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by msg 18y ago
We have both of those guys on our team. But hey, they do usually get stuff done. The guy who is not interested in good software design, can't learn or pick things up for their job, who requires constant repetition and babysitting, and final
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by msg 18y ago
Being a programmer is like being a garbage collector. You drive a huge truck, don't mind noxious odors, make frequent stops, you lift heavy things, your job is extremely monotonous, and you get paid better than teachers. The parallels are r
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by msg 18y ago
Fine, here's the US data for 2005 from the CDC. I don't think you can ascribe deaths from heart disease, cancer, stroke, lung disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer's to doctor error. Most come from lifestyle choices. Cigarettes, junk food, and n
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by msg 18y ago
That is so not what your link says. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate The leaders are heart disease, infection, and cancer (from this 2002 table, sourced to WHO).
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by msg 18y ago
I play and record myself on acoustic-electric plugged into a multi-effects pedal, plugged into the computer, and I sing. I suck at everything.
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by msg 18y ago
No. A rich executive loses a whole bunch of money. He "lost a lot for himself", but he was acting from selfish motives, like the search for more money. "Selfish" goes to motivation, not consequences. Depending on the amount of pessimism in
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by msg 18y ago
Selfishness isn't selfishness if you lose something.
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by msg 18y ago
I upmodded you because I agree with your broader point. With better anchor text I would've liked this more. Maybe it is a sign of the times, or maybe it's about whether or not you can really pay like crap and get autodidacts to take a 50-ho
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by msg 18y ago
That's a stupid resolution! 5 cents please. Seriously though, I prefer to go Socratic when I disagree on a technical question. I don't want to prove to myself or anyone else that I'm right. I do want to draw someone else into my way of thin
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by msg 18y ago
He and I share salient properties, as you and he share salient properties, as you and me share salient properties, and we form a cohesive unit. See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly. I cry. E-Prime lacks metaphors, and rob
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by msg 18y ago
http://xkcd.com/482/ http://xkcd.com/485/ I agree it's gone a bit downhill lately though.
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by msg 18y ago
For those who haven't seen them: http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/ Great arguments for transformative fair use if you ever need them.
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by msg 18y ago
There's a toolbox for Matlab that encapsulates a lot of digital image processing algorithms. Here's the text we used in my computer vision class, probably the classic in the field: http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Image-Processing-Rafael-Gonz
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by msg 18y ago
use the back button?
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by msg 18y ago
The point for me is that the failure, inefficiency, whatever you want to call it of our public schools is a deeper threat to the economy in the long term than the failure of GM in the short term. But we are managing our way from headline to
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by msg 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10889 When is a paren not a paren? When it's punctuation.
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by msg 18y ago
I have grown to hate the MS family of programs's insistence that Daddy knows best, and I must turn off the magic on a case-by-case basis. I noticed a big difference when I transitioned from Visual Studio/Netbeans type coding to Emacs. I sto
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Code as Design: Three Essays by Jack W. Reeves(developerdotstar.com)
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by msg 18y ago
Small world. I typeset the math for the Feynman Physics corrections at WestWords in Utah.
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by msg 18y ago
I think we are talking about two different kinds of arguments. I think the Reason article is more expository than polemical, which is a major part of my problem with it. Suppose I tell you instead at the top of my article that the following
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by msg 18y ago
Pointing out a pattern of dogmatic reasoning unmoved by evidence to the contrary is hardly an ad hominem. It is a way of warning that this article adds no information, if you are already acquainted with the dogma. Also, if you believe that
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by msg 18y ago
You wanted to figure out what it all meant, and you were right. Don't give up. PS You love computer science.
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by msg 18y ago
My sympathies. We don't have as much overhead involved, but around integration time, it gets a lot like you're describing. We get away with a lot of common sense at other times. More often, our enhancements get rolled into a new contract. I
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by msg 18y ago
I work in a contract environment, and it's in our mandate to avoid feature creep. Enhancements have to be derived from the requirements and design that the customer bought off on, or we require more money. Bugs that interfere with our commi
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by msg 18y ago
I remember my first class. It was a Stopwatch. It had start, stop, reset, and read methods. It maintained an internal counter by calling time(2) or something like that. A lot of objects have no real-world equivalent (they are not "objective
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by msg 18y ago
Ummm no. Refundable tax credits put money in your pocket whether you owe up to the amount that year or not. "Create the American Opportunity Tax Credit: Obama and Biden will make college affordable for all Americans by creating a new Americ
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by msg 18y ago
As Silver himself wrote yesterday, Alaska's voting pattern was nothing short of bizarre, with Young, Stevens, and McCain getting votes at 12 to 14 percent each above their pre-election polls, and turnout about 14 percent below 2004 levels.
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by msg 18y ago
I read all the time, no matter what my schedule is. It is an anchor in my life. Mostly sf and time-tested classics. I'm starting to read Aubrey-Maturin by Patrick O'Brian. I finished Master and Commander and I'm on the next one, Post Captai
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by msg 18y ago
"I understand the realities of having a progressive tax system, but Obama crosses a line with me when he is going to tax the rich just to hand it straight over to everyone else in $1000 cash increments." We've all been funneling money into
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by msg 18y ago
Isn't this a bit like saying the kinetic theory of gases is statistically meaningless? Even if the motion of individual gas molecules is pretty random, we can measure and learn something about the direction and speed of the gas as a whole t

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