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by jbn 6y ago
This is such a good word, great find! There are so many things in production that are prototypes (even when people/companies cannot allow themselves to recognize them as such...), having a word for this pattern is great.
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by jbn 6y ago
"there isn't such a thing as MBA group-think"... I'm not sure how something like this can be stated as a complete utter and final truth. On the contrary, even coming from varied backgrounds, people going for MBA (and the
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by jbn 6y ago
This resonates so much with me, and it is so helpful. I also love the relationship between the username you chose and the actual management practices of the Harkonnen (both in terms in of "bad management" and "downstream mana
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by jbn 6y ago
This would be hilarious if it were not so telling about the state of security in general (not at this company in particular, i'm certain many if not most companies do the same...).
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by jbn 6y ago
One wonders why tar even has an option (and a default!) to not recurse. What would be the use case for that? The "normal" use case seems to have a recursive archival. Sounds like somebody chose the wrong default... would be an int
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by jbn 6y ago
w.r.t ". As an employer if I allow you to change your permanent address to France am I bound to manage your employment under French labor law?", IANAL either, but I know for a fact that this is the case. The tax man wants his cut,
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by jbn 6y ago
there is no "work contract" for employment in the US. It's at-will employment, the employer can change the terms at any time and if the employee doesn't like it, he can go elsewhere. Not saying this is a good thing (Euro
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by jbn 6y ago
in your "About", you state "It's mission is to". Should be "Its" (one word), not "It's". See https://www.dictionary.com/e/its-vs-its/
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by jbn 6y ago
TUI for order entry or accounting sounds great (worked with such a system in the 90s, clerks achieved amazing speed using such a system, it would be all but impossible using "modern" web interface), but most of the reporting/
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by jbn 6y ago
isn't it the case that they could decrease their burn rate by downsizing sales, marketing, etc.. ? At the same time, this time presents a unique opportunity for their engineering: how often does the market give you several months to br
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by jbn 6y ago
"In my European country, taxi prices were exorbitant and taxi usage was very low." <-- this is so true. in France (to give another example), this is even worse: in Paris you don't pick the taxi, the taxi picks you (and if
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by jbn 6y ago
well, that company is going into entrenched businesses, so of course the incumbents are going to defend themselves and not just go away..
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by jbn 6y ago
w.r.t "Uber is an app together with some driver administration" : this is true, but taxi drivers (even highly organized ones, such as taxi companies that have employees for drivers) are intrinsically incapable of producing somethi
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by jbn 6y ago
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/ is such a list
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by jbn 6y ago
A classic reference, which used to be included in http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/ if I recall correctly.
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by jbn 6y ago
I think the comparison stands if the software in question is a video game, which have the same hit-or-miss factor, and no maintenance to speak of.
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by jbn 6y ago
To me, it sounds like it brings code synthesis into the kernel, sort of a realization of Massalin's Synthesis kernel ideas.
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by jbn 6y ago
Came here just to leave the following link : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367720.Software_Configur... which is the Berczuk book about such patterns. I read it years ago, it's good.
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by jbn 6y ago
any large-ish system is going to have admission control and stability issues, better design those than leave them to chance...
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by jbn 6y ago
That's odd. To me control theory is really an EE topic (granted EE and CS are often part of the same department). I did EECS (and did some control theory as part of the mandatory subjects of study) and it feels like CS/SE people u
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by jbn 6y ago
it's going to be tough to top the original soundtrack by Toto... see https://www.amazon.com/Dune-Original-Soundtrack-Recording-To...
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by jbn 7y ago
That is one of the premises of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1097.Fast_Food_Nation , you won't want to eat US processed meat after reading this. (Good book, BTW)
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by jbn 7y ago
Reading Goldratt (recommended in other threads here) is a lot more fun than Simchi's book, though.
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by jbn 7y ago
Having had the beer game at MIT, I'd say it's the only action learning experience that is worth something. Fun.
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by jbn 7y ago
I don't even like VB, but this is a great read. Very informative. The author clearly points out that the deficiencies of the organization that sign the death warrant of VB.NET, regardless of the intrinsic value of that language/co
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by jbn 7y ago
You are so right, it's incredible how many people don't grasp this. Further, people in lower brackets think that the tax rate in higher brackets is unfair because it applies to the whole income (rather than just that bracket). I g
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by jbn 7y ago
I agree, automating this so as to make it a non-issue is really the only way to deal with this at scale (i.e. in presence of a lot of change and many reviewers).
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by jbn 7y ago
w.r.t "if you use tabs instead of spaces you're just wrong", can you expand on that? Do you mean 'wrong' in the sense of 'wrong according to the rules enforced by the linter' or 'wrong philosophically
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by jbn 7y ago
A much better and more comprehensive read on this topic would be the book "Large-Scale C++ Software Design" by John Lakos.
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by jbn 7y ago
I meant in general. Except python-like languages that make it a non-issue, in C/C++/Java I think people attach way too much importance to spacing, trailing whitespace, tab vs spaces, and column width. I would agree with linting or

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