pauljburke

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by pauljburke 14y ago
I firmly believe diets are like software development methodologies. Doesn't matter which one you subscribe to as long as it isn't universally recognised as junk, you'll still see results because it is better than what you'd be doing by def
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by pauljburke 14y ago
I'd settle for a single bottle of decent wine/beer with the proviso that MDs and above who turn up late just to show how important they are still get to pay it and I would never have sobered up since 1995 (apart from 2 glorious years at a h
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by pauljburke 14y ago
This is just an introductory course (as stated in the original article) that I'm signed up for, more to see what it's like than to learn the material (after 5 years of econometrics and 3 years of statistics I'd like to think I knew this stu
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by pauljburke 14y ago
As the article states, this isn't necessarily just an online problem (although Facebook brings it into sharp focus I guess). Each group of people I know meet essentially a slightly (sometimes very) different person because the interests an
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by pauljburke 14y ago
I had one of the first O2 XDA phones (released 2002) and also one of the first iphones. I'd say the biggest improvement was in the network speed and price of the data packages over the (5?) years or so between those two purchases. I'm not
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by pauljburke 14y ago
1. It's trivial for you. I used to think like this until a recent conversation between 2 cousins on facebook concerning the nautically naughty bay.. I had a bit of a shock seeing one of my "knuckle dragging, mouth breathing" (my words) rela
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by pauljburke 14y ago
Unless I'm misreading this (and I have the mother of all migraines at present so it's possible) weren't both the author of the post and Dave volunteers helping out rather than students? In which case shouldn't whoever was running the sessi
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by pauljburke 14y ago
More like people only want to read them when what you love is economically in demand. These always remind me to go back and reread the sections on survivorship bias in fooled by randomness. I'm not sure if that's ironic or not.
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by pauljburke 14y ago
Probably just a really bad analogy. They also used "vicious cycle of driving and learning" where "virtuous circle" (which I take to mean a system with positive feedback) would be more appropriate.
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by pauljburke 14y ago
I'm reminded of the old microsoft certification hoops I was required to jump through for a previous job (I think I ended up with about 30 or so of the things and a load of letters to put after my name that I now cringe to think about, mainl
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by pauljburke 14y ago
I can't remember where I read it (or I'd provide a link) but the real "a-ha" moment for me came when I read "... so what if there's a million doors instead of 3? Does that make a difference" (it doesn't to the argument but it does to most
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by pauljburke 14y ago
It's entirely possible they were trying to force me to defend the position I'd taken. It probably annoyed them that I took their pet interview question (that they expected me to struggle with) and shot it down in front of them. Not that I
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by pauljburke 14y ago
The few times I've been asked it, mentioning it by name results in them swiftly moving on ... the one time it didn't, the person didn't recognise the name and insisted I'd provided the wrong answer - which was a huge time saver for me in te
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by pauljburke 15y ago
At least one of the publishers thoughtfully sticks (or at least used to) the pictures of all the authors on the front cover. Finding people that have both the time and knowledge to write about a particularly in-demand technology is difficu
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by pauljburke 15y ago
I remember being shown mosaic on the day it went into limited academic beta and (after half an hour or so) saying "It's pretty and all but I can't see how it's ever going to replace gopher"... the person I said it to still won't let me fo
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by pauljburke 15y ago
It pains me to admit it but the point still holds. I've lost count of how many places I've seen that have an excel farm cranking stuff out over the last 15 years. Even when they don't go down that path, microsoft technology works (quiet i
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by pauljburke 15y ago
Actually, I'd put excel (& the massive amount of custom code and extension to it, at least in financial services) way above both of those.
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by pauljburke 15y ago
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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by pauljburke 16y ago
If you're a top performer, unless the place you are at is losing money you aren't subsidising anyone's paycheck - I assume that the people skimming the cream off your contribution do exactly the same to every employee and anyone that isn't
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by pauljburke 16y ago
I found this post this morning, went over there and haven't stopped smiling yet (sad I know). I threw a couple of 10 page or so assignments at it and after uploading a couple of .sty files it all went perfectly and rendered faster than my
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by pauljburke 16y ago
I think they missed a few. I KEEP six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_serving.htm
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by pauljburke 18y ago
... what kind of sadist plans to release this on or around April 1st?