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by duncanj 17y ago
This is called "puppy-dogging". You want to sell a puppy. The customer isn't sure he wants to shell out the money. So, you say, "Take the puppy home, and it's free for two weeks." It's obvious from there.
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by duncanj 17y ago
If only these opinions were carried in the WSJ, FT, etc.
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by duncanj 17y ago
I think critics tend to compare pair programming to those moments when they are most productive. One programmer in flow may be able to really crank something cool out in a day or so. He might even work 25 hours straight to do it, and real
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by duncanj 17y ago
I don't know if LT and RMS would have gotten along in that way, but how productive over the years has each one been? If you put them on the same team and paid them well, and they had goals they shared, etc., etc., I don't find it all that
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by duncanj 17y ago
A decent long-range offer should have a signing bonus for quick acceptance, that you lose if you take your time accepting it.
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by duncanj 17y ago
The meter is still off... as well as the rhyme.
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by duncanj 17y ago
My experience differs. I found it much easier to pair with poor/inexperienced programmers than to encounter their code later without having paired. By letting such a programmer do the driving and critiquing as they went, I felt like they
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by duncanj 17y ago
"Dumb software" -- FTFY (title)
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by duncanj 17y ago
I could totally hang out with that guy. Taleb's a fool.
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by duncanj 17y ago
Interesting press release about chlorophyllin, but natural compounds are already used as chemotherapeutic drugs, for example Taxol. Some drugs are wholly synthetic and others are found in natural sources. Whoop de do.
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by duncanj 17y ago
I can't seem to get an OH or O-H. Do I need ID? ;)
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by duncanj 17y ago
If it's important to you, why not ask and find out?
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by duncanj 17y ago
Why do most of the articles in the series start with "...Not"?
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by duncanj 17y ago
Transport layer
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by duncanj 17y ago
It still bothers me that web browsers don't really "do" REST without Javascript.
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by duncanj 17y ago
I think it's fine to touch the screen.
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by duncanj 17y ago
Civ III taught me that cruise missles are worth more than nukes, are cheaper to build, and don't set the world against you for using them.
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by duncanj 17y ago
Nice. Could have used that thought about 9 years ago :)
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by duncanj 17y ago
My GF seems to have the same experience being a vegetarian. I'm not preaching by living differently.
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by duncanj 17y ago
I stopped yahooing after I was signed up to hotjobs through a newspaper and there was no interface for unsubcribing to their spam. So I canceled yahoo whole hog and haven't missed it.
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by duncanj 17y ago
Yet, oddly, they don't seem to fear the very real consequences of the BSA coming and shutting them down for an "audit".
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by duncanj 17y ago
And this troll wrote a popular economics textbook.
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by duncanj 17y ago
I don't know anything about the lemonpos code, but they presumably have made and corrected their share of beginner's errors in the POS space, and you would save a lot of frustration by not repeating them :)
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by duncanj 17y ago
In medical professions, you go through a period of training (clinicals, internship, residency) where people with tons of experience point out that you never learned anything. This humbling experience is not really available in the CS world
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by duncanj 17y ago
It seems to me that he is leaving out a discussion of slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscles. Slow-twitch muscles are used in maintaining posture and light activity and burn primarily fat. Fast-twitch muscles are used for strength and burn p
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by duncanj 17y ago
What do you mean "modulate insulin?" Insulin is produced in response to elevated blood sugar. Modulating it would, presumably, leave you with high blood sugar, all other things being equal. Diabetes mellitus is the syndrome of high blood
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by duncanj 17y ago
It's not all about books. The inclusion of a PDF reader makes this a big deal. In many schools, everything you need to know for a class is in the instructor's PDFs.
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by duncanj 17y ago
Does everything we know have to eventually be proved wrong? I feel like I'm in 1984, except with inconsequential BS :)
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by duncanj 17y ago
Funny, I didn't hear of it until I was on HN :)
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by duncanj 17y ago
I'm not sure what he was going for in the discussion of #10. Why do people want to license designers?

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