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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I think meta-conversations can quickly go downhill, but that they can also be constructive. I'll just say that there's always room for doubt, including in our presumptions about the intent of others, and that linking to an article about a p
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Interesting article. However, it presupposes that all "generalists" (whatever exactly they are) are the same. This is obviously wrong and therefore IMO it weakens the entire article and invalidates the sub-title. Even if all "generalists" h
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Introducing a New Article Experience(firstlook.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Hmm, metacomment: What is the relevance of Dunning-Kruger? I've always taken the practical meaning of Dunning-Kruger to be that there's always room for self-doubt, though certainty may be increased the more external validation you get. The
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
The process of creating a startup varies widely. And for some, a startup is part of a larger process, that of exploring (or capitalizing on) one's passions and curiosities and intuitions. The startup in this case is not the end, but one of
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Another example, regarding the C# driver: don't block thread on network requests, i.e. use IOCP threading. Created 2011-04-25. https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/CSHARP-138
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College Life(getacollegelife.tumblr.com)
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Thanks for sharing your insights. I appreciate the viability of the Mono option. Back in the early web development days (an approach that continues to this day), achieving cross-browser usability meant constraining design to the few portabl
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I might be mistaken but I get the sense that, especially to older members, it's not just "declining quality of discussion" (uninformed/irrelevant, discompassionate, outright rude, inflammatory comments) that is threatening the value of the
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Very interesting. So it sounds like the problem is effecting a native experience with HTML5 (something, notably, that Windows 8 gives first-class support to). So then, given the HTML5 expertise and attention to detail, would you recommend P
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Nice job. I don't want to presume anything. Did you purposefully shorten the workout from that described in the ACSM article? It indicated 30 seconds on and 10 seconds off. (Your total duration variable should be 480--don't ask me how they
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Thanks for quoting. I'd like to add that the workout the blog post cited was the ACSM article's "sample workout" based on HICT (an efficient, common sense approach commonly used by personal trainers), that also required no specialized equip
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Making Immutable Object Graphs Easier in C#(infoq.com)
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Kinja, Gawker Media’s discussion platform(kinja.com)
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Good point, but such a prompt would be similarly annoying (i.e. annoying to a similar number of users). The way I've done this in the past has been to provide two links, one of which triggered the inclusion of HTTP headers at the server, to
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Agreed. I will add that, in the absence of the Executive Branch making such a substantial signal (as opposed to the rhetorical signals in Obama's speech), at least the "fourth branch" has shone a light on the matter. It is a weak light no d
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The Power of ‘And’ (Azure IaaS Now Cheaper, Generally Available)(blogs.msdn.com)
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Apple says VPN changes coming in iOS thanks to VirnetX verdict(arstechnica.com)
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
It seems to me there's some disconnect here, as I don't understand how your comment has bearing on mine. My point was that, given experiences that do not align with prior knowledge, it's no one's responsibility but their own to understand t
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
It's not about fault. It's about responsibility. It's your responsibility not to expect explanations of observed inconsistencies to be spoon-fed to you, and generally not to expect the process of learning, of improving your understanding of
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Illogical. You think because the awful projects you worked on called themselves Agile, that Agile is bad? I hate to break it to you, but you are not special enough for your personal experiences to define "Agile" for the rest of the world.
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
This misses the point. Scrum is not merely a prescription of sequential high-level actions. Fundamentally, scrum is a recognition of certain risk-bearing concerns in projects, and the assignment of those separate concerns to specific roles.
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
Google is betting on Google+ being the future platform for general content publishing and consumption, so RSS in general, and Google Reader in particular, are effectively competitors of Google+. I wouldn't be surprised if Blogger was shutdo
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
I agree overall, but I don't think the basic mechanism of why we have more work than ever is "jobs finding a way." That characterizes the process as jobs self-replicating, mutating, and adapting. It's more that improvements in information p
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Harder to test, of course.
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That's the hunch I had reading this (as someone with no EmberJS experience). To digress a little, it's not much different than the terminology confusion in Backbone, where: - Router(s) work as front controllers, - templates (along with the
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
> It gets a lot sillier when you realize that nobody would title an article "Logic is not for everybody." > Programming is just logic plus communication. Fair enough, but you are defending programming as a hobby or academic pursuit.
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
:) DH2, or DH3, at best. http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html Market-driven vendor support of Linux is not unprecedented. Ever heard of Dell, Lenovo, Acer, Nvidia, or the Android ecosystem?
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
These are always interesting articles, but rarely of practical value. Performance is only one concern of a website project. I've found that a greater risk by far is predictable modularization, a topic with much less "engineering" attentio
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by mcgwiz 14y ago
> Linus is really smart, but sometimes he makes a snap decision and then will perform whatever mental gymnastics are necessary to defend it to the death. Hmm, could it be argued that this is less a snap judgement and more one of strengt

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