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by mfukar 16y ago
Depends on your point of view. It certainly is excused if you're a Cerner stockholder, right?
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by mfukar 16y ago
Without intimate knowledge of the company's workings, plans and actions in those past 10 years, that logic is post hoc ergo propter hoc. The only thing we can say for sure is his jackassery didn't hurt the company as much as a rational pers
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by mfukar 16y ago
What good would that do? It doesn't introduce additional randomness, does it?
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by mfukar 16y ago
I think so, but the graph is so bad (allegedly) that I can't be entirely certain (apparently). /sarcasm
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by mfukar 16y ago
It's 1984.
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by mfukar 16y ago
So, rendering the graph as a bar set with proper numbering and perhaps a detailed legend would convey the information just as well and avoid confusion as to what points between "Movies" and "Books" mean (although that very question has a ve
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by mfukar 16y ago
I don't disagree with your point. I'm simply saying it's impossible to understand what a graph illustrates without reading few, simple sentences. Like its title.
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by mfukar 16y ago
The worst graph dissection in a decade. Does he intentionally omit reading that the graph is titled "Relative consumer spending on media, by category (2008) per capita"? Does he intentionally skip reading the article while he tries to decip
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by mfukar 17y ago
It doesn't matter which moon you drop it on. It will fall. Unless it's an imaginary moon. I'll give you that.
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by mfukar 17y ago
Consistency would only matter if Mozilla offered a better alternative, that had the potential to become a popular lead standard. They don't, so the only way for them out of this in my humble and limited point of view is to join Netscape in
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by mfukar 17y ago
While true, nowhere in the article is there a hint to link the study to your assertion (no, not in "Rural Retreat" either). I have the right to have access to the internet, which implies the obligation of others to, quoting, "a 'fair and im
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by mfukar 17y ago
clang has a nice interface, but also a long way to go; gcc has earned people's trust because it's been around for a while..
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by mfukar 17y ago
It's only trivial to bypass, nothing else wrong with it.
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by mfukar 17y ago
With dozens of mechanisms, interfaces, data structures built on top of it, yes. A database provides advantages a file does not.
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by mfukar 17y ago
None. It's the Greek government (and governments, generally) that perform those swaps/loans.
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by mfukar 17y ago
Those are not directly related questions; the answer to each of those depends on the setup of the machine, both on hardware and software, and the practical cases are far too many to enumerate on a single blog post. You are welcome to perfor
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by mfukar 17y ago
The "metric" is always relevant. Your confusion comes from the fact that you're thinking about whether those errors are reflected in a user's experience. If you think about the concept of RAM coupled with the fact that desktops are most lik
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by mfukar 17y ago
I think the article pretty much replied on that and most questions of the sort..let me sum it up: It's hard, but hardships are what's driving him.
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by mfukar 17y ago
You have misunderstood the problem. The fact that clients sit behind lean, low-bandwidth/high-latency lines means that your webserver spends its time waiting for them. The very definition of I/O bound processing. Solving the spoon-feeding i
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by mfukar 17y ago
lolwtf
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by mfukar 17y ago
Averages don't reflect skew. Standard deviation does. Where is it in the numbers you cited? Nowhere. Neither we have any data from the article. So I call BS on you both. :-)
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by mfukar 17y ago
Apparently nothing. :)
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by mfukar 17y ago
It's a flaw that affects recent products.
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by mfukar 17y ago
What an awful piece of writing. And to think people actually read those like they have something to say. Pathetic.
955.
by mfukar 17y ago
No argument there, but the discussion involved software engineers and our job in general. We'd best stay on topic.
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by mfukar 17y ago
If the scope of your statement was that narrow, I will agree with you. Though, the article does point out that eventually, code you've written and perhaps released without claiming any responsibility whatsoever might be used in something mo
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by mfukar 17y ago
You are contradicting yourself: nobody thinks it's even remotely realistic to give assurances with 0 margin of error. Of course it's expensive, of course it's difficult. It is likewise unrealistic for traditional engineers to do so - everyo
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by mfukar 17y ago
I think the list's only purpose is to attack that way of dismissive, unconstructive thinking.
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by mfukar 17y ago
So, do you believe that proving the structural integrity of an engineer's work is less expensive or difficult? No, they are simply built according to several, well-established, well-studied principles. Which software engineers not only lack
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by mfukar 17y ago
"Charging money for attention gets you neither money nor attention." Yet HE pays attention. OH SNAP.

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