jasonwocky

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by jasonwocky 12y ago
Move? Vote? Write your Congressman?
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
I don't know about it not being "good law", but one difference between Ford and the modern CEO is that the modern CEO is significantly less likely to out-and-out say, "screw the shareholders...they're not who I&#x27
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> To support that (sorry) scam, you claim $50k is your "reasonable" salary --- putting you way on the low side of the industry. How convenient. I don't know. What salary would you take for your honest-to-god dream job?
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
The person that should be fired is always the person who has responsibility for the amount of budget represented by the loss. e.g. No intern that needs permission to get a box of pencils from the supply closet should ever be fired for putti
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> Indeed he's attempting to apply an existing regulatory framework to new technology, which rarely works well. I think this sounds more true than it actually is. "Works" is a fairly ambiguous word, but new technology is re
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
> Dave Thomas, the author of Pragmatic Programmer and Programming Ruby (arguably the book that helped Ruby grow pre-Rails), has written a great book titled "Programming Elixir" I bought this ebook when it was first released. Th
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
Not to sound snippy, but how do you define projects in your world, and how do you benefit from having 21 of them open at once? How many do you interact with in a typical day? That setup is so far removed from my day-to-day experience that I
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
Well, for the first time in a long time I agree with something Scalia says...Congress is the body that opens loopholes in the law, and it's their job to close them. Not the court's.
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They really should amend Godwin's Law to include mentions of Communism these days. There's a marked difference between everyone owns the labor and everyone owns their labor. You don't even have to check the history books.
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So is, "Open-source is becoming the only way to develop (and, especially, maintain) complex software". This is hyperbole. Complex software has been developed and maintained for over half a century, in myriad ways.
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> We gave Google and Apple this power because we decided that smooth animations and per process tabs were a fair trade for the future of a global information network not controlled by corporate interests. Actually, I decided that hellaci
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Much of OpenGL is implemented in hardware rather than software, and that benchmark is probably pretty close to pure OpenGL. There wouldn't be much emulation to do.
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>> any studies that show that Texas doctors are significantly worse than doctors in other states? > Texas has some of the best doctors in the world and an innovative healthcare community This doesn't answer the question.
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The TMB taking this responsibility seems workable on face value; in a lot of ways, this correlates with how many European nations handle consumer protection: fewer lawsuits are permitted, but the bureaucracy increases its responsibility and
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I can't tell...is this supposed to trigger some sort of a contradictory-to-the-article emotional response? Look, I don't doubt that there are many terrible engineer-CEOs, but I wouldn't use Hoover as an example. First of all,
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
Whether something is in the back of your mind or in the front of your mind will affect one's decision-making. But I don't think that buyers will seek out this information as a rule.
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> But what I understand is that while simulated annealing is good for many things, it hasn't shown itself to be best for anything That's kind of the nature of the beast, though. Approaches like Simulated Annealing and Genetic A
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> Really? In my experience managers can be replaced rather easily, or at least more easily than it is to a replace a single engineer. Possibly true. But think about how most engineering managers attained that role...it was because compan
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by jasonwocky 13y ago
I think gp's numbers are off. But for sure, if you need ERP anywhere near the scale of what Oracle offers, it'll definitely cost more in the long- and short-runs to ROYO.
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Again, in my case, it didn't need to be amplified by the media. It happened around the corner, to an 8-year old child whose parents wanted to grant him some independence. He was literally kidnapped on the first day they let him walk ho
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> Humans are notoriously bad at risk assessment. We're more worried about child abductions than childhood obesity. Statistically speaking, only one of those is a real issue today. Quit talking nonsense. A young boy got abducted mere
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by jasonwocky 13y ago
Well, sure, there was a benefit to the startups' founders and funders.
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There may have been no capital-W Waterfall approach, but implying that projects weren't routinely being run in a waterfall-esque, staged-handoff fashion smacks of revisionism. I was there. I was on those projects. They existed, and u
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My step 1 to understanding a new language has always been to build a simple, file-serving HTTP server without using any HTTP-specific libraries.
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"What you're essentially stating is more experience is detrimental." It's not so simple. Not all experience is equal. Some folks have 10 years of experience developing software. Others have one year of experience, repeat
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> This ludditic reverence for user-hostile text editors is one of the more perplexing and frustrating things about our industry. I feel the same way about our industry's enslavement to faddishness.
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Exactly. Lots of things "work" for small projects. Try to scale some of those strategies, however, and things break down.
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> For example how many doctors know how a CAT scan works? I don't know. Do you? Or are you just assuming that most of them don't?
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As the bearer of bad news, so to speak, I think that's often a good approach. On the flip side, I think it's bad as an enforced policy from above. I've worked with some managers who have a "Don't come to me with pro
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by jasonwocky 13y ago
What alternative do you propose, and what "actual convincing research" shows that your approach is actually beneficial? In the context of software engineering approaches, "What research exists?" is basically a conversati

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