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by sopooneo 7y ago
I've been brainstorming this with colleagues at my job and tossed out the idea of including both an immediate development cost as well as a "long term cost multiplier" for every requested feature. So far, no one has the like
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I've seen this happen due to system evolution. At first some entity may have a parent record or not. So when you ask for the parent, you either get it, or null. But then the system evolves to not be many-to-one, but many-to-many. To av
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by sopooneo 7y ago
This might be saying the same thing in a slightly different way. But does it also mean that if we plot "service times" on the X axis and frequency on the Y, then in the first quadrant we get something high on the left, getting low
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by sopooneo 7y ago
How is the min $600 and the max $1,050? By my tally, the min is $150 for one days rt travel (assuming rt = back and forth) + $300 for combo machine = $450 And max would be $150/day * 4 (3 days combo m
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I would love to say "No! This is not the case at all! One can act in either mode just fine. We're not prisoners of our tendencies!" But from my experience with myself and friends, I think, sadly, this is typically not the cas
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I am a fan of cultivating "yes and" culture when appropriate , but I 100% agree with your concern. Management must earn the trust of engineers before they can expect them to hold off on the "yes, but" interjections. M
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by sopooneo 7y ago
> If you pick several of these fractions between 1 and 2 (such as 3/2, 4/3, 5/4, 2/1, etc A point of strong debate I’ve had with mathematical, but non musical friends: is a scale an ordered or unordered set of such fr
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by sopooneo 7y ago
When I was about eight I found an old rotary dial phone that I decided to take apart. Can't remember if I had permission. But seeing how unbelievably simple the underlying functionality was absolutely blew me away and opened my eyes
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I often wonder in cases like that if those who followed suit were not so much emboldened as already nipping at the heels of the one who did it first. To mix metaphor with reality, there was perhaps a pack speeding toward the finish line, an
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I completely agree. But might some fraction of such people be “won over” by methods other than logic? Asking them how they got interested, perhaps, and drawing out what in their past caused them to become so obsessed? Or even by redefining
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. A friend of mine grew up very poor in a tiny rural town with no known family that ever went to college. But he worked at a nearly superhuman level in high school and got into an Ivy league school. He is als
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I'm going to piggy-back on this about a certain way information may not add up. I live in Boston, and so do my siblings. We all worked downtown. On the day of the marathon bombing, I immediately called my sister on her cell phone to se
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by sopooneo 7y ago
"But, almost alone among skeptics, [Martin Gardner] believed passionately in God, prayer, and eternal life. He called himself a 'fideist' — someone who embraces belief in God without having a rational foundation to do so.&qu
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I’ve been working to realize when I am doing that.
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by sopooneo 7y ago
Sorry. Didn't mean to be coy. But, to make the math easier, imagine a full timer 25 days of vacation per year = five weeks. Great. Now let's say that person goes down to 80% time, working four days a week. Now they only earn 25 da
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by sopooneo 7y ago
One interesting thing about pro-rata vacation for anyone thinking about going to part time: you still get exactly the same number of weeks off regardless. The trick to that I will leave as an exercise to the reader. It's something I
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I've never worked in a hospital, but I have plenty of experience with massive bureaucracies. And that gives me guesses, perhaps fanciful, about things that could go awry with surgical checklists. Anyone with relevant experience, please
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by sopooneo 7y ago
And I have always wondered, why? Why not just straight lines and pure utilitarianism? Granted, I love looking at that sort of thing, so I'm glad they made it as they did. But why? Was it just a given that you would put art into anythin
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I want to play the devil's advocate here, but one motivation for meetings generally, is a memory, in some managers head, of a three million dollar disaster that occured strictly because some trivial piece of understanding had not passe
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by sopooneo 7y ago
You actually bring up a question I've wondered about for along time. To most people here does "code review" mean a synchronous meeting (either in person around a conference room, or remotely via screen share) where you talk o
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by sopooneo 7y ago
Doesn't XSS require a backend that can receive and then transmit malicious javascript from a hacker using the site to a victim accessing it? And wouldn't that be the case whether the front end was done with jQuery or React? I&#x27
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I freelanced for a guy who ran a cabinet factory, helping him integrate his automated fabrication equipment with his customer ordering system. Dead boring old technology, but extremely interesting to me learning about wood-working and stuff
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by sopooneo 7y ago
More than a day but less than a millennium. I am 99% certain on that. Granted that’s more broad than a PM (or humanity) would want, but it is SOMETHING.
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by sopooneo 7y ago
If your car won’t start, it will take more than a second, but less than a year to fix. That is a bad estimate, but better than no estimate for a space alien that doesn’t know what a car is. PM’s are space aliens.
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I don't think they "tricked [them] into believing". More like "talked them into accepting".
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by sopooneo 7y ago
1. You don't need fancy investment knowledge. In fact, you should actively avoid fancy knowledge until you have a firm grasp on the dead simple stuff. 2. Retirement investments should be: simple and boring. Once you have a solid financ
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by sopooneo 7y ago
We're assuming the people would have been doing the biking regardless.
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by sopooneo 7y ago
Answer: you get lucky by having a great flat organization. Great people and great cohesion. Structure is a pricey insurance premium. You best case will never be as good, but neither will your worst be as bad.
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by sopooneo 7y ago
Cathedrals are alive. At the scale of centuries, change is a constant for them. A great deal of Notre Dame is not "original" anyway. For instance, those famous gargoyles, I was surprised to read are actually pretty recent addition
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by sopooneo 7y ago
That makes perfect sense. And I applaud your push against a practice that does seem to be pushing devs for unpaid overtime. You're right.

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