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by hcayless 11y ago
It really isn't. Food service jobs don't require that you spend years and lots of money in order to qualify for them. Academia has really become a sort of pyramid scheme: lots of people going to grad school to support a few facult
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by hcayless 11y ago
I don't buy the assertion that startups increase economic inequality. I mean, I suppose some of them might, but a few people getting rich by producing something of value doesn't equate to an increase in general poverty. A startup
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by hcayless 11y ago
It's a crappy essay, but it does point at a couple of systemic problems with the modern university. Grades used to be better correlated with actual performance, and they aren't anymore, yet they're still used as metrics. It m
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by hcayless 11y ago
Found at least 2 before I quit paying attention. It's not 100% crap by any means, but there's a disturbing narrow-mindedness to it as well.
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by hcayless 11y ago
The biggest problem with micromanagement is that you're making it about you rather than whatever your goal is. It's not so much that you're making your team miserable (though you may be), but that you're making their goa
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by hcayless 11y ago
I dunno. I remember loving Sesame Street as a kid, but it never clicked with either of my children. Neither of them could stand to watch a whole episode. Elmo was briefly popular in our house, but only briefly. Kids mostly aren't stupi
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by hcayless 11y ago
My impression is that JRuby is a lot more advanced, particularly from the point of view of parity with its "parent". That's not firsthand knowledge though: I use JRuby a lot, but Jython not for years, so I'm not plugged
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by hcayless 12y ago
I suppose it's technically correct, even though it's a little goofy. The first part is from the neuter form of the Greek adjective ὅλος (holos), meaning "whole". The neuter form (used as a noun here I assume) would be &q
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by hcayless 12y ago
Yeah, no kidding. And not just children. I've had adults walk through it too. I hope this doesn't ever make it to the pro line. It's fine I suppose if you really only plug the device in to charge it once a day, like a phone,
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by hcayless 12y ago
Lucene's regexp querying is based on http://www.brics.dk/automaton/ It's fast, but limited too: no word boundary matching for example.
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by hcayless 12y ago
Even more than that, the class was a contract job and it's over. How much free work is it reasonable to do for a client after the job is finished and you're no longer being paid?
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by hcayless 13y ago
I was once told, effectively: "we didn't promote you because you're too valuable where you are (senior-level engineer)". Needless to say, I left a few weeks later. Performance can be very hard to measure, particularly fo
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by hcayless 13y ago
Just what I was thinking. Thinking about how awesome something is going to be when I'm done with it just stalls me out. I have to think: what's broken now , and how do I fix it? Similarly, when it comes to exercise, I find I&#x27
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by hcayless 13y ago
On one level this is yet another Apple-rejected-my-app story, but I'm more interested in how it illustrates the way the "book" category is blurring.
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This is not a book(chronicle.com)
1 points by hcayless 13y ago|1 comments
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by hcayless 13y ago
Speaking as a former history major, thanks! :-) Code like that is written by people who don't really understand how their code works and there are plenty of CS majors in that category. With any luck, they are swiftly promoted to manage
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by hcayless 14y ago
Well, you are subsidizing the insurance industry too :-). There are clearly indirect costs that go into inflating insurance premiums. I find it very hard to understand why it's acceptable to pay in one way (high premiums, catastrophic care
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by hcayless 14y ago
Health care in the US isn't bad (mostly). It just isn't better than in countries where there's 100% coverage of the population. And it's many times more expensive. There's unlikely to be any solution though, barring a massive shift in pub
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by hcayless 14y ago
No. Because: http://oglaf.com/ornithology/1/
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by hcayless 14y ago
I can't understand it. It seems to me to combine selfishness and short-sightedness in equal measure. "I'm all right, I have insurance" plus "I'll never be faced by a health crisis greater than my plans will handle." You might be right, and
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by hcayless 14y ago
A (good) manager's primary tasks are: 1) Make sure your team knows what to do and has what they need to do it. 2) Be a buffer between them and anything that distracts them from #1. 3) Be a resource to help them develop. All 3 require good c
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by hcayless 14y ago
Are you asking them to do this in a particular language, or just to come up with an algorithm? This might work better as the sort of problem you ask an interviewee to talk you through, rather than an "I'll check on you in 10 minutes" kind o
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by hcayless 14y ago
This is something I totally agree with. I wish the borders between academia and the professional world were a bit more permeable. Academia (often) suffers from a severe disconnect from practice, and the professional world could really benef
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by hcayless 14y ago
A Ph.D. is not something to be entered into lightly (and many do). I don't regret doing mine at all, but you shouldn't do it with the expectation that you'll get a professorship at the end, and for God's sake, don't go into debt to get one.
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by hcayless 14y ago
I'll see your anecdote and raise you one ;-). I never used to floss, and would regularly have cavities to deal with (pretty much every visit to the dentist). When I started flossing religiously that ceased. I've had one filling (and that fo
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by hcayless 14y ago
Back in 2001 I started having serious pain in my right wrist and solved it by switching to a trackball mouse. Laptops with touchpads are ok too as long as I don't pivot my wrist when I use them. Basically I've trained myself to keep my wris
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by hcayless 15y ago
I am one. But I do a lot of work with XML documents (not just data in XML form, but documents marked up in XML). XSLT is an invaluable tool for this problem domain, but it's a relatively small niche. I can easily imagine programmers getting
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by hcayless 15y ago
Ha! Another Classics Ph.D. here :-). And there are lots of people in programming with advanced Humanities degrees. STEM majors aren't the only smart people around.
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by hcayless 15y ago
I framed the post around Sqoot's apology because that was what gave me the idea. I didn't intend to slap them around any more than they have been. It's just an example of what I think was meant to be a genuine apology that fell totally flat
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How to Apologize(philomousos.blogspot.com)
247 points by hcayless 15y ago|173 comments

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