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by duncanj 16y ago
It's not just rookie programmers. Even adding experienced programmers who are unfamiliar with the circumstances of the project will often make a project later. I do agree with you about adding orthogonal people, provided the project manage
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by duncanj 16y ago
My current theory for success in academia (and I'm not an academic so take it with a grain of salt) is a sort of synthesis of Dick Hamming's thoughts and other things I've read. 1. The purpose of a Ph.D. is to become a pre-eminent expert in
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by duncanj 16y ago
It depends on what you consider the injury to be. If they didn't have a smartphone before they purchased an iPhone, then having a phone that lacks the features of other smartphones doesn't really injure them, it just makes them jealous, wh
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by duncanj 16y ago
It's not like he did an n=1 study. He just assumed it wasn't going to work for him. My impression of the article, given that it doesn't really bring up data beyond the total number of acetaminophen-related cases of liver toxicity, is that
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by duncanj 16y ago
I suspect that a relationship of this sort is due to Parkinson's law. But I have trouble identifying a power law from his graph.
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by duncanj 16y ago
It's the S&P 500. I agree, though, that it is not a very good sample.
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by duncanj 16y ago
“What we’re doing in a king of reputation management,” How do these sorts of typos occur in a newspaper? What input device are they using? OCR?
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by duncanj 16y ago
Or, if you don't bring money to the table, but you plan to raise money after an MVP or something, expect less than 50% equity. Showing humility and an understanding of fairness goes a long way towards building trust.
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by duncanj 16y ago
I got into eXtreme Programming during college around 1999. I put it on my resume and dropped the name at various applications. I went around looking for Smalltalk jobs and then got recruited by ThoughtWorks in 2000, probably because I had
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by duncanj 16y ago
Wow. Prices like it's 1993!
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by duncanj 16y ago
I found the reference to Dijkstra interesting because he was a huge advocate for up-front thinking. The difference between Dijkstra and Waterfall is Dijkstra wanted the programmer to think before working on the feature. The order in which
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by duncanj 16y ago
256, actually. :)
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Is the economy intelligently designed?(project-syndicate.org)
2 points by duncanj 16y ago|0 comments
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by duncanj 16y ago
I don't think I could survive very long without an electronic address book.
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John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone(johnsphones.com)
169 points by duncanj 16y ago|161 comments
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by duncanj 16y ago
For those who want to know, ACM membership with access to all their journals (digital library) is $198/year. From developing countries, it is less. Choosing Poland as a random example, digital library access is $100/year.
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by duncanj 16y ago
Aside from being written in compiled languages, are Ledger and hledger not a good starting point? https://github.com/jwiegley/ledger/wiki http://hledger.org/
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by duncanj 16y ago
One reason is that Microsoft's implementation was compatible enough with Sun's to pass tests but not to perform much useful work. Without MS's active participation, most enterprises wouldn't benefit from interoperability.
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by duncanj 16y ago
If someone just has to make up his mind, then he needs to be neither intelligent nor reasonable. I suspect you mean that a person can come to some sort of opinion that would be "good" in the sense that they have chosen the one that most li
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by duncanj 16y ago
You can say what you want to say, since it's original, and say, "with apologies to Winston Churchill."
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by duncanj 16y ago
Do you ever mention your ideas to programmers at all? Or do you not know any at all?
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by duncanj 16y ago
It seems to accept C-[ as a replacement.
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by duncanj 16y ago
Unfortunately, Chrome OS seems to trap C-n before it makes it to the browser.
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by duncanj 16y ago
Keepin' it real fake... ln -s real fake
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by duncanj 16y ago
I'd be surprised if that were true, but things may have changed in 8 years.
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by duncanj 16y ago
That's true. The problem is that source code is only a fraction of the knowledge contained in the system. In most source-code-based systems, you would write code for building a lookup table, or for reading one from storage. This code wou
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by duncanj 16y ago
It's definitely true that to understand your own position you need to come up with the best arguments for the opposing position. It disappoints me when I read lousy arguments made by those who do not share my viewpoint, and even more when
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by duncanj 16y ago
Rhetoric on both sides. Informational IEDs?
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by duncanj 16y ago
How was the decision made on your torture/DU debates?
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by duncanj 16y ago
I come from my own point of view that I have difficulty learning something when it is not likely that I will apply it. I learned basic calculus while learning physics, and it was immediately apparent why calculus was required. Without cal

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