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by markbnj 11y ago
It's just a matter of time, and probably not too much more time, before those same executives and supervisors will succeed in replacing all those human drivers with machines. They don't really want messy, frail, undependable human
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by markbnj 11y ago
This is interesting, and the technique is certainly surprising to me, but I don't think "reversible concrete" is a reasonable way to describe what has been produced. Perhaps it is a lot more stable than it looks, but what abo
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by markbnj 11y ago
I think this article isn't very useful. It's unfortunate that we have this human need to blow things up and then deflate them. I dislike the term "microservices" because for most organizations all it does is plant a flag
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> It sounds very frightening, but the fact is this rarely ever happens. Nevertheless, let's put up a web page to tell people how to survive this thing that very rarely happens. If you keep a hammer in your car where it is easily
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by markbnj 11y ago
The impact will be very wide, and certainly not limited to real estate, although there will be huge effects there to be sure. It's a transformation not less significant than the development of the Internet itself. Cars will not have to
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by markbnj 11y ago
You can see that the reflected waves have a big impact on the shape of the incoming waves as soon as the first of them reach the far end. I'm no hydrologist but it seems to me that the shape of the trough concentrates this effect in a
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by markbnj 11y ago
Comcast's customer service can be spectacularly aggravating, but are that many people really struggling with canceling their primary ISP? I would think something like "Move your Comcast service in 5 minutes" would be more use
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by markbnj 11y ago
This is awesome. Great work.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Yeah I'd say it's more likely someone or something in the update toolchain screwed up.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Link goes to end of video.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Good start. Needs more snap :).
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by markbnj 11y ago
Well, encapsulation was one of the three legs of the OO stool, especially at a time when languages like C/C++ offered no protection against reading/writing memory anywhere in a program's data or code segments. Encapsulation b
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by markbnj 11y ago
Well, I'm all about focusing on one thing and doing it right, whenever that is possible. What the author of this piece basically points out is that time-slicing isn't real multi-tasking. It's not parallelism for sure, but whe
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by markbnj 11y ago
Yeah perhaps he is just indulging in the benefits of hindsight.
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by markbnj 11y ago
I don't understand how you can say this... >> Quirky nailed nearly everything and then say this... >> It may sound harsh but at nearly every step of the way, the loftiness of Quirky’s ambitions far outpaced the laws of phys
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by markbnj 11y ago
Three photographs with six managers, and then the people sitting around the big table in the photo at the end are "Microsoft workers." Not engineers, designers, or writers, but "workers." I know Wired probably chose this
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by markbnj 11y ago
I'm somewhat shocked. This feels sort of like the Borg saying you don't need to assimilate anymore. Just be who you are! +1 for E&Y.
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by markbnj 11y ago
If that's your idea of explicit then we can just agree to disagree. In an article that spends several paragraphs "explicitly" discussing the ominous tidings of growing corporate power (and with which I wholly agree) what you
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by markbnj 11y ago
As far as I can tell the only such acknowledgement he makes in this piece is in the opening nod to the symbiotic nature of markets and government. I can't speak to what he has said in other forums, so I'll take your word for it.
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by markbnj 11y ago
As a history lover it's hard to argue with Reich's analysis of the past examples he cites. The pattern he describes is indeed repeated time and again. But when decrying the slow-down in the formation of new businesses since the 19
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by markbnj 11y ago
Meh, who knows, but tossing the word "blackmailed" in there is unnecessarily sensationalist, imo. All sorts of things can be "known" in the abstract, and still feel far more intense when experienced in reality.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Can't add much to this discussion given all the excellent comments already posted. I've never done a "hackathon," and while I would not be surprised to see a good, working company come out of one, I do think the outcome
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by markbnj 11y ago
Ok, I get it. I've felt like writing this article many times. I didn't, but I give the author props for letting off some steam in a constructive way. However... this statement drove me a little bonkers... >> The 30-minute cl
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by markbnj 11y ago
Yep, this makes a lot of sense.
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by markbnj 11y ago
So they finally got back at you by making you a manager? Seriously, though, the pay curve you experienced isn't that atypical for young developers entering the market. Someone just out of college can always be had cheaply (except in a
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by markbnj 11y ago
That's an interesting approach, but if the "pro" features are something the user really needs, then don't you risk losing a sub if the feature is withheld until you "get to know each other?"
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by markbnj 11y ago
>> Attached is a picture of the device that shows it was suspicious in nature Please. Suspicious if you've never seen electronics outside of a case, perhaps.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Great advice, especially in an industry with so little wiggle room when it comes to putting money in the wrong place.
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by markbnj 11y ago
I still have a copy of Zork I for PC in the original packaging, 5.25" floppy. I should have grabbed the data back when I still had a working drive.
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by markbnj 11y ago
Ah, nothing like a good old-fashioned brouhaha over angle of attack vs. the Bernoulli principle. This same argument was going on when my Dad was training as a private pilot back in the 60's. Tastes great! Less filling! Personally, I th

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