queensnake

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by queensnake 14y ago
Also, age: you're more easily distracted & thus annoyed at /being/ distracted as you get older.
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by queensnake 14y ago
Enh; I have the best, Bose QC-15s, and they don't do much.
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by queensnake 14y ago
I look forward to the day when workplace noise is treated like second-hand smoke.
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by queensnake 14y ago
The best I've ever heard comes from Agile - take the time to break the whole thing down into the finest detail you can tolerate (yes, you're doing part of the work this way), and /then/ estimate it. You'll still be wrong, but you'll be clos
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by queensnake 14y ago
Wow, you give me hope I could land a job in Europe!
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by queensnake 14y ago
No .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoBwR9KEGUc&feature=plcp Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/zqu3o/trailer_of_t...
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by queensnake 14y ago
I keep pimping this link but for you it's perfect - http://the-programmers-stone.com/the-original-talks It's several pages written over time but, it's the deepest thinking about the neuropsychology of programming I've seen. From stress, s
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by queensnake 14y ago
The most in-depth explanation (of programming productivity + physiology) is at The Programmer's Stone - warning, it's quite long. http://the-programmers-stone.com/about/
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A tale of the supreme competence of Neil Armstrong(aei-ideas.org)
203 points by queensnake 14y ago|42 comments
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by queensnake 14y ago
Indeed; why doesn't it have Reddit's ability to collapse whole threads?
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4 things you should probably never do at work.(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
2 points by queensnake 14y ago|0 comments
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by queensnake 14y ago
He mentions around 0:36 how he picks things to review in the check-ins - it sure would be nice to see a "John Carmack's Style Guide".
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by queensnake 14y ago
? It's been that way for a long time. It's to discourage joke jobs.
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by queensnake 14y ago
Offtopic and down-votable but, I haven't seen anyone as fat as the guy on the left since moving to the west coast. How nice.
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by queensnake 14y ago
> I've noticed that in general foreigners have a much better grammar than English native speakers I have to disagree strongly - not my experience at all, with Indians, Chinese, Germans, Spaniards, Belorussians.. One exception, a Greek w
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by queensnake 14y ago
enh - so ask puzzle problems. Microsoft and Google have it covered. IMO.
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by queensnake 14y ago
That kind of defeats the purpose of the requirement I'd think.
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by queensnake 14y ago
> I think the walled garden approach is never really long-term sustainable. You don't think so, because ... ?
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by queensnake 14y ago
Well it's lo-tech, and no visualization, but, I use a wiki. It allows you to markup, pull out concepts and facts and easily linkify everything. Better than plain text at least.
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by queensnake 15y ago
This (my) comment is just noise, but I support the choice of short keywords - it helps in seeing them iconically. It's not the typing, though I think that helps too, but the reading - a long word, you have to /read/. A short sequence of cha
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by queensnake 15y ago
So what's your solution? Crack the whip and yell 'You /can/ learn! You /will/ be a creative knowledge worker!'? Inject everyone with nanites or genemods to make it so? Or dump them in their own restricted area and let them subsistence farm
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by queensnake 15y ago
And among the unemployed /now/, do you see this happening?
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by queensnake 15y ago
Down, and no Google cache.
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by queensnake 15y ago
One place I worked had an explicit 30% dev time for internal improvement. It wasn't Agile, but cleanup work did supposedly get scheduled.
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by queensnake 15y ago
(add -Werror - your students will never know.)
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by queensnake 15y ago
Just say what it is and let the reader decide how important it is. I say something like, Machine Learning 2011 (ml-class.org; free, online, no-credit Stanford course). Though personally, if I haven't even begun a class I wouldn't mention it
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by queensnake 15y ago
feedshow? It's free, but, somewhat slow to update.
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by queensnake 15y ago
Yeah there aren't many stories about the first self-aware robots. Robopocalypse and Short-Circuit but, to me it's surprisingly un-explored. Maybe because it's hard.
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by queensnake 15y ago
Take it a step further - whether people data-mine and generalize the human motions and expressions or, just cleverly used fixed 'patches' of behavior, well, imagine now using them in live robots. /That/ will be an Uncanny Valley :)
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by queensnake 15y ago
That's a good theory except, that you wouldn't want a creature with self-respect etc being treated as merchanise; she says she'll comply but, at least in humans, that resolution wouldn't last forever. No, I vote for the demo being incoheren

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