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by mkn 15y ago
Drivel. All of it. Right off the bat, try these on for size: Do What You Can Tolerate, And You'll Get By; Do Something You Hate If You Have To, Otherwise You'll Starve; Do Something You're Indifferent To But Pays The Bills, Or You Won't Be
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by mkn 15y ago
6. Market goes rational (inevitable, forces pushing it irrational can't do so forever), valuation plumets [sic] It's a nitpick, but the only irrationality that gets checked is unsustainable irrationality. It's a bit of a simplification to
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by mkn 15y ago
The rest probably are so out of touch they do not participate in developer communities such as Stack Overflow. If you're curious about the down-votes, it may be because the above quote is an example of the particular kind of bigotry commo
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by mkn 15y ago
Well, except that the group you're describing are usually referred to as "early adopters." How vacuous would the point sound if it were aimed at the early days of the PC? The trouble, of course, with IBM's experiments with personal compute
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by mkn 15y ago
Tired stereotype. And furthermore, an instance of the more general case of 'unverifiable claim.' The list doesn't stop there, either. The first paragraph is a misleading hypothetical. You're left to infer the statistic from the author's a
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by mkn 15y ago
That's exactly what we think the case was before the Big Bang, I think, since points are zero-dimensional. It's truly weird to imagine the Universe exploding from a point into a line, then into a planar region, and then into a three-d
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by mkn 15y ago
It appears to at least have been built: http://www.eaa.org/news/2011/2011-04-14_aero.asp The craft hasn't yet had it's maiden flight. It's an interesting concept. I've always liked the joined-wing concept from a structural standpoint but,
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by mkn 16y ago
We're talking about needless complication as opposed to essential complexity. We're talking about goddammit-I-just-want-x-next-to-y-no-matter-what-is-specified-ten-levels-up-the-dom-tree! The essential reason that front-end development "sho
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by mkn 16y ago
There's a good reason people specifically work on this stuff .. I don't get this at all. Central to the design of HTML and the Web is the notion of democratic access to information and the ability for non-specialists to create it. Further
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by mkn 16y ago
I have to disagree. For its length and scope it summed up the current problem nicely and clearly pointed out that the thinking that got us into this mess won't get us out of it, to paraphrase Einstein. I don't think the intent of the articl
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by mkn 16y ago
the point is that if you only eat 20 calories/day more than you "should" (the amount that would cause your weight to remain the same) then you will gain the weight. The point is that you won't ever gain the 40 lbs if you only eat the 20 c
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by mkn 16y ago
Since a pound of fat is roughly equal to 3500 calories, this means you accumulate roughly 7000 calories worth of fat every year. Divide that 7000 by 365 and you get the number of calories of fat you stored each day and never burned roughl
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by mkn 16y ago
Thorstein Veblen, in The Theory of the Leisure Class , has an insight that I think you've missed: Suits make lower-class labor work impossible for the wearer, and are therefore intrinsically a signal of higher class. That sumptuary laws ar
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by mkn 16y ago
You're thinking of solid-fuel uranium reactors. Actually, thorium reactors have a natural load-following capability due to their negative thermal coefficient of reactivity. You suck power out of them too fast, they cool, get denser, and the
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by mkn 16y ago
There's a lot of naive love here for a deeply flawed idea. First, what is suggested in this article is not a receipt, but a breakdown. A sales receipt for a car, for example, doesn't start out, "5 tires (4 on vehicle, 1 spare), 2 axles..."
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by mkn 16y ago
I loved these pulley problems in statics. Assume the weights are resting on a surface, the pulleys and rope are massless, the pulleys are frictionless, and the system is maintained in quasi-equilibrium as the rope is pulled (steady state &#
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by mkn 16y ago
Well, it's on the front page, so I guess someone is taking this seriously. This is not anywhere near a correct description of a sonic boom. A sonic boom is not "a large burst when [an object] “breaks the sound barrier”." It is a phenome
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by mkn 16y ago
Possibly off-topic. "However, a year ago the team shrunk by half and our agility was severely limited. I’m omitting the internal reasons for this, as they are the typical big-company middle-management issues every software developer has."
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by mkn 16y ago
Not exactly right. A part of my point was more that the complexity and finickiness of the STS seem to be largely, though not completely, due to the procurement process and some peculiarities of the U.S. political structure. Parts for the ST
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by mkn 16y ago
So, I have a BS in Aero/Astro Engineering. This doesn't exactly qualify me, because when you graduate you're not an engineer, merely ready to become an engineer. That said, it seems to me that the safety culture is a symptom, not an underly
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by mkn 16y ago
This just begs the question, though. If you assume that talent chases money and nothing else, then it follows that talent chases money and nothing else. Particularly your second point about developers ignoring jobs salaried at less than the
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by mkn 16y ago
I don't see 1) how I was "rationalizing [my] pay grade," nor 2) what the remark about not taking one's eye off the bottom line has to do with anything. The idea that the OP put forward was that simply offering more will solve the problem of
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by mkn 16y ago
If you've been around yc for more than a month, you've doubtless seen a number of links to articles on motivation as it pertains to creative activities like software development. The consensus is pretty clear. Incentives hurt productivity i
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by mkn 16y ago
...to believe that information on Facebook or other social networks is inherently private or “yours” is just wrong. If the "victim" didn't want to get raped, she should have dressed less provocatively, not gone out after dark, and not had
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by mkn 16y ago
"I'm not sure how you could get traction..." I think one way to get traction would be to expand a profile or messaging feature of an existing site that has a reputation for trustworthiness with user data, and then fork the feature after it
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by mkn 16y ago
"Energy of some sort is obviously a major input,..." Unless, of course, the chemical process that converts coal to oil is exothermic, which is not impossible in principle. In this case, the energy conversion efficiency would be less than on
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by mkn 17y ago
I'm with you in disagreeing with #4, but I generally disagree with most of his points, simply on the grounds that his article might be better titled, "Passing the Microsoft Interview when a Jerk Like Me is on the Interview Loop." That's a l
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by mkn 17y ago
As for government in education, it corrupts education completely. <snip> [Government-run education] sinks to a very low level, teachers are handcuffed by bureaucrats and public opinion in their teaching methods, honest perspectives
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by mkn 17y ago
It's not often I get to say something positive, so I'm jumping on the chance here. I'm going to guess that you live in a first-world nation where plentiful electricity is an afterthought. A working CD-ROM motor is awesome! I presume that th

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