derryrover

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by derryrover 5y ago
Am I too conservative if I still believe that self driving cars will not be a thing? Which insurance company will pay for a crash caused by a self driving car? And now they also want an hourly fee for this?
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by derryrover 5y ago
Convinced me that PI is in fact wrong. I had thought myself sometimes why there was always 2PI everywhere and how PI was half a circle (instead of a whole). I was always eventually convinced by the PI r^2 = area function that PI must be co
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by derryrover 5y ago
My experience so far when I wrote documentation for some pieces that I though needed it: - Nobody asked for it - Nobody reads it - Nobody reviews it - Nobody updates it - It takes me over a day to write so I feel quite guilty wasting the ti
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by derryrover 5y ago
Interesting article. A lot of negative things here said about such consultancy firms. Some positive things must also be said: - Outsourcing IT problems is hard. It requires knowledge/skill. Outsourcing to a big firm is a relatively sa
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by derryrover 5y ago
Elm fanboy here. Although always "hobby projects", I have worked in both ClojureScript and Elm. I finished a project in Elm that I would not dare to start in ClojureScript. I learned way more from Elm in terms of frontend architec
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by derryrover 6y ago
Or could it be that: It is actually possible to spot a lie, but it depends heavily on the skill of the liar vs interrogator: did they have experience with a previous lie that was similar? People that are good at lying will specialize in blu
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by derryrover 6y ago
I think you are right on a moral level. But on a pragmatic level these genetic projects are perhaps promising also for conserving existing species. Conserving a species in the traditional way, by conserving it's ecosystem, is costly an
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by derryrover 6y ago
We are nature. We did this. We did global warming. Without global warming this probably would not have happenned. So we try to solve it ( or not)
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by derryrover 6y ago
Yes we need clean emission free energy more (at the moment), but not everyone has the skillet to investigate on clean emission free energy. We are with seven billion apes on this planet. More then enough brainpower to focus on stuff simulta
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by derryrover 6y ago
Good idea actually! One day one of these efforts will succeed. As a front-end programmer for 7 years I feel I have a fine understanding about how a relational database and its queries can support my usecase. I understand the basics well eno
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by derryrover 6y ago
So being a monopolist comes with quite the potential costs. Employees now have to memorize meaningless, if not just plain wrong, synonyms. Not to talk about the miscommunication this might cause. Did any of you working for big-corp ever exp
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by derryrover 6y ago
Best summary of the state of react I have read so far after programming with it for 2 years. You should write an article about it! Stuff like this is rarely part of the sales pitch for any framework. You only find out after being locked in