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by cpks 12y ago
It's hard to study. The initial studies were coding time, but the productivity difference comes down to a few things: * Good architecture choices. These make a big difference in total development time. * Communications. A team of 50 1x
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by cpks 12y ago
Because, for complex software, it's not a myth.
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by cpks 12y ago
No. It wouldn't. The point of Streetview isn't to be an independent business. The point is to support other Google businesses. At the end of the day, it's all about being the go-to places for local information so you can sell
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by cpks 12y ago
That actually doesn't seem unreasonable to prohibit...
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by cpks 12y ago
Conversely, neither Valve nor Google are digging their graves, like much of the rest of the industry does over time. See the prior post about Dell. Look at Microsoft. Focus helps, but good people make a bigger difference. The overhead, be t
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by cpks 12y ago
The Uber drvers I speak to have generally have had a much more positive experience. One difference may be point-of-reference. A software engineer has much higher expectations for income, treatment, etc. than blue collar or unskilled workers
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by cpks 12y ago
And it cost $15 million. The annual cost of product failures in the US is $100 billion. Big whoop. PlayPump is 0.1% of that. Your share of the PlayPump (assuming equal cost to everyone in the US)? A nickel. You don't just fund a PlayPu
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by cpks 12y ago
> The repeated “success, scale, fail” experience of the last 20 years of development practice suggests something super boring: Development projects thrive or tank according to the specific dynamics of the place in which they’re applied.
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by cpks 12y ago
You'd be surprised at how much innovation comes bottom-up. Someone tries a neat, work-relevant technology for a pet weekend project, demos it, and the company adopts it. There are places with heavyweight evaluation/adoption/e
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by cpks 12y ago
I'm a little confused about the value proposition here. This is about 60 CPUs at 1GHz with little memory and low IPC. Price, before promotion, is $2k, and after, $250. I can get an FX-9590 for $250, which has 8 cores, but running at 4.
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by cpks 12y ago
I have a Thinkpad T60. An IBM Thinkpad T60. Retrofitted with a 2048x1536 LCD from an even older R60, a 512MB SSD, a 64 bit processor, and maxed out to 3GB of RAM. It's running Linux. I'd love to swap that thing out for something m
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by cpks 12y ago
Dell, and the computer industry as a whole (sans Apple) has been flailing for years. Lack of progress and innovation: Before Apple shipped the Retina iMac, the best laptops had the same resolution displays as the best cell phones. Typical l
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by cpks 12y ago
It's funny, but whenever I run into weird DRM restrictions, I tend to switch to piracy. When I had no income, I never would have bought, and while I did pirate, no sales were lost. Now that I have income, I don't mind buying. But
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by cpks 12y ago
A few points: * These folks seem clueless. The cite Eric Raymond. Enough said. * I like classic init. I'm actually not a big fan of systemd, but I clearly recognize something needs to be replaced. The system needs to handle parallelism
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by cpks 12y ago
All I have to say is fuck Google. I would never use a Chromebook, for a hundred reasons. However, sabotaging Linux support in this way is both shortsighted, aggressive, and moronic. Our kids need to learn to use computers. Not just use Word
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by cpks 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal#Fields_Medals_by_A... Affiliation upon appointment of Field's Medal: Harvard: 3 MIT: 2 Chicago: 0 Chicago does list a lot of medalists of different sorts on their page,
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by cpks 12y ago
Perhaps. It's mostly the business school and the law school that are well-renowned. For most other fields, it is a rather generous step down from the Harvards, Yales, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, MIT, Caltech, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins (a
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by cpks 12y ago
I'd gladly buy one, or even four, if they just worked. Unfortunately, high-res multimonitor setups are horrendously unstable, require specialized graphics cards (which usually sound like rocket jets), and have a mess of incompatible st
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by cpks 12y ago
It's usually the smartest ones who get away. Spend 7 years for a chance at tenure? In many fields, spend years in a postdoc for a chance at a tenure-track job? Not smart. The image that the smartest, most promising ones stay in is just
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by cpks 12y ago
I wish we had cops like this in Cambridge, MA. Whenever I've reported a crime, or seen people report a crime, the police can't be bothered...
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by cpks 12y ago
I was responding to: > Shit, my ex-wife would pay $150-$200 for what I'd consider to be a basic blouse without even flinching. That's a different persona than the sort of person who buys 1-3 nice shirts and takes care of them.
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by cpks 12y ago
I don't think I have to. You've said enough yourself a few posts down: > I'll be honest, I wasn't even aware dress shirts were sold at Walmart.
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by cpks 12y ago
Unless you're planning to raise very substantial amounts of money, advertising might not be the most effective tactic. It's worth perhaps playing with, but not doing more until you've seen it work. You're a small busines
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by cpks 12y ago
Where are the shirts made? Are you planning to go into pants, suits, jackets, etc.? As a business decision, the $69 price-point seems a bit high. That sets it at elite, rather than mass-market. The problem with elite is outside of SFO and N
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by cpks 12y ago
I don't see why I'd want to pay for this. It doesn't change the world in any way. Bringing something fast and practical to the masses would be a different story, but this doesn't move technology in that direction. It&#x2
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by cpks 12y ago
Yup. Click. Look around. Navigate away.
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by cpks 12y ago
I've done a few verified certs. There's a question of causality. I only get on the verified track after I'm relatively confident I'll finish the course. Those are the same courses I would have gotten an honor code in i
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by cpks 12y ago
Regarding easiest vs. hardest, while I'd tend to agree with the conclusion, the logic is just plain wrong. Final course scores depend more on grading structure than anything. Many of the best courses use mastery learning. You can keep
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by cpks 12y ago
I'd buy one if I knew it would work. Heck, I'd buy two or four for a multimonitor setup. The process of figuring out whether a given laptop or graphics card will drive 4k over a particular standard is daunting. Knowing if it will
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by cpks 12y ago
I like the LGPL/GPL/AGPL licenses. They are, indeed, a best-of-all-worlds approach for most projects.

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