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by mwsherman 10y ago
The article doesn't make the claim in this headline. It makes the claim that NYC could theoretically have 3x fewer cabs. @dang
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Imagining version control for APIs (2015)(clipperhouse.com)
1 points by mwsherman 10y ago|0 comments
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KPIs are software(clipperhouse.com)
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Inside Psychology’s ‘Methodological Terrorism’ Debate(nymag.com)
1 points by mwsherman 10y ago|0 comments
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by mwsherman 10y ago
Oh, and a question – is the generated code actually semantically identical? For most uses practical uses, it is, but I think under racy conditions it could give different results.
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by mwsherman 10y ago
Looks nice. A lot of people don’t realize how expensive Linq can be. That said, my preference for most (source) codegen is in the editor – this would be nice as an editor plugin.
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by mwsherman 10y ago
The word “Hollywood” itself refers to a monopoly. This article reads like a status quo that is accustomed to power and resistant to sharing it.
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by mwsherman 10y ago
Really interesting documentary on this: https://www.netflix.com/search/fastball
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by mwsherman 10y ago
This has been studied in other places. It appears to have a lot more to do with the subsidy of student loans: http://www.nber.org/papers/w21967 I.e., more dollars chasing the same amount of education. A bit more explan
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by mwsherman 10y ago
Another word for complexity is diversity. Resilience comes from that complexity. Very much like biology. NYC (where I live) is wildly inefficient, except at delivering benefits that millions of people consider worthwhile.
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by mwsherman 10y ago
I live in one of those buildings. It's about 12 minutes to work in downtown Manhattan if the train timing works out. I am unclear if this article is quoting the "net effective" rate, where the free month is amortized over a y
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Stack Overflow podcast #72: salary transparency(blog.stackoverflow.com)
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by mwsherman 10y ago
Good point. The utility of incremental bandwidth diminishes quickly. https://www.igvita.com/2012/07/19/latency-the-new-web-perfor...
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by mwsherman 10y ago
This is a perfectly reasonable intuition – that there will be large net loss of jobs as trucks are automated – but we should not mistake the intuition for evidence. There is a long history of believing that massive job losses are imminent d
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I used HTML Email when applying for jobs, here’s how and why(dribbble.com)
8 points by mwsherman 10y ago|2 comments
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by mwsherman 10y ago
A little meta-civility goes a long way, too. If one is inclined to call people jerks, bozos and assholes, perhaps one is not understanding people very well. It’s much more effective to work learn about people, their predilections, biases an
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by mwsherman 10y ago
Actually I read this wrong. We decided on pushState deliberately, since it’s essentially a form submission, and so a history entry. That said, one of our folks suggested same so I think from a UX perspective, we could go either way. It does
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by mwsherman 10y ago
+1 not just for the comment but for the Spinal Tap reference.
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by mwsherman 10y ago
A majority of our technical team (around ⅔) are remote, so the HQ in NYC is not the center of gravity that one might assume. Also the NYC office has chefs, so. ;)
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by mwsherman 10y ago
Thanks! It should be doing that, if it’s not, it’s a bug. Drop me a note at matt at stackoverflow dot com, with a repro?
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by mwsherman 10y ago
We’re referring to the same report and thanks for being rigorous on this. I certainly wouldn’t want to oversimplify. Using self-identified rich to derive an income baseline for rich still means “rich” is self-identified, no? It still puts u
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by mwsherman 10y ago
The definitions of middle and rich in the report are pretty close to made up. In the latter case, the study literally uses "people who identify as rich". The study appears to define "middle" as 90% of respondents, which
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by mwsherman 10y ago
This separation is a feature, not a bug. SMS and IP chat have different enough semantics that trying to abstract over them will leak. In my example, I was using iMessage and it captured my SMS in the same UI as IP chat. Then I changed to an
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by mwsherman 10y ago
Also, FWIW, the article really doesn’t explain much, and might be plain wrong. It’s far from a zero-sum game, the overall market has very little ceiling in the foreseeable future.
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by mwsherman 10y ago
The network effect of ride-sharing is considerably weaker than that of a social network. A social network’s effect is O(n²), as that is the number of meaningful connections. Ride-sharing networks are O(n). They benefit from liquidity , but
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by mwsherman 10y ago
This is a good example of an enormous chilling effect that legal risk offers. Not just prohibition of drugs, but any large regulatory regimes where it’s hard to say what “legal” is. Big categories of software go underdeveloped, leaving an i
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The History of Management – Pluralism at Stack Overflow [video](youtube.com)
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by mwsherman 10y ago
By and large, you are describing people management. It is quite about dealing with crap. I don't mean that as a complaint, merely a fact. Good managers take crap so others don't have to. Ideally, we get good enough to prevent the
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How to Look Like a Badass at Your Next Tech Conference(thecooperreview.com)
2 points by mwsherman 10y ago|1 comments
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by mwsherman 10y ago
Passive voice is merely a form of speech. It’s not blanket-wrong. It serves to diminish the actor, which can be a legitimate choice. “He was diagnosed with flu” is passive voice, and appropriate, because the diagnoser is not important. We c

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