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by duwease 12y ago
Bad Pharma is truly an eye-opener as to the extent of the troubles faced in getting truth out of medical research. It's going to take many, many, different group combining foresight, technology, and good-old-fashioned political clout
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by duwease 12y ago
The worst part is, to collect your winnings you need to email your account details to the deposed prince..
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by duwease 12y ago
First off, I try and rank the pieces of the project by complexity.. there's almost always a simple CRUD interface that it needs somewhere that I can start with. I always start out getting a book, which I then don't read the majori
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by duwease 13y ago
I would have rules for how I judge documentation, but I see it so rarely that "any documentation at all" is the highest honorific.
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by duwease 13y ago
Amen. When I think, "I love my job", I'm generally thinking about the "easy" part, where the tools are all under my control and well known, and I just have to build something with them using my knowledge of algorit
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by duwease 13y ago
Isn't this just a continuation of Microsoft's recent-years strategy of waiting until other peoples' innovations created a market, and then trying to drop their entry into it? Zune, Xbox, Windows Phone, Windows Tablet, etc..
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by duwease 13y ago
The Enterprise code brings back awful memories of working with a framework architected by someone who had obviously read the Design Patterns book and had the take-away of "Use these as often as they can be wedged in to have a better sy
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by duwease 13y ago
Considering the large and growing bank of research that highlights areas where the brain's output is flawed or plain wrong when compared to the consensus "optimal solution", I think I'm with the "AI establishment&qu
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by duwease 13y ago
I don't know that the conclusion that pre-reform candidates were more moderate and/or effective is as self-evident as he seems to believe. It's hard to brush off the fact that our opinions of them are not only colored throug
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by duwease 13y ago
I do think it's important to note that they're generally wrong in the same direction.. they tend to be overly positive, not overly negative (or an even mix of both). That particular skew is more likely to implicate the "publ
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by duwease 13y ago
Let me ask a question from a different angle.. since the rationale for classifying these was "to protect national security", how many actually met this criteria, crime or no?
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by duwease 13y ago
What can be done? Build more housing I guess, but who's to say the most desirable still won't be bought by those looking to pay the most? Not to be dismissive of the impact to those who have up to this point been able to afford i
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by duwease 13y ago
Amen. Just amen. I've worked on at least a couple of open source projects now that have a strong and active core team building everything, and who are talented enough to write great code. But when it's almost time to launch v1.0
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by duwease 13y ago
The Watchmen. But wait, who watches..
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by duwease 13y ago
You're right, I don't want to give the impression that it's never warranted. Just that it's important to give thought to if a simple description or even a graph might be more efficient in each case. I try to stay mindful of the limits of s
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by duwease 13y ago
I understand mathematical notation, but I do think it generally is best only used when necessary in day-to-day work. Whenever something is of sufficient complexity, trying to keep track of the 10+ variables in a mathematical notation is g
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by duwease 13y ago
If it was me, I'd keep cranking out superior databases, selling them for a billion, and starting on the next one as fast as they'd buy em :)
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by duwease 13y ago
I've been bitten by open-source AND closed-source applications recently, from different angles. Once when using an Adobe application that was behaving erratically, and I was unable to see what was happening internally for myself (and obviou
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by duwease 14y ago
I just keep wondering why he was picking her up by the ankles in the first place..
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by duwease 14y ago
You would have made a better point and found greater comment thread success if your footnote markers weren't so clunky. People on the verge of joining your cause are thinking, "Why should I believe this guy, he can't even keep his footnote
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by duwease 14y ago
It is refreshing to see something not pretending to be all things to all people whose drawbacks are only widely known after the Hype Curve starts the downwards portion..
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by duwease 14y ago
Still down here, over 12 hours at this point. This is probably the second time we've been hit with something on AWS in the last three months -- and you have to pay them to talk to someone about it. We're definitely moving to Linode ASAP..
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by duwease 14y ago
I did get a laugh at the blogger's predator being Apple
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by duwease 14y ago
Are the companies pushing the lucid dreaming glasses nowadays the same people that sold them in the old "Johnson-Smith Things You Never Knew Existed" catalogs when I was young? I distinctly remember wanting to buy those, but I always blew
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by duwease 14y ago
This used to drive me nuts, since I only play online sporadically -- having to sit on the phone for 15 minutes to cancel was ridiculous. They've changed it now, but there's still the mild trick of re-engaging the auto-renewal every time yo
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by duwease 14y ago
These are definitely something to keep an eye on.. the market is wide open for anyone to grab once the turning point comes.
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by duwease 14y ago
Yes, the first thing I thought after "ooh, neat" was "Are there any portal communities for HTML5 even close to those for Flash?"
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by duwease 14y ago
I was hoping for an analogy to explain how difficult it is to estimate long-term programming work due to unexpected "black swan" details popping up as you get into the work that add considerable effort to the project. It's a situation I fi
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by duwease 14y ago
Whenever I hear about instructors complaining about student procrastination, it makes me think back to when I implemented/managed a system for academics to make a certain type of submission.. and over half of the submissions were always aft
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by duwease 14y ago
I suggest the book "Wrong: Why experts* keep failing us--and how to know when not to trust them" by David H. Freedman, the author of that Atlantic piece. It's a book length treatment, and very damning in many ways.

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