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by synnik 15y ago
Reduce it enough, and Wolfram Alpha generates a visual representation of a plane. But this is also a puzzle - I think the key isn't getting an equation out of it, it is figuring out where they want us to apply said equation.
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by synnik 15y ago
Let's be clear - the article is about raising a kid with the skills and capabilities of an entrepreneur. But be wary of targeting your child's future career path. That is a very dangerous game to play, as your kids need to be free to make t
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by synnik 15y ago
Ok, but that sure sounds like a design flaw. I would have expected that they would still have an option to push the new products live at the time of their choosing vs. disabling online purchases of their existing products. I would think an
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by synnik 15y ago
Wait a sec - "it was always an interesting experience to turn the store back on after Steve Jobs walked off stage following one of his keynote presentations" ?? Does Apple seriously turn off their store while Jobs talks? Or is he talking ab
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by synnik 15y ago
There are two completely different conclusions that I would draw from his facts: 1) Most bugs are in code. But it might not be your code. Your code layers itself on top of many other layers of code that are outside of your control. Learning
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by synnik 15y ago
There is an underlying demographic issue here. Startups tend to cater to people who have already made a lifestyle choice to embrace pervasive technology in their lives. I am likely an outlier on HN, in that I consciously do not use technolo
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by synnik 15y ago
As a web programmer with a degree in Fine Arts... YES. They do. When you really get down to it, the web is about using visual media to communicate ideas. So is Art. Likewise, both disciplines have a heavy technical component. Both have mixe
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by synnik 15y ago
As someone who has been a teacher and trainer of various kinds, removing your own bias from your teaching does not come naturally or easily. So I think the points made (while exaggerated) have at least a kernel of validity. However, ranting
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by synnik 15y ago
This isn't the first anti-college discussion to come up recently... not even the first in the last 24 hours. What it boils down to for me is that SOME colleges are not helping their students. People are using this partial failure, and extra
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by synnik 15y ago
But most .NET apps that I see have stuck to the best practice of splitting the presentation layer from your other layers. Re-coding just the UI into HTML5 could very well become a standard, especially if it enables apps to easily move to mo
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by synnik 15y ago
"It gives you better frameworks for thinking." This is vitally important. People who think school should prepare your for a job are missing the point. What school does is increase your capacity for thought, teaching you new methods. You can
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by synnik 15y ago
My biggest problem with recruiters comes to my SharePoint skills. I get a ton of calls, but they don't seem to understand, "No, I don't want a SharePoint job. I dislike it intensely."
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by synnik 15y ago
You misunderstand. I don't care whether or not there is an outage. I care that people are professional in their work. Passing the buck is unprofessional. Accepting the responsibility is what matters, and if they decide not to fix it, then s
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by synnik 15y ago
This has always bugged me - as owner of a product, YOU are ultimately responsible for its availability. If you chose a bad service provider, sure, you'll have outages. But accept accountability, say you are working on it, and fix it.
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by synnik 15y ago
True, that is one of my concerns. My mitigation of that risk is that one of the walls (to the left of the monitors) is nothing but cloth - in an emergency, I just pull the staples out and walk right out.
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by synnik 15y ago
It was somewhat difficult to get pics of it, as it is a compact space, but I took a shot at it. (Pardon the pun.) The "door" from my storage room: http://hikingdave.smugmug.com/photos/i-KNkxxsb/0/M/i-KNkxxsb... Looking in... Sorry that it
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by synnik 15y ago
Will do. I actually am downtown today, but I will get some pics when I get home tonight.
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by synnik 15y ago
I did something similar - I finished the area under my basement stairs, hung monitors from the stairs above me, and put fabric on all the walls for soundproofing. I have to climb through my storage area, under a shelf, and through a small h
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by synnik 15y ago
Even if this were an otherwise good investment, I want know know: What stops the guys who run bitcoin from simply shutting it off? EDIT: And before people reply, "it is P2P", someone runs the web site. Someone owns the code repository. Or s
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by synnik 15y ago
That is where you and I disagree. I don't think the verb "watch" has any such inherent implication. Our society has given that meaning to the word in very recent times. Rather than dismiss my point, I think the modification of the meaning h
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by synnik 15y ago
I am on the fringes of BI at my company, and do not claim to be an expert. But to me, the value in the BI suites is not the UI, nor the platform on which BI runs. It is the integration points to everything else. This article told me very li
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by synnik 15y ago
Marketing surely takes advantage of it, but I think this has more to do with the addictive, yet passive nature of TV, where we let it push images into our brains. My favorite example (for which I've already given away the punchline) is the
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by synnik 15y ago
I've been working my butt off in the corporate world, trying to save a year of living expenses for my family of 5 in the suburbs, in hopes of quitting and doing my own thing once I had that cushion. I hit the 9 month mark, then had major he
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by synnik 15y ago
The analogy in my mind has always been that of the command line. Most users these days do not use the command line. But many tech people still do, as it is a very effective tool. Likewise, the address bar - I still hand-type most of the sit
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by synnik 15y ago
... or Beakman's World, Dr. Who, and McGyver.
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by synnik 15y ago
I've always offered to take on equal care of our kids. I just have failed at that whole lactating thing. So in all seriousness, there are biological factors at play, and our parenting choices DO impact our availability. You certainly can ma
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by synnik 15y ago
Disruption needs to be driven from industry knowledge. Certainly technology will be the major enabler of disruption, and may be the catalyst to disruptive ideas, but it industry insiders know where to make the changes and how to achieve acc
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by synnik 15y ago
IBM cares about driving technology towards its own products, to thereby improve its own bottom line and shareholder value. It will promote and/or trash even its own product lines based on sales, not technical quality. It is a corporation. W
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by synnik 15y ago
You are right at that corner where this will become possible. Before 18 months, there is no way. But at 18 months, they usually can play independently for longer periods, and you should be able to put some time into work. The older they get
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by synnik 15y ago
I recommend that people go one level deeper than this. Keeping things running smoothly is the lowest level requirement of IT work, not a major accomplishment. The really great IT folk that I know spend 5-10 hours a week on trouble tickets,

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