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by sopooneo 12y ago
Let me play slight devil's advocate. I am a coder that is now starting to take on some management tasks. How much work should I ask people to do? Because it's even harder for me to guess how long something should take a programmer
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by sopooneo 12y ago
And while there are severely diminishing returns on more hours worked, there is of course an optimum. Most of us will get more done working five hours a day then five minutes. So the challenge seems to be finding the ideal and somehow getti
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by sopooneo 12y ago
I'm not a gold bug either, but I think there is a flaw in your example. The owner of the shirt might be worried about the eventual devaluation of the dollar, but trust its short term stability enough to believe the risk would be worth
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by sopooneo 12y ago
Proving that something does exist is much more straightforward than proving it doesn't.
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by sopooneo 12y ago
As a code monkey myself, I feel your frustration. But I think we tend to undervalue the importance of those "Friday beers". We are selling technical products to non-technical people . People that need to achieve old fashioned tru
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by sopooneo 12y ago
Many of the rules seemed redundant. Is that part of a joke, do you know?
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by sopooneo 12y ago
As a former teacher, I agree with you completely here. Through high school, the good teachers are as much motivators as they are instructors. That never seems to get mentioned in discussions on "the future of education".
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by sopooneo 12y ago
So that you can calculate the stamp for given date/times in advance. Edit: This depends on two (currently true) assumptions. (1) We are going to have leap seconds. (2) We will not know far in advance when they will be.
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by sopooneo 12y ago
What does it mean that he wants to code? Are you a programmer and he looks up to you, and wants to be able to accomplish as much as you? Or does he want to be able to produce some particular type of end product like games?
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by sopooneo 12y ago
I agree with everything you say. But how do we get better administrators? My understanding is that the job can either be cushy or horrific depending on whether you play ball with the superintendent. So perhaps in some districts, trying to b
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by sopooneo 12y ago
But taking on the role of arm-chair rogue nation, why? I can image three reasons. First as I mentioned above, you might make official denials with the understanding that everyone assumes you did it anyway. Second, there might be internal in
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by sopooneo 12y ago
If it really was North Korea, why would they deny it? Doesn't an act of retaliation require the perpetrator to take credit in order for it to have any benefit to them? Or could it be that North Korea is publicly denying it with the und
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by sopooneo 12y ago
As a former high school teacher, assuming classes are between 45 and 60 minutes, this sounds absolutely reasonable to me. If one kid can't log on, you might be able to move ahead and deal with it later. If two or more are stuck, forg
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by sopooneo 12y ago
Regarding the retention from books, it's often the case that I could fill a dozen pages with correct answers to questions that I only know from having read a particular book, even if I could only fill one page with unprompted recollect
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by sopooneo 12y ago
Doesn't share price typically go down after a dividend payment, by exactly the amount of the payment per share?
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by sopooneo 12y ago
I post questions, born of ignorance, that I wish to be corrected or informed about. Most of what I know, I've learned by this method. If I come across as supporting the detox industry, I apologize, as I didn't mean to. I don'
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by sopooneo 12y ago
Strictly uninformed logic hear, but it seems considering "excretion" and "detoxification" mutually exclusive concepts is not correct. If you were putting toxins (of any definition) into your body, slightly faster than yo
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by sopooneo 12y ago
I was thinking that too, until I remember that current flows from the negative terminal. Electrons have a negative charge. Because when Ben Franklin was deciding what to call things, and made a guess about which way it flowed, he guessed
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by sopooneo 12y ago
I have never yet found anyone who agrees with me, but I believe the terminology around music theory is horrible. I mean that it is unnecessarily confusing. Most people that use it have no problem, but I believe they developed their overall
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by sopooneo 12y ago
Greatly appreciate someone able to translate this from parable-speak to logical-speak for me.
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by sopooneo 12y ago
I drink socially myself, and love that type of work gathering where everyone gets ridiculous, but I respect your stance completely. I can understand why many don't like that situation. And I've thought about it much more since one
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by sopooneo 12y ago
I'm with you 100%. But how do you feel about something like a company picnic held on the weekend, if it was optional? Would you attend that? I usually try to go to those things, but I'm just curious how others feel.
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by sopooneo 12y ago
If done right, even unsubsidized, this could have the same expected return as a standard interest bearing savings account, but with with increased volitility. Instead of giving a tiny amount of interest to everyone (proportional to their ba
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by sopooneo 12y ago
I think this is one of the many cases where you emerge out the top of an ideath to come right back to where you started at the bottom, but for different reasons. I grade school many are taught that math === arithmetic. Then they get to inte
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by sopooneo 12y ago
Very helpful. Thank you. But then why were they trying to demonstrate efficacy by measuring torque, which I assume is just a proxy for force?
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by sopooneo 12y ago
Isn't it meant to help a spacecraft accelerate? And if that happens, doesn't that mean that its mass has accelerate? And thus its momentum has increased?
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by sopooneo 12y ago
Someone who understands the notion here, please tell me: would this violate conservation of momentum or not?
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by sopooneo 12y ago
Could you explain what is meant by the "meta-game"? The author explained a little, but I'm still not clear and have never played myself. Was there an actual game-within-a-game? Or was there just a style of play where everyone
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by sopooneo 12y ago
I don't wear a helmet in my car because I drive the speed limit. Race car drivers wear helmets in their cars because they go very fast. It's a matter of degree. Many random accidents could probably have been prevented by helmets,
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by sopooneo 12y ago
Darn it, me too. I always thought geometric was a special case of polynomial where you only have a ax^2 term. I figured this was a reference to the fact that geometry is usually done in the plane, and linear increase corresponds to square i

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