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by billman 7y ago
I think the problem with this is that there will always be "unethical" ways to work around the legal system. In fact, having more laws can make this easier and more obscure.
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by billman 7y ago
You been working hard. I give you permission to leave early today. Spend some time doing the things you love.
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by billman 7y ago
Agreed. I read his book as a young engineer, an I feel that this has really shaped how I view organisations and the forces that operate within them.
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by billman 7y ago
This makes me now want to read the book, after sitting on my shelf for the better part of 15 years. Thanks!
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by billman 7y ago
+1 for Vonnegut
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by billman 7y ago
+1 for storytime
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by billman 7y ago
What does this mean for centOS?
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by billman 7y ago
paywall?
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by billman 7y ago
FYI, The title of his paper is "Zinc lozenges as cure for the common cold – A review and hypothesis". I haven't read it, but the title seems reasonable.
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by billman 7y ago
+1 for Yeats
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by billman 7y ago
In the financial industry, I have a seen a couple places where SQL was the interface for their payment systems. Mind you that these payment systems were not written using any kind of relational paradigm.
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by billman 7y ago
I think this article maybe self referential.
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by billman 8y ago
Maybe the world needs more people like you. We have far enough "normal" people.
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by billman 8y ago
I have no connection with this author, but I wanted to point out that they have a patreon account if your so inclined.
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by billman 8y ago
Can I ask why you think you should be more hard working? Social norms?
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by billman 8y ago
Is it just a coincidence that the Giants and Jets both play in New Jersey. Maybe Amazon should just move across the river and call it the New York office.
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by billman 8y ago
"An aged man is but a paltry thing"
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by billman 8y ago
The funny thing is that I wanted to know more about the project after seeing this page. I'm not sure I would have continued if it was just another time series library.
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by billman 8y ago
Man, we really have come full circle.
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by billman 8y ago
I would love to see a benchmark for VM performance before and after.
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by billman 8y ago
I'm a fellow EE grad, that has been doing software for the past 20 years or so. I started studing ML a couple years ago. I started with a couple of Andrew Ng's courses on Coursera. I found it was a good mix of theory and practice.
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by billman 8y ago
It's funny to hear you say you've completed your family I have an 18 year old, and I feel like I'm just getting into the real parenting.
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by billman 8y ago
Those who don't learn frameworks will be damned to write them.
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by billman 8y ago
Find a mentor. I was lucky enough to have a couple more experienced developers take me under their wing when I was new. I learned so much from them. This idea of mentorship has fallen out of favour, but I now understand "there is nothi
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by billman 8y ago
I would have liked to see Presto in the analysis.
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by billman 8y ago
From Wikipedia: In 2007, David Schechter (a medical doctor and former student and research assistant of Sarno) published a peer-reviewed[13] study of TMS treatment showing a 54% reduction in the average pain intensity scores for a cohort of
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by billman 8y ago
The fact that Mark Burgess wrote the forward is a good sign to me. His writing is among the best I have encountered in 20 years of practice.
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by billman 8y ago
Curious as to who the scientist and writer was that inspired you? Have you read anything by John Sarno?
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by billman 8y ago
I think this is true with most languages that have been around for more than 10 years (except for python... python is a great beginner's language IMHO)
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by billman 8y ago
Since we are on the Christopher Alexander love fest, I would like to share a book I purchased a couple years ago by him. It's not a well known as his other stuff, but equally rich. https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Life-Bea

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