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I realize these aren't controlled experiments, but consider two sources: 1) Alistair Cockburn has a communication chart [0] suggesting that face-to-face at a whiteboard is the most effective form of communication. He's been showin
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It's also worth asking 'Where did this whole thought process of "it is the job of college to help you become employable" come from?' There are long-established, deeply-entrenched advocates for both viewpoints, but t
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I once attended a CS education seminar. Part of the required reading was 'How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching', Ambrose, et al. Out of the flood of materials acbart refers to, I'd suggest it
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'Everything got the way it is one logical step at a time' - paraphrase of some of Gerald Weinberg's advice in 'The Secrets of Consulting'
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I unintentionally backed my way into my own business. Back during the dot com bust, the large consultancy I worked for went bust, and I went back to the small consultancy I'd previously worked for. Then, after 9/11, they went bust
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We went to see him speak once, together with Jacques Pepin and Eric Ripert. It was clear that he felt things deeply, and had a great deal of integrity in his own way. He will be missed.
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Yes. The BLS only looks at an estimate of their number, it doesn't examine their motives, circumstances, or level of discouragement. I seek to emphasize that all of those things matter.
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Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. [0] [0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/
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If they aren't actively looking because they're taken care of by some other means and are content with their lives, that's one thing. If they aren't actively looking because they have given up hope of finding a job, and
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I'm half Estonian. My mother and her parents emigrated to the US shortly after WW2, after spending some time as refugees. They've often spoken of one of the manors on the site, it was gratifying to see it there.
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My point is that increase in the housing part of the cost of living is directly tied to the wealth created by the extremely relaxed mortgage lending environment of the last 15-20 years. If that debt were extinguished, house (and rent) price
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'Apollo: Race To The Moon', Murray and Cox, is a great popular history that describes a pretty broad swath of the engineering (and management) efforts behind Apollo, including several nice sections on the Saturn V and the F-1 engi
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All true. However, UK bank share ownership doesn't necessarily correlate with UK citizenship. And, maybe more importantly, stock ownership is skewed heavily to a relative few, e.g. (US data) [0]. [0] http://www.nber.org&#x2F
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> average UK house price reached £226,071 Aren't house prices an aggregate of 'owned outright' via cash, inheritance, debt repayment and 'loaned against' in the form of bank loans against real estate? There'
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Sherry Turkle is an MIT sociologist. She has written several books about the culture of technology. I haven't read them, so I won't give recommendations.
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Not software books, but 'Apollo: Race to the Moon' by Murray and Cox, and 'The Making of The Atomic Bomb', Rhodes are my two favorite books about engineering projects and the people behind them.
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'Microsoft Secrets', Cusumano, Selby. A fairly detailed examination of how Microsoft ran in the mid-90's.
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'Gates', Stephen Manes. It's a biography of Bill Gates, but you see a good deal of how Microsoft came to be.
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'Programmers At Work', Susan Lammers. It's more about the individuals than the companies they create, but the insights are (still) valuable.
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While the 'Spider' episode is my favorite, 'That's All There Is', the Apollo 12 episode is my second favorite, and I know what you mean. 'A Man on the Moon', by Andrew Chaikin, roughly corroborates what&#x
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In math, don't proofs only show whether something is consistent, not that something is 'better?' I'd wager the credit you are assigning math is based more on its utility when applied rather than to anything inherent to
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"If a builder has built a house for a man, and has not made his work sound, and the house he built has fallen, and caused the death of its owner, that builder shall be put to death." - from Hammurabi's code [0][1], circa 17
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Maybe the article was 'Amish Hackers' by Kevin Kelly? [0] http://kk.org/thetechnium/amish-hackers-a/
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Anything and everything Gerald Weinberg has written. I particularly recommend 'Are Your Lights On?' as a place to get started, 'The Secrets of Consulting' as a steady companion, 'The Psychology of Computer Programmi
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I believe so; the author affiliation is the same as that Michael Jackson, and the paper references an earlier paper by that Michael Jackson.
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He's written an entire book [0] on how to add notions of causality to the existing algebraic framework for expressing correlation. He alludes to the core idea in the next part of the interview: "Mathematics has not developed the a
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No difference, apart from the credit union being local and beholden, primarily, to people in the community. Using the credit union wasn't the painful part, closing our old accounts and opening new ones was. We had too many accounts at
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Early in 2008, on principle, we switched from a 'Too Big To Fail' bank to a credit union. It was a pain, and is occasionally inconvenient, but that pain is outweighed by the satisfaction in reading the headlines and being glad I&#
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I'm intrigued by your phrase 'securitize those families.' What do you have in mind?
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Reminds me of what I've heard called a Czech fable: A poor farmer whose livestock is a single dairy cow goes to the field one morning to milk the cow and discovers that she's dead. He falls to his knees and looks skyward, shaking

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