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by bpyne 13y ago
I'm not sure you can work iteratively when your product is equally as much about the hardware as the software. Apple can't just iterate on a hinge issue because they pushed a MacBook line out quickly. Software companies, especiall
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by bpyne 13y ago
I think managers need to know what motivates each employee on his/her team. Pay raise may be incentive enough for one person, but (for example) working from home may motivate another person. I've been in the field 20+ years and ma
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by bpyne 13y ago
The sentence looks like the author started a thought but didn't finish it. I doubt moocowduckquack was taking a cheap shot at the grammar so much as wondering if the author didn't finish the thought.
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by bpyne 13y ago
Spot on but you can generalize it a little more. Anytime you have more than 2 people with their own goals and limited resources, you're going to have politics. It's built into our species.
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by bpyne 13y ago
"In fact, I’d contend that the friend and follower models can be elegantly replaced by a frequency and engagement model." Quite honestly, I think FB (as an example) tries to do this already. When I "Like" friend A's
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by bpyne 13y ago
I agree with your assessment that each person has a different threshold for calling someone a "friend". But, FB lets you reject a request without providing a reason. I can see in your hypothetical situation that one classmate reje
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by bpyne 13y ago
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/caffeine/AN01211 From a tea site, not sure of its validity. http://www.veetea.com/site/articles/caffeine-and-tea Go to Caffeine in Tea: How It Works. It
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by bpyne 14y ago
I should probably follow some of the links referenced in the article. The article itself is a little irritating. It seems like the goal is askew: predict who will leave so you can keep them. In every organization I've been in, some people s
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by bpyne 14y ago
The author's point meets with my own observations. Something else I observe is that a person who works on multiple projects successfully almost always has one or more people who s/he can delegate tasks to. There is always someone on the pro
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by bpyne 14y ago
"What creates wide gaps in achievement in math (and many other subjects) in minority students is lower expectations for success." I found this sentence frustrating. It was simple-minded to an extreme, neatly finding a solution to fit all mi
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by bpyne 14y ago
May I ask what MBP you have?
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by bpyne 14y ago
My criticisms are about the health care system, emphasis on the "system" part. Having a large number of citizens without health care is a failure of the system. The issue is a socio-political one. It's about the distribution of health care
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by bpyne 14y ago
I'll start with health care. I'm referring to the overall system and its premise. The problem is that the system is based on employment and the government fills in for certain populations during unemployment. There are 4 large problems in t
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by bpyne 14y ago
I'm a US citizen. My take is that if I was still single and not a parent, I would be in Berlin immediately. In some ways, it sounds better than Silicon Valley or New York. Transportation around SV doesn't sound like it's based on public tra
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by bpyne 14y ago
I'm pretty excited about the new wave of IDE's in the browser: Cloud9, Eclipse Orion, and Collide. Just having them available, with my last setup, from any computer with an internet connection and a browser makes my life easier. Collide loo
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by bpyne 14y ago
I'm not really sure what FB hopes to gain from trying to elbow their way into the mobile phone market. The market is pretty well divided between Google and Apple with MS and RIM mixed in as well. It seems like there are cheaper ways to impr
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by bpyne 14y ago
The author provides excellent advice in this article. I'd like to add one point. Developers, who work close to a UI, should really start learning more about design. You increase your own value by having a good eye for UX and how a UI embodi
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by bpyne 15y ago
I like the idea but share the concerns of another commenter that simply having a graded course may not be enough. Basically, the knowledge obtained must be utilized throughout a student's educational career or it will be quickly forgotten.
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by bpyne 15y ago
Firstly, hats off to raganwald for another thought-provoking piece. Whether or not the hypothetical interviewees in his letter could push the legal claims they threatened, companies may very well shy away from this violation of privacy simp
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by bpyne 15y ago
What you say is IMO correct. But, I think there is something more fundamental. A company cannot function to full potential when beholden to 2 masters - customer and investor - with opposing needs. The customer wants the best product/service
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by bpyne 15y ago
"So... how do we figure that? Seriously: How do we do the math in every possible case to ensure I'm not exploiting the person who freely agreed to work for me?" By "freely agreed", do you mean it in the restricted sense that the worker was
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by bpyne 15y ago
First off, thank you for the well thought out response. I was far too vague with my question. I did not mean a general purpose rules engine as in the middleware piece. What I'm thinking about is better described as a rules based system, but
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Ask HN: Language for Rules Engine
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"Likewise, sometimes a leader needs to step in and resolve bike-shedding conflicts among two equally smart, strongly opinionated engineers who disagree on a core question, and to look for a compromise." The most effective people I worked fo
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by bpyne 15y ago
Here are a few observations based on my undergraduate days as a math major. Engineers, mathematicians, and anyone in the sciences together took a 3 term calculus sequence and ordinary differential equations. After ODE in our second year, di
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by bpyne 15y ago
Is corporal punishment wide-spread in French parenting? I wondered as I read the article about that.
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by bpyne 16y ago
The author is definitely conflating skill with original thinking. When talking about professional vs. amateur it's about skill. The skill comes about through experience and purposeful learning. If we take skill to be a spectrum from high to
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by bpyne 16y ago
"Passion, drive, perseverance, experience, patience, brilliance, etc." You beat me to this list of qualities. The only minor disagreement is that brilliance shows up only after a good developer, who embodies your list of qualities, follows
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by bpyne 16y ago
I'm curious. Did the imagery influence your decision to start or your decision on which brand or both?
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by bpyne 16y ago
The entry point for new smokers is a little older than 10. I think it's more like the early teen years. At that point, I think the "gruesome is cool" phase has abated a bit. Besides, the attraction towards gruesome has to war with young peo

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