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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: "The first six Ranger missions failed, but Rangers 7, 8, and 9 returned thousands of photos" That would make a great TV miniseries. The stress kept building as the Ranger probes kept failing and failing. Discussions and office
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: "an exploitative outsourcing platform for unpaid, entry-level labor from developing countries..." It hasn't quite happened yet, but the chance of IT going the way of factory workers in the future seems quite high. It&#x27
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by tabtab 6y ago
Experience in the specific technology combinations a particular organization wants is usually the "bottleneck", not raw education. Companies don't want to wait for nor pay for the learning curve: they want plug-and-play emp
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by tabtab 6y ago
Here's a real-estate tip: when the sun bloats up into a red giant, Uranus will be a hoppin' joint with spiffy weather. I just hope they change the name by then.
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by tabtab 6y ago
The sun and humanity are in a brutal contest over who can bleep up life on Earth first. So far the humans are ahead.
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by tabtab 6y ago
For simple life-forms, perhaps, but complex life probably requires rather special or rare circumstances. In areas of Earth low in oxygen, the life-forms there are similar to ediacaran fauna: slow and soft. Increases in oxygen are probably a
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by tabtab 6y ago
I wonder if conservatives and progressives would give significantly different answers. It appears they asked political affiliation category, but I didn't see it worked into any summary stats related to "inequality". Maybe if
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by tabtab 6y ago
Typically the problem is called "income equality". If it used "wealth inequality", it may confuse some. There's often a tradeoff between accuracy and brevity and/or clarity when writing surveys.
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by tabtab 6y ago
There's a right balance, and expert coaches know what that balancing point is. Another thing I forgot to mention is that in "ancient" societies, other mothers with experience would often help feed a new baby themselves unti
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by tabtab 6y ago
Breast feeding can be difficult for many reasons. In traditional societies people with experience would take the time to coach a new mother. Sometimes a baby is slow to get the hang of it and will actually lose weight for a while before fig
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by tabtab 6y ago
I used to be really chubby, and increasing exercise barely changed it. My body decided to randomly change one day and the problem mostly went away. The body just plain has a mind of it's own. But we are also not designed for desk jobs.
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by tabtab 6y ago
Microservices are helpful only if the shape your teams match them. Conway's Law. Machine performance is not the main reason for them, but rather division of labor.
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by tabtab 6y ago
Increasing a the population is great way to "hide debt". If the size of the economy grows, then the existing debt is smaller in comparison. It may not be that population itself is helping the economy, but rather burying debt is he
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by tabtab 6y ago
I've been in many such debates and Laynes Law indeed keeps rearing its ugly head. I've never found an agreement on what OOP really is. Flame wars often break out. We can point to a particular language and say "this is how lan
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by tabtab 6y ago
I get a "please subscribe" pop-up and can't get rid of it without fiddling with the CSS editor. Anyhow... Summary of Truisms: 1) During recessions, employers tend to lay off rather than reduce wages 2) Central bank stimulus h
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by tabtab 6y ago
I have. Throw specifics at me. Bring it on! I've been in many debates like this before, and my suggestion is skeptic-tested.
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by tabtab 6y ago
> And what happens when I rotate my device? Or resize my window? ... or switch to night mode. It tells the server and the server re-renders the page. It's a bit slower than client-side adjustments, but worth it for the extra power a
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by tabtab 6y ago
They usually wear helmets. Hire stand-ins and don't tell anybody. (Did I say that out loud?)
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by tabtab 6y ago
For smaller and internal project, the IDE's of yesteryear required less code and had a smaller learning curve to get decent UI's (and other CRUD features). They sometimes weren't esthetic, but they were practical and got the
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: "Layout on the server means you're laying out without the context of my device or viewport" Why are you making that assumption? A device can either send its screen size to the server, or a size preference category if it w
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by tabtab 6y ago
Who is flagging and hiding all these messages? Let people be allowed to have an opinion. It's a tricky topic; let people speak their mind. One has to live in a world where people disagree with you. They won't go away just because
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by tabtab 6y ago
When I hear "low code" I get a little skeptical. Often such tools make the first 80% of the project simpler but the last 20% a bear, unless you live with clunky defaults. There's a difference between managing code better and
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: "How do you do this without changing the way we program?" Let's change the way we program. If we outgrow trees, we've outgrown trees. I don't know if existing code will be easy to convert. It's kind of like
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by tabtab 6y ago
For a while I've been saying our stacks are outgrowing hierarchical file systems. Hierarchies force one trait to have more power than another, even though each may be very important at different times. There may still be inherent hiera
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by tabtab 6y ago
I don't think you understand. The layout engine could be on the server, not "non existent". (Although one could program directly with coordinates if they wanted.) Coordinate based vectors allows the layout engine to be on the
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by tabtab 6y ago
Web UI "standards" are a friggen mess. We really need to rethink it all. For one, if we had a standard state-ful GUI markup language, we wouldn't need to reinvent so many common GUI widgets and idioms using bloated libraries
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by tabtab 6y ago
Re: Texas had the money to buy snowplows. They didn't. Texas had the money to winterize wind turbines. They didn't. They worship tax-cuts and D.I.Y. social Darwinism (survival of the fittest). So when the weather gets bad, many
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by tabtab 6y ago
How do you know that? There are plenty of opportunities for favoritism. For example, listing position on the name of assistants on research papers.
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by tabtab 6y ago
I would qualify this by saying many want to be in specific entertainment industries for the (potential) glamor and fame, and will sacrifice a lot to reach that goal. Many may have more practical alternatives , but are driven by a goal. T
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by tabtab 6y ago
My body doesn't qualify me for access to "alternative routes" to success. I can see many game devs are in the same boat.

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