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by fallous 10y ago
I don't think it's an opposite effect so much as a variation on the same theme. "Cry-bullies" are still bullies, they just opt for an appeal to some other authority in a passive-aggressive manner instead of directly bei
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by fallous 10y ago
In most of the cases discussed in the article, it's not the software that rots but instead the users and/or organization that decays. When a system is created, it is generally designed to solve a known set of problems encountered
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by fallous 10y ago
I don't mean a single word prompt, I mean you can only use the single word or phrase as dialog and have to perform a scene (also randomly provided) with other actors. Bob gets "roses," Jill gets "fire," and a third
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by fallous 10y ago
Doing scenes with "word salad" is something improv actors do as a practice tool, as well as scenes where each actor only has a single word or simple phrase they can use as dialog. The latter is often part of a performance for an
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by fallous 10y ago
Intel has a long and unfortunate history with promising initiatives into new markets outside their core, and then promptly cutting and running when there's obstacles to those efforts... and I say that as a former (long ago, circa 2000)
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by fallous 10y ago
Expertise is knowledge within a problem domain. Art, and more importantly wisdom, is in the implementation and execution.
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by fallous 10y ago
Indeed, but then the organization has to know what it does not know... which presumes a certain wisdom in the first place. ;)
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by fallous 10y ago
Unfortunately this is a lesson that often has to be learned the hard way when you have a lead or team that lacks experience/wisdom. If you can survive that educational expense, you end up much better for it but it's painful nonet
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by fallous 11y ago
It depends on what I'm reading. Comments in a forum? I hear a voice in my head, with a certain character style based on either the text or if it's a known commenter. Most books, especially good fiction, I visualize to a high deg
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by fallous 11y ago
Yes, if PHP is appropriate to the task at hand AND you have an existing set of PHP talent in-house then it would be hard to argue that isn't an optimal solution. However, if PHP is not appropriate, that in-house PHP talent does not cha
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by fallous 11y ago
When I'm engaged in rapid prototyping or testing an idea, I almost exclusively rely on the stack I'm familiar with that fits the problem domain. But I don't consider that "real code" given the very nature of what I
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by fallous 11y ago
My response to a lot of this behavior among a number of products/vendors is "stop helping me." The presumption that users are idiots and cannot be trusted with control over behaviors or settings is a constant source of irrit
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by fallous 11y ago
10 pounds of celery would result in 40g (or thereabouts) of sugar intake, 4 liters or so of water, and round about the US RDA of vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B6, B9, C, E and the minerals calcium, iron, magnesium, phosophorous, potassium, sodium
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by fallous 11y ago
No doubt, but that is not what is measured in this study. It is the environmental influences that may result in exercise, but not the actual adoption and expected resulting health improvements. It is important to measure the actual results
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by fallous 11y ago
I don't disagree with your critique of the parent's preferred "source," but "over-eating" has a certain hand-waving component as well (IMO at least.) If you eat 10 pounds of celery, there is no doubt that the v
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by fallous 11y ago
And then the question of "was it really wealth to begin with" must be asked. Wealth is a function of added value.
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by fallous 11y ago
Amusingly, they did not bother to measure the actual results of fitness in these populations. Do these areas demonstrate a marked reduction in cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes rates, etc?
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by fallous 11y ago
How about breaking it down by nation in an attempt to show how lopsided certain economic systems or legal frameworks are vs others? That would at least seem to provide a more complete view of the potential problem. I'd also be interes
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by fallous 11y ago
Of course cancer is a result of genetics gone amok, but that's about as useful as saying that death is caused by hypoxia... of course it is, all death is the result of lack of oxygen to the brain. Cancer as a disease, in its expression
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by fallous 11y ago
"Cancer" isn't a single disease or problem domain, but what could be categorized as a syndrome that shares some basic commonalities. The governmental "War on Cancer" began under Nixon and was pitched as a "moon
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by fallous 11y ago
There's actually some excellent points in this for designing products, especially onboarding and default experiences. Too much effort to get to the actual work/core experience will tend to result in lack of use.
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by fallous 11y ago
Find a problem that is not easily solved by your current knowledge/experience and explore it. Having a clear goal does wonders to provide focus and limit the chances of being overwhelmed by "all the things." When you address
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by fallous 11y ago
Check the voting patterns for areas in the Valley to discover what tech workers think. They pretty much line up with the results displayed regarding founders. I noticed it myself while living there.
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by fallous 11y ago
Yes, the Warner Bros WW2 cartoons (as well as some others deemed offensive) as well as some Disney shorts have been sent down the memory hole. Additionally, I remember when Cartoon Network, amongst others, began editing Coyote/Roadrunn
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by fallous 11y ago
The city of Washington, D.C. actually fired someone for using the word "niggardly" in a speech regarding budgets a few years ago.
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by fallous 11y ago
More disturbing is the refusal to make available movies that were incredibly significant culturally at the time of release but are now considered "offensive" to modern sensibilities. Disney's Song of the South is a prime exa
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by fallous 11y ago
Changing behavior in split brain systems requires an understanding of the fact that the brain is in fact split. And even if you design the system to operate in your 'correct' solution, you may still result in imperfect booking if
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by fallous 11y ago
Unhelpfully he switches analogies in midstream to avoid the problem of the "two customers buy tickets when one seat is available" originally posited. Additionally, "eventually consistent" begs the question of what is &q
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by fallous 11y ago
To be fair, the parent's Pentium-60 was also struggling with playing an MP3 file during that time as well. It wasn't Doom that convinced me to switch from the Amiga to Wintel, it was MP3. My P100 was adequate but you weren't
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by fallous 11y ago
I'm willing to consider that Alzheimer's Disease may be affected by diet, but this article seems awfully slim on real data and in one instance seems to diverge from actual experimental results. They claim that Type-2 diabetes and

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