bpyne

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by bpyne 7y ago
I wonder if the problem isn't how to measure productivity, but the fact that we bother to focus on individual contribution rather than how the organization operates with respect to organizational goals. I work for a mid-sized universit
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by bpyne 7y ago
I have the same issue with notes. When I have to analyze what I'm hearing, I can't do anything other than listen. It's like my brain shifts between modes. My intuition is that I would have been an A student if I took time to
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by bpyne 7y ago
I remember that my wife and I were late to Facebook, having been convinced by our daughter's babysitter that it made staying in touch with people easier. We built out a Friends list and were having a great time reconnecting with people
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by bpyne 7y ago
From the article, we don't know how much a moderator "can take" daily. Perhaps studies haven't been done. Perhaps it's too complicated a subject for good tests. But, they could check with organizations who have expe
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by bpyne 7y ago
"Understood as senior: Legacy code that I wrote myself is hard to read." Your comment came at the perfect time. I just finished debugging a "high urgency" problem with a program I developed and maintained for the past 10
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by bpyne 7y ago
When my wife gave birth to our daughter we had a room to stay in. Every 1.5-2 hours the nurses came in to ask questions and run tests. It was maddening. My wife had to finally cry and beg them to stop. Afterward, we managed about a few hour
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by bpyne 7y ago
My employer let me drop to 25 hours/week when I went to grad school. Twenty-five turned out to be a sweet spot. I enjoyed accomplishing goals for my employer each day and had an extra 3 hours daily for family and personal goals. It was
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by bpyne 7y ago
Has the company looked at which departments need to be on-premise and then let the other ones have flexibility? If the departments who work remotely now and then are meeting the company's goals, it seems like a model to follow.
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by bpyne 7y ago
You're dramatizing other people's statements quite a bit. Nobody is saying that the use of Git should be the subject of lectures, unless you're using Git's source code or software design to exemplify some technical point
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by bpyne 7y ago
Some people are slow starters for various reasons, often lack of confidence. As long as I see some interest in becoming better, I'll gladly mentor.
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by bpyne 7y ago
An SE is part of the "business". Often an organization has many projects that need to be done, so time estimates are critical to determine when the next project can start. It's an important skill to have. You're not &quo
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by bpyne 7y ago
Software Engineering has to do with designing and building information-based applications that do something useful for people. As such, SE students should be fluent in versioning and build tools, frameworks, languages such as Rust, Python,
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by bpyne 7y ago
If two tracks were available, I think you'd see a large reduction in the number of CS students. The ones who did go the CS route would be the ones who had no interest in commercial software development. The SE route would insure that g
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by bpyne 7y ago
I think having separate Software Engineering and Computer Science tracks would probably help the situation. The SE track still covers some "good to knows", like data structures and algorithms and hardware basics, but emphasizes th
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by bpyne 7y ago
If only more people had that self-awareness in high school. Unfortunately, the influence of parents and other social pressures often cause kids to make choices that aren't right for them.
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by bpyne 7y ago
Yes, my understanding is the same except that professors are usually required to teach. My best professor in grad school, in terms of teaching ability, had a wife who was a high school teacher. He was head and shoulders above everyone else
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by bpyne 7y ago
To reiterate, without knowing about your application, it isn't easy to make recommendations. It sounds like the Animal table is going to be the join table between Pet and the different types of animal tables. Correct? You haven't
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by bpyne 7y ago
Unfortunately, reason isn't at play here. It would take just a fraction of customers for the restaurant chains, supplied by Impossible Foods, to express fear of the burger's contents to cause chains to drop them. Large corporation
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by bpyne 7y ago
As other people are saying, you haven't really given enough information for someone to suggest a definitive data model. By "Pet" class, do you mean a table for pet records? Pets are animals that humans decide to take care of.
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by bpyne 7y ago
Curves sound like a tool for damage control while professors learn how to teach. It seems like it would be better to require professors to have a basic certification in Education so they'd know how to teach better. Teaching well is som
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by bpyne 7y ago
I've never understood the use of "curves". Secondary ed doesn't use them as far as my experience goes. Intuitively, it seems like they're harmful because they leave students off-kilter, not knowing whether or not th
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by bpyne 7y ago
Yup. About half the US needs them for 3 or more months per year. And then there's the rise of surgical masks to prevent the spread of viruses. I also foresee a surge in wide-brimmed hats.
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by bpyne 7y ago
"Bread and circuses" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
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by bpyne 7y ago
And the most efficient way to keep people from reflecting on their lives, realizing how far from their "ideal lives" they are.
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by bpyne 7y ago
Yes to everything, especially about having kids! Many responsibilities in family life are uninteresting. Often I have to be patient for weeks in order to work on something I find interesting. Months ago I found a great programming project t
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by bpyne 7y ago
I can see some energy efficiency in the auto turn on/off. Maybe we're using different terminology, but what do you use in lieu of light bulbs? (I call any of those tubular things, e.g. fluorescent lighting, light bulbs.)
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by bpyne 7y ago
Welcome to the fruit of programming language research from decades ago! No snark intended. Since learning of functional programming languages about 15 years ago, I'm continuously amazed that our industry is so slow to put this research
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by bpyne 7y ago
I can't think of a single compelling use-case for home automation systems. I'm trying to understand what other people see in it. I have to wonder if it's driven by the amount of interest a person has in "tinkering"
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by bpyne 7y ago
Ah, I see what you mean. I was thinking in terms of union'ing and the like where you can use set theory to compose sets of information from various queries.
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by bpyne 7y ago
"and because SQL is impossible to compose without substantial problems." Would you mind providing an example of what you mean?

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