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by breischl 6y ago
I'm fairly certain he was disagreeing with the content of the statement, not that Joel Spolsky wrote it. ie, yes Spolsky said that, but he was wrong.
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by breischl 6y ago
>I still think that it's more intuitive to describe commits as diffs, in the context of things like cherry-picking a commit or rebasing/reordering a series of commits. If I understood the article correctly, those things actuall
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by breischl 6y ago
Yeah, that's another way to do it. Another way to look at that is you're doing the proration on the final amount, and then distributing the rounding difference across the line items. Which is nice because you get the right total,
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by breischl 6y ago
My favorite: when do you do rounding? For instance, with proration. Take each line item, prorate it, round it, then add them all together. Totally reasonable. Now add all the line items together, prorate the total, and round it. Also reason
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by breischl 6y ago
Ha, I guess it's possible. But if that's true then it seems that some of the intermediate steps in "public static void universe()" use mutable state that can result in cache invalidation difficulties.
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by breischl 6y ago
But just because you're an employee doesn't mean you have unlimited authority. Getting the janitor to sign a billion dollar contract doesn't mean that Microsoft has agreed to it. The new-hire intern can't go on the news
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by breischl 6y ago
>maybe the next search engine should use a push-system So setting up a new search engine that way would require going to every site and convincing them to notify you of changes. Wouldn't that be even more limited than the current Cl
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by breischl 6y ago
Easier said than done. Read the "Key distribution" section of that page.
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by breischl 6y ago
I suspect that he was also writing in large part for his colleagues at the NYT, who might be quite a bit more interested in the office/corporate/union politics angles that he spends a lot of time talking about. Obviously that&#x27
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by breischl 6y ago
According to the author's version of events his colleagues were offended by a description that was inaccurate to point of falsified (again, according to the author), and their outrage was conveyed by someone who may have been looking f
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by breischl 6y ago
I'm confused how this project related to jet fuel or displaces the production of oil products in general.
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by breischl 6y ago
>We can afford to lose the last few minutes of work without anyone getting yelled at. Some modern virtualization technologies do help a lot in this regard. Running bare metal you need to be a little more careful. How does virtualization
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by breischl 6y ago
Shhhhh, no there's not. These are not the metro areas you're looking for. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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by breischl 6y ago
One approach to this is the "Five Why's" approach, wherein you ask "why" five times. eg, Q1: Why did the plan explode? A1: The engine cowling fell into the engine Q2: Why'd that happen? A2: The tire exploded an
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by breischl 6y ago
Seems like both you and your parent comment are talking about software audits & auditors. I don't know if that exists in this form, but it seems reasonable that if you can get a security audit you should be able to get a correctnes
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by breischl 6y ago
Maybe, or maybe that's just the smokescreen they put up to prevent anyone looking at it. I notice that they didn't say "here's the results of our last independency audit and verification of correctness", which I t
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by breischl 6y ago
How that number was probably arrived at... PHB: Hey, how many lines of code do we have? CodeMonkey: You want a high estimate or a low estimate? PHB: High CodeMonkey: Well, including unit tests, comments, whitespace, build scripts, integrati
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by breischl 6y ago
When you want to do voting, moderation, new/hot/etc, handle potentially large loads, it can get to be a lot. Also, if you don't want anonymous commenters (because that contributes to spam and bad community) you get into the e
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by breischl 6y ago
Google had a reader app, in fact the market-dominant reader app. They could sell advertising next to it, like they do with everything else (probably did, I'm not sure). They also owned a publishing platform (Blogger) and an RSS metrics
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by breischl 6y ago
Lol, my bad, you're right. It was wildly popular, random people on the street were talking about RSS, everyone in the general non-blogging populace was swapping their favorite feeds, it was amazing. That's probably why Google shut
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by breischl 6y ago
RSS as branding - well, I've tried to sell people on it for years. I actually worked at an RSS aggregator startup for 7 years, so I spent a while pushing it. You say "RSS" to most people and their eyes glaze over. >The sub
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by breischl 6y ago
>I always wonder why they aren't as popular now. IMO it's a lot of reasons. A big one, that was the case even before social media, is the inherent geekiness of it. "RSS" is an acronym after a geek's heart, most p
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by breischl 6y ago
I wonder if that does shift the window, though? At some point I think you appear to be far enough out of the realm of reality that the suggestion appears unserious and is completely disregarded. eg, if we were talking about climate change o
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by breischl 6y ago
GP did not suggest letting private citizens bring criminal charges, he suggested having a separate and independent arm of government that provides oversight of the police have that power. That's a very different thing, and at seems at
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by breischl 6y ago
I think the most important part of this would be an ML model that generates new office jargon on a regular basis. It seems like this should be easy, since it's mostly just remixing existing language in impenetrable and quasi-meaningles
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by breischl 6y ago
I had never thought of it in those terms before, but this is similar to portfolio diversification in investing. There's the quip that when you're properly diversified there's always something to hate in your portfolio. Of cou
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by breischl 6y ago
Somewhat tangentially, do you have an opinion on whether PPIs cause dementia, regardless of what the mechanism may be? Reason I ask is that I've been taking them daily for years to control GERD, so I'm wondering if I'm frying
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by breischl 6y ago
I tend to agree with this. I do think that this article (as with most) brushes far too easily over the tension between tech debt and new features. It's not uncommon to have a product person (or even team) that spend tons of time doing
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by breischl 6y ago
It is a little bit obscure, and saying "prioritization" would probably be clearer. But it does actually work. When there are high-value things to do, then that is the opportunity cost of doing low-value things instead. ie, by doin
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by breischl 6y ago
I agree with this. At perhaps a slightly higher level, I've been toying around with the idea of "business process debt" to describe a different-but-similar concept. Basically that many type the business/product people ke

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