bpyne

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by bpyne 17y ago
The specific manifestation of the problem may not be novel, but the underlying problem persists. It's the people, process, technology argument. McDonald's is heavy on process and technology but have unskilled labor - as far as restaurant wo
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by bpyne 17y ago
Yes, one, proficiently in my opinion. (drums if it's any help.)
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by bpyne 17y ago
I'm only evaluating Clojure right now but I respect greatly what you are doing. $100 gladly given.
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by bpyne 17y ago
I'd need to read the article again but I think the study was done on civil employees. I don't know how broad the pay range is for civil employees nor if the authors sampled the full range. The thing to keep in mind is that Western science m
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by bpyne 17y ago
I think they looked more to people who eat processed foods as part of their normal diet and not people who eat processed foods as a reward. It would be good to know how much processed food within some recurring time frame - say weekly - the
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by bpyne 17y ago
To be accurate, your summation should read: "this headline should read: fringe group of 44 wealthy Germans demand higher taxes on German people deemed wealthy for a period of 2 years, strangely making the news." "the rest of the country opt
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by bpyne 17y ago
It sounds like Yahoo was still in its infancy. Just to play Devil's Advocate, could Ballmer have talked down the role of search engines to get the Jerry et al. to concede Yahoo or its technology at a cheaper price?
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by bpyne 17y ago
"Therefore anyone can make a record that sounds like an 8. If you want to stand out, you either make it sound like a 4 or raise money somehow to put out a 9-10 sounding record." I agree that good recording sound is important. Gone are the d
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by bpyne 17y ago
unjustified... and a terrible teaching practice. How could a teacher expect the student's mind to be ready for learning after being made to feel like a freak of nature? "WTF is wrong with you?! Okay, now turn to the chapter on quadratic equ
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by bpyne 17y ago
You know your situation better than we could. Your decisions are your own and are right for you. As some of the other responders show, a child can be raised in the suburbs and come out with an open mind. It is just easier for someone raised
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by bpyne 17y ago
You're entitled to your own choice. Your decision points about what constitutes a "lower standard of living" are completely your own. I'm not sure the "most people's standards" part is supportable. I'd like to see some research about 20 and
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by bpyne 17y ago
I'm not sure if highways caused or simply enabled suburbanization. One commenter expressed confusion about why suburbs seem to be hated. I'm not sure suburbs themselves are hated or the design of them for the last 40 years is hated. From ag
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by bpyne 17y ago
There's another more fundamental issue with education at the high school level in the US: scheduling. Usually high school students go through 6 periods of 50 minutes each daily, often with one of them being a study period alternating with p
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by bpyne 17y ago
Unfortunately my tests have been too basic to give any advice in your situation. Adding data elements has been nothing more complex than adding it to the class. Queries that filter on elements in a single class are trivially easy - but I th
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by bpyne 17y ago
I've been playing with the db4o OODBMS. So far my tests are simple and I've been using tinker toy Scala programs to test against it, but I love the simplicity. I could definitely make a case for using it in an OLTP department-sized applicat
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by bpyne 17y ago
By the time you turn 40, you may likely have a mortgage and family. Packing the family up and selling the house to pursue a more challenging development job in another area is just not feasible, especially when your spouse has her own caree
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by bpyne 17y ago
Hopefully "Smaller Cheaper Faster" resounds in the minds of Inc's readership. Perhaps they will even take the time to read some of his essays where he expands on this perspective.
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by bpyne 18y ago
Wouldn't this give Oracle ownership of the JVM? I'm a little more concerned about their ownership of it than the Java language itself.
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by bpyne 18y ago
Agree fully with lbrandy's point. Just to add a little more, people seem to get confused between the expression of mathematical thoughts and having mathematical thoughts. Mathematical symbols are abbreviations for ideas that, if expressed i
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by bpyne 18y ago
Specifically it's operations on sets. Trying to manipulate, in your head, many sets of information - with aggregation and outer joins - to yield a solution set is highly mathematical.
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by bpyne 18y ago
My opinion is based on a limited sampling but how a language is taught is key. My wife and I each took French classes for 6 years prior to meeting. Her teachers emphasized speaking fluency while mine emphasized writing. She was taught to us
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by bpyne 18y ago
Spreading further down Rte. 95 is desirable from my perspective as it connects Providence, RI with Boston and 128. The mass transit system is setup as a wagon wheel with everything south of Boston going into Back Bay and South Stations. (I
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by bpyne 18y ago
Tech needs to expand beyond Rte.128. Rte's 95, 90, 495, and 146 make working in tech more viable for those of us south of the pike. Having more tech clustered in Boston around Back Bay and South Stations would be a huge boon given the commu
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by bpyne 18y ago
My assumption is that the cost of producing a digital copy is significantly less expensive than the paper version. (I'd appreciate any links to studies on this.) If it's true, then advertising should not be necessary to defray cost.
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by bpyne 18y ago
I would only be willing to pay if there is a "no advertisements" option.
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by bpyne 18y ago
Albeit PL/SQL is a subset that gives you only a flavor of Ada. I think Ada just plain did not gain momentum at a time when developers looked for a new paradigm to aid in building larger, more complex systems. The nod went to OO and C++ was
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by bpyne 18y ago
Wouldn't the change of algorithm be a variation on the LOC metric that's universally despised? People would simply write longer comments with possibly as little worth.
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by bpyne 18y ago
"I'd be interested in hearing what made you consider this article nonsense." And what would you do to change it? (I couldn't resist.) The article was a reminder that team building is the underlying success of projects. Bringing people toget
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by bpyne 18y ago
Your observation about perfectionism's root is astute. However, ego is a pale imitation of internal self-acceptance but is often mistaken for it. We still need to have enough wisdom to know that v1.0 is probably not as good as it can be whi
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by bpyne 18y ago
I live in Southern New England. We get more than our share of rain in the Winter. We also get temperatures rising just above freezing each day so that snow melts and ice forms each evening - wonderful for commutes. At present, my snow pile

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