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by stult 8y ago
I think the counterargument is that there will be some standardization of these methodologies such that they don't require experts to implement. Similar to how it used to require a programmer to develop any webpage at all, but now most
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by stult 8y ago
It's a little misleading that they marked experts as opposing ideas when that opposition was merely based on political feasibility.
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by stult 8y ago
>coming almost entirely out of the pockets of lawyers and law firms? You mean their client's pockets? Thus making legal assistance more accessible for the wealthy than the poor. And just because you can't think of a good use of
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by stult 8y ago
Or to scratch their "do it right" urge, to have a repo that they can show potential employers, to learn TDD, to learn a new language they can't use at work but hope to use professionally at some point, to have a repo that the
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by stult 8y ago
Just a guess, but some of these companies are highly leveraged (mcclatchy definitely is), which isn't sustainable when rates have been hiked and revenue doesn't grow to match. If they're calendar year, now is the time they ha
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by stult 8y ago
I think Stross is on the right track but doesn't get the whole story. It's all about regulating the rate of change in society. Institutions naturally tend toward preserving the status quo, for all the reasons Stross specifies. But
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by stult 8y ago
The anticollision light has to be visible from three miles away. I could see that being excessive and disruptive for certain urban use cases.
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by stult 8y ago
No, or at least not any stable such point, because the solar wind is not constant. Plus it is orders of magnitude less powerful than the sun's gravity. It's only usable (in theory) for navigation because any ship is already in orb
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by stult 8y ago
Not all laws are written, nor do they need to be to be enforced. Robbery was made illegal under common law (in the US, UK, and other common law countries) before it was ever codified or written down, for example. So yes, we actually did jai
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by stult 8y ago
Or to frame your argument in terms of science rather than engineering, it's a falsifiable hypothesis. The author should go try to test it and then let us know if it works.
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by stult 8y ago
>And this isn’t a courtroom so the whole innocent until guilty concept makes no sense. In fact, if anything, the opposite principle should apply in the context of systems security.
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by stult 8y ago
You could probably dig up a pretty large number of high quality teaching repos to supplement those projects. I'm thinking of the types of repos that are included as supplements for MOOCs or reference books. Then you'll get some of
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by stult 8y ago
It's actually turned into a benefit for me that the developer tools suck. I also use FF for browsing and then Chrome for debugging. Which is nice when a coworker is watching me debug over my shoulder because autocomplete never reveals
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by stult 8y ago
It's more like, given a good job market and low barriers to entry, the percentage of candidates who are not qualified will greatly outnumber the good candidates. Good programmers might be looking for work for any number of legitimate r
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by stult 8y ago
Yes. It really is. A couple weeks ago I interviewed a self-described C# expert who claimed to know everything about C# but couldn't even begin to describe the difference between methods and fields and properties, and did not seem aware
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by stult 8y ago
You're right. We ask fizzbuzz simply because it eliminates a shockingly high percentage of applicants. We then ask more challenging and open ended questions to evaluate actual competence if they get that question. Fizzbuzz is there as
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by stult 8y ago
It could be an attempt to bypass DNS blacklists. I have Microsoft domains blacklisted on my pi-hole because I find their telemetry practices so difficult to constrain otherwise. Not sure if I caught any micrsoft domains, but there were defi
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by stult 8y ago
I love everything about RStudio, except for all the R stuff.
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by stult 8y ago
I'm usually running one or two local Windows or Ubuntu VMs on my MacBook while remoted in to two or three Windows machines with RDP. The local Windows VMs give me infinitely more trouble, even just considering the memory limitations of
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by stult 8y ago
I would kill for a Linux phone, but until that happens I would settle for a phone that comes with root access (or at least allows technically capable users to get it) and let's me control my own data and device from the bare metal up.
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by stult 8y ago
>DIY is largely the one holdout for repairs, and it's unreasonable to think that every person can have the aptitude to fix any device that may break in their lives. It's not unreasonable at all. Every time you swap out the filt
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by stult 8y ago
I believe the Soyuz SAS has engine thrusters for the landing sequence. So ballistic may mean the thrusters were not operable and they may have landed a bit harder than normal (normal for an abort sequence at least). Meaning they were still
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by stult 8y ago
>They would have been much better off saying "we have plenty of authority here and we explicitly choose not to exercise it" That would open the issue up to reregulation under a later administration.
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by stult 8y ago
It's a delicate transition even when the civilians have actual full authority over the government (see: South Africa, or worse yet, Zimbabwe). But when Myanmar transitioned to the free elections which put Suu Kyi in power, the military
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by stult 8y ago
I version control and unit test in my mind palace before chiseling my code onto marble slabs. Lasts forever, encourages parsimony, and gives me an excuse to stare at the wall pretending to work 39 hours per week. I call it Bruno coding.
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by stult 8y ago
There's probably been orders of magnitude more time spent analyzing rodent brains, simply because there is an effectively unlimited quantity available and an extremely limited quantity of human brains available. Essentially all invasiv
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by stult 8y ago
>like "hospital", at least until you consider not all hospitals are equal and the state of the art ones tend to be big... I'm willing to bet this and possibly some of the other amenity correlations are driven either by a f
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by stult 8y ago
Clearly the downhill spiral started with ocher. http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/artist-paints/prehistoric-co...
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by stult 8y ago
My company had the same trouble. The demographics here trend too hard toward the Bay Area (we are located in a different, large, and tech heavy US city). Overall candidates tend to be younger and less experienced, oftentimes with boot camp
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by stult 8y ago
I used to give a "data science" (read: data munging) training at a large accounting firm, and this article seems to track my recommendations almost exactly. The crazy things people do with spreadsheets never ceases to amaze me.

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