pjmorris

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   by pjmorris 6y ago

   Charging issues: The trucks could carry spare batteries and chargers.
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   by pjmorris 6y ago

   I've been joking for awhile now that UPS/FedEx trucks could become 'aircraft carriers', carrying a set of drones along with the packages, using the drones for the 'last mile' of delivery.
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   by pjmorris 6y ago

   Arguably, TAoCP has been his day job since the 60's, and it's full of code.
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   by pjmorris 6y ago

   > I have a pet theory that a large portion of the decay in our society can be traced back to the layers of abstraction between stakeholders and the things (and people) they have power over. My pet theory is a specific instance of yours:
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   by pjmorris 6y ago

   Same here. I often joke that I should keep this one posted at my desk. It helps remind me to walk away.
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   by pjmorris 6y ago

   FTA, "falling with style"
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   by pjmorris 6y ago

   Good on them. I spent ~five years with a Netflix subscription that I never watched. I'd joke that I ought to get a Christmas card from them, because I was one of their very best customers. Even now, I'll flip back and forth betwee
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   by pjmorris 6y ago

   > I have worked for decades in regulated markets. > It sucks to have a dozen implementations to fit each regulation and a thousand similar but slightly different reports. I am becoming familiar with this pain. I wonder (obligatory XKC
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   by pjmorris 6y ago

   > many local laws are poorly tailored to advance "society's needs". Philosophical question: what is a better approach to advancing society's needs' than government and its regulations? If a given corporation, ala
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    by pjmorris 6y ago

    Maybe try something/anything by Douglas Hofstadter. 'Godel, Escher, Bach' gets most of the attention, but I also found 'The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul' (with Daniel Dennett), and &#
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    by pjmorris 6y ago

    e.g. aircraft carriers
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    > I think books on software management and process are mostly lost on someone who hasn't been involved in the process. I think that's true and fair. However, once some experience has been acquired, I believe it's helpful t
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    I really liked 'The Art of SQL', Stephane Faroult
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    You might also find Weinberg's 'An Introduction To General Systems Thinking' of value. Weinberg was heavily influenced by general systems theory, as illustrated by referencing Fisher, and he wrote the book as a way to introdu
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    'Code Complete', Steve McConnell
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    'Making Things Happen', Scott Berkun
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    'The Pragmatic Programmer', Hunt and Thomas
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    'Becoming A Technical Leader', Gerald Weinberg
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    'The Mythical Man Month', Fred Brooks
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    I agree with the idea of a canon for software engineering, probably more as a living, shifting document than as something set in stone (except, maybe, MMM, which seems perennial.) I'm going to try an experiment, posting five books I&#x
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    Jerry Weinberg has a chapter on burnout in one of his books [0]. He refers to the idea of 'the oxygen mask', making sure you've taken care of yourself so you have resources from which to give. He talks about how having a long
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    I've followed the 'Calculated Risk' and 'Naked Capitalism' blogs since the last crisis. On twitter I follow @MkBlyth and @nntaleb. Disclaimer: NC is fairly leftish, but I don't consider that a flaw. I'd be
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    Thank you. It's been too long since I read this, putting it in the 'to read' pile.
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    > You honestly think 2 years is going to be enough to create what may end up being 47 million lost jobs as estimated by the Fed? I think he, and I, are arguing that if you give 47 million people the money they'd earn from their jobs
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    There's a reason for the term 'dead cat bounce.'
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    My theory for Fed fiscal stimulus: In 2008, the Fed started buying things that weren't treasuries (e.g. Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS)), and bulking its balance sheet up from ~800 Billion to ~4 Trillion. Some portion of that ~3 Tril
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    The playing field is buying power, measured in dollars. The dollars earned from a person(entity) selling a bond to the Fed at a price that only the Fed would buy are new to the money supply. The dollars earned from a person selling hours of
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    If wages followed asset prices, it likely wouldn't matter. If everyone was making 4-6 times what they were a decade ago, the playing field would be level.
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    > Eventually, these bonds will pay out, and that will take most of the money just injected into the money supply back out of it. That's the theory, first given when the Fed expanded from buying treasuries in to buying bonds back in
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    by pjmorris 7y ago

    > Going directly to people does not maintain jobs for people to return to. Every one of the 16 million people who've lost jobs in the last month has some combination of rent, mortgage, food, insurance, and other expenses that they s