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by qznc 6y ago
Ok, saw "Sterman's Business Dynamics" in the other comment. :) Any good tool suggestions?
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by qznc 6y ago
I understand the core of your rant is "the lack of formalization prevents us from truly knowing what an optimized design is so we just guess." You would prefer society would work on developing better formal theories instead of ...
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by qznc 6y ago
Is it an instance of the Second System Effect if you build something slightly different? Google is replacing its internal systems all the time. For example, MapReduce was replaced with Cloud Dataflow [0]. [0] https://www.datacent
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by qznc 6y ago
In the article you wrote > As for solutions, there isn't much to say about the second system effect except you should do your utmost to prevent it; it's entirely self-imposed. Refactor your code instead. Even if it seems like i
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by qznc 6y ago
Do you think it makes sense to have formal training for Systems Engineering? It relies a lot on experience, intuition, and dealing with uncertainty. The uncertainty makes it rather impossible to develop an intuition. To me that suggests tha
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There are examples of complex systems created in a short time: 1. Manhattan project: The Hiroshima bomb was only tested once. The Nagasaki bomb was a different kind and never tested in advance. The whole infrastructure to produce those bomb
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Because it is a marketing funnel for ycombinator.
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https://old.reddit.com/r/hackernews/ Over 50k subscribers on the subreddit.
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by qznc 6y ago
Can you suggest a good introductory book for Systems Dynamics? The last time the topic came up, I read the popular one from Donella Meadows but I found it too shallow [0]. Now I'm considering "An Introduction to General Systems Th
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by qznc 6y ago
For the record, rC3 means "remote Chaos Communication Congress".
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The article ignores the Total War style of RTS which is more relaxed. I'm not sure if we should consider them in the same genre as Starcraft though.
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In my opinion those matchup counts are a red hering in game design. It is nice for the theme and visuals but adds nothing to the core game loop. It is more extreme in fighting games like Street Fighter or MOBAs like League of Legends. It sp
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by qznc 6y ago
https://globulation2.org might fit your bill except that it is Open-Source-crappy and dead. Its core idea is good though.
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These engine build are certainly the most fun strategy. There are all these cards available so you want use them. The baseline strategy however: Only buy province, gold, or silver. You might be surprised how strong it is. It is also boring
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by qznc 6y ago
Research says you might have more success with a "because" in there like "No, but you can give me a discount if you want because would appreciate to pay less."
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by qznc 6y ago
http://mailbox.org I'm on their cheapest 1€/month plan for three years and happy.
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by qznc 6y ago
Commodity is not quite the correct term as in "a basic good used in commerce that is interchangeable with other goods of the same type". What people want to say, I assume, is that building on Open Source is no competitive advantag
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by qznc 6y ago
When everybody is doing AI and deep learning, then everybody wants a GPU. Good for Nvidia.
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by qznc 6y ago
I remember an article from somewhere in the valley that they considered to support families in need with some money for housing. Family in need was defined as yearly household income below $250,000.
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I also remember Fury the horse and Flipper the dolphin in the same genre.
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Flying simulators seem make a comeback and they sound great for VR. MS Flight Simulator was well received. A colleague of mine praised Star Wars Squadrons as a great VR game.
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by qznc 6y ago
There are communities for novel writing and poetry which gives you maybe half the benefits of a professional editor for free. However, I don't know any for technical blogs.
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by qznc 6y ago
FUSE, strace, and namespacing were all the mechanisms I found. Bazel uses separate wrapper program which you could reuse in other build systems, so there is no fundamental problem with adding a "hermetic builds" feature to other
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by qznc 6y ago
More precisely, it is in the Pact universe. For some reason I love Worm but dropped Pact after reading a third of it. Maybe I just don't like the paranormal horror genre compared to super heros.
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by qznc 6y ago
Sometimes people do make up stories about ketamine and nitrous addictions. This has been very disastrous for people accused of rape or witchcraft. This is why i don't like "where there is smoke, there is fire."
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by qznc 6y ago
Everyone is the hero in their own story. Don't know where i got it from. I usually use it as a reminder that even evil people like Hitler consider themselves as the good hero. Maybe in difficult circumstances. I don't want to comp
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Is "easy to calculate" a necessary property? Is it ok to use a "hard to calculate" metric as a target?
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This is the one topic where there is no xkcd but SSC always comes up instead.
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You have to distinguish between the incentives for the company and individuals. For example, it makes little sense for a company to use a different web framework every year. It makes sense for individual developers to accumulate a large lis

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