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by da_chicken 8y ago
I would assume that it's because you have to plan ahead and think several moves into the future. Yes, you're subject to the pieces that the game randomly produces, but you do see one piece ahead. A newer version of the game, Tetr
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by da_chicken 8y ago
And people wonder why I've argued that, at some point, IT needs to be a certified and regulated profession like lawyers, doctors, engineers, nurses, pilots, accountants, electricians, plumbers, teachers, etc. If the future is going to
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by da_chicken 8y ago
It's kind of like learning how to program when you don't have any task to complete. Especially for a data store of some kind. If you've ever tried to learn SQL, even if you've got an example database, you'll find
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by da_chicken 8y ago
> If there's one thing the government is known for, it's writing bug-free, efficient software. That's because they're usually required to accept the lowest reasonable bid. As someone who works in the public sector,
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by da_chicken 8y ago
> Would definitely write another security vulnerability into my code again if I knew that Larry would report it. ;) Yet more proof that social media will bring the Internet down!
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by da_chicken 8y ago
Yeah, but if you are early and you have capital, you've got a major market advantage. You'd have to seriously stumble somewhere in your execution, and having capital makes that easier to fix more quickly while being early means
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by da_chicken 8y ago
No, not at all. SQL is case agnostic unless you're talking about field collations or, in many systems, object names. It's also largely whitespace agnostic. Many RDBMSs will handle this just fine: select*from"MyTable&qu
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by da_chicken 8y ago
Over the short term. Over the human term. Over the long term, facts win out because facts tend not to change. People will moan and complain and twist and excuse and blame, but facts just don't give up being facts. Facts don't g
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by da_chicken 8y ago
> I mean, I don't know that I've ever heard a fireman, or a doctor, a rescuer, a lifeguard, etc, say that sort of thing - "my first priority is to go home safely tonight". I mean, I've definitely heard firemen sa
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by da_chicken 8y ago
People who have trouble with pivot tables almost universally have not organized their data in a way that a pivot table can use. They have a vision in their head of how they want the chart to look, and they can't get it to fit because
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by da_chicken 8y ago
My most dreaded words with Excel are: > Can you help me with VLOOKUP? Followed shortly by: > I'm having trouble with a Pivot chart.
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by da_chicken 8y ago
You mean, copy exactly what the same company did with Marvell, the most successful and profitable film franchise in history? You didn't think that those movie plots were original did you? Infinity Gauntlet is from the 70s.
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by da_chicken 8y ago
I agree, we should ignore the gender politics of this movie and it's detractors and that whole argument entirely. That has nothing to do with whether the movie is any good. > But "a great action flick to go see if you are bore
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by da_chicken 8y ago
The production values were certainly great. It has some issues with pacing, theme consistency, certain plot elements, and characters.
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by da_chicken 8y ago
Yeah, I worked at a public school district where everybody who was neither hourly, nor a teacher, nor someone high in administration qualifies as a "manager". Pretty much the entire IT team was coded as a manager. It really just
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by da_chicken 8y ago
That is a horrible comparison. Google's start up between 1996 and 1998 was also over twenty years ago . There were fewer than 200 million Internet users on the Internet and less than 2.5 million web sites [0] in 1998. Google was als
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by da_chicken 8y ago
A bureaucracy whose elected representatives and lobbyists that generally don't like your agency and would be more than happy to see it all but shut down.
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by da_chicken 8y ago
It's fine for exactly what the article describes: a student doing projects at home. For anything bigger than that, you'll quickly run into issues. Try talking to your ops team and telling them you want to set up a mid-range deskt
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by da_chicken 8y ago
It revolves around semantics and straw men? It sounds like someone took an Internet argument and published it as a book.
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by da_chicken 8y ago
I don't even think it's that technical, though I agree Benford's law does help. The numeric keypad is largely based off of ribbon tape desk calculators [0], which is why the + is double size, the enter (=) is double size, and
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by da_chicken 8y ago
At what point do we call this what it is: labor abuse.
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by da_chicken 8y ago
It also fails the smell test because Internet traffic doesn't recognize international lines, yet he's claiming the federal government has regulatory powers over the Internet.
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by da_chicken 8y ago
I think that's obersavtion bias. We tend to remember people who are either abrasive or ineffective. The former because their behavior stands out and the latter because they tend to get in our way. People who are effective and kind t
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by da_chicken 8y ago
This is it exactly. I'm really kind of tired of the "git demands you understand the concepts and the model" excuse because that really isn't what's going on. It's just a poor interface with an un-intuitive set
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by da_chicken 8y ago
Yeah, this is it exactly. Goodhart even discovered it in the context of economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law The Lucas critique is the other commonly associated one: https://en.wikipedi
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by da_chicken 8y ago
Yeah, it turns out editors are actually pretty important to publishing. QA is important.
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by da_chicken 8y ago
Journalists are also notorious for overstating and misinterpreting court rulings, to the extent that when actual monumental decisions are made it's often difficult to tell as journalists treat them the same as the extremely narrow and
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by da_chicken 8y ago
I'd be curious how it stacks up against Microsoft's LogParser[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logparser
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by da_chicken 8y ago
5) The appstore alternatives, from Google Play to Microsoft to Amazon and even Valve are unlikely to be any better. Just because the garden has a wall doesn't mean that anybody's tending the roses.
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by da_chicken 8y ago
> What's the common practice here for status pages? Shouldn't they be using external health checks to auto-update the page? For Ops? Absolutely. Externally? No, not really. You don't necessarily want every conceivable

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