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by bpyne 6y ago
Some good ideas exist in this article. I could see this strategy implemented in my district as one of several starting in the Fall. But it's not going to be easy. I'm in New England. The sheer number of students and the percentage
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by bpyne 6y ago
She brought up an interesting point: asking your colleague if (s)he wants recognition. Sending recognition is usually a decision made in the moment. Asking permission makes a process out of it. Having a process reduces your motivation to se
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by bpyne 6y ago
So much good in this short piece. He sounds like someone I want on my team. Users who work with IT often tend to give better descriptions and test cases. Quite often I need more information though. He's right that you try not to bother
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by bpyne 6y ago
I didn't invent it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_State... I discovered it on July 4 when people I passingly know on FB took a pledge to QAnon. Looking up QAnon brought me to the Deep Stat
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by bpyne 6y ago
I suspect we have some "deep staters" in attendance. Everything you know, you don't. Everything you believe is false. A liberal conspiracy exists and it's hiding in plain sight. If you ignore these "throw the baby o
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by bpyne 6y ago
"Philosophically science is about being interested and studying broad range of topics and areas to judge everything for yourself and make your own conclusions, not trust expert opinions." Not quite. It's observation of the wo
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by bpyne 6y ago
Excellent, thought-provoking piece that comes at a good time for me. I've been looking at Python's unittest for a specific system I've been developing over the course of 12 years at work. It became clear recently that we need
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by bpyne 6y ago
I enjoy learning about the industrial area I'm in (higher education). I enjoy creating software that people use daily. I enjoy creative problem solving. I enjoy learning how different organizations fulfill their reason for being while
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by bpyne 6y ago
I think Jemisin is moving SciFi/Fantasy toward a point in which the hard line is becoming irrelevant. In general, I can't tolerate SciFi for much the same reason that I'm bored with High Fantasy. Jemesin brings enough of each
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by bpyne 6y ago
Jemisin listed Octavia Butler as one of her biggest influences. I read a few of Octavia's books. The influence is clear. If you enjoy Jemisin, you'll enjoy Butler.
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by bpyne 6y ago
Rothfuss had an imaginative magic system in the Kingkiller Chronicles. I'm hoping that he continues with the system even if he doesn't finish the series.
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by bpyne 6y ago
An interview with Brandon Sanderson peaked my interest in Jemisin. He said something to the effect that she is trying to move Fantasy into a new direction. At the time I read it, I had finished the Malazan Book of the Fallen, which in itsel
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by bpyne 6y ago
Reminds me of a snarky comment I read, "If you love doing something, keep it as a hobby or you'll begin to hate it."
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by bpyne 6y ago
There is bad code in everyone's repo. Several of my repos are from courses in grad school. From a software engineering standpoint, they are horrendous. But, they solved the problem the professor assigned and taught me what the professo
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by bpyne 6y ago
Thanks. Multiline certainly raises the value of a REPL.
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by bpyne 6y ago
Good question about the value of a REPL to Python. My first experience with a REPL was the SQL*Plus tool from Oracle. I don't remember it being called a REPL. But, as I read about Common Lisp's REPL, I realized that I had been usi
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by bpyne 6y ago
Most of the "Belgian-style" beers I tasted have been crap. Recently I tried Allagash White and was pretty impressed with it. But, whenever possible, I just go with an actual Belgian beer. Back in the late 90's I fell in love
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by bpyne 6y ago
I supported American craft beer since the mid-90's until a few years ago when everyone went nuts with hops. American breweries seem to have become a copycat industry. Nowadays I'm going back to European beers. In particular, I&#x2
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by bpyne 6y ago
Someone well-known in the IT field wrote about software reuse in the large vs. in the small about 10-15 years ago. The gist was that reuse in the small is a success, i.e. it's fairly simple to write a function that developers reuse wit
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by bpyne 6y ago
I suggest looking for articles in major US publications starting with NPR's site. There's just too much to cover in a comment. Just as a synopsis, systemic racism became a more subtle segregation. POC (People or Person of Color) w
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by bpyne 6y ago
Please see my comment to allannienhuis.
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by bpyne 6y ago
Please see my comment to allanniehuis.
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by bpyne 6y ago
Whether it's a bug or a modification to requirements I'm still the one who works on it. So "not my problem" doesn't exist in my situation. The distinction matters very much when it comes to prioritizing my work. I&#
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by bpyne 6y ago
I like the analogy. I'm trying to get people in my organization to understand that it's not a bug when a feature works as specified in the app requirements. Either the requirement wasn't specified well or a change of circumst
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by bpyne 6y ago
CE mixes low and high level concepts well. I've never had a hardware class but have a copy of Tanenbaum's hardware book. It gives me hand-wavy notion of how the processor operates. But I'd never apply for a hardware programmi
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by bpyne 6y ago
Section 2.4 of the paper gave me a chuckle. Like Rich, I've yet to write a program that didn't involve some kind of database. Organizations care about data not programs. Writing programs just gives them a way of applying organizat
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by bpyne 6y ago
Your comment harks to a much broader concept. Are Computer Science programs supposed to produce software engineers or people grounded in the theory? My own opinion is that separate tracks should exist. Grading students more harshly without
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by bpyne 6y ago
"Programs are not designed to be readable, they are designed to solve a problem." Programs are written to solve a problem. They are designed to be understood by others who might have to debug or modify them due to new requirements
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by bpyne 6y ago
"No factual basis" is more accurate with respect to the particular example.
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by bpyne 6y ago
I think it's a good thing to hold public figures accountable. Politicians, in particular, need to be held accountable due to the large amount of influence they have on our society. When Twitter, for example, places a warning on a Tweet

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