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by bsaunder 14y ago
Here's the problem with your comment: It's not one sided. As you point out, "Point of View is worth 80IQ points". The more productive point of view is external to both the product people and the engineer. IMHO, I think it's wrong to think
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by bsaunder 15y ago
I'm continually frustrated by the false dichotomy presented by the mainstream media between "government cut spending"/"government spend more/go into debt". Clearly another option is central bank bail out. I can accept that some people don'
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by bsaunder 15y ago
I wish this had been a root level comment (so it would be more visible). I think this is by far the most plausible explanation especially if you think about human history and technology differences. Imagine our current spy agencies with bl
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by bsaunder 15y ago
The post sounds like a rant when it really should be a glowing review (if it truly was a "Great Movie") and some recommendations for improvement. Get over it. There are many better things in life to focus your energy on.
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by bsaunder 15y ago
I think I read about MQL a couple of years ago. I like it a lot. Not sure how/if it fits into the REST paradigm.
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by bsaunder 15y ago
While I like the standardization afforded by REST, I frequently run into some artificial limitations that are imposed on the different request methods. For example, I find that I would frequently like to pass structure information in a GET
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Obama Invokes Cold-War Security Powers to Unmask Chinese Telecom Spyware(bloomberg.com)
4 points by bsaunder 15y ago|0 comments
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by bsaunder 15y ago
Programmers in successful startups (like the ones producing the demos you mention) ignore what people tell them that they can't do. They just try and they get something done. Then they iterate as long as "the demo's ui sucks" is the numbe
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by bsaunder 15y ago
Vibe could address some of these concerns (and maybe already has done so) by encrypting the communications and blurring the time and the gps coordinates in the client prior to sending the data. Then server logs and network logs wouldn't li
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by bsaunder 15y ago
I believe he's talking about the whole lot of it. Software and hardware . I think USBs suffer their own issues (see http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/USB_Devices_Compatibility_List as a simple example (hint see the ""If the Device does n
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by bsaunder 15y ago
If government wants to create jobs, they need to encourage businesses to create new value (by paying them to create that value). Employers will then hire people to create the value (and pay them (after skimming enough profit off the top to
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by bsaunder 15y ago
I've been debugging plenty of distributed/parallel processing systems by trace statements. It's not trivially easy, but its not too bad (its actually kind of fun). In fact, I'm not exactly sure how you would debug a multi-process paralle
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by bsaunder 15y ago
I find analyzing trace statements to be far faster than setting conditional break points and stepping through a debugger. I can quickly run a test, grep/skim through the trace output and ignore/drill down into detailed minutia that are irre
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by bsaunder 15y ago
I would be nice if this was done in terms of MIME Types. Perhaps similar to the "Accept" header in HTTP (though in this case the invoker is telling the program (aka server) what types it would like). Of course this only solves the parsing
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Work for post-materialists (economist.com)
104 points by bsaunder 15y ago|48 comments
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by bsaunder 15y ago
I've explored similar concepts. In particular I've found it rather powerful to be able to export/import code refs with: use YAML::Syck; $YAML::Syck::UseCode = 1; Watch out though, when you take executable code from a user.
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by bsaunder 15y ago
Perhaps because (s)he wants to share with the community that at least one person agrees with the comment: Previously: click up arrow, score of parent shows as 2. Now: click up arrow... no one knows. Post a comment to make it visible (idea
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by bsaunder 15y ago
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2368486 (there are lots of comments, a couple of months ago, it would have been easy to see which ones are "interesting", now you must read them all).
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Almost all bad estimates are due to a lack of information. In software development, the information that tends to be missing are the particulars of the task being estimated (which code needs to be modified, in what way). This missing info
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by bsaunder 16y ago
So, here's the link to the actual referenced report: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/15/apple_ios_throttles_... IMO, it doesn't add much to the discussion except for this nugget at the very end of the article: "This developer reitera
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Does anyone here use this and have a recommendation on platform? My preference is Linux, MaxOS and Windows (in that order). But if not all platforms work equally well, I may reconsider.
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Buy an Arduino and start building robots. IMHO, there's a long, rewarding career there.
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by bsaunder 16y ago
I've been using AnyEvent for several months now and really like it. It took some work to mentally sync up with it initially, but once it clicked I was happy I took the time.
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Isomorphism and the Evolution of Creativity(robinprior.net)
1 points by bsaunder 16y ago|0 comments
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Meaning and Form in Mathematics(adler.wordpress.com)
3 points by bsaunder 16y ago|0 comments
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by bsaunder 16y ago
> Even with all the tech problems solved, the regulatory hurdles to implementing this are staggering. I think we will "back in" to self driving cars. I think they will first appear as safety features on luxury cars (this is already hap
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Software Development and Creativity(michaellant.com)
1 points by bsaunder 16y ago|0 comments
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Illumination is one thing. Enabling a ten year old to do malicious stuff with a few clicks and poorly considered actions is entirely another.
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Interesting article, thanks for posting. To mesh with the recent "Rands in Repose" post, this gave me some good relevance points to ponder for a little while. I've developed a similar fascination with graph data over the past couple of yea
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by bsaunder 16y ago
Good post. I find there is a lot of potential economic value in connections of information. Essentially this is innovation. Find just a few useful concepts/tools/techniques not previously connected together. Figure out if there are any n

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