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by patja 6y ago
I have seen contractors do things like put 1000 lines of enum declarations for every integer from 1 to 1000. That's an extreme example.
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by patja 6y ago
The book came out before the film in the US as well.
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by patja 6y ago
The legacy definition of spam is any unwanted email, or "unsolicited commercial email" But in the context of social media, what does spam mean? It isn't email. And an awful lot of it is simply self-promotion or commercial p
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by patja 6y ago
When I started teaching and my school email address was published on the school's website, I discovered the hell that is the ed-tech marketing machine. 90% of the spam I get from these sources, which are usually individual sales reps
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by patja 6y ago
I always found it helpful to have a writing sample for evaluation, especially if the position requires effective written communication skills.
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by patja 6y ago
I always thought this was a fairly common practice so you can verify you are getting the ad traffic you paid for.
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by patja 6y ago
How do you feel about it when anyone who has you in their phone's contacts list hands over all that personal information about you when they install WhatsApp or any other app that requests contacts data? Seems like the same thing.
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by patja 6y ago
As an Arduino enthusiast who has taught kids using Scratch, I'm interested in this. Can you list some examples?
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by patja 6y ago
Reminds me of the book Slack by Tom DeMarco
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by patja 6y ago
Both examples feature large long-term negative externalities that are usually picked up in one way or another by the taxpayer.
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by patja 6y ago
What do you think about tobacco companies? Or payday lenders? I understand some would do something highly profitable but morally questionable and then donate the profits to a more socially productive firm. Is that what you are thinking?
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by patja 6y ago
And who is the idiot? It was really interesting until it became extremely general and vague. It almost makes it sound like Matt Cutts is the idiot since he's the only specific manager mentioned.
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by patja 6y ago
Radar, wind speed and direction, water speed, depth, water temp, and I also have their forward scanning sonar transducer.
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by patja 6y ago
This rings true for my experience as well. And it also highlights the waste that occurs when a successful team finishes delivering and is immediately dispersed to the four winds, something that happens all too often.
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by patja 6y ago
My small sailboat has over $5k in Garmin navigation electronics. I love that whenever I've had a problem I can almost immediately reach a knowledgeable and helpful support employee in Kansas (I think?) to help me.
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by patja 6y ago
Museum directors all agree that anyone who sells museum holdings to meet operating expenses is blacklisted from future visiting collections. Let them sell some of their holdings and all will be well. Many of them are sitting on a vast inv
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by patja 6y ago
I was appalled when I went to install it and there was no way I could see to avoid handing 100% of my contacts to it. Do people keep a private offline contacts list, or a clean phone just for this? Or do folks just not care about giving awa
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by patja 7y ago
Speaking as someone currently in the throes of trying to get their website setup to accept Apple Pay...it is an enormous hassle. Probably 5x the hassle of setting up PayPal and 10x the hassle of setting up Stripe. First you need to join th
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by patja 7y ago
SAP projects don't fail because the software doesn't work. They fail when business and IT leadership are weak or don't understand what it takes to get these projects done, or they are doing them for the wrong reasons.
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by patja 7y ago
No idea...I left in 2008. At that time, it was still being promoted as a big success story externally. It was turned into a "IT showcase" case study to show customers that SAP could successfully run on SQL Server and Windows. I
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by patja 7y ago
In the 90's I was one of the project leaders on the internal SAP R/3 deployment at Microsoft. It was one of the most successful IT projects I ever participated in, mostly due to the remarkably strong business leadership the proje
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by patja 7y ago
> reading these points makes me suspect he/she is an experienced software engineer that has been doing this for many years now. And yet, a cursory review indicates they are barely out of high school and has never worked on software
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by patja 7y ago
I think this misses one of the social benefits of UBI, or maybe glosses over it in the umbrella of "addressing poverty and income inequality", which is that it gives people on the margin the safety net to reboot their career/
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by patja 7y ago
Last time I stayed at an AirBnb in Prague, the owners preferred method of communication was WhatsApp. When I went to install it I was confronted with no other choice than allowing it to import all my contacts, even though there was only on
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by patja 7y ago
Other than the scale and universality within Japan it doesn't sound very different from how campus recruiting works in the US. If you accept that, at least for the vocationally-oriented programs like CS, engineering, and business, a u
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by patja 7y ago
If it works for you then great, but you are really limiting the pipeline of candidates. I'll bet there are 100 great candidates out there who don't even have Github accounts for every one you are seeing.
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by patja 7y ago
I've bought into the idea that all major museums should have free admission or pay what you will. They are all well-endowed enough to do this, but are restricted from selling pieces of their collections to make ends meet. And what&#x
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by patja 7y ago
I think it helps if you think of it as a project with two sides to it: a production/creative side, and a consumption side. The positive thing about the 3d printed objects is that kids can choose and print them themselves. This has th
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by patja 7y ago
I've spent some time looking into this as I was quite excited about the possibility of building one of these for the school where I work. It seems like an engaging project which would have benefit for the younger students, and could h
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by patja 7y ago
I also find this idea appealing. Reading the end of Gehttoside was an eye opener where the author describes how getting on SSDI (argued as being a limited form of basic income) for being unemployable (disabled) due to their history gang ba

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