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by d4nt 14y ago
Along similar lines, I wondered whether making up votes have a steadily decreasing effect (say, first up vote is 5 points, then 2.5, then 1.25) and down votes have a steadily increasing effect (0.375, 0.75, 1.25...) would be wise.
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by d4nt 14y ago
Exactly, I recently had a startup with approx 0 users try to recruit me by arguing that building the web app was "programming 101... we need someone who can architect for massive data volumes". I didn't take the job. That kind of attitude i
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by d4nt 14y ago
> All human languages have very similar every day vocabularies I spent a lot of time working in Sweden and had many conversations with the locals (all of whom know English very well). Many of them remarked that English has mor
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by d4nt 14y ago
I acknowledge you know a lot more about Hieroglyphics than me. But my comments were based on the understanding that it was really the development of an alphabet by the Phoenicians that took writing from an obscure system to something usable
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by d4nt 14y ago
I think the whole everyone should learn to code this is right, but a little ahead of its time. A little like saying that peasant farmers in the bronze age should learn to read and write. While 100% literacy is now acknowledge as a good thin
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by d4nt 14y ago
I have a theory about bubbles: It's relatively easy to spot that you're in one, but it's very hard to pinpoint what sort of bubble it is. I'll explain... During the lead up the 2008 debt crisis I saw a lot of people talking about how house
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by d4nt 14y ago
Just personal preference really, if your "isRelevant" filter was only ever going to be used by your "CountRelevantItems" method you might consider it more readable to have the logic of isRelevant right there in the CountRelevantItems method
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by d4nt 14y ago
I'm not sure there is one. They're useful in C# as a way of defining a function within another function (which sometimes makes for more readable code). For example: public int CountRelevantItems(IEnumerable<Thing> things)
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by d4nt 14y ago
I think that's possibly too simplistic. If the reason there's so much shit that needs doing is because the second guy didn't do it right first time then hiring the second guy might have been a mistake. Maybe the first guy is just pissed tha
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by d4nt 15y ago
Another way of looking at it would be that there's no way of proving that Earth was the starting point for all the life around us. So instead of looking for life that originated elsewhere we could find lots of "alien" life that looked remar
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by d4nt 15y ago
Before the rail roads, people didn't do all that much travelling from A to B, unless they were very wealthy or had some external pressure like the need to find work or religious persecution, they mostly stayed at A. Which makes the inventio
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by d4nt 15y ago
I disagree. She didn't have to have natural skin tones all over, and they didn't have to do a full frontal shot while she covered herself shyly, and the clothes they used didn't have to be so skimpy.
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by d4nt 15y ago
Creepy yes, I'm not sure about unrealistic, its a scifi story after all so I'm not sure what the benchmark for realism should be. But the whole sex bot thing and the nudity stuck me as unpleasant and unnecessary.
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by d4nt 15y ago
I think it's a question of balance, at the other end of the spectrum you can get growing startups where the initial "everyone's on a level and talks about everything" approach no longer works and has given way to a combination of multiple p
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by d4nt 15y ago
Yes. We seem to be trying so hard these days to make our organisational structures appear flat and informal (e.g. open plan office spaces, casual dress policies, "360 degree reviews" and an aversion to using job titles) that I feel it's jus
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by d4nt 15y ago
In certain other countries the majority would find the "average American voters'" perspective on issues like economics or climate change quite strange. I can think of countries where there seems to be an almost universal acceptance of globa
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by d4nt 15y ago
"Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government
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by d4nt 15y ago
I guess this sort of thing was bound to happen at some point. As the article says, all the major cloud platforms have had outages at some point. As someone who is actively considering building products using this platform I'm keen to see ho
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by d4nt 15y ago
The title made it seem like this was going to be more of an whistle-blowing blog post by an insider. Nevertheless, this kind of rant is interesting in so far as it points to what I think a growing momentum behind the UNIX philosophy. What I
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by d4nt 15y ago
This strikes me as no worse that the traditional approach of hiring recruiters and HR people to processes thousands of CVs and sit through hours of interviews. The engineers have a route to distinguish themselves, they get well rewarded in
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by d4nt 15y ago
Exactly, the fundamentally hard bit of software development is the specification part. As developers we translate between what the customer appears to want and what the compiler requires. If the customer had specified what they want with pe
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by d4nt 15y ago
The fact that I will base my purchasing decisions on past experience of the brand and word of mouth about the product is not unusual. Many people will be like me, and this is one of the challenges that MS will have to work hard to overcome.
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by d4nt 15y ago
I used a Windows Mobile for a couple of years (two different handsets). I found that while the main screens were reasonably well skinned and looked good in the store, when used for real that often fell away to reveal a clunky UI that was im
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by d4nt 15y ago
This is good news for Microsoft, and I really do hope they do well, but there's still a mountain to climb: tech reviewers are not the same as normal consumers and impressing them for the limited period of time it takes to write a review doe
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9 Startups Emerge From Oxygen Accelerator(thenextweb.com)
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by d4nt 15y ago
Exactly, they don't really want to know what your earning. Do what politicians to and answer the question you want to be asked not the question they're actually asking.
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by d4nt 15y ago
During sixth form college (ages 16-18, in the UK) one of the philosophy lecturers started a course with the same sort of goals. It covered critical thinking, written communication, logic, a bit of psychology etc. The 12 or so hours I spent
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by d4nt 15y ago
Interesting idea, I'm not sure I agree though. I hear Pixar do something where everyone's ideas are reviewed and often openly criticised no matter who came up with them. It sounded like everyone was cool with that being the process though.
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by d4nt 15y ago
I guess I mean that for people who were considering which platform to build their rich internet app on, there was not a obvious choice. EDIT: I admit, there was a time when Flash was the only option, but as early as 2003 I recall "Ajax" bei
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by d4nt 15y ago
Until a year or two ago there was a stalemate as far as "rich web" development technologies goes. Neither flash, Silverlight or HTML5 was the clear winner. I remember people being incredulous that the iPad didn't support Flash, saying that

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