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IBM’s Principles for Trust and Transparency(ibm.com)
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Closest thing I could find was a report [0] on a 2007 panel discussion with Brooks at OOPSLA, titled “No Silver Bullet” Reloaded – A Retrospective on “Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering" Here's [1] a link to his 1995
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by pjmorris 7y ago
This might be just me, but Brooks explicitly put a decade time tag on his 1986 prediction, complicating the authors's comparisons from ~three decades later. I guess the way to tell would be to have people or teams build examples of 198
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Maciej Cegłowski would like a [word]( https://pinboard.in ) with you.
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Maybe we're already there. Example: I've got a friend who worked in tech support long enough that he built a soundboard of recordings of his voice asking typical tech support questions in response to user problems.
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I feel funny doing it too, but I found it's better to get comfortable with who I am than to worry about it. I'm usually on the delivering end of reaching out to thank people from the past, but a few years ago one of my old manager
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I once replaced a fifteen year old 1994 Acura Legend with a 1995 Acura Legend. That car lasted me almost ten years, and is still in use.
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You've got a great point here. I've heard, and need to look in to it more, that most countries have a 'restorative' justice system, while the US has a 'retributive' justice system.
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My main point here was that severe, even terminal, retribution is neither new, nor unique to United States culture, addressing the GP's query.
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Hammurabi's code (~1700 BC) includes this about building: Building Code 229. If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction sound, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner o
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At my annual physical, as my doctor was typing away at data entry on a laptop in the exam room, I asked him whether he felt the new electronic systems had freed up his time to spend more time on patients, or whether they had taken time away
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:) I am just quoting their about page verbatim. Personally, I think the statement undersells its value considerably.
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I'm reminded of the Halfbakery [0] "The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative
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"What have the Romans ever done for us?" [0][1] ... "All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and publi
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How about fire fighting, defense, and the Internet?
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There's a MOOC that uses 'Introduction to Statistical Learning' by the authors of 'Elements of Statistical Learning', here: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesSciences/Sta...
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Seconded. I just finished reading 'Dignity', and it is very much worth the time.
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And you can combine these things; I've got a musician friend who organizes musicians to go to the local VA hospital once a month to play for the patients. It does everybody a world of good. My family makes a point to look after others
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I think adults should be treated like adults, no matter the bar for entry into whatever organization they're part of.
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My first guess would be re-routing traffic away from the damaged cable(s)
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Looking at Fed total assets [0], the Fed's sold off only a fraction of what it took on during the crisis and QE. [0] Fed total assets from FRED: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
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by pjmorris 7y ago
Perhaps. It's about six years too late for that particular presentation, but there will always be more presentations.
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My favorite is 'old dog new trick.' I won't post a link myself because I once spent a long email thread with Larson's secretary trying, and failing, to get permission to use the cartoon in a slide deck. He has described
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I think the same for me. What I've gotten from books r.e. psychological issues are perspective and tools. Perspective: sometimes a writer puts things in a way that illuminates or alters how I see my situation. Tools: sometimes a writer
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Yeah, I suspect success with the overall goal may come down to better digital discipline. Starting with commenting on HN threads :)
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Same here. I've heard, and may implement, a suggestion; Buy a paperback copy, rip it into thirds, and carry the third that you're reading. Buy a hardback copy when you're finished. I've got the paperback copy, I'm n
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by pjmorris 7y ago
I hilariously overestimate the number of books I can get through when I make these lists, but my current list for 2020 is as follows: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons
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I've been lucky enough to work in two, maybe three, places with implicit or explicit policies like this. It's something I shop for now when job-hunting.
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All good advice. I'm especially a fan of: > If it was good, don't let the team relationship go to waste. Talk with whoever's left / worked-with previously about doing something else. Some of my best times at work hav
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by pjmorris 7y ago
> 'finance isn't in your DSL' That's a great turn of phrase, and a nice mental model!

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