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by ericHosick 12y ago
I think a majority of people (80/20 rule or even 90/10 in this case) have great intentions. Don't read into what I said as not having "faith". Good intentions don't yield desired results: especially when people
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by ericHosick 12y ago
An attitude? This stuff seems to happen again and again throughout history. Me asking this may bring root cause problems to the conversation too. You would think the world view of a large number of people would have changed considering thin
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by ericHosick 12y ago
Will any of this really make any difference? I feel that, in the long run, it won't. Edit: And to further clarify my question (since I'm being down-voted for a very legitimate question)... I know a lot of smart people and none of
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by ericHosick 12y ago
I'm also surprised at this one. The software fulfillment process has a lot of issues. We are stuck in a local maxima and jumping the chasm to the next maxima with ideas like "what comes after programming languages" is really
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Message-Oriented Programming with JavaScript(blog.interfacevision.com)
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by ericHosick 12y ago
Perhaps making something familiar helps people see and understand the underlying technology better?
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by ericHosick 12y ago
There is mention of tools like group estimates which improve the estimation effort (according to the article). There isn't much mention of the estimates you can go for: 1) Accurate but not reliable 2) Reliable but not accurate
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by ericHosick 12y ago
I think another frustration doctors are feeling today is due to a lack of patient-doctor relationships. Society views doctors as tools that society has a legal right to.
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by ericHosick 12y ago
> If 'cron' suddenly acquired a staff of 40, I would start looking for alternatives. How accessible is Cron to people? For the consumer, almost all aspects of computing are becoming ubiquitous: except programming. Tools like th
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by ericHosick 12y ago
As a game, this is really cool. But when he got to the 4th dimension it didn't make much sense as an explanation (rubble from 3rd dimension showing up in the 4th). However, if the 4th dimension was time, then you would walk back (or fo
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by ericHosick 12y ago
I would probably use the word ability instead of right. Further, just because you have a right to do something doesn't mean you should exercise that right. The fact the conversation is happening means this isn't exactly an open an
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by ericHosick 12y ago
> Why on HN? Who knows. Make something up? He was an amazing and exceptional person. That's good enough for me.
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by ericHosick 12y ago
Actually a decent tune here: https://soundcloud.com/glowdon/jingy-compiler-1#t=6:00
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by ericHosick 12y ago
> for example, it's pretty clear that pesticides are causing significant problems for bee populations You are attempting to refute what was said by replacing it with a different argument. What you are touching on is what should happ
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by ericHosick 12y ago
> "minimizes their contributions back to the society they're benefiting greatly from" Or it could be that society is greatly benefiting from them: the people and companies that make the goods and services.
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by ericHosick 12y ago
I agree that telling anyone to do anything doesn't mean they will do it (change their habits). However, educating people does allow them to make better decisions. Rules themselves aren't always the best/optimal/safest so
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by ericHosick 12y ago
> Zipper merging is only optimal if traffic is already slowed down dramatically. I agree. But note that the idea of Zipper merging is when traffic has already slowed down, not when it is still moving.
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Zipper merging is the optimal solution. People early merge because they think it is the optimal/moral/better/'done my part' solution. If everyone knew about zipper merging there would be no early mergers (and '
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by ericHosick 12y ago
Serenity. :-)
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by ericHosick 12y ago
I like the idea of providing an alternate value or even alternate flow of execution. The action to take when dividing by 0 is based on context: it is a business behavior. In my opinion, it is no different than any other business requirement
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by ericHosick 12y ago
I figured there was some kind of temporal timey whimey thing going on because the three stooges pre-date red Lamborghinis.
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by ericHosick 12y ago
I also see Cucumber as a way of gluing specifications with implementation allowing you to regression test specifications. You can end up with a very domain specific testing "language" (DSTL?) enabling developers and domain experts
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by ericHosick 12y ago
There are very scalable ways to lecture (enable learning) such as student centered learning (called active learning in the post). These are both cost effective and result in better learning outcomes. Lectures are omnipresent for many reason
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by ericHosick 12y ago
> Why bother spending 30 minutes looking over this stuff and filing it for taxes? That is the sign of hugely dis-functional micro-payments model (unfortunately). It may also be a symptom of compulsory fees imposed by a third party.
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by ericHosick 12y ago
I really like Jekyll and use it for both my website and blog. It really is a great product that is easy to use. Thanks!
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I dump stuff in one big TextEdit/Notepad file that sits on my desktop. It is really easy to arrange stuff in it, take notes for meetings, etc. TextEdit/Notepad loads really really fast. I can move stuff out of it easily (say conta
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by ericHosick 12y ago
I totally agree. Answering questions empathetically takes a lot of effort.
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by ericHosick 12y ago
> Stop arguing over how other people create software; Ship Code instead. Electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, architectural design and the medical profession, to name a few, have bodies of knowledge they are required to use. I
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by ericHosick 12y ago
This looks really cool! Is there a reason why you have something like: newGame ::= a game of Wump the Wumpus; as opposed to: newGame is a game of Wump the Wumpus.
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by ericHosick 12y ago
I wrote the blog post but this one and the one you linked to weren't submitted by me nor do I know who they are. I only found out via an analytics spike and asking someone who emailed me some VPL additions that it was submitted again.

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