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by dwc 16y ago
If your in-house people screw it up then it means you don't value the data very much. If you say you value the data but don't act like it, it means you don't value the data. If you really, actually do value the data, then the best way to
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by dwc 16y ago
Why not buy sizes in some proportion to the sizes of actual employees? There's really no other answer unless the company has grown to the point where the size curve approaches a normal distribution. If you plotted sizes where I work now it
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by dwc 16y ago
No need to take issue with something I didn't say. You mention IMAP, POP and SMTP as targets for replacement. I agree that it's workable to add an additional client protocol without disruption. If it were good then people would support
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by dwc 16y ago
Below are two scenarios that seem to fit what you've said. There may be more, of course. A) Others provide vision, direction, and everything else except doing the tech work. You provide excellent design and implementation to fulfill the vis
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by dwc 16y ago
If rms can use SMTP for web pages, we might as well do the opposite. ;-) Email has different needs than do web pages, thus the protocols are different. Could one implement email over HTTP? Sure! But what, exactly, will be the benefits and
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by dwc 16y ago
> Public perception was that Live was a failure. At that time I was paying a lot of attention to search results, from two perspectives: 1) I had some slightly unusual / difficult searches I performed regularly, and 2) examining search
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by dwc 16y ago
I'm self-taught, without a single credit hour of college. In high school a friend took a programming class and showed me a bit on a demo machine at radio shack, and that hooked me completely. I've worked mostly for smallish companies, and d
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by dwc 16y ago
First, see bennesvig's reply. Here's something that may be helpful... when you're thinking "I can't ship yet" then make a list of what's stopping you. You should do this for a number of reasons, of course. But once you have a list, you can
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by dwc 16y ago
Nobody else has commented, so I'll give you my opinion... You have a steady but smallish number of downloads. Given the bad ratings of your app, I think that indicates that there are people who want something like this - enough that 150 peo
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by dwc 16y ago
Also in (3), very portable to old architectures. PCC is written in C, where LLVM/Clang is C++. This makes one less hurdle to bootstrapping a new compiler on some archs.
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by dwc 16y ago
Just FYI, I didn't downvote you.
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by dwc 16y ago
I believe my comment took account of the role that some extreme religious viewpoints play, while stating that the moderate majority is capable of accepting science. It seems no matter what I write you are blaming me for having an extreme st
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by dwc 16y ago
I'm not sure where you got that idea[1]. There was a time several decades ago when the Christian proletariat majority widely supported science, read popular periodicals about science, and aspired to educate their children in science and eng
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by dwc 16y ago
The partial truth of this leads to some major fallacies. There are some things that good techies understand, like abstraction, that lead to more general solutions. Laws on the books tend to be tied very closely with specific implementations
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by dwc 16y ago
Yes, it's a pervasive problem. People have enough trouble with this, even in areas where things don't change rapidly. As someone who's lately steeped in science (vocationally) and skepticism (avocationally), I've had to confront some prev
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by dwc 16y ago
It should be obvious there's a wide range here. On one end there's content that absolutely belongs on HN but nobody would ever find unless its self posted (the non-regular blogger who writes a great essay). At the other end is someone just
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by dwc 16y ago
Two books I've recently read are The Age of American Unreason by Jacoby [1] and Unscientific America by Mooney & Kirschenbaum [2]. Both are worth reading, but Jacoby gives a deeper and more thoughtful analysis and spends considerabl
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by dwc 16y ago
I'm not sure what to make of this ramble. I eat meat; I'm nowhere close to vegetarian. I'm pretty ok with that. I have 2 TVs. Both are connected to DVD players, and have no antenna or cable connections. I read a lot, and finish books. I try
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by dwc 16y ago
After 25 years or so coding professionally I also agree with pretty much all of the points. And let's remember this wasn't the initial "thanks for your time, but sorry" letter. It was solicited explicitly . The OP delivered. And there's ev
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by dwc 16y ago
Some things will become clear but it'll be like cutting heads off the Hydra. But that's the fun part of science - every question answered seems to raise many more.
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by dwc 16y ago
As read on the IRC channel (#aichallenge on freenode) some time ago, someone involved worked at Google and managed to get an OK to use the name, even though Google has nothing to do with it. Don't ask me how that happened. Go to the IRC cha
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by dwc 16y ago
Despite the other comments, I think you make a very valuable point. Take out the "customer" angle and I think they'd also agree. It's really thinking about the problem, working the problem and solving the problem. Thinking about and working
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by dwc 16y ago
The article and above comments are basically saying that you don't need an expensive gym membership and a highly qualified personal trainer to get six-pack abs. You can do it yourself by, as you note, by building muscle, burning fat, and ea
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by dwc 16y ago
I suspect you are using git the way you use svn. In that case there's little or no benefit. It's essentially the "Blub VCS" problem. Using Git or Mercurial offer a few very powerful things, but they won't seem like much until you have the "
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by dwc 16y ago
It's worth reading Phil Plait's article on this: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/05/ha...
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by dwc 16y ago
Mechanics are clever and drivers are stupid. How many people take their car in and try to tell the mechanics what the fix is rather than describe the problem ? It's not about being clever or stupid at all. It's about being inconsiderate
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by dwc 16y ago
For me, the "word soup" was the authors trying to get across why they did the specific things they did. While many of the individual practices are widely known today, knowing the underlying why is the only way to get real value out of t
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by dwc 16y ago
Do check out the book. It's full of very good things. > stumbled upon in the 1970s and can never be improved upon Certainly it can be improved upon, and I'm pretty sure even GUI haters must know that. We're just waiting for that to ha
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by dwc 16y ago
The graphic ones took all the depth out of the text adventures, but offered eye candy. So the trend goes...
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by dwc 16y ago
This is an awesome suggestion. Except for very small companies there's usually a place to move someone where they will excel, if management is willing to take the time to think about it for a moment. Once in a while you have someone who doe

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