mtVessel

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by mtVessel 8y ago
"...greater use of effective strategies did not explain the persistence of the grittier types" "however...the greater use of these two effective strategies did not explain why these high trait self-control individuals tended
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by mtVessel 8y ago
Except in this case, where it is required to distinguish the sentence being true in a literal, as opposed to figurative, sense.
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by mtVessel 8y ago
Aristotle came to the same conclusions somewhat earlier, using only natural intelligence and manual learning techniques.
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by mtVessel 8y ago
So help me, Codd.
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by mtVessel 8y ago
It's not an "API doc" in the modern sense, but the DEC VMS manuals are the best-written tech docs I have ever seen.
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by mtVessel 8y ago
The next time someone asks me why I'm choosing a proprietary solution, rather than one of the many fine open-source options available, I'm just going to point them to this comment.
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by mtVessel 9y ago
Charitable. "What mean you by these postings?" suggests someone other than the tam.
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by mtVessel 9y ago
This one goes to eleven.
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by mtVessel 9y ago
The phrase is also commonly used in the sense of an "ad hominem attack", meaning an attack directly on a person's character or actions, rather than their work or ideas. It doesn't always refer to the fallacy.
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by mtVessel 9y ago
I might just be slow, but I can't tell from your landing page exactly what types of things I would document with this. Is it just APIs?
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by mtVessel 9y ago
It reads like a random collection of facts. There's no narrative to it.
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by mtVessel 9y ago
I'm confused. Is this list automated or curated? "Curated by machine" seems like an oxymoron.
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by mtVessel 9y ago
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" Although, what Sulzberger actually said was: “Our followers on social media and our readers across the internet have come together to collectively serve as a modern watchdog, more vigi
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by mtVessel 9y ago
The sample doesn't really give me a sense of whether this book is right for me. It contains a lot of material from the early chapters, but little of the parts of that confused me in college. My primary question is whether this book is
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by mtVessel 10y ago
Forcing?
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by mtVessel 10y ago
Brooks' view is much more closely aligned with Boehm's Spiral Model than with Agile. He valued an overarching design that satisfied all stakeholders before construction. He also recommended a top-down approach to iteration, whic
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by mtVessel 10y ago
I don't understand the author's point about the two heaps. Clearly there are two separate propositions at play -- the "heapness" of either pile, and whether or not the two heap-like entities are identical. The first re
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by mtVessel 10y ago
As is often the case, DNA nailed it, thusly: "In the end, it was Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in at about 2:55 when you know you've taken all the baths you can use
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by mtVessel 10y ago
For his next project, he should learn how to end an essay.
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by mtVessel 10y ago
Nobody wants their data on their own device. Nobody knows how their devices even work, let alone wants the responsibility of managing them. What they want is what they're (sorta, kinda) being given. My device takes my data and puts
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by mtVessel 11y ago
"We" don't?
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by mtVessel 11y ago
cum: http://grammarist.com/usage/cum/
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by mtVessel 11y ago
This is why writers like Chris Date take great pains to explain that "null value" is an oxymoron. Null is a "mark", not a value -- it exists entirely apart from any domain. Any language or environment that doesn't
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by mtVessel 11y ago
That's because the worth of votes are in aggregate , not individually. Individually infinitesimal is not the same thing as individually inconsequential. "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." -Stanislaw Je
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by mtVessel 11y ago
If you live in the same country as I do, I definitely think you shouldn't vote. That way, my vote counts more. Huh? If everyone's vote carries the same weight, then in a large pool, everyone's vote is equally meaningless. S
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by mtVessel 11y ago
So you're arguing that if inflicting pain produces better decisions (as it occasionally does), it is not just morally acceptable, but an actual positive force for good?
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by mtVessel 11y ago
If only they provided tools for the recipients, too.
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by mtVessel 11y ago
For what it's worth, you're not alone in that feeling. People love to make graph visualizations, but I rarely see the practical benefit. Mind you, a good deal of my professional life has been spent as a data modeler. I would lov
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by mtVessel 11y ago
Apparently no one wanted to defend 432 Park.
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by mtVessel 11y ago
Funny, I think of the age divide running the other way. Younger devs, who came up during the age of agile, take YAGNI as a given, while older devs have seen the results of too many hasty decisions. The advice I was given when I started out

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