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   by sopooneo 7y ago

   If you can say more than a minute, but less than a decade, you've already got SOME idea of the timeframe for a task. Granted that sort of estimate would get you called to HR for insubordination. But can you pull the bounds in from eith
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   by sopooneo 7y ago

   I agree with you 100%. However, I think one of the aspects of "bad" software that is misunderstood is the increased risk of catastrophic failure. Two applications might have no perceivable difference from the user perspective. But
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   by sopooneo 7y ago

   There's one thing I've never understood about this "guessing" technique to find the plain text of a known hash value. Wouldn't the sticker also need to know exactly what hashing function had been used as well as how
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   by sopooneo 7y ago

   Does that account for likely years of life lost? If you die of heart disease at 65, that's many fewer years lost than someone getting killed at 15. As gruesome/horrifying as these sorts of calculations are, I do take your point. W
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   by sopooneo 7y ago

   This hits on something I've wondered about for a long time. Since carts did not just include data, but also mappers and coprocessors, how do you write an emulator that can accurately play an arbitrary ROM dump? Does your emulator hav
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   by sopooneo 7y ago

   Critically, think about what actually worked for you in your learning. And help your trainee have the same experiences. I have found that many new teachers to get things across by sharing insights they had only after they understood a subje
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   by sopooneo 8y ago

   But "fill bags with random colors" is already basing your simulation on the assumption that the colors are uniformly distributed. And in fact, that seems to be one of the things he found incorrect in his actual experiment.
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   by sopooneo 8y ago

   I am not sure if the author and commenters here are specifically condemning Microsoft Powerpoint, or just computerized slide presentations, of which Powerpoint is by far the most common type. Because even if everyone used Apple's &quot
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   by sopooneo 8y ago

   Regarding his example with the scissors, I would think there are three distinct ways to loop the string through: each of the two he showed, plus a loop that goes through both handles. And I think by mushing the volume of the scissors a bi
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    I respect what you say for the most part, but I'd like to offer my opinion that philosophy is not BS. Nor is history, or literature, or a slew of other academic disciplines which are unlikely to help a person find employment.
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    I'm going to expose my ignorance here, but other than stepping through code, how would you use a debugger? Just to get stack traces and variables values at a specific break point?
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    To build on what you said: in my twenties I fell in briefly with a group of pretty elite level, classically trained, working musicians. Though I am not a music person at all myself. I would go to their (very fun) parties and just got to kno
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    I 100% agree. And one of the tricks I believe for this to work is that the first step is listening. And when you're tempted to talk, don't. Listen more. Ask questions in the vocabulary they're using if you want clarification,
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    I've had situations where I think one path forward is the clearly only sane option. But because I was told years ago to present options I say, "Okay, option X will will take a week to set up and cost $100 a month. Option Y will ta
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    I agree that QA typically don't get the prestige of development. But at my job we happen to have some QA people that are worth their weight in gold. And that is generally understood and respected by the dev teams here.
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    It seems people too often compare the ideal cases between two choices, but completely discount the likely cases. Such seems the situation when debating microservices vs monoliths.
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    I don't know, but at some point, aren't we just running up against the definition of "probability"?
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    In simples case at least, such as with the kidney stones, can we reduce our risk of reaching wrong conclusions by increasing our sample size of patients and randomizing which receive each treatment?
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    $4,000,000 / 15,000ft^2 = $267 / 1ft^2 That's actually a steal (unit price wise) in the Boston/Cambridge market right now.
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    You might be mistaken and throw out a number well below the lower bound starting offer the company was planning to make.
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    I work at home, and if I wanted to, I could have a computer right by my bed, and I’d never have to leave it. But I use a typewriter, and afterwards I mark up the pages with a pencil. Then I call up this woman named Carol out in Woodstock an
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    You're right. That was an uncalled for. I'll leave the comment there for continuity, but apologies to the parent poster.
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    I encourage you to read up on the "duck and cover" before dismissing it. Many people feel as you do, but it is a deeply ignorant stance.
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    There would be another crack in that system. Social engineering, shoulder watching, or an "ohhh crud right", aspect of the operating system, something. The only security is knowing you are not secure.
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    Ficciones, by Jorge Luis Borges.
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    If you play this idea out to its extreme, and automate most of it, you get the first version of OAuth. https://support.smartbear.com/readyapi/docs/_images/projects...
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    I agree. Having started on the path to gaining those soft skills myself, I would now be more likely to pay solid money for a course on the topic. Hard won indeed.
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    I'm already seeing confusion around the name "5G". The issue is that new dual band wifi routers broadcast at both 2.4GHz (the old way) and 5.x-5.3GHz (the new option). And they're calling that new option "5G wifi&qu
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    I have a feeling that people who perform individual actions are more likely to vote for collective ones. And the campaigns to promote individual actions can be a much easier sell. I once read that the way to get people to donate to the red
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    by sopooneo 8y ago

    How can the server component of WhatsApp tell that the client is using the Python library you mention? If that library implements the protocol correctly, shouldn't it be indistinguishable from the official web client to the server?