mtVessel

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   by mtVessel 11y ago

   Pro tip: If you're going to pull out the "combined experience" cliche, anything less than 25 years just emphasizes how little experience that is.
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   by mtVessel 11y ago

   I live 20 minutes outside of New York City. I put up with an extremely high cost of living for easy access to the incredible resources of a great city. In my new, "narrow" plan, I can only see doctors in my home county. Outside
3. 213.▲
   by mtVessel 11y ago

   This is why we can't have nice things.
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   by mtVessel 11y ago

   "Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is." -Richard Guindon
5. 215.▲
   by mtVessel 11y ago

   What does "battery-operated" have to do with the razor blade model? Distracting.
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   by mtVessel 11y ago

   Many people stay even after they realize they're underpaid, simply out of inertia. Companies knows this, and by getting you to accept a low-ball offer, they're just taking a calculated risk, and reaping the benefits in the interi
7. 217.▲
   by mtVessel 11y ago

   A sufficiently large program in [ any language ] is not readable as a description of its own behavior. I think it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking this is not true for expressive languages like Ruby or Python, because there ar
8. 218.▲
   by mtVessel 11y ago

   I agree with your analogies, but I think that there are at least a few intermediate levels between high-level process description and code that benefit from some sort of spec. Good specs fill the gaps between the zoning and the pavement.
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   by mtVessel 11y ago

   The reason why the author has a hard time finding a specific diagnosis is because her "maladaptive daydreams" are a symptom, not a disease. Her real problem is an inability or unwillingness to engage with reality, which is a comp
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    by mtVessel 11y ago

    What is it that's holding your attention when you're "not paying attention"?
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    by mtVessel 11y ago

    I haven't used IntelliJ, but "Set Next Statement" was what I missed most using Eclipse.
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    by mtVessel 11y ago

    I know that's received wisdom in some parts, but is it actually true? Is it true for other engineering disciplines? Is it true for hardware design? If not, what makes software special? I think it only seems true because of the amo
13. 223.▲
    by mtVessel 12y ago

    Please feel free to regale us with tales of that experience!
14. 224.▲
    by mtVessel 12y ago

    Nonsense. Next you'll be telling me that attractive people make more money and get promoted more often.
15. 225.▲
    by mtVessel 12y ago

    Me, too. Thankfully, this hasn't affected my level of productivity.
16. 226.▲
    by mtVessel 12y ago

    But shitty policing does?
17. 227.▲
    by mtVessel 12y ago

    Yeah, the application of the term was a total stretch.
18. 228.▲
    by mtVessel 12y ago

    Agreed. Without that auxiliary verb, it was really hard to know the author was kidding about Buzz Lightyear getting a vasectomy in A Bug's Life.
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    by mtVessel 12y ago

    *rote ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_learning
20. 230.▲
    by mtVessel 12y ago

    It's not just "business people". This was published the same year as the Agile Manifesto. We know which route developers chose.
21. 231.▲
    by mtVessel 12y ago

    Hmm. Guess I should have looked it up before posting. Serves me right for not being more bi-curious.
22. 232.▲
    by mtVessel 12y ago

    Point taken. Um...the one(s) where a 'fortnight' is still a thing?
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    by mtVessel 12y ago

    So you're saying that when I correct someone publicly, I'm not being an insufferable pedant, I'm contemporaneously documenting usage for future linguists! Ooh, I'm gonna get so much mileage out of that one.
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    by mtVessel 12y ago

    Biweekly means every two weeks. Semiweekly means twice a week. (Fortnightly doesn't mean anything outside of the Commonwealth.) Please keep (politely) correcting people. It's only us against the hordes!
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    by mtVessel 12y ago

    Thanks, I was wondering about that, too. That diagram helps explain it. But I still don't understand circle 3. According to perspective rules, shouldn't the moon appear much, much smaller , since it's so far away?
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    by mtVessel 12y ago

    I think what's meant is that it will be easier to create software on Linux that uses MS enterprise packages, like SQL Server, Sharepoint, etc.. So devs can make use of the MS ecosystem without being totally locked into it. Especial
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    by mtVessel 12y ago

    Sure, and Borders should have pivoted from selling books that have already been published, to becoming an outlet for people who want to self-publish. I mean, hey, there's loads of people like that on the internet! It must be a viab
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    by mtVessel 12y ago

    Fine, but every developer I know works long hours and is squeezed for productivity. Isn't that just the reality of the field? If the choice is a) drab cage or b) gilded cage, I'll take the one with the subsidized lunch and mas
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    by mtVessel 12y ago

    IANAL, but isn't it incumbent upon IKEA to issue a C&D, whether they want to or not, in order to show they are actively using their trademark? From what I've heard, if they didn't, someone else might have a case that thei
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    by mtVessel 12y ago

    Your gender-related analysis is a bit incomplete. You should state that you're only including records for which gender is specified. - Overall, 20.4% of the records have an unknown or unspecified gender, for which the average grade is