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by danek 10y ago
I read LHOD just a few months ago. Great stuff!
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by danek 10y ago
It depends on how you use React. You can use it in a stateful, OO way. Or you can use it in a more functional way. A good example of how to use React in a functional manner is the Redux framework (basically you don't use the statefu
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by danek 10y ago
$[support costs] = [num customers] * [avg call duration] So obviously you can save money by shortening call durations. This has a nice side effect of reducing the number of customers (over time), which also helps reduce support costs. #metr
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by danek 10y ago
I wouldn't jump to any conclusion ;) But I do know that tools often make it easy for people do incredibly stupid things by accident. Like the 'sudo remove file' command followed by '-rf' in the wrong place. I rimra
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by danek 10y ago
The book "Peopleware" discusses this. https://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Tom-De... Basically, open floor plans are cheap and you can maximize metrics like $/person-sqft. Other factors: * &q
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by danek 10y ago
Wow, that's pretty bad. Metrics-driven management is one of those things that sounds like a smart thing to do but it ends up being counterproductive. It's really hard to measure the things that are important so we have to use prox
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by danek 10y ago
The sad thing is that the managers participating in these sorts of activities are unable to connect cause & effect. For example, if you rank individual employees then you destroy teamwork and incentivise all sorts of behavior that&#x27
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by danek 10y ago
I've lost track of how many times I've had to explain that "no, there is not a staggering amount of latent demand in the middle of Kansas" to people trying to do metrics :)
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by danek 10y ago
I was also confused by it. However I read the last sentence as the author making a meta-point by using purposefully incorrect grammar, a sort of reversal of the first sentence about c++ code compiling but leading to segfault--like an artist
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by danek 11y ago
This is a good read. I do think the Tufte essay is excellent except for one detail. I don't think it's fair that he places blame on the the engineers for failing to convince NASA management to stop the launch. It is possible that
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by danek 11y ago
I was wrong--he wasn't going be attend, but there (allegedly) were plans to have a televised conversation between him and Christa McAuliffe during his State of the Union address that night. However this may not be true. While trying to
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by danek 11y ago
There was pressure to ignore warnings because President Reagan was scheduled to be present for the launch. In higher levels of management, things get more political. Looking good and getting exposure count for a lot. No one wants to be the
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by danek 11y ago
Could this be explained by a black hole, slowly slowly siphoning matter from the star? Maybe it's behind the star and we're less likely to observe the radiation from it..
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by danek 11y ago
That's interesting. Perhaps there is some "natural" process that's producing dust clouds.
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by danek 11y ago
By low-res, Tufte is referring to the concept of stacking information in time , rather than placing it adjacent in space . (this is all his insight, not mine) It's "low res" in the same way a phone voice-mail menu is low-r
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by danek 11y ago
Edward Tufte argues that powerpoint is indeed the problem. PowerPoint is a slideware operating system which forces the presenter to contort the content into its low-resolution format. This necessarily makes the content less understandable,
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by danek 13y ago
Structural typing would be nice. My wish would be algebraic data types. I'm not sure how that would even work in c# but its what I want :) I tend to avoid using out parameters. I've written extension methods to replace the typical
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by danek 14y ago
What is the origin of these articles that take the form "X Considered Harmful"? What's wrong with adding the word "is" between "X" and "considered"? Who is doing the considering? What is X harmful towards? Can anyone explain why this is a t
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by danek 14y ago
having lived in louisville, i can say it's extremely difficult to do things without a car. i lived there without a car for several years. it was do-able, but i was dependent on friends to drive me places every once in a while. also, it's th
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by danek 14y ago
scriptsharp: I saw it used/had to help maintain for a rather big project...never again... :(
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by danek 14y ago
you could argue chromium is better for those same reasons ;) spotify is a good example of where this works well.
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by danek 14y ago
Lately I've been using embedded chromium to solve the write once/run anywhere/look great everywhere problem. While java isn't going away anytime soon, it's nice to see it incrementally lose applicability.
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by danek 14y ago
lolwut? Do you disagree that C# has similarities to other languages? C# is based on Java, which is somewhat based on C++. Basically anyone who does a CS course learns one of these. In comparison, I don't know any programs that use Haskell,
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by danek 14y ago
I'm guessing you either had a really bad day and are venting on the internet, or peter thiel did something awful to you in your past? In what ways in Thiel full of BS? In what ways is this type of thinking myopic and detrimental? In what si
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by danek 14y ago
Followed to illogical conclusions, how could anything ever be good? ;)
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by danek 14y ago
I think people are reading this too literally. The 'one thing' isn't your task, it's your goal. You engage in whatever tasks are necessary to achieve your goal in a way that is good for the business. This ensures that each business function
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by danek 14y ago
this is also true of 99% of open source projects. i often find myself on a github project page, trying to figure out what problem the code is trying to solve. context: it's important.
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by danek 14y ago
Also consider that it is hard to hire people to work on your project if you use F#, whereas c# has enough similarities to other languages that it is easy for people to get up to speed. It's too bad, F# is a really great language.
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by danek 14y ago
i'm on the same version of chrome (win7) and it works for me
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by danek 14y ago
worked fine for me, I picked out 4 titles I've had on my reading list for a while.

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