nickflees

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by nickflees 10y ago
He didn't say that you can't lead an R&D team without a PhD. He said it equips you to do so. There's no claim about it being the exclusive path to leading an R&D team.
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by nickflees 10y ago
Interesting. Do you have a source?
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by nickflees 12y ago
I own the vacuum pictured in the first link. I bought it with high expectations and disappointment began to set in almost immediately. After 3 years of not-totally-clean floors and periodic struggles getting the rotating brush to work, I fi
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by nickflees 12y ago
I strongly prefer having a PDF to a .mobi (which comes with the PDF on O'Reilly).
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by nickflees 12y ago
Agreed. I'm also extremely skeptical when classmates, instructors, or co-workers use similar tactics. I have found that, when pressed, they will often reveal that the rest is not nearly as trivial as advertised.
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by nickflees 12y ago
I've always gotten a lot of satisfaction from learning and mastering something that was initially presented as being difficult.
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by nickflees 13y ago
modify(data) != summarize(data)
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by nickflees 13y ago
> Rarely in math are you coming up with a new way to solve a problem, but in software development you do that all the time! False. This guy is making a case against a subject in which he clearly lacks experience.
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by nickflees 13y ago
The assertion that users can make unlimited purchases after entering credentials just once is false: "Customers need only enter their password once when activating the payment portion of the app and then use the app to make unlimited p
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by nickflees 13y ago
Well done on the logo. It's very nice.