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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
"{#}" was proposed because it looks like teeth showing. "\_/" was proposed because it looks like a smile.
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
It wasn't spelled out in the article, but in the movie NIMH is an acronym for National Institute of Mental Health.
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
Underrated comment.
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
I blame Pokémon Go. Somehow or another I'm sure it's to blame.
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
I always thought Popper's LSD was considered his best book to read on this. I haven't read it yet, but it's been on my To-Read list for a while. Popper's view essentially boils down to: "Science can't prove a
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
> Scientists don't "believe" in science, they understand how to apply the scientific method in order to examine and discard false beliefs. Scientists need nature to be uniform for the scientific method to work, correct? Ha
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
> I'll also note that science generally relies on empiricism rather than induction I don't disagree, but how does that change my point? Empiricism and Induction both need the uniformity of nature to work. How would you prove th
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by c0achmcguirk 10y ago
Science doesn't depend on the Inductive Principle? The idea that nature is uniform doesn't inform Science? How would you test falsifiable theories and predictions if nature weren't uniform?
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
Does the scientific method rely on the Inductive Principle? How would you prove the IP without relying on the IP? If you believe something that can't be proven, what do you call it?
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
By believing in the Inductive Principle and the future will be like the past. How do you prove that? By relying on the Inductive Principle... circularity is unavoidable and this is where faith comes in.
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
It follows from your reasoning that it would be unwise to follow a scientist who believes in science, then.
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
LOLZ
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
I love how Ember keeps borrowing the best ideas from the other frameworks and evolves in a pretty responsible way.
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
"I want to be offended!" signed, people who take offense at a off-hand remark like this. Grow some thicker skin and stop wasting my screen real estate with irrelevant non-stories like this.
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
> Most people have learned to do a similar sort of filtering on new things they hear about. They don't even start paying attention until they've heard about something ten times. They're perfectly justified: the majority of
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
Neal Ford (Thoughtworks) said in a recent talk that he can tell which projects were written with TDD vs. non-TDD by looking at one metric. Cyclomatic Complexity. He said that TDD code typically results in a code base having classes with an
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
> As usual my advice on this is: look at the people who build things you find highly impressive, and study how they did it. This is much more fruitful than reading the output of people who want to spend all day telling you how to program
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
I've worked with two bootstrap grads, the ones that come from the 8-week program. One of them I hired directly onto my team. It's been a great experience! The developer I hired is moving on because he found a better paying positio
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
I would rank the classes in order: 1. Accounting - It's the language of business. Like learning English before you become a pilot. This class helped me start asking deeper questions when meeting with business people. 2. Finance - Holy
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
Yes, I do...but I haven't only worked in the financial industry. I still think an understanding of how business leaders think is helpful in any industry. "Tech Industry" is pretty broad...Facebook does advertising, marketing,
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
I think the confidence and competence applies in any profit-driven business, in my experience.
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
Great questions eecks! > The problem is that that is not my job. The company wants business people to plan and developers to create - because that makes sense. Everyone's time is used for their strengths. Why isn't it your job
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
I'm a developer at a financial services company. I was content to be a developer and let the "business" folks define our stories and I'd just code them. I never understood the application I was building on a deep level--
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
Spideroak user here. I stopped using Dropbox and started using Spideroak about a 18 months ago. I really like the product. It's not as good as Dropbox in some ways (like automatically syncing photos from my phone) but it really is easy
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
It's been great listening to Rob's story about HitTail on the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast [1]. I highly recommend this podcast for the coder/entrepreneurs out there. It will motivate you and keep you focused on starti
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
Outstanding article on many counts. It also reminds me of a recent article I read on Psychology Today [1] that talks about fragile students: "Students are increasingly seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises over, prob
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
It was an anecdote from Bill Goedken at the 2015 CUNA CFO Conference. It was from the session "Mining Gold – New Trends and Discoveries in ‘Big Data’ That Will Help Your Credit Union Compete". I've linked to the slides ([1])
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
The regulatory burden facing credit unions from the NCUA is not near as bad as what banks face from the FDIC. Right now the FDIC regulators take the stance that your bank is "guilty until proven innocent." One bank was getting exa
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
Derp, you're right. I knew that.
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by c0achmcguirk 11y ago
Interesting....a friend of mine has a daughter learning Greek. She asked if Greek comics used "ΩΩΩΩΩΩΩ" (Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet) to depict snoring. I wanted to know the answer, so I embarked on a journey of

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