pjmorris

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by pjmorris 6y ago
In your context, I didn't actually get the tangible benefit that was there, so this doesn't fully count. However, I became aware of Bitcoin when they were going for ~9 cents, and thought seriously about buying 300-400 when they we
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by pjmorris 6y ago
Are you familiar with the 'Powell Memo' [0] To over simplify, it makes the 1971 version of your arguments against Reddit, but against the prevailing culture of the time. It then argues that a deliberate campaign of responding to t
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by pjmorris 6y ago
Because it knows when to hold 'em (molecules) and when to fold 'em.
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I thought I was big time when I bought a 9600 baud modem.
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"A loss of X dollars is always the responsibility of an executive whose financial responsibility exceeds X dollars." - Gerald Weinberg's 'First Principle of Financial Management' and 'Second Rule of Failure Pr
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by pjmorris 6y ago
I'm kind of in the 'we already tried this' camp, because life is messy and things like fire departments and courts aren't usually felt to be 'core competencies' of corporations. The closest modern example I can
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"Representation is the essence of programming" - 'The Mythical Man Month', Fred Brooks.
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I was burned out at a programming job and thinking about finding something else to do when I first read this section in 'The Mythical Man Month.' It reminded me of the wonder I'd felt at first, and that was still in there, an
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by pjmorris 6y ago
My personal favorite way for boosting wages would be a job guarantee. Hand-wavy explanation: Having the government hire people who can't find work elsewhere puts a floor on both unemployment and on the minimum that other entities have
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IMO the way to decide that follows from questions like: What does the Fed buy? Second question: What do the sellers to the Fed buy (where do they spend the proceeds?), and wherever the spending chain goes from there. To my eye, stocks and r
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by pjmorris 6y ago
My own personal favorite notion of a hedge for this is wages. Boost wages to match the money supply, and most of those wages will get spent across the economy as well as providing for the wage earners. Of course, this is what many more econ
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by pjmorris 6y ago
The way I read the GP's comment was that the meat of the argument wasn't the 'cute' part, it was the 'avoid a violent revolution' part. Wars are usually more expensive than peace.
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This is a terrific book, really solid technical content, historical perspective, and entertaining writing. I feel like it needs a fourth piece, maybe 'distribution', focused on networking.
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by pjmorris 6y ago
Ammann and Offutt's 'Introduction to Software Testing' [0] describes model driven test design and criteria-based testing (e.g. input domain ) as approaches to being thorough about testing. [0] https://cs.gmu.edu&#x
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by pjmorris 6y ago
Compliance and regulatory audits (e.g. ISO certification, SOC 2, the list goes on) seem like a candidate to me. There is typically a standard set by one organization, that has to be complied with by (multiple departments within) another org
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I once attended a talk by Ron Graham (mathematician who'd once worked at Bell Labs) where he explained that they had applied graph theory to minimize the distance of cable runs to minimize the amount of copper they had to buy. And, tra
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by pjmorris 6y ago
And IBM invented the hard drive, (arguably) computer product lines, the relational database, and standardized the 8-bit byte. Pretty sure I'm leaving stuff out. They're not quite Bell Labs, but they're incredibly influential.
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by pjmorris 6y ago
Same here. In 1998, my aunt recommended I read 'The Call' by John Hersey. Local bookstores didn't have it, Amazon did.
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> You can't physically centralize energy production. But you can centralize ownership of energy production.
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Seems like one of the side effects here is that a lot of people got dental work that wouldn't have otherwise done so. Isn't that a positive outcome worth something? If it's worth about as much (to the patients, and to society
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by pjmorris 6y ago
I was pondering a less organized approach: What if we could persuade 'everybody' to take an #InternetDayOff every once in a while? If enough people thought it was a good idea and could step away, a full 24 hours without traffic to
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I'm sure I'm fine; I browse on my laptop, not a phone. /s
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> The "will be exploited by few against the many" could be applied to any and all technologies. And it has, arguably correctly, beginning with food production, as argued in, e.g. 'Guns, Germs, and Steel', 'Why Th
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by pjmorris 6y ago
Exactly. To your point, I'm thinking of 'Swingin' Party,' 'Here Comes a Regular,' even the lovely 'Skyway' is melancholy at heart. Read 'Trouble Boys' by Bob Mehr to find out why.
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> made fun of me a lot for listening to every episode of Marion Mcpartland’s ‘Piano Jazz’ that’s available on Spotify... That's not you, that's bad AI :)
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Well, if you consider drunken sprees a mood... :)
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> When googling a recipe, precede it with ‘best’. You’ll find better recipes. For something new I'm trying, I favor recipes by authors I've found reliable in the past, e.g. Alton Brown, Deb Perelman (Smitten Kitchen), Ina Garte
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by pjmorris 6y ago
It rated me 6% basic... what's sad is that I'm now proud of that. I've resisted being called hipster, maybe inappropriately. My spotify was 'heavy-eyeliner-post-punk-boomer-relaxation-dads-still-cool bad'
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Asked the same thing to me, but about The Replacements.
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Wholeheartedly agree with recommendations for Kernighan and Bentley. I think there's one Kernighan book I don't own, and they are all gold (if old.) I'd suggest anything and everything written by Gerald Weinberg, starting wit

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