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by lemmsjid 13y ago
Try doing an exercise that is incredibly useful for those talking about terrorism--remove the word "terror" from what you're saying and see if your question remains reasonable. "And how do you plan to stop the next attac
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by lemmsjid 14y ago
I didn't get any sense of victimization from the article. I got the sense of someone who was coming clean on a bad choice they'd made, and bearing witness to the consequences of said choice. In fact, she did so in a quite self deprecating
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by lemmsjid 14y ago
A little feedback on voice. When someone says "You should stop using them. Now.", I expect the article to be about some system killing security problem, not an argument for the elegance of one tool over another. And if the argument is goi
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by lemmsjid 14y ago
At first I thought it was an attempt at humor, but it wasn't! It's funny how if you take the prejudice away it actually makes the opposite point he's trying to make, i.e. "Do you notice how as people get more and more experience in the ind
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by lemmsjid 15y ago
If programming worked the way the education system worked, it would be more like this: As a customer, you pay a company to build software. Due to federal law the programmers must fill out paperwork for (arbitrarily) each class they build i
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by lemmsjid 15y ago
As someone who has a wrongfully convicted, non-violent felon in the family, I can tell you it's easy to underestimate how difficult life becomes when you have a felony record. Landlords won't let you rent from them. Most employers won't h
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by lemmsjid 15y ago
See, here you go again. You use vague statistics to make absolute statements that are starkly contradicted by the statistics you started with. I just read the pdf you sent. As expected, it doesn't support your absolute conclusion (that t
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by lemmsjid 15y ago
Santa Monica (near where I live) recently re-opened its public library. A lot of shelf space was sacrificed for meeting rooms. They're basically white board equipped conference rooms with tables and chairs. You walk through there, and see
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by lemmsjid 15y ago
I'm struggling to understand what conclusions you can draw from that. For one thing, what of that 14%? Do those people not exist? Are they not statistically significant for you to care about them? For another, are the 47% who own a comp
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by lemmsjid 15y ago
People get such different experiences at institutions of higher learning. I completed my BA at a small, teaching-focused college, and don't regret a minute of it. I felt like it was an excellent preparation for my subsequent career, even
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Why Your Kittens are in Danger From Software Blog Titles(chrisbissell.wordpress.com)
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by lemmsjid 15y ago
People found ways to not be bored in the millions of years before the invention of the automobile. The thrill of riding a horse. The thrill of running when you're fit. Personally, I find driving to be the definition of boring. The distan
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by lemmsjid 16y ago
Agreed, I think the OP is missing the real meaning of the phrase "don't reinvent the wheel". The phrase does NOT mean "don't improve on the wheel". Nor does it mean, "The stone wheel is and always was great, don't try new materials." It m
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by lemmsjid 16y ago
Very much agreed. When an organization becomes large it needs to make tough choices. In an organization built around product-centric teams, it may be easier to release products more quickly and the average employee may perceive a smoother
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by lemmsjid 16y ago
As someone who was fairly intimately involved in the entire evolution of the MySpace stack, I'm dumbfounded at the number of inaccuracies in this article (actually, it's hard to call them inaccuracies so much as an exercise in "I'm going to
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by lemmsjid 16y ago
I've seen multiple variations on this article over the years--it usually seems to be directed at Java, and it usually involves solving a very simple problem with the "full stack" of Java (anti-)patterns. I've coded professionally in static
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by lemmsjid 16y ago
This article makes such sweeping generalizations. Customers may not care about the details of the architecture (they may not even know what 'software architecture' means), but rest assured they indirectly care about the architecture. As a