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Ask HN: Moving from hand-waving about software development to empirical data?
4 points by ern 10y ago|2 comments
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by ern 10y ago
That's a good point. There is also a fine line between craftsmanship and intellectual self-gratification at a customer's expense. Doing a good enough job that solves a customer's problems without gold-plating or unneeded co
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by ern 10y ago
Because it's marketed to parents and governments as "skills for the future" or "necessary for a modern workforce". Yet the "real-life" programming world in its current form is both elitist in attitude and
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Ask HN: How to reconcile “teach everyone to code” and “only hire the top 1%”?
75 points by ern 10y ago|55 comments
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by ern 10y ago
At the risk of generalizing, most of us reading this are of above-average intelligence, and have the ability to cope and thrive in a globalized world. We probably have more in common with the global elites than we do with the "lumpen p
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by ern 10y ago
The revolution set the stage for the modern world though, a world separated in sovereign states (instead of kingdoms) the three branches government etc I'm fairly certain that the US was already independent and had adopted the curren
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by ern 10y ago
I have a physician relative who told me how bad he felt about elderly people who die alone and afraid, and whose children are somewhat disinterested when they pass. But then he pointed out that these same parents kick their kids out of the
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by ern 10y ago
This was often an argument I read in my Systems Analysis textbooks back in that era: "Bob from Accounting threw together this app, now we need to replace it with a staged CMMI-compliant development process that does things properly&quo
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by ern 10y ago
Lightswitch was also tightly coupled with Silverlight when first released. The death of Silverlight doomed it. I believe that there is an HTML output version, but I doubt there is much interest.
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You can do this in Windows Forms. You can (or could) drag a DB connection onto a form, hook it up to a grid, and have a CRUD app out in minutes. You could even do that in ASP.NET Webforms. But for cultural and technical reasons, it is fro
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by ern 10y ago
I started work at the tail-end of the VB6 (legacy systems were maintained with VB6, new work was done in .NET). We lost a lot of good people in the transition. Unfortunately, many modern developers (including me) avoid VB, in all its incar
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by ern 11y ago
There is also Informatics in English (what BAs, System Analysts and Software Project Managers study in some parts of the world), but I'm not sure how it maps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatics
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by ern 11y ago
I wonder what the lifetime earnings of a new software developer/engineer would be, compared to other careers, especially for those that turn out to be non-rock stars in the medium to long term, which would be most. I suspect that the g
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by ern 11y ago
You allude to a bigger problem: anyone outside the industry who looks at the hiring process for developers would be put off. I know anecdotally that the industry is struggling to get students interested in software development as a career,
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by ern 11y ago
The US? Australia? Canada? New Zealand? The line between "skilled migrants" and "colonists" is blurred in the earlier part of their histories, but all those countries seem to be doing well in the grand scheme of things.
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by ern 11y ago
PayPal won a lot of praise a couple of years ago for rewriting their code in Node.js and the phenomenal productivity improvements that supposedly brought. I wonder if the complaints we see on this thread mean the honeymoon between PayPal an
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by ern 11y ago
Many modern web stacks fall into that trap. Huge amounts of complexity in order to satisfy buzzword compliance.
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Data normalization reconsidered, Part 1(ibm.com)
9 points by ern 11y ago|4 comments
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Your point of view is rather charitable. His parents neglected to give him much of a moral foundation. Home-grown jihadists in the West seem to have a common story: parents move to the West, kid develops an identity crisis. Kid has no clue
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by ern 11y ago
Wahhabism, a traditionalist Sunni practice Wahabism (Salafism) is decidedly not traditionalist. At best, it's a form of degraded literalism that abandons 1400 years of exegesis for an anarchic reading of Islamic texts. It lends itsel
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by ern 11y ago
Feel free to that, just be aware that your approach lacks any kind of validity and would be regarded as quixotic at best. Most hadiths (I think that's what you are referring to) have weak veracity and weighted accordingly. As I stated
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by ern 11y ago
Billions may be overstating it, but you do have a point, Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of that movement and does promote the literalist approach, along with its Gulf neigbours. However, it wouldn't surprise me if Moslem countries care
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by ern 11y ago
The only laypeople who use the Koran and Hadiths as sources for direct personal understanding of Islam are literalist Salafist/Wahhabist types including ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Islamic exegesis, which has led to the day to day fiqh that
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by ern 11y ago
The Koran is ambiguous, as is the Bible, and the US Constitution. Indeed any meaningful statute passed by a legislature has some measure of ambiguity. Reconciling these ambiguities by means of textual interpretation is a large part of the r
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by ern 11y ago
The more fair-minded outlets do seem to try, but even then, they seem to be the exceptions that prove the rule: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-is-... http://www.theguardia
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by ern 11y ago
There seems to be a curious mirroring between violent jihadists and and some of those who condemn them. Both seem to take the exact same approach of cherry-picking phrases and interpretations of the Koran and from the life of Mohamed that
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The Saudis released their own letter: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/17/saudi-clerics-f...
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Maybe it deterred a few donations to ISIS, or prevented some recruitment. Regardless, it certainly does help belie claims, oft repeated, that the silent majority of Moslems tacitly support Islamist terrorism, or are silent in its face.
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The Saudis were not the only ones who condemned ISIS. Hundreds of Moslem clerics signed an open letter condemning ISIS in 2014: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-is-... http:/&#x
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by ern 11y ago
Fortunately, there are better ways of trying to figure out Islamic exegis is on this issue than randomly searching for words in the Koran: http://www.lettertobaghdadi.com (via http://www.independent.co.uk/news&#

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