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by kevinpet 17y ago
I think this goes well with the whining story posted a couple months ago about how the higher ups at twitter weren't using the service right, by which, they weren't using the service as useless "social media expert" follower whores want to
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by kevinpet 17y ago
I completely agree. Statistics is what I most wish I had studied more intensely in school. And not just so I wouldn't have those poor marks on my transcript.
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by kevinpet 17y ago
I stopped reading as soon as he posted something looking like a dictionary definition.
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by kevinpet 17y ago
Makes me want to work there for a few years. Showing merely adequate engineers the door is high on my list of things to look for in my next position.
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by kevinpet 17y ago
If you consider the set of all technology execs, there's probably at least one with an even better records. See James Randi's psychic television special thought experiment. I came to the conclusion while driving to work today that social in
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by kevinpet 17y ago
Thank you. I had been a little "hmm...that seems fishy but I can't put my finger on it", but your analysis gives the missing piece.
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by kevinpet 17y ago
I think a key item in Stack Overflow's success is that they can predict with high reliability how big it will get. They are safe going with scale up because they know they will not have to scale out. Compare this to a more mainstream consum
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by kevinpet 17y ago
I would understand this rant if he were promoting AGPL exclusively. Can anyone explain how (L)GPL vs. BSD relates to any of his points?
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by kevinpet 17y ago
Big difference between "I don't think has bearing on the job" and "is illegal to ask about". I wouldn't work for a company that wanted to drug test me either, out of principle. On the other hand, if I'm an EMT, it would be arguably reasonab
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by kevinpet 17y ago
He fails to draw the real crucial issue out -- by pretending that all children have equal abilities, we try to force them all onto a track that only a third of them will do well on. A high school student is in a much better situation with a
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by kevinpet 17y ago
I don't think the author has any such confusion. He talks about testing to emphasize that he is strongly in favor of testing, but he found TDD as a development model lacking. He may be a bit slopping in using "the testing world" when he mea
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by kevinpet 17y ago
You're assuming that whether the reported totals matched the votes is the only relevant point. It is not the responsibility of critics to show that an election was fraudulent. It is the responsibility of a government to convince the populac
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by kevinpet 17y ago
There's interesting points to be made regarding government regulation of free speech vs. market actors, but this article makes none of them. There are important questions about who can make judgments about what speech is worthy of protectio
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by kevinpet 17y ago
Agreed. The subscription model is a weak hack around the historical lack of a good micropayments system.
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by kevinpet 17y ago
Well, the issue is that now with twitter there's no such thing as "multiple unconnected sources". You don't know who is independently corroborating something, and who is parroting.
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by kevinpet 17y ago
That's a good point, and makes me wonder how the law applies here. My understanding was that you can only appeal on a point of law, not to introduce additional evidence that you didn't bother to bring to the first trial.
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by kevinpet 17y ago
Wave fits the Unix philosophy more than those small, well-written programs that do one job do. The unix philosophy isn't about single purpose programs vs. all-encompassing beasts, it's about interoperability. In unix, this meant line orient
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by kevinpet 17y ago
I think your disagreement may just be a difference of emphasis. You wouldn't use those criteria to hire a consultant to come in and do an enhancement to an existing app, but if you are hiring for the long term (1-2+ years), these rules make
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by kevinpet 18y ago
I've always had this nagging suspicion that I could become more productive, if only I truly learned how to use emacs. But this post has just finally convinced me that the only people who cling to emacs for large scale development are true b