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by discojesus 17y ago
Thus, the candle problem, when placed in the real world, would have three groups: a control group which is paid 'decently and fairly', and a group that is paid 'decently and fairly' and is given financial incentives beyond that, and a grou
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by discojesus 17y ago
OK then that naturally leads to a slightly different hypothesis: take the candle problem, but have 3 groups: a control group that is paid nothing, a group that is paid "decently and fairly", and a group that is paid according to incentives.
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by discojesus 17y ago
I take solace in the fact that people actually read Code Complete - it's not just a bookshelf ornament. Yes, I know, Knuth is God, and his work is a masterpiece - the point is nobody actually reads the friggin thing.
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by discojesus 17y ago
This kind of stuff that Mr. Pink (someone should invite him out to dinner and find out if he doesn't tip :P) mentioned and guys like Alfie Kohn harp on about is intriguing, but there is one huge hole in the plot that I have never seen them
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by discojesus 17y ago
I found him non-trivially annoying, but nowhere near as douchechill-inducing as David Pogue.
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by discojesus 17y ago
A true counterexample would show that the monetary prize gave a faster or better result than no prize. Without a control, you haven't shown anything. Fair enough. A counterexample: "the paycheck." :)
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by discojesus 17y ago
in my observation usually indicates a programmer who hasn't sought out better sources. Those being?
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by discojesus 17y ago
Gmail search certainly works. It just doesn't have every feature. It's not "completely broken," but no hits for a query of "zag" in an email that contains "zagg" comes uncomfortably close to "doesn't work." (FWIW, I use gmail and haven't
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by discojesus 17y ago
"Women in Free Software: We Want YOU!"
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by discojesus 17y ago
if I may quote some scripture: "Gerald Weinberg tells the story of a programmer who was flown to Detroit to help debug a troubled program. The programmer worked with the team who had developed the program and concluded after several days th
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by discojesus 17y ago
I'd like to read about the impact "Joel on Software" and his celebrity has had on his success/sales though. within epsilon of 100%. I love Joel, his articles, and the Stack Overflow podcast, but nobody would have heard of him (or FogBugz)
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by discojesus 17y ago
which would also illustrate what K&R said about array indices just being syntactic sugar for pointer arithmetic. My mind has been blown.
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by discojesus 17y ago
Oh yeah? Well I had sex with your WIFE!
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by discojesus 17y ago
It was tested with speakers of five languages, and even dyslexics were conditioned to read technical material at more than 3,000 words-per-minute (wpm), or 10 pages per minute. One page every 6 seconds Do we even need to officially call "
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by discojesus 17y ago
After a lot of practice I ultimately came to the conclusion that it doesn't really work. I could 'read' the pages really fast, but it's not what I'd call reading. It's skimming. I believe this was shown in a study where experimenters gave
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by discojesus 17y ago
I agree, but at the same time, you only learn by doing. This is true, but I think in the original poster's case it could be much more easily and reliably be accomplished by continually giving him problems that are within (or more ideally,
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by discojesus 17y ago
it seems like if he did that, he'd be biting off WAY more than he can chew at the present time. If you want to learn statistics, it's probably better to start at the beginning (_Cartoon Guide to Statistics_, O'Reilly's new _Head First Stati
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by discojesus 17y ago
oh yes.
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by discojesus 17y ago
looks like a good first start, but how do we add the fire ?
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by discojesus 17y ago
If you rephrase that as "alcoholics with no side effects," it's pretty much the same thing.
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by discojesus 17y ago
"M-x butterfly (see [[%20 http://xkcd.com/378/] [ http://xkcd.com/378/]]) I'm still waiting for M-x kill-it-with-fire.
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by discojesus 17y ago
thank you very much.
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by discojesus 17y ago
ok - what the hell possible reason could there be to downmod that? I am genuinely interested in pg's recipe for goop on rice - it wasn't a joke. Jesus Christ.
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by discojesus 17y ago
will there be a recipe for pg's "goop on rice"?
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by discojesus 17y ago
"Joel built his business by relating Microsoft gossip and telling programmers what they wanted to hear." I'm pretty sure programmers don't want to hear "you need to be writing functional specs" [ http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog000000
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by discojesus 17y ago
I trump you all with my webapp: Nihilism!
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by discojesus 17y ago
an oldie, but a goodie. A good way to keep track of your progress online here: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/online/hdo.html It will calculate everything for you and even provide the pretty little weighted graphs just like in the book.
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by discojesus 17y ago
I think I speak for every Feynmanophile when I say OH FUCK YES.
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by discojesus 17y ago
a) 'twas a joke, sir. :) and b) the idea may not be silly but the name sure is. By this nomenclature, all current economists should more properly be called "Econostatisticians" or "Econopsychologists" (to quote Charlie Munger speaking abo
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by discojesus 17y ago
Econophysicist? Does he study the supply and demand for pendula and inclined planes?

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