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by crpatino 12y ago
I agree with the need for reflection, both in professional and personal settings. However, you can see how in some places code review degenerates to a sort of rubber stamping process where little value is added.
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by crpatino 12y ago
TL;DR -> Developers know better than to install random crappy software from shady third parties. They know what is like in the sausage factory, so they can figure out this is going to be a disappointment. Somehow, this ties up to every m
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by crpatino 12y ago
You fail to realize that the agro business model does achieve higher yields in the short term at the cost of soil damaging in the long term. As the natural biodiversity in both soils and seeds decrease, the risk of catastrophic pest swappin
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by crpatino 12y ago
It sounds like you really need to learn and switch gears, man. Your family, friends and coworkers are what is real in your life. I know it's probably not your fault, but graduate school has this nasty effect of absorbing every bit of
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by crpatino 12y ago
Human metabolism is a (set of) complex process(es). You are not just burning the plate of food in a furnace. Of course if you eat less calories than the bare minimum needed to sustain life, you will loose weight no matter what, but that is
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by crpatino 12y ago
I'd go one step further and say it has to do with engagement. If you find the book/movie pointless the first time, no amount of reruns will change that. On the other hand, if you loved it and made you think about the issues it rai
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by crpatino 12y ago
I have had the privilege of doing pager duty with a great team. Some of the things that made the experience great were: 1. Six people rotation. You need to put your personal life on hold for the duration of pager duty, make it as spaced out
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by crpatino 12y ago
Beg to disagree. If your effort is half as good, you still get half million people to donate $1. On the company case, one million is not pocket change, so this will be a serious decision that has to be approved by several independent branch
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by crpatino 12y ago
> I'd probably want another system to replace the current one as fast as humanly possible. Exactly how is the people in the receiving end of automation to develop the many skills needed to put together a "replacement system&quo
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by crpatino 12y ago
While I read tones of rayndianism in Baker's statement (we'd like to help poor people, but without giving them money or incurring in any actual cost ourselves) the statement is factually correct. Even if we have not had any such b
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by crpatino 12y ago
I was kind of half-trolling, but thank you for asking the serious questions. I think it is part of the natural order of things for humans to work and provide for their kin. This certainly include teenagers and senior citizens in good health
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by crpatino 12y ago
> so that every person pays for their own birth and childrearing. Why should your parents pay for something that you get most of the enjoyment from? This is the most selfish, short sighted and downright Satanic point of view I have read
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by crpatino 12y ago
Expectations, expectations. Mobile means stuff looks easier than what really is. If you cannot be bothered to jump through hoops, this is not a career for you. What I recall of my novice days is literally one hoop after the other. It is jus
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by crpatino 12y ago
> It's the same reason why horoscopes and fortune cookies work. A more charitable interpretation of horoscopes and fortune cookies could be that, given that human behavior and problems falls into recognizable patterns, generic solut
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by crpatino 12y ago
> crypto will adapt to things like custom protocols built to be indistinguishable from regular traffic. The name is steganography, and has been used since ancient times. The best way to ensure the secrecy of a message is to prevent the a
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by crpatino 12y ago
> for the author's usage case (kids wanting to learn to write games that are super easily portable) This is an artificial use case. Kids wanting to learn to write games should be concerned with whatever works on the hardware they ha
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by crpatino 12y ago
What about? 4. You've been burned badly/recently enough by your interactions with a minority of jerks, and your perception is biased.
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by crpatino 12y ago
Guilty as charged. It's still a bit jerky to do that to someone you call "a friend".
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by crpatino 12y ago
> ... he felt really dumb, but it was a really fun day at work for us, so definitely worth it. Congratulations!!! Probably every convicted rapist though something equivalent at some point, so you are in good company to be sure.
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by crpatino 12y ago
At the risk of falling in a No-True-Scotsman argument here, I'd say what passes for "democratic teamwork" nowadays is sheer chaotic social dynamics. Not every vote has equal weight, and to pretend otherwise is either naive or
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by crpatino 12y ago
I believe everything you said is correct. This is still a non issue. What the GP was complaining about is the political climate where it is natural for a scientist to openly state that women are better than men at X, while it would be caree
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by crpatino 12y ago
I am biding my time and waiting for the 2038 bug to come along. The cool kids of that age will probably never have seen a compiler (any compiler) before, and I am going to line my pockets like it's 1999. ;)
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by crpatino 12y ago
I think you are ignoring the elephant in the room. Active people have higher BMR because they build up bigger muscles. Not talking about bodybuilders - though that is the extreme of a continuous, but anyone who does regular exercise builds
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by crpatino 12y ago
Gingerbread Man is translated as "El Hombre de Jengibre", which was previously unknown to Spanish speaking children. What was relocalized was the Muffin Man nursery rhyme ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muff
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by crpatino 12y ago
In general, muggers are small fry criminals. You want to carry on you enough cash for them to be happy, call it a day and go to spend it on meth/booze - e.g. without hurting you - but not enough to give them funny ideas and attempt an
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by crpatino 12y ago
You owe me 12000 hrs of sleep there. At least in large urban areas it is extremely uncommon. Probably if you are a boss with an actual office, but businesses tend to be not at all conductive to that. Traditional office hours were 9-2 and 4-
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by crpatino 12y ago
No study, but first hand experience. My father is a Pediatrician, and he has always commented on the strong correlations between relatively common names in his current crop of patients and the names of 5-year-ago-popular TV shows' prot
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by crpatino 12y ago
I do not think "winner takes all" reflects what you described. Rather, I'd say it means: best basketball player plays in NBA and makes millions per year. Median basketball player trains a pee-wee team on the side while holdin
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by crpatino 12y ago
> I also disagree that not using your real name is for losers, but that one is pretty controversial. It was a more innocent world, back then. I do not go to any measurable lengths to hide my actual name, but I would rather not volunteer
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by crpatino 12y ago
You don't prescribe cough-suppressing opiates for a soar throat, the same way you don't prescribe a guillotine for headache. Cough is a symptom, meaning there is a problem in the patient's respiratory system the doctor should

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