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by buff-a 15y ago
Here's the opening of the article she referenced: "Austin's supply crunch for software developers was bad enough by September to prompt 25 Central Texas tech executives to fly to California in search of new talent." Here's your argument: M
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by buff-a 15y ago
In an ideal world, Waterfall will lead to a worse product than an iterative one. We don't live in the real world, and I expect these guys deal with clients who regularly fall into the -from-hell[1] category. I would bet that many people pos
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by buff-a 15y ago
This is the paper that was the basis of Scrum: The New New Product Development Game, Harvard Business Review, 1986. [1]. The crux of the paper is that you should be "grouping teams by product, not role, and figuring out an interdisciplinary
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by buff-a 15y ago
Why? Why don't you use Microsoft SQL Server? I mean, your company decided that for sound economic reasons, Microsoft is the way to go. You did read all those reports that even though linux is free, it has a much higher TCO than Windows. Why
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She made this exact same speech before wikileaks (January 2010) [1]. She's making this exact same speech after wikileaks. The hymn sheet doesn't change. [2] By standing up and demanding that other countries behave morally she suggests that
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by buff-a 15y ago
It's this sort of ridiculousness that makes it so difficult to take Dodd and the MPAA seriously in these discussions. Only if you are educated and rational. We, here, are not the audience for his remarks.
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by buff-a 15y ago
Do you have any data on that? I only have two data points: I've contracted for two Fortune 10 companies. Both companies had Windows on the Desktop. But their Big Data / Big Iron was linux and solaris. Indeed the license managers (FlexLM) th
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by buff-a 15y ago
He perhaps should have said Posix, or "not-windows". "Redis is written in ANSI C and works in most POSIX systems like Linux, BSD, OS X and Solaris without external dependencies." [1] So I think if you stack IBM, Oracle, HP, and everyone els
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by buff-a 15y ago
Quake? This quake? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_(video_game) What a wonderful argument in support of @antirez's suggestion that other people port and maintain it. In every case each port was done after the fact, into its own pro
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Learning a different platform to a competent level is not really what you want to be doing when you're trying to implement production-ready systems under time and cost constraints. BINGO. Hence, he isn't. But when he follows your own logi
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Which tells us that the RIAA lies to law enforcement and should be criminally investigated. If its a corporation, and since corporation are now people, perhaps we should put it in prison and allow it one phone call per week.
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I don't believe OP is saying right the same thing three times. He's saying that quite often, one has to write something that is almost the same as this other thing, and later yet another thing that is almost the same. The first time you wri
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But the reason why developers are shackled to Objective C is to make sure processes finish in human time, and this is fundamentally a performance bottleneck in mobile hardware. I use monotouch. Compiles to ARM assembly. Not seeing any pro
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/18/clarence-thomas-eth...
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"Reading pretty much any Supreme Court decision will show you how intelligent these nine justices are." Not saying they aren't intelligent. But they might be intelligent enough to have their wives take hundreds of thousands of dollars in lo
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It is a tragic failure of imagination to believe that a driverless car will offer the same opportunities as a bus or subway. Yes, I'm sure there will be a public transit version of them. Yes, I'm sure that you'll occassionally have to rejec
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by buff-a 15y ago
Actually the energy used would be reduced by quite a bit. They can drive in formation. This reduces energy expended by reducing drag. It also reduces congestion. It is estimated that congestion wastes 2.4B gallons of gasoline in the US [1].
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by buff-a 15y ago
If the presentation is by a technical* person to other technical* people, and you are just sitting in, then its fine. You just don't understand. The techies do. Its just domain knowledge speeding communication. If the presentation is to non
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by buff-a 15y ago
Are you saying they exist in other states?
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I'd like a ford F-150 sized truck that is diesel. I'd like a Ford Focus that is diesel. I live in California. What are my options?
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Still waiting for biodiesels.
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Martin Luther King Jr? Some people are important enough to track individually. One might even imagine that someone here on HN might be important enough, or become important enough. One can hope.
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by buff-a 15y ago
This is Hacker News so use your imagination. Imagine if you were a start-up, and you could tell any investor, "I have a $1 billion guarantee from the Federal Reserve". Are you saying that that would have NO VALUE, even if you never used it?
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by buff-a 15y ago
You pay enough attention to "is it fast" and you'll find yourself writing everything in assembler Not everything. Not even then. Just the good bits maybe. Sometimes none of it. It might make me prefer C# over Java for example, because C#
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by buff-a 15y ago
Can you explain to me how a long rambling story on reddit counts as "thoroughly refuted"? Perhaps you could link to the salient points because I missed them. What is "liquidity" any more than "reputation"? Why do banks get loaned short term
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Its absolutely Google's fight. Google does nothing but publish links. Linking is absolutely protected speech. Google's entire business is being threatened by a judge ignorant of the law.
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The price skyrocketed because of some spectacular crop failures, price of oil, etc. Biofuels contributed but do not explain the price changes we saw in 2007-2008 [2]. That is more industry FUD. A further problem is ethanol and corn. Corn is
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I'm thinking of bio diesel. We have the technology, the delivery infrastructure, clean engines, mechanics, the land. And its as carbon neutral as it gets. But no, instead we have all these massively energy intensive processed "biofuels", or
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When we look at healthcare, what's wrong with it, and what needs to happen to fix it, we can't see as clearly how the web, technology, and large networks of engaged users can impact healthcare in a positive way. Because we are not allowed
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If by "cat and mouse" you mean "the cat takes a day or two to learn how to find and eat each new type of mouse but having done so immediately eats such mice the instant it appears almost as if the mouse is teleported into the cats mouth" th

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