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by binspace 16y ago
Heavy-handed priortization also causes less fluid thought. I'm really glad Silicon Valley shops tend to have a playful culture. It makes it easier to fight for it where I work.
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by binspace 16y ago
Quit Datein' on the young man.
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by binspace 16y ago
Maybe cheating is ok. Sure, there is a reason why it's faster. Maybe the guarantee of the write to disk is not as necessary as some people would believe. It's certainly not the same as writing to /dev/null. Maybe the developer can have othe
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by binspace 16y ago
Sure, you can create a massive json hash and store it in a sqldb field. However, most sqldbs that I'm aware of do not support searching that massive hash. You need to come up with index tables. The nice thing about Mongo is you can query th
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by binspace 16y ago
oh, leave the poor text area alone.
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by binspace 16y ago
That's true. We are unable to put effective solutions into place to meet our environmental challenges.
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by binspace 16y ago
> The "threads are bad" cargo cult has often lead people to pursue "interesting" solutions to various concurrency problems in order to avoid using threads. I know. Redis and Memcached are definitely cargo cult programs. ;-) Seriously th
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by binspace 16y ago
> refusal to let private enterprise get on with making, doing, exporting, building Agreed. However, blatant consumerism is causing massive global environmental damage. Industry & private enterprise should produce things that help so
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by binspace 16y ago
> while deregulating everything else Yeah, like deregulating energy. That turned out great for California. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
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by binspace 16y ago
I recommend Collapse by Jared Diamond and The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter, as a treatise over how different societies reacted to resource shortages & environmental damage. They try to be non-political and are very in
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by binspace 16y ago
There are some good points, however the emphasis needs to be on how green regulation is applied. The article seems to be complaining about "green" regulations (which are outdated and inane), not against the idea of the necessity of sustaina
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by binspace 16y ago
Wow, that article had government propaganda written all over it. Now I'm really glad somebody is standing up and exposing some questionable secrets. America should be a government for the people by the people. I'm sorry, but hiding murders
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by binspace 16y ago
I hope this leads to more transparency by the US government to it's citizens.
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by binspace 16y ago
My god that was horrible. I was listening to music and that crap came up. I was looking for an article, closed it in disgust when I figured out that the site was the example. Speaking of the misuse of technology, Flash seems to have a cultu
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by binspace 16y ago
> If your "novel" RoR application doesn't work, no-one cares, Not true if you have lots of users, just ask Twitter. Fortunately, a Twitter outage does not cause massive ecological damage.
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by binspace 16y ago
> We would need to do an experiment to verify your claims. Unfortunately, software development productivity (and solution quality) is notoriously difficult to measure and perform experiments on. It is also expensive, time-consuming, and
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by binspace 16y ago
> It surely lowers you IQ, although it still may still be a net positive. Many brilliant people are also anxious, and can't get things done because of it. If marijuana helps you relax enough to focus, this is a win. You hit the trade-of
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by binspace 16y ago
> "Does not really diminish my IQ" Sorry, I meant it does not significantly diminish my IQ. > How do you know is not the same thing with you. First, I did not say I'm smarter when high. There was a study that shows that there is a s
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by binspace 16y ago
Also, try coding while high. I find it does not really diminish my IQ, it just changes the how I think. Basically, my thinking becomes more tangential, so I'm able to explore scenarios with depth. It also relaxes me and helps me to let go o
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by binspace 16y ago
As an engineer, I'm offended by the fact that some lawyer has control over the types product I can design. We keep on hearing how patents harm innovation, now hopefully something is done about it.
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by binspace 16y ago
Those are good ways of bringing up the point.
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by binspace 16y ago
> So there is a cultural problem there (hopefully confidence does not sway a scientific group) Isn't this the norm though? Given all things equal, it's been my experience that people who make quick and strong judgement tend to have more
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by binspace 16y ago
Yes you are, and you can choose to go down that path or not.
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by binspace 16y ago
> I find better just to confidently state something, and get called out for inaccuracies (it's certainly more memorable). Of course this is dangerous when talking to people who know less than you about something, since they may not have
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by binspace 16y ago
> Start qualifying everything. For some reason I find it annoying when people do that. For example I often hear something like ("I don't know but, the library you are using is bloated compared to library X"). I frequently catch myself s
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by binspace 16y ago
I prefer creating customized frameworks from libraries. I tend to know more about my particular problem than any generic framework writer. Also, I can focus only on the solutions and features I need. I often don't have to build for the supe
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by binspace 16y ago
I don't find his comments out of line and deserving a downvote. My question is what purpose do downvotes serve other than allowing frustrated readers to retaliate against a "bad" post? > a lot of my comments get upvoted when they're out
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by binspace 16y ago
I suppose the downvotes in this thread is for irony's sake.
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by binspace 16y ago
Thank you, and no worries. It's been a few days and I'm well over it. I get the message you were trying to get across and I agree with it. Mainly, I perceived you as being rude and disdainful (lmgtfy, "That is your conclusion?"). I can't sp
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by binspace 16y ago
Very true. Awareness over the issues that it causes is a good start. And it seems like others are becoming aware. I bet it's mostly the younger generations.

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