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by memracom 9y ago
One way to do this is to point out how the requirements are vague, lack context and fail to state how the requirement will benefit the business. Point out how it is sloppiness in documenting requirements that leads to scope creep, cost over
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by memracom 9y ago
Lot's of scientists and engineers and physicians are still doing what they know best. These kinds of knowledge and skills do not go away with age, and since practitioners of these arts are constantly learning new things, and looking fo
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by memracom 9y ago
This seems to be in the genes analyzed by 23andme While logged into your 23andme account, open a new tab and type this URL https://codegen.eu It will ask permission to copy your raw data, and then identify a huge number of scie
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by memracom 9y ago
The thing about all these scoring systems like FAcebook "likes" is that there is no way to know that they mean what they say. People do not click "like" because they like your post or they like you. It means a lot of dif
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by memracom 9y ago
I doodled with it a bit. Added a few friends and relatives, then realized that most people that I know are either not on it, or not very active. And I couldn't figure out what to do with it. I posted a bit but that fizzled out. Right n
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by memracom 9y ago
Life on an island...
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by memracom 10y ago
Imagine if the surgeon had informed flight crew that he was needed for important surgery, and then the captain informed the surgeon that the plane would not be flying with him aboard so the only way that he could get to the hospital on time
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by memracom 10y ago
And since the number of old guys available to help is constantly growing, it no longer makes sense to do projects without them. A diverse team makes better products.
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by memracom 10y ago
ggplot2 no longer has the pretty pictures field to itself. Python's matplotlib does great graphs too. Javascripts d3.js does similar. And there are other libraries as well. For static images to put into a PDF, maybe it doesn't mat
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by memracom 10y ago
Wise advice. Use both because the real tool that you are using for data analysis is the computer, not the programming language. R and Python are both just parts of the toolset. Nowadays there are lots of ways to combine the two from Rpy2 to
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by memracom 10y ago
When I really like the work that I am doing and there are some real challenges, I can get up to 6 hours of work done before I have to take a break for a few hours. Not every day, but 2-3 days out of 5. It means that there is no point in mak
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by memracom 10y ago
This is not an issue in Canada (Vancouver). Or in the UK (London) or in Germany (Berlin) where everyone is in one national health insurance group. And the three cities that I mentioned all have thriving startup cultures. And American citize
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by memracom 10y ago
Hasn't anyone noticed that Silicon Valley has lost its position as THE place to start a business. There are startup clusters all over the place now, and not just in the USA but in Germany and Moscow and many other countries. The only t
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by memracom 10y ago
It has worked for Norilsk in Russia's far north. They built it and people came including refugees from more southern climates like Ukraine. And even though they have not yet solved all the engineering issues, there are ways to deal wit
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by memracom 10y ago
Also, in some countries there is the potential to build entire new towns and cities in the abundant unpopulated vastness of their territory. Mostly this applies to Canada and Russia but theoretically it could also apply to countries like Au
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by memracom 10y ago
Sounds to me like you should just focus on the assessment test and skip the rest. After all the point is to filter out the bad ones as early as possible and focus all your time and attention on deciding whether a good developer will fit wit
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by memracom 10y ago
actually, I think the Greek and Latin text memorization WAS there to weed out the riff raff. If you are going to hire someone young and energetic to do a job that is not exactly taught in school, would you rather have someone who can work h
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by memracom 10y ago
I wrote a bubble sort in Grade 12 but I can't remember the details well enough to write BUG-FREE code to do it on a whiteboard. Nowadays if I want to sort, I use quicksort() or I use the accepted language way of sorting list.sorted() i
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by memracom 10y ago
Has anyone ever noticed that a whiteboard is the 1960's way of writing code? I started in the 80's and we used a scrap of paper sometimes and then a video terminal to type the code into an editor. Does anybody do coding interviews
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by memracom 10y ago
Rushing into coding something using abstract mathematical computer science techniques is a poor way to solve real world business problems. The person who has spent time in the real world raising kids realizes that you do not build business
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by memracom 10y ago
I am a real Software Engineer. I don't remember all the details that are seconds away via Google or other reference documentation. I focus my brain power on thinking about the problem, trying to see it in the wider context, and underst
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by memracom 10y ago
Predatory birds attack by dive-bombing. You won't see it coming even if you have an extra camera on the drome pointed upward. They also know how to dive out of the sun which means that they are invisible in the camera view. And their b
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by memracom 10y ago
A web front end to memcache? I wrote one in Python 5 years ago. This is trivial stuff, although configuring your nginx proxy or whatever, takes some study. SSL can have 0 security if you do it wrong. I like the HIPAA advice from here https
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by memracom 10y ago
I always type ls /stuff/wherever/* Then examine the output to see if that is the stuff I really want to delete and if it is, up-arrow Ctrl-A right right backspace backspace rm -rf enter Never deleted the wrong stuff again in
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by memracom 10y ago
RDS PostgreSQL is like the Hotel California, you can check in any time you want, but you can never leave. Maybe it is OK as a simple data store for a single app, but not for a real database. I gained a lot of my knowledge of PostgreSQL inte
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by memracom 10y ago
Because OpenVZ has a philosophy of the container as a simple VM running many processes just like a server does, but Docker is being developed as a container which runs one process which only communicated with other processes through defined
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by memracom 10y ago
The basic problem is that a database server is not what Docker is trying to containerize. They want to containerize applications which used to be clear cut things. They used to be single purpose things built by compiling and linking some so
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by memracom 10y ago
Seems to me that the DNC had really sloppy security and that many groups could have compromised their servers. If the government has proof that Russian actors did so, they do not appear to have any proof that the info was used maliciously.
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by memracom 10y ago
The people who make money by moving plants offshore, are also behind the design of the economic indicators, knowing that if you can control what is measured then you are in charge of the conversation, and therefore in charge of the politics
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by memracom 10y ago
A notable example of electronics that is not made in China is the Raspberry PI which is made in the UK, in Pencoed, Wales, formerly the heart of the coal mining industry. http://www.sonypencoed.co.uk/news/2016/03&#

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