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by pjmorris 5y ago
"VisiCalc took 20 hours of work per week for some people and turned it out in 15 minutes and let them become much more creative." - Dan Bricklin It's interesting to me that VisiCalc (1979) and its successors (Lotus 1-2-3 and
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> Maybe we should understand the existing system before advocating complete disruption. This is a great point. One name for it is 'Chesterton's Fence' [0] [0] https://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down
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Probably depends on whether you've already got the mainframe or not, and whether you've got the dedicated Linux cluster or or not.
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> The Walton family can't throw my in prison. The Disney family can. [0] ‘What one fool can do, another can.’ https://unclewalts.com/wwwd/hey-walt-does-disney-world-have-...
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For the business point of view on the boom and crash, I liked 'Dot.Con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold', Cassidy.
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Are you saying that the market, such as it is, is doing a good enough job of managing software vulnerabilities and their consequent breaches?
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> Imagine a cyber defense agency that does nothing but find and fix holes in computing infrastructure and major software projects. It pays for exploits and then works to patch them, promotes bug bounties, develops secure coding standards
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My favorite for teaching cooking, not just recipes, is 'How to Cook,' Julia Child. We have our own and keep a copy at the in-laws for ready reference. We are also big fans of Alton Brown's 'I'm Just Here for the Foo
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The joke about R is that it is great because it was written by statisticians for statisticians and that R is terrible because it was written by statisticians for statisticians. The two best reasons to use R, IMO, are that many statisticians
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But what if your program's performance is to 'determine when a worker has outlived their usefulness and needs to be let go?' (FTA)
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"the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - Cunningham's Law [0] [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
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One Tuesday morning, my code brought down 67 restaurants piloting the new point-of-sale (POS) system. I'd written the code to reformat the mainframe database of menu items, prices, etc, to the format used by the store systems. I hadn&
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Have a look at the literature on how smoking was established as a cause for cancer. You can't ethically intervene to have non-smokers smoke long enough to develop lung cancer. A lot of money and intellectual effort was spent on correla
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This reminds me of an old Stratfor article. 'The Geopolitics of the United States, Part 1: The Inevitable Empire' [0]. [0] https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/geopolitics-united-st...
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Agreed. It's not like the good old days when data was about one physical process that didn't have too many downstream impacts.
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“In God we trust. All others must bring data.” - W. Edwards Deming.
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In addition to the other excellent recommendations here, I'd suggest the work of Jerry Weinberg. He wrote 'An Introduction to General Systems Thinking,' and he applied systems thinking in the work that he did. The two works t
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I live outside Raleigh, NC, which is booming. In my exurb, I can drive less than ten minutes to find empty storefronts. I've seen those empty storefronts in every rural area I've been in on the Eastern seaboard. Cities may be boom
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Out of curiosity, why the downvotes?
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To quote an original blogger, Dave Winer, blogs, at best, are 'The unedited voice of a person.' http://scripting.com/2015/02/07/theUneditedVoiceOfAPerson.ht... I don't read scripting.com much a
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I acquired a finance/economics blogroll during the financial crisis. The ones I still read are: 'Naked Capitalism", "Yves Smith", https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/ "The Big Picture", Barry
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And you can sleep in a car, if need be.
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I recently poured over 'How I Wish I'd Taught Maths' [0], where an award winning high school math teacher reevaluates his approach based on neuroscience research and empirical evidence and finds his previous approach wanting.
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"Once you start looking for confirmation bias you see it everywhere." - Michael Feathers
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This seems related to Clarke's First Law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Second Law: T
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> For the big Tech companies now, small acquisitions are win win wins, they get the people, they get whatever was developed and they permanently avoid Microsofts Netscape situation. I have a theory that this is why MS treats its research
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'Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage', Sherry Sontag covers this story and a number of others of similar ilk.
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Huge fan. "Carrying the Fire" was one of the greatest finds in my (rural Florida, 1970's) high school library. I'd never heard anyone say "I bore easily", let alone someone as responsible as an astronaut, I was
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I'd be happy to compare notes, but as a Florida native and long-time Dade-Broward resident, I find it hard to believe that Miami isn't the scam capital of the Americas.
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> Shareholders don’t care about the reputation or quality of service of the company? That seems a stretch. It is a stretch beyond what I am arguing. On the other hand, I don't think it is a stretch to say that you are arguing that e

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