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by curtis 7y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework : > The Cynefin framework is a conceptual framework used to aid decision-making.
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by curtis 7y ago
I kind of lean towards double the schedule and cut the scope in half and hope that maybe we can deliver a little extra credit work. It's important to note that padding schedules is not just done in software, it's a common practice
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by curtis 7y ago
Any software development methodology or process is going to come up short if it ignores the fundamental nature of software development, which is: We do not know what we're doing until we do. Any process or methodology that tries to
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by curtis 7y ago
> What would a Chinese-influenced programming language look like if its designer(s) had never had any exposure to alphabetic or syllabic writing systems? The first thought that came to mind as I was writing this was: some kind of logog
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by curtis 7y ago
Programming languages and human languages are really not the same thing at all, unless maybe you consider some extreme outliers like AppleScript[1]. It seems like the choice of character set would make a bigger difference. Most of the tod
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Millennial Debt Is Pretty Low(motherjones.com)
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Splitting water for fuel while removing CO₂ from the air (2018)(arstechnica.com)
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An ‘extraordinarily severe’ emergency: the radioactive leak at Harborview(capitolhillseattle.com)
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New species of ancient human discovered in the Philippines: Homo luzonensis(nationalgeographic.com)
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A new species of 'cat fox' may be prowling a French island(cnn.com)
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by curtis 7y ago
My parents grew up in the southwestern corner of the Ozark Mountains and I've been to Branson, Missouri a number of times, so I have at least a passing familiarity with the Bald Knobbers. Nevertheless, I had not made the connection bet
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by curtis 7y ago
I don't think Musk needs to delete his account, but he certainly needs to surrender direct access to it. Somebody with absolute veto power should be vetting everything that goes out over it.
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Insulin and the Free Market: A Brief Inquiry(motherjones.com)
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Appalachian Balds(en.wikipedia.org)
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by curtis 7y ago
Nuclear waste is also mostly fuel for hybrid fusion-fission reactors. From Wikipedia[1]: > Hybrid nuclear fusion–fission (hybrid nuclear power) is a proposed means of generating power by use of a combination of nuclear fusion and fissi
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by curtis 7y ago
As a general rule you shouldn't rewrite everything from scratch. This does not mean that you shouldn't, on occasion, rewrite some parts of your system. Rewrites are expensive. On the other hand some code you think is bad really
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by curtis 7y ago
I think the "by law" is mistaken, but there is at least a U.S. government opinion on the subject. From https://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html : > White – A person having origi
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What it's like to be a white woman named LaKiesha(cnn.com)
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Fuegian Dog(en.wikipedia.org)
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by curtis 7y ago
Fuel made from recycled plastic will displace fuel made directly from petroleum. So it will make the first problem (disposing of used plastic) better while not making the second problem (carbon dioxide emissions) any worse. Obviously this
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Half of European Men Share King Tut's DNA(uk.reuters.com)
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Human remains from 1847 shipwreck suggest rural Irish origins based on diet(cbc.ca)
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Research group finds way to turn plastic waste products into jet fuel(phys.org)
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1808/1809 Mystery Eruption(en.wikipedia.org)
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During World War II, Steinway Produced Special Pianos for American Troops(steinway.com)
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The Queen City Burns: The Great Seattle Fire of 1889(tatestrickland.com)
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by curtis 7y ago
Because of Venus's think atmosphere, landing a probe or rover is really easy. The downside, also because of Venus's thick atmosphere, is that the surface is really, really hot. That limits the lifetime of hardware on the surface
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Boom XB-1 Baby Boom(en.wikipedia.org)
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DNA from 31,000-year-old teeth: discovery of new group of ancient Siberians(cam.ac.uk)
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by curtis 7y ago
The basic linked list algorithms are simple enough that a software engineer -- certainly one with a CS degree -- ought to be able to implement them from first principles. And the point of the interview question isn't specifically whet

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