Canada and the EU have very high standards of living, nationalized health care, and very extensiv
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by bh42222 15y ago
Most people in Russia and China and much poorer than most Americans. It's hard to compare the US to anyone, it is both huge and rich. Canada is probably the most US like country. (I might get downvoted by Canadians now!)
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by bh42222 15y ago
OK, your first paragraph is hard to comprehend. Language is "culture" but that's boring. Europe is more diverse - but trivially? Political, standard of living, industry are apparently real differences according to you? And art somehow snuck
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by bh42222 15y ago
I'd argue that English and French Canada are about as different as any of these pairs. Really? You speak English, you can go to any shop in Hawaii, NYC, Alabama or Texas and buy what ever you want. I am sure you can do the same in Toronto
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by bh42222 15y ago
How does one begin to test which of these theories is correct? This brain imaging study: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199907/the-differenc... Indicates that the default mode for the introvert brain is to keep the parts of the
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by bh42222 15y ago
No I would not. A simple proof. Swedish is a Germanic language, the people are a Germanic people. Finish is a Finno-Ugric language. That's not even one of the Indo-European languages! Magyar is in the same language group. In other words, de
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by bh42222 15y ago
... it is worth noting that Americans can see a far greater diversity of cultures and geographies without leaving their country than is possible in most other places. This is plainly false. Just two quick examples: No difference within th
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by bh42222 15y ago
Pilots (including maritime pilots) If you are under 50, I would bet most planes (at least in the military) will be piloted entirely by AI before you die. The same should be true for most large ships. Most planes are already piloted by AI

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