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by lyudmil 16y ago
I think almost everyone would agree with the crust of the argument, but I don't think CS degrees need to be eliminated. I think there's room for reform. As in any other engineering discipline there are two distinct aspects in Computer Scien
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by lyudmil 16y ago
There's a simpler way to look at the problem, which also demonstrates why your analogy doesn't work. If we went with your analogy, the best thing for everyone is for that company to fail and fail fast because it is a burden on the economy.
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by lyudmil 16y ago
I don't think there's much value in articles such as this. This one in particular uses an incredible amount of vague language (What do you mean by "agile"?), and sets up a number of straw men (Did anyone ever claim retrospectives fix everyt
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Fact-Check The Rhyme: Correcting errors in "The Anthology of Rap"(slate.com)
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by lyudmil 16y ago
I'm sorry, I must not have been clear before. I'm not trying to assert or to prove that TDD "guarantees an improvement in the quality of our code and the speed of delivery" and I regret that it's come off like that. I'm saying that it's wo
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by lyudmil 16y ago
You talked about unit testing, which is not TDD. In fact, TDD specifically predicts that unit tests will not be as effective if they're not written before the code. I would really like it if you expanded on your personal experience, becau
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by lyudmil 16y ago
I don't want to be dismissive of your point of view, but I take issue with your mode of argument. You've made a lot of assertions without evidence and done a lot of hand-waving. These are valid concerns but I think we need to get away from
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by lyudmil 16y ago
"Lenient" would imply that their approach skewed the results. If that's what you meant, could you explain why you say that? I'm hoping your explanation could lead to a testable hypothesis. If you meant that they weren't rigorous in controll
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by lyudmil 16y ago
I didn't like the tone of the post either. I do think that this needs to be settled, though. If we're ignoring a practice that guarantees an improvement in the quality of our code and the speed of our delivery without a very good reason,
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by lyudmil 16y ago
Okay, I can absolutely appreciate how hard making a distro is. Point taken. However, your comment also indicates exactly what Zed was furious about. Debian is a piece of software that people depend on. They have a right to be upset when the
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by lyudmil 16y ago
Doesn't it come down to who comes up with the price and what their motivation for investing is? When a VC invests in a company, they're looking for a big exit. Essentially, they're trying to predict how much the company might IPO or get acq
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by lyudmil 16y ago
I stand corrected. They have not declined nationally, they've stagnated. If you search for it you'll get the data, but here's a supporting quote: ...from 1973 to 2005... real hourly wages of those in the 90th percentile—where most people h
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by lyudmil 16y ago
All fair criticisms to the points brought up in the post. I was nodding all the way to your last sentence, where I think you missed the mark. It isn't true that this generation of twenty-somethings has it better than most. In the US specifi
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by lyudmil 16y ago
Statements like "[A technology] scales" are senseless even on their face. Scaling is an architectural challenge. Language matters, but it isn't the only factor and most likely isn't the most significant one. Claiming Ruby doesn't scale is e
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by lyudmil 16y ago
It seems a more appropriate title would be All PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Java, and Python Web Frameworks With At Least Some Traction
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by lyudmil 16y ago
You're correct that he doesn't make an explicit judgement, but there are two things to note: (1) he used the rhetorical question to prove a point (he meant something by it), and (2) the obvious answer to the rhetorical question is "No." The
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by lyudmil 16y ago
"You’d ignore this [information about schools and previous jobs], and go straight to the cover letter? Really? ... Really?" Yes, really. That's the point. Merely being incredulous doesn't form a coherent argument against it. My angle on thi
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by lyudmil 16y ago
New Orleans is worth a look. Having visited last year and fallen in love with the city, it's encouraging to see people moving in.
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The skewed incentives of academia hinder CS education(lyudmil-shopska.blogspot.com)
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by lyudmil 16y ago
Your post expresses valid frustrations about the way the bailouts were handled, but in this case I have to disagree with most of what you're saying. Think back to the way things were when GM was on the verge of declaring bankruptcy. The hou
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The Basics of Good Economics (with an admittedly liberal bias) [video](video.google.com)
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by lyudmil 16y ago
That's a ridiculous and dangerous argument. We're talking about a group of people threatening violence. Implicit in your concern for said group's feelings is the assumption that religious motives are sufficient grounds for retaliation. I th
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by lyudmil 17y ago
I know Mr. Harold is much more experienced than me. It's pretty obvious he's more of an authority on most programming subjects. With that caveat I give my reasons why I despise checked exceptions in Java. I've never seen code that got clean
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by lyudmil 17y ago
I never claimed they broke the law. I claimed they overstepped ethical bounds accepted in professional journalism. Arguments about why they did can be found elsewhere in the thread.
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by lyudmil 17y ago
I'm not sure Mr. Powell is paying attention to the continued coverage. If he is, I'd like to offer a couple of words of encouragement. I think Mr. Powell is the only one in this story who stands on firm moral ground. He made a simple, hones
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by lyudmil 17y ago
You are correct to point out I didn't explain or qualify why I think copyright law is stupid. I wrongly assumed I was preaching to the converted. Let me waive my hands a little and try to provide a motivation without going into too much det
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by lyudmil 17y ago
"While no one looks good here, YouTube's founders come off particularly poorly." In the legal sense, I would agree that YouTube's founders may be in trouble. However, the statement (like a lot of the rest of the article) sounds qualitative,
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by lyudmil 17y ago
In your criticism you've missed an important factor. The former sentence is better writing. I also struggle with this when I write, but I try to catch myself and avoid going down that slippery slope. You can spend the time trying to make ea
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by lyudmil 17y ago
All of your replies here suffer from the same logical flaw and many people have pointed it out. Fog Creek has a policy of not divulging their reasons for denying an applicant a certain position. Joel has given his arguments about why that i
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by lyudmil 17y ago
I really enjoyed reading this. It is always satisfying to find connections between my interests. Can anyone suggest more (fluffy) reading on the market efficiency hypothesis? I'd like a fuller grasp of the material covered in the paper.

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