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by krutulis 14y ago
Could we make peer review even more valuable if at least some parts of the review process were eventually made available to the public? I think of this especially when I hear the occasional story of fake articles making it through the pro
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Proud of efforts at fairness, Ortiz is "terribly upset" at allegations(bostonherald.com)
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by krutulis 14y ago
I've had a similar reaction to the Ortiz statement. Its self-aggrandizing tone of righteousness leaves me increasingly offended by her apparent lack of integrity and empathy in the ongoing pursuit of influence and power. This reveals such a
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by krutulis 14y ago
The nightmare that keeps Microsoft awake is that the idea of "the desktop" might become irrelevant. While the metaphor was useful in its day, the trend-setters I encounter (who are not programmers) seem far more concerned with new notions o
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by krutulis 14y ago
Sign me up -- though the hardest problems require the space out in the Big Blue Room. Perhaps the new research on how sitting can undermine our health will restore some clout to moving about.
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by krutulis 14y ago
Serious walking definitely changes one's perspective. I don't feel comfortable in a place until I've learned to get around on foot.
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by krutulis 14y ago
"There is an actual neurological basis to what I am talking about...You can make a pretty good evolutionary argument that this was how we were designed to absorb information at about 5km an hour (3mph)" For me walking is more conducive to
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by krutulis 14y ago
The world needs more deleters of code!
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by krutulis 14y ago
Working with and learning from people who are smarter than I.
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by krutulis 14y ago
Fear likely plays a part. I also find it interesting that most people on the thread seemed to have missed the important difference between having a shared language and having only one language! As an English-speaking U.S. citizen who has st
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by krutulis 14y ago
You've missed the point a bit. Perhaps having everyone speaking English would be helpful -- but what if everyone spoke only English? Would the world then be better off? With respect to this question, I think natural language is a very goo
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by krutulis 14y ago
I'm baffled by people's obsession with finding The One Programming Language. Would the world be better off if everyone spoke and thought in only English?
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by krutulis 14y ago
As I see it, an essential point of "Data Science" is to finally introduce mathematical awareness to the world of programming. I welcome our newly arriving & refreshingly numerate overlords! "One way to read the history of business in th
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by krutulis 14y ago
Can someone else with Jobs' understanding of what-depends-on-what be found to make the exquisite choices that Jobs made? Enterprisey groupthink seldom tolerates the new, difficult, and unpopular choices required to produce "inventions inten
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by krutulis 14y ago
Yes, I think MS still has room to avoid the fate of pandering to the enterprise. MS research continues to shine, but I recall that IBM research shone brightly in the 80's. I hope that MS can stay primarily focused on people who make their o
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by krutulis 14y ago
what careers which make a positive contribution to society might be open to academic mathematicians who want to change careers? Perhaps a few mathematicians might join the fight against innumeracy among programmers?
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by krutulis 14y ago
The final transformation into IBM 2.0 will be complete when most of the people compelled to use MS products are not the same people who chose to buy the MS products. Are we there yet?
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by krutulis 14y ago
Good point. The focus on evaluating the success or failure of programming languages as a popularity contest is also unfortunate. There is also the matter of influence. In the mid 80's I took Dan Friedman's (author of The Little Schemer ) P
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by krutulis 14y ago
Yes! Dear Businesses, it is not your fancy code & tech specs that make you special, it is your business data. Pay attention to your data and the people who create value with it. I'm always disappointed by enterprise customers who can ta
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by krutulis 14y ago
I find it ironic that many of the arguments implied for "COBOL is absurd" can be turned to make the case that "Java is absurd." Both have a legacy of accumulated complexity, and some programmers dislike the buden this creates. Others are ge