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by jakubp 9y ago
Thanks, will have a look at tabulator. I appreciate a list of validators you published on FD site, can help at least a bit when working with non-techies to vet their data before submission.
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CSV as serialization format? Ouch. Could we do better? My experience with CSV has been nothing but pain in the past. Ambiguous formats, quoting issues, incompatible libraries between languages and popular GUI tools like Excel or data vis ap
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by jakubp 9y ago
"You learn a lot about interacting with others, getting a social life, developing relationships with different people, discovering more about yourself and the list goes on." This. Very important, and this process is made much more
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When we give advice that's too vague to be actionable, we aren't helping
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Also coloring doesn't work, and uBlock Origin kills the app.
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I don't understand the issue with VPN. The idea would be to tax the profit of an ad company based on the country of origin of the institution buying the service from them (not country of origin of the seller, which seems to easy to gam
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by jakubp 9y ago
Majority of revenue is coming from ads. If Google were taxed for each ad income based on the country of where the ad buyer is located, they couldn't manipulate it as easily. Also clients wouldn't be inclined to set up shop in tax
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Can you give examples of such things that probably don't work, but you can't say it if you don't want to be ostracized?
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by jakubp 9y ago
That would make sense if we only had a few friends. If you have a few hundred, you only see a small percentage of what they posted, regardless of your actions. Now I understand that my actions impact what I see, but I'm pretty sure it&
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by jakubp 9y ago
I was with you until the last sentence. A feed we curate ourselves? Really? I never got to see most of what my friends posted over the years, so I can hardly be curating any of it, can I? :)
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I also noticed this with books. My impression is that the same book can be called "great" by one person and "boring" or "uninteresting" by another, and it says really more about those people in relation to the
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by jakubp 9y ago
Yes, I agree that how strong a deterrent is is not necessarily the best way to decide how to punish. But again, I can't claim it _would_ work, I'm just saying that there are other reasons to punish people who willingly violate bas
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by jakubp 9y ago
This doesn't seem an adequate analogy to banning someone from sports: if a burglar was sentenced to death we would be taking all he has and also permanently punishing his loved ones. By banning a sportsman we take away his career, but
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by jakubp 9y ago
As a sports outsider I see the problem with doping to be moral and societal. Moral: we agree on some rules, compete, and the guy who won may have broken a trivial rule to get an advantage. How is this acceptable? Societal: I'm not a fa
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Athletes in many high paying and highly respected disciplines were caught on short and long term use of forbidden drugs. This includes top names e.g. in tennis and cycling. These sportsmen dont seem to care about safety too much. They just
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Going by your logic, US could proactively import a computer that is a victim of a crime from somewhere in the world onto US territory, and arrest the person responsible.
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A fellow student of mine did a study back in 2005 about this. He found that the worst time to fix a bug was Friday afternoon, as it introduces the most (new) bugs into the code. I see similarities to another area where I have more experienc
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The point your predecessor was making was that if you make bad design decisions or create bugs, your output isn't growing.
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by jakubp 9y ago
So this is interesting. You may feel closer to people you haven't seen for a while when they are always "with" you on Snapchat -- I have certainly experienced that with people I don't talk to often or people who live on
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If they are local, they may not want to go abroad. The mindset here is that you begin to accumulate large amount of cash savings early in life (20s-30s), which is a huge boon. This gives you a number of benefits compared to your peers in le
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by jakubp 9y ago
"While it made me angry when Google put their results above ours, I never questioned that they had a right to do that. It is their website." The website is theirs, but the content they scan through and link to is not theirs. Googl
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Or perhaps it's simply an empirical measure of the typical ratio of known to unknown in software engineering: 1:2. It can be used as a heuristic to accommodate for the fact that we have biases and can't predict everything, but the
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by jakubp 9y ago
This. It strikes me as odd these days when managers and engineers assume symmetrical distribution of time required to complete tasks. This is not only relevant in software development: in my experience, the larger the organisation or set of
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by jakubp 9y ago
Changing work can be costly, risky, difficult and just plain annoying. It may have negative consequences for the family and for your CV (imagine leaving your job soon after you realize what you _really_ are working on... and then again... a
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by jakubp 9y ago
If I enter a market, then the market penalizes me for breaching its rules, and I pull out, I am not calling it "voluntary".
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They may take some of the decisions, but that doesn't make them knowledgeable or financially invested. How would a politician make money from a construction project? The company that engineered it does, sure, but the guy who commission
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by jakubp 9y ago
A thousand man-years of effort? Sounds like a very large project. Just for contrast: I've been working for a medium size software house for the past 4 years. Typical project size is somewhere around 500 to 1000 man days. On that scale,
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The latter statement undermines your position in the group. Not a smart thing to say long-term.
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If you're in a situation where you have to 'hide' the work you have been doing, then your team atmosphere is poisonous and avoiding stand-ups is not going to fix that. Unfortunate office reality is that it's sometimes
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"This task needs to be broken up into manageable pieces badly." This seems to be a sentiment I see a lot, but I don't think it applies equally to all people. Maybe it depends whether the person doing the task is a mature work

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