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by ljw1001 8y ago
Nearly all projects are just a lot of average difficulty work, by the definition of the word average.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I dumped the database of the bug-tracking and code review systems we used, and analyzed those, by developer, matching them up to the same kind of deep analysis of subversion commits i used to look at coding productivity. This was a 5 year p
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by ljw1001 8y ago
It could be a good way to build something when you don't know what you're building. Writing a user manual is cheaper than coding, but may force you to get pretty explicit about what the user experience will be like.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I love how-to articles, but I'm really hoping there will be a follow up that explains where to put the 50M bees after I've stolen them.
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I think this process also works in successful companies, to their detriment. Google, for example, is wildly successful and people who work their make a lot of money, so it attracts people whose main motivation is to make a lot of money (per
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I completely disagree with this idea, but down-voting it is kinda lame. A little more openness to different ideas would be a good thing here (and everywhere).
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by ljw1001 8y ago
10x programmers exist, but often it doesn’t matter. The only way one programmer is 10x better than the median of a team of solidly educated peers is in the very few extraordinarally difficult problems that require something like real geniu
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by ljw1001 8y ago
The far greater long term trend is to require a diminished, corporate-approved life form to show up every day. I suspect most people on this forum are too young to know any different way.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
sure, but. what things built in the last 20 years do think most likely to last for 2000? I'm not sure I can think of any. Parts of a big highway maybe?
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I think insider sales are a useful guide when they’re unusual. Some insiders sell a little stock every month. Somehow you would need to extract a signal from the normal behavior. Larger or smaller amounts. Trend shifts or something
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Frey is too much like Fray imo, which is a bad thing to happen to clothes.
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Travels with Charlie, Blue Highways, The Little Prince.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
IDK, but I've been anxious AF for a chance to use Afghanistan's, and it doesn't seem to be actively administered.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
in my revisionist mindset it's a lot like King Leopald in the Congo, the near extermination of native Americans (to get their land), the slave trade, the proxy wars in Asia and Africa to fight (or expand) communism and other horrors.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
> Of course that faded, to make place for Twitter and Facebook.... It's all influencers (a word my dictionary doesn't even recognize), bots, hate speech, bickering, identity politics, and what have you. What happened? I hadn&#x
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Can someone please label WSJ articles as "paywall" in the title?
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by ljw1001 8y ago
As someone who learned young to love Charlie Parker, & co., I suspect your friend loved what he grew up listening to at home. Classical music _was_ the contemporary context for your friend, just like your context included the Who. If yo
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by ljw1001 8y ago
math for mathematicians excepted, starting with an application that shows how to do something useful and working backwards seems pretty reasonable to me.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
definitely tangential, but i was interested anyway until i got to the no-detail, gimme-your-email web page. I think these prelaunch page things are over, and if they're not, they should be.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I suspect that if you're studying the History of Physics, as opposed to just physics, you've already got a special interest in the subject. And if you're not, you're not replying to what the earlier post said, which refe
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I think a better grasp of history would lead you to believe that there's nothing especially British about these activities. This is the exploitation of the powerless by the powerful, and is a close to a universal law throughout history
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by ljw1001 8y ago
The strategy he’s following is to throw bones to his base and make the people of the country pick up the tab. If you’re applying an economic lens here, you’re solving the wrong problem.
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Ask HN: Is there a taxonomy of machine learning types?
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Most likely, but being on Github is no guarantee of contributors. Exaggerating slightly, there is roughly one open-source project needing assistance for every living programmer.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
I think for me, the key was reading books by authors who were exceptionally good at it. Here are a few off the top of my head from the political domain that opened my eyes: Gaddis: The Landscape of History Bazerman & Watkins: Predictabl
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by ljw1001 8y ago
While not disagreeing with your thesis, I took "Argument and Applied Logic" in college and found it to be a low-point in my academic career. It was less fun than it sounds.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
Twitter survives on faux-follower counts, controversy stirred up by extremists and for-hire zealots, and 140-character PR for the corporate universe. But this is newsworthy, I guess.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
unless this post is a thousand pages long, the title is a bit over-the-top. I look forward to the "How to be a particle physicist" installment.
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by ljw1001 8y ago
its still true because everything else is faster, too
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collusion to keep salaries down may not be evil in the super-villain sense, but it's hard to see as ethical. Not being evil has always been a side-show to the main event: the enormous wealth-generation that paid for all the good stuff.

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