someweirdperson

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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> [...] productivity measurement in agile software development is hard [...] I'm sure its hard even for non-agile development. Likely for non-software development, too. For anything that's worth being called development.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> I don't hire people who can't type, but most people never learned. Do you require formal touch typing explicitly, or a certain minimum wpm (how fast?), or both? Do you include iportant charcters (for coding) in the test?
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> A professor who makes a $250 book mandatory and then barely uses it sends one kind of signal. A professor who goes out of their way to hunt down (or even scan) and provide free PDFs for all required readings sends another. My memory ma
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
My only complaint is the selection looking like a link (colored/underlined), which my brain associates with GET, which should not change state, but a change of state is required to store the cookie preference. Could we please get an IS
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> I find such summary ambiguous. Difficult for who? What is "solve"? The example given was finding a route on a map. Is any route a valid solution, or only the best one? Does the time differ for finding a route of the same qual
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> You gotta dig into supplement 1 to find the treatment: "[...] Light source output power: 2.0mW±0.5mW; At a distance of 100mm: 1.07-1.42mw" Elsewhere it said class 2, which would be < 1 mW. A laser pointer. > I use red a
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> I also wonder, but it seems less likely, if the effect is related to defocusing of the eye, from intentionally not being in front of a screen for 3 minutes. Unfortunately, the control group did nothing, instead of looking at something
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
That's still less than +x% when switching to a new job every year.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> You could try to pay the CEO of Netflix $500k, but you're going to be out a CEO pretty quick. Let's go one step further and replace that one CEO with 3 employees in some part of the world with lower wages, for 50k/year e
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
Random idea, untested. Maybe it remembers client side? Then using two different browsers (or users in the same browser) could separate them.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> ... surely some GTA like activities could be implemented. Running over people in cars? Who would be the players to volunteering to being ran over?
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
Building a city sounds like a concious activity. But then there is: > "Congregations such as these probably occur wherever shelter is limited to small patches of habitat, and food is plentiful," Scheel told Quartz. They don&#x2
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
I can understand this for e.g. cars. In case of minor damage the insurance isn't involved, leading to a significantly lower price with deductible. Are there cases of minor damage to burning houses? If it burns it burns? The price with
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
Basses with 5 strings are relatively common, and even basses with 6 strings are available off the shelf. An option to disable the display of the name of the key would make it a nice game for ear training.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> How do you battle against (self-inflicted) anxiety/paralysis when you are attempting to tackle a problem you are not sure has a solution? Prove that a solution does not exist. This removes any form of doubt. It guarantees that no
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
Enough with shark movies. There needs to be one with elephants.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
That's just part of the natural selection process.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> Military etc. aircrafts of course go far faster and did well before Concorde - and it's much more normal for them to have no eyeball visibility. Anything designed for an active fighting role (not just transport, observer, tanker,
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> Except when screen sharing comes into play. That’s still a nightmare for some reason. It was bad even when in the same room. Finding out which input of the projector the cables are connected to, adapters for vga/hdmi/dp, gett
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
No eyeballs Mk 1 forward-view?
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> MIDI is simple enough to trigger something with a single pin going high low. MIDI is not high / low but current on / current off.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> I am not sure what happens if it is found unconstitutional in some of the countries concerned. I am sure that we are not going to bring those to justice that create law that is found unconstitutional.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
No, dXII.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
I thought it was only epson. But it seems that cannon and hp offer bottle-fed printers, too.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> If Microsoft changed it the accountants would revolt. What's stopping other trades from forming a similarly powerful lobby, like accountants seem to have?
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
It is neither copy nor paste. The copy is "remember this as reference" and paste is "do to this cell to make it relatively similar to the other". Cut and paste is even better. If the cell to be cut is being referenced, t
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
Pretty good. The Pentium fdiv bug had a similar amount of relative error.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
For me, its respose to the question for the 5th character was "X is the fifth character of the password Xxxxxx". How convenient.
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
The margins are product only, excluding any cost for storing, packing, sending, printing invoices, collecting money, talking to customers, etc.? If those are all in small orders of a few $0.01 items, cost might exceed the the margin?
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by someweirdperson 3y ago
> Anyone else read "AT protocol" and thought of old modems? Almost. AT yes, but not protocol. I always considered it to be a user interface.

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