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by dws 17y ago
Written by a morning person. However, research shows that night owls get more things done. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5208608/Night-o...
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by dws 17y ago
The 3% (of users affected) number has been trotted out a few times. Has twitter ever backed that up? It feels like a way of marginalizing the people who're complaining about the change, by painting them (us) as a vocal minority. (Following
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by dws 17y ago
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, it's possible that both are true. They may have been pondering user experience when scaling needs pushed them into making a decision.
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by dws 17y ago
Not to be read with coffee in one's mouth.
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by dws 17y ago
One of those fourteeners, Uncompahgre Peak, is a gentle "walk up". We did it once by moonlight, which was a real treat. It also gives you plenty of chances to decide that you'd rather quit and walk down, which may be good idea if you're com
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by dws 17y ago
A good talk if you're in to compilers. It runs just over an hour. If you're in a real hurry, there's a juicy bit starting with a joke about Emacs and Lisp Machines at 1:02:00, then some on to some bits that have implications on Agile and (w
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by dws 17y ago
A third-hand report, and it isn't clear whether it's a comment from some random investor who holds Berkshire shares.
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by dws 17y ago
Considering the universe of beginners (B), and the subset who are visual thinkers (V), then unless |V|/|B| >= 0.5, then no. More data is needed.
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by dws 17y ago
Jerry Weinberg uses this technique in "Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design" as a technique for exploring vague requirements. When you get a short verbal requirement thrown at you, repeat it back with different words stressed, and
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by dws 18y ago
"You're not living up to your potential" is a Red Queen's game that having a high IQ doesn't help.
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by dws 18y ago
"This video is no longer available." That didn't take long.
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by dws 18y ago
Don't conflate having a project canceled with having it fail. Successful projects get canceled for a variety of reasons, and some failed projects never get canceled.
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by dws 18y ago
If Spolsky is going after "tests for everything", his target is Robert Martin, not Kent Beck. Beck freely admits that he doesn't test everything. Pulling Beck into the argument feels like a cheap debate trick.
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by dws 18y ago
Getting an LED to blink is a great first step. You'll work through most of the technology stack to get there.
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by dws 18y ago
This article parrots Detroit's "take what you're given at shut up" view. Dealers see things differently. My family ran two automobile dealerships. The one that dealt with Detroit (Ford) had little choice in what they were given to sell, and
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by dws 19y ago
Where did you get "abusing"? That word appears nowhere in the article.
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by dws 19y ago
Kind of puzzling that BadCyclopedia doesn't cite the original source (a Forbes article), or the original author (Quentin Hardy). http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0410/063.html
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by dws 19y ago
It's not how many lines of code you write, it's how effectively you both turn out features and leave the code base in a clean state. The folks I've worked with who crank out lots of code tend to be the ones who missed reuse opportunities an