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by bpyne 10y ago
Perhaps you're doing what I'm about to recommend already, but I can't be sure based on what you wrote. It's in regard to "2. Team says, "Need to ship; we'll accept the risk". If the Business Unit, for
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Currently I'm enrolled in a grad CS program after 25 years in the field. Most students in my classes have never been in the field before. My caution to them is to understand their own likes and dislikes. If a person loves writing softw
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What I find in in-house IT is that CS curiosity and ability to develop good software aren't the critical traits. In those environments, a "developer" spends the majority of his/her time integrating vendor solutions and w
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Are organizations still trying to move in that direction when engineering software products? I know it's been tried for decades now. But my limited experiences in organizations that tried it have not been very good. I'm curious if
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Oddly, I changed the password for 2 Yahoo accounts only a month ago. I have to wonder if Yahoo filtered for people who recently changed passwords before designating me as a person who might be affected.
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I’ve read some interesting comments on this post: some clearly from practitioners and many not. Here’s a little extra background about Chinese Martial Arts. They date back thousands of years: some scholars claim 2000 while others claim 4000
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After the Communist Revolution, kung fu instructors took jobs as dance instructors. A lot of the modern wushu - very gymnastic and often aerial movements - came out of the altered teaching. Much of what you see in modern movies is non-tradi
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What's an objective measurement for jobs as diverse as software engineer, system administrator, computer technician, and first-tier support? The Tech Industry is made up of these roles and many more. Just take a software engineer for e
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If the organization is setup such that empowered super-users develop apps to the extent of their knowledge and then have a scheduled handoff to a developer in IT, what you’re describing can work quite well. I haven’t seen it work that way i
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manyxcxi summed it nicely. I want to highlight part of what (s)he wrote. I've watched this play out for 25 years with dbase, Paradox, Access, and countless other tools intended to empower end-users. Typically only one person in a User
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I'm not arguing with your feeling. It's very valid. But, I've lived in the Northeast my whole life. If you live here long enough, you learn to discern between different types of cold. 20F with moisture in the air is awful, es
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After trying to read the online edition, I picked up a soft-cover version. I'll second the sentiment that it's easier (for me) to read it as a continuous read. I can see the online version being great as a reference. But, it didn&
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Thanks for the clarifications. I learned Prolog over a few weeks for a class I took a year ago. It left a favorable impression on me. With respect to answering "multiple questions/queries", is it fair to draw a parallel with
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I haven't done anything with Smalltalk, so I can't comment on it. However, learning Lisp (using SICP) and Prolog are both good choices. SICP uses Scheme. It'll teach you how simple concepts can be composed to build any softwa
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From the article: "McKenzie’s team is now looking into the driving factors behind their research such as the “sandwich years” when many adults have at least one person to look after, a child or an elderly parent, on top of working full
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It would be interesting to see a study controlling for the "sandwich years". My suspicion is that the sandwich years on top of 40+ hour/week employment causes a lot of cognitive degradation. But, 40+ hour/week employment
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First off, great post. It's very nostalgic for me because the author is fascinated by the technology of the day. COBOL, hierarchical databases, batch processing were still a norm in IT when I got into the field. My first programming jo
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I took a course recently in ML that focused on Support Vector Machines (SVM), Decision Trees, and Neural Nets. The professor chose R because of the libraries. SVM's, Decision Trees, and Neural Nets are non-trivial to write libraries fo
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I know little of Britain's political system. If Article 50 isn't being invoked until the end of the year, can Britain have another national vote on Brexit before then?
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Everything you said plus having a developer assigned to several concurrent projects. Jumping between different project setups, PM's, software designs, etc. is mentally taxing to an extreme. It leads me to make more mental mistakes. Rap
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Let's not forget F# and OCaml. Places like Jane Street become very attractive for the sake of working with OCaml and (presumably) people with a high level of skill. Haskell is very attractive. Good run-time performance, the ability to
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"Perhaps someone can explain to me why we need new languages, in the face of rich, powerful, languages/tools such as this." I became familiar with ML two years ago when I went back to college for a graduate program and had to
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Actually, the latest version of Intellij's IDEA is pretty snappy on my 5 yo MBP.
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Sorry. Didn't mean to obscure or contradict that point. I was trying to demonstrate a cultural norm in the Northeast, which as you point out, gets selectively applied. I'm not sure about jaywalking citation stats in Boston and Pro
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Generally speaking, cops won't bother you for jaywalking in the Northeast as long as you don't obstruct traffic. They'll sit and watch you cross against the light. As long as cars don't have to jam on their brakes, the c
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I'd like to commend you on a well-balanced reply. The following line really struck me, "..., a lot of the bullshit is created by people who want their own way after a decision has been made." That plays out daily in my organi
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Still love "Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C....." (On another note, James
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Kids need to start with small, quick successes before they are willing to invest more time. The Playground weighs in Swift's favor because they can get immediate feedback. As for the language itself, it seems to have decent type-infere
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"First, “the best” is bound to be situational. Someone who can thrive in one environment might get crushed in another. The peak skills that gave them a leg-up in one domain may very well make them unfit for work in another." Key s
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I'm omnivorous. I can't even imagine people having an issue with being vegetarian now. It's just so common. Around my area, finding out a person is vegetarian leads to an exchange of recipes.

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