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by dspeyer 13y ago
At a much higher cost. A company with a dozen customers can drop the worst of them without taking a major hit. An employee with one employer has to risk everything. Especially since companies are often communities, so community membershi
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by dspeyer 13y ago
You have to be willing to measure the cost of lives. No one likes doing it, but there's always opportunities to spend a lot of money to save a few lives, and a limited amount of money. If you don't make tradeoffs intelligently and deliber
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by dspeyer 13y ago
If it's a main multimegawatt power cable, it could take a while to plug back in (first the charred corpse needs to be removed). But it doesn't take long to redirect all traffic to another datacenter.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Google is better designed than that. No single cable failure could cause a user-facing outage of more than a few minutes.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Not reject, but kind of squint suspiciously at.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
The number being that low is suspicious. In my vague, personal experience, the upper tiers of computing are about 10% female. The odds of 1 in 23 are 0.315. Plausible, but worth investigating. Are the speaker selectors favoring men? T
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Principles I've found: * A test should accept any correct behaviour from the tested code. Anything which is not in the requirements, should not be enforced by the test. * A test should not use the same logic as the code to find the "right"
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by dspeyer 13y ago
> What I don't understand about comments like this is that a whole section of your code, both runtime / deliverable code and test code had become worthless Not so. The code demonstrated that the first algorithm wasn't good enough and p
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Did you have similar problems recruiting make execs? If not, do you have any idea why the difference?
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by dspeyer 13y ago
That's an exaggeration. While Seattle is painfully distant (painful really is the word for the 520 bridge) Bellevue is right next door. Bellevue is a city of 122k people, bigger than Ann Arbor. It's no great cultural center, but it's cer
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Thanks. I didn't realize there were more pages. I just thought it was a very short and fluffy article.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
Not let, sell. PNW needs to export something. And the idea that Seattle and Spokane have a strong enough cultural bond to secede together is just silly.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
Last estimate I saw for a Columbia River to Los Angeles pipeline was $150G. Expensive, but not out of reach for the US government. And there's enough water there to take care of the southwest for a long time. The nasty things will happen
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by dspeyer 14y ago
That's a code snippet where extra parenthesis might help. The first several times I read it as: ((width * bytes_per_pixel)+(3&~3)) and thought "what's the point?" I don't know why bitwise ops are so low precedence. They've al
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by dspeyer 14y ago
struct header __atribute__((packed)) { unsigned int highnibble : 4; unsigned int flag_foo : 1; unsigned int flag_bar : 1; unsigned int flag_baz : 1; unsigned int flag_qux : 1; } if (((header
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by dspeyer 14y ago
How automatic is automatic? My brother went to Harvard, partly because their financial aid offer was best, and I recall my father cursing the required forms. He's a lawyer, so ordinary legalese doesn't phase him, but he found those trouble
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by dspeyer 14y ago
The verb ape is not simply a verbed version of the noun. It means "shallowly imitate".
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by dspeyer 14y ago
Last year's was 8-bit
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by dspeyer 14y ago
Still, at least consider if climbing vines on trellises might serve better before putting a ton of effort into trees per se. They provide most of the same greenery benefits, can be made to fit the space, don't have dangerous roots, and are
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by dspeyer 14y ago
I always use probabilistic logic for real-world questions. Certainty is just too rare. I understand and agree with your analysis except for one point: as I understand it, the exact text of the joke has not been published, sadly preventing
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by dspeyer 14y ago
Multiple projects mean that when one gets blocked on an outside obstacle, you can shift to another while you wait. However, if the queue of blocked projects grows without bound, then you need to pull back. I've been there.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
My arrows are for causality. It's simpler this way. Evidence flows the other way. If sexism causes offence, then offence is evidence for sexism. How strong evidence depends on the likelihood of the consequence in absence of the cause.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
No, that's not what I'm saying. The causal network looks like this: S->O | V D->A | V H S=sexism O=other people being offended A=Adria being offended D=Adria being dishones
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by dspeyer 14y ago
I've seen codebases that suffered from too much testing. It overcomplicated the code and made it brittle without catching actual bugs. Higher quality tests that would have been useful and allowed refactoring would have had lower coverage
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by dspeyer 14y ago
With that phrase, you could find others to vouch for its offensiveness, so she would be far less relevant.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
Wikia is a for-profit supplier of wiki hosting. bigbangtheory.wikia.com is a (probably not-for-profit) fan group that uses wikia's product.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
Breathing is a bad point of comparison. Stopping breathing is much, much more costly to you than making a certain sort of joke. I think if someone said "Could you stop using words containing "e"? Such words hurt my brain." I think I woul
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by dspeyer 14y ago
And, as usual with ad hominems, we must be careful not to throw out too much. She argues that the joke was offensive. Her evidence was that she was offended. Evidence that her concept of offendedness is flawed does argue against the offen
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by dspeyer 14y ago
This bit of definition only matters if there's someone involved without power. Presumably Adria is claiming to be without power. She has the power to get someone fired with a single tweet. She has so much power she's gone mad with it.
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by dspeyer 14y ago
It's not about culture. It's about assumptions. If my employer tried to support my masculinity by giving me beer, I would be offended.

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