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by huherto 10y ago
> "And then, some months later, Pixar rewrote the film from almost the ground up, and we made ToyStory2 again" Reminds me of Fred Brooks quote. "Plan to throw one away. You will anyhow".
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- Be aware of new trends. You don't have to learn everything. But pickup and try those that are promising to solve real problems in your current position. - You should be able to move back and forth between management and technical pos
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One problem may be that sick people would move to California just because of this. May be it is not a big problem if enough states do it. The extra load would be shared among several states. Smaller states may have not big enough to have a
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by huherto 10y ago
So what happened to Perl ? Back in the day we used to do a lot of the sysadmin automation using Perl. It was pretty awesome. Do sysadmins still use it?
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So it is an application of the Law of diminishing marginal returns ?
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Great insight. I never thought of it this way. Perhaps this is the best justification for art education. It is not about producing beautiful objects. Perhaps it is about our mental health. More like meditation. It is the process that gives
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> Should sysadmins have software development experience (e.g. DevOps)? May be. Not only you understand better the needs of software developers. But also, you are able to automate a large chunk of your work. Paraphrasing Larry Wall: Sysa
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> A nuclear catastrophe, statistically, poses a much lower risk to my well being than tornado season. The probability may be lower. But the consequences are way, way, way, way, way bigger.(I am assuming nuclear catastrophe means nuclear
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Generalizing this idea. Interdependences are big source of problems and delays in projects. Many people don't realize it, but you have to actively work on eliminating them. You see it in the form people waiting for other people. Every
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Unpredictability can confuse your competition and you can gain some advantage on that. But it can also confuse you own internal resources and make some real damage.
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Java is good if you don't create 10 layer enterprise applications where each component is broken on 17 maven artifacts. I use Perl to manage such a monster.
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Best wishes for your project. Why the South pacific ?
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I like the idea. Sounds a good approach to get good at doing things fast. You could even significantly improve the quality of your work. Anyone remembers the pottery class experiment ? They partition the group in two. One partition would be
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by huherto 10y ago
Trying to understand the context of the email. From: Eryn Sepp <eryn.sepp@gmail.com> To: john.podesta@gmail.com Though CAP is still having issues with my email and computer, yours is good to go.=20 jpodesta p@ssw0rd It loo
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... and solar panel installation (and maintenance) cannot be outsourced.
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> You need to take every piece of advice and figure out when and where it does not apply. This. It is almost obvious. But you still see lots of cases where advice is followed where it doesn't make sense. A particular contrarian thin
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by huherto 10y ago
We are not destroying the earth. The earth will go on with or without us. We are destroying the future of millions of humans. It will cause a great deal of pain and suffering. It may even cause the extension of our civilization or even our
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by huherto 10y ago
I don't know why you are being down voted. But you don't have to invoke a conspiracy. Interesting. The US Military did spawn the self-driving Car Revolution with their DARPA Challange. http://www.livescience.com/44
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by huherto 10y ago
> I'd always though of English and China as examples of hard languages in terms of sounds Glad you mention this. I don't think most native English speakers are aware how complex English phonetics are. There are subtleties that
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Thanks for the example. I am also trying to wrap my head around it. Is it possible to get all that information in one round trip ? I believe that is one of the benefits of graphQL.
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Uber for cooks. People cook food in their homes. You select the food from several cooks in your area in an app, drive to their house and pick the food. I imagine a housewife/househusband that is already cooking for her/his family
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> Arrogant investors seem to think, "running a business can't be that hard..." Running a country can't be that hard...oh my god.
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"Take a mistress. Your wife will believe that you are with your mistress. Your mistress will believe that you are with your wife. And you can spend more time hacking code."
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Indeed there are diminishing returns as you increase coverage. I personally shoot to go over 80%. You may try to do 90% but it is going to significantly increase the development cost. You end up writing a whole unit test just to test one tr
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by huherto 10y ago
They could weight the contents of the shelves. Based on that you may know what you took out. I actually looked into that for a retailer.
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They also allow to spread fake information which we are learning that it can be really, really bad.
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>I've heard a great saying once: "Happiness is the difference between expectation and reality." The more time I think about it, the more I agree. In a similar note. I believe that it is has been shown that happiness is bel
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Similar to "cat". But it shows the contents of a file in octal. try... echo hello | od echo hello | od -c Useful when you want to figure out the real contents of a file.
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http://www.csgnetwork.com/waterusagecalc.html 600 Gallons per day * 3.7 = 2,271 liters per day. That is just water without counting the water used to grow the food we use. Meanwhile 4,000,000 liters can be benefit 4,000,0
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I kept fixing my Fitbit with glue over and over until I couldn't. I will not buy another one.

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