bluesnowmonkey

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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
That would create an incentive for firefighters to burn down people's houses. I'm not saying they would, but it's best not to create such situations. It would be harder to determine the right price to charge people. It's not the water tha
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
A better analogy to magic methods would be dynamite. There are a few situations where you should use it, but not many, and generally it's when there's no other option. His example violates the principle that objects should represent things
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
Lots of famous and busy people manage to be approachable without needing you to read a wiki page first. In fact it's really pompous to tell others they need to follow special guidelines because you're so busy, as if the rest of us sit arou
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
Speak with power – without being profane. Also, interrupt. [...] Also, make sure you’re permitted to complete your sentences, and use vivid emotion-producing language. I've worked with this type of person. He could have written the boo
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
Sounds like a business opportunity. If someone wants to sell a bunch of books, they hire you to come scan it for valuable ones, sell them on Amazon and split the revenue. Then they can donate the rest or sell them for 50c. It benefits th
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
Why should duration be considered a measure of a constitution's success? The goal is to "provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare," etc. If it achieves this for 50 years, then is replaced by another that also succeeds f
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
First Mover: 47% failure rate Fast Follower: 8% failure rate This last statistic is a bit misleading. It implies that you can increase your chances of success by waiting until someone else enters the market. But it fails to acco
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
But it's not clear. What would go wrong? You can move about very freely in the US. If you live in Florida, you can quit your job and move to Alaska today. No notice, no paperwork at all. You just go live there . And this system works
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
Hey it happens to the best of us.
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
Ironically, for me Chrome loses on speed. I intentionally use somewhat underpowered tools for development. The danger is accidentally building something that runs fine on my system but that drags for users, i.e. the Crysis effect. Until
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
Two-on-two is also a 1:1 ratio. Really, you get 3 points for that, and I get -2 points for a valid criticism and a book mention? People don't like dead trees? If you care about being a better manager, get the book -- it's a much better tr
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
It was kind of a joke.
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
If a non-profit is limited in the amount of good it does by its budget, then saving money will allow it to do more good, and the motivations are aligned.
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
The article is a bit overly prescriptive. "These are the three kinds of conversations you will encounter, and here is how you should respond." Human interaction is not that easily codified. The book Behind Closed Doors superbly describe
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
Steve McConnell would like a word concerning non-idiomatic programming.
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
We need not guess -- these things can be measured. Here is a graph with a language people will pick up and use, versus one they will not. http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby%2C+lisp
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
There is no specific question or thesis here about which to form an opinion. Is he saying that planning is bad? Always? What kind of planning? It's all vague platitudes.
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
Unfortunately it's a bit more than a theory. In a real, documented sense, it has been Microsoft's modus operandi with regard to internet technology for over 15 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
> The goal with IE9 is to provide Windows with a as good as possible browser. That doesn't ring true. We already have four other excellent web browsers on Windows, as mentioned by the article. All are relatively similar in terms of fe
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
Questions like this degrade the professionalism of the field. Better programmers than any of us have to tried to cover the topic so generally, and they still came up with whole books that barely scratched the surface. If you want to know
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
Capacity is often a bottleneck in large buildings. The elevator might be full as it passes going the wrong way, so getting in isn't even an option. Also, more people might show up on your floor by the time the elevator passes going the ri
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
Is there any reason one would use this instead of an AMI from Alestic?
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Ironically, so is the Koran itself, as well as the Bible.
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
Counter-example: You own a bookstore located in a mall -- leased space. The mall's managing company says you are no longer allowed to sell Bibles. Now I'll apply your logic. "The Constitution doesn't give you the right to use that mall sp
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
Galcon itself used to be mod-able, with several people creating bots for it. Someone rolled them all together in a single mod allowing you to pit different AIs against each other, tournament style. The whole package was an excellent sandb
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by bluesnowmonkey 16y ago
How are you supposed to represent collections, if every link must be provided by the server? I've seen REST examples where you give some results and a link to the next page of results. That's impractical if you have a million pages.
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by bluesnowmonkey 17y ago
Sometimes I want to copy/paste SQL from the source code to a command-line interface like mysql or sqlplus. Tab characters are interpreted as tab keypresses, triggering auto-completion. To get around it I have to open a blank file in a tex