dbxz

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   by dbxz 8y ago

   Joel Spoelsky is one of the greatest software writers of our time. This needs to be made required reading in every software engineering course.
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   Martian Headsets(joelonsoftware.com)

   2 points by dbxz 8y ago|3 comments
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   by dbxz 8y ago

   They could have saved some time by opening the heads of several politicians.
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   by dbxz 8y ago

   It's completely true. I do recruiting for non-tech roles (sales, marketing, design). A few years ago, I'd visit a foreign university, and they'd see USA on my badge, and would start flocking to me. Now all I get is heckling a
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   by dbxz 8y ago

   To be a statistician is to ignore experience. I once interviewed someone who was a statistics major. When I asked him a performance optimization question, the first thing he told me is that he'd write a program to compute the standard
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   by dbxz 8y ago

   I taught gifted education at a prestigious middle school for five years. Over 300 kids came through my classroom during that time. I saw it all. Seizures. Fistfights. One girl was pretty sure there were secret messages from the principal in
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   by dbxz 8y ago

   People rely on fingerprints to provide proof of identity. But there's not really that much variation in fingers, and fingerprints have a high false positive rate. Fingerprints are going to go the way of the polygraph, and get banned fr