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by gHosts 7y ago
Definitely not true. Not even close.
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by gHosts 7y ago
Here some reasons I have seen why nobody has a clue about value... * Often the financials of a company are "need to know" or obfuscated (Y-Axis unannotated)... * The financials are regarded as irrelevant to engineering (by managem
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by gHosts 7y ago
If I understand what they are looking at, they are looking at problems that are simple in the sense of having no local optima, but complex in the sense of having very high dimension. ie. It's not a problem for the class of problems the
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by gHosts 7y ago
This is why we need initiatives like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data
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by gHosts 7y ago
Actually, once you're over the addiction to sugar.... * Sugar tastes rotten. Seriously, it's tastes like somebody put something that's gone off in your coffee. * Fat tastes sweet. I use cream in my coffee, don't miss sug
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by gHosts 7y ago
Best illustration ever for the saying, "Give me 19 parameters and I'll fit an Elephant!"
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by gHosts 7y ago
Agreed... ..also "Zen Flash, Zen Bones" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Flesh,_Zen_Bones http://www.ibiblio.org/zen/cgi-bin/koan-index.pl https://terebess.hu/zen&#
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by gHosts 7y ago
I regard engineering as a daemon that will magically give me anything, from a nice cuppa tea to a nuclear holocaust. The daemon has a strong preference for nuclear holocaust. The trick is to give it explicitly, concisely and precisely suppl
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by gHosts 7y ago
Especially automatic refactorings... If you look at real code, often the main reason why this routine was added to this file... was that the programmer worked in this file last. Is that a Good Reason? No it's a bloody awful reason. An
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by gHosts 7y ago
Graph Theory in the presence of modules and dependencies between modules. Every thing in computing is modular and multiple levels of modules and has coupling and dependencies between modules. It's the hottest and hardest problem in rea
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by gHosts 7y ago
I feel...... spuriously invoked
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by gHosts 7y ago
Golf. https://code-golf.io/ Mathematical golfing
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by gHosts 7y ago
And on the subject of what most not to do.... For pity sake don't send a picture of a log or an error dump..... send the text. Please. Pretty please. With tears in my eyes.
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by gHosts 7y ago
Always do both. If it matters, do both. The email is for reference, the walk and talk is for communication, awareness and motivation.
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by gHosts 7y ago
Consensus is NOT about everyone agrees on the solution... it's about everyone agrees that they have been heard and understood. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282
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by gHosts 7y ago
1. Remember the person you are talking to does not have the same things in their head, and they are not looking at (or seeing) the same things you are.... So no matter how much you disagree with them, from their perspective it makes sense a
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by gHosts 7y ago
Mostly the problem is that the better activities have become less readily available and/or more expensive.
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by gHosts 7y ago
It's finally happened. Satire can no longer compete with reality.
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by gHosts 7y ago
Because they are written by people who never actually understood Design by Contract and class invariants.
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by gHosts 7y ago
Meh. I worked on mainframes for years and cheered when minis came along. I worked on minis for years and cheered when PC's came along. I worked on DOS for years and wept when Windows came along. I worked on windows for years and sang c
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by gHosts 7y ago
In Africa children often have names like "Beauty", "Princess", "Precious" (yes, Precious, that's a fairly common boys name).... I actually love it. It says what the parents feel about the child.
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by gHosts 7y ago
Oh the day I realized there was more interesting stuff appearing on fidonet faster than I could ever read. That I could read all day and still get further behind... Now I'm now so sure... sometimes I think the rate of interesting new s
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by gHosts 7y ago
Are the Good Old days before computers became those things the secretary didn't quite know how to use.... it was downhill all the way from there.
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by gHosts 7y ago
Or "poke" into the interpreter's ram region to do crazy things like shifting the string store to overlay the graphics ram and clearing the screen faster than any other technique by creating new blank strings and then poke the
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by gHosts 7y ago
Actually had an office with a door you could close and a window you could open to actually think in. And then walk down the corridor to the terminal room to turn thoughts into programs and/or ask the other guys or gals. Strangely enoug
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by gHosts 7y ago
Or writing amazing CGI scripts in perl that did amazing things before I realized I had to maintain aforementioned perl scripts. Turned to shit pretty rapidly, but for a day or three I was wondrously happy.
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by gHosts 7y ago
Did a course on a new fangled laser printer that printed _all _ the payslips for _all_ government employees of the time/place. It took a fair number of pages to get up to speed and a largish chunk of a box of paper just to stop. Postcr
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by gHosts 7y ago
Ah, the good old, "Read this pile of books", call me when you done style of onboarding.
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by gHosts 7y ago
I'm an applied mathematician that worked in those days with chemists, microbiologists, hydrologists, civil engineers, electronic engineers, physicists and almost every darn flavour of critter _except_ computer scientists. Learnt a lot
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by gHosts 7y ago
Want nostalgia? Run this happy command... enscript --landscape --line-numbers --media=A4 --font=Courier7 --highlight-bars --verbose --highlight=c myFileName.c

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