thedancollins

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by thedancollins 8y ago
Users want plausible deniability. And some need it. With iteration-based development you have the potential to avoid the "yeah, it meets the spec, but it is not what we wanted" problem.
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by thedancollins 8y ago
I like it! Some of my most effective code was written that way but the end result of such development tends to be users that feel "cut out" of the process, as if we did not value their input. And with the wrong users in that dyn
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by thedancollins 8y ago
Without the social component we as a species would not have accomplished as much as we have. We would not, for instance, have been so successful at sustenance that we would have time to sit around griping about our bosses - people who are
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by thedancollins 8y ago
I agree with the English Lit major. No education is complete without a healthy lack of respect for the same. "Healthy" being the key word.
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by thedancollins 8y ago
I found it noteworthy that the article cites Juliet Barbara, communications director at the Wikimedia foundation, as saying "'It’s a good thing it works in practice because it would never work in theory." but the author of th
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by thedancollins 8y ago
Texas A&M, represent!
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by thedancollins 8y ago
Came here for this. Leaving satisfied. Also, I can appreciate how some might feel like we are in a "fat client" world again and in some cases I am sure we are - it will depend on who is wielding the hammer as to whether it is use
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by thedancollins 8y ago
Where is the "e-mail message going around the globe" gif and the "made in FrontPage '95" banner?
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by thedancollins 8y ago
I have to agree. I think that calling it "patronizing" is harsh but science generally does not progress on a timeline that depends on and adapts to humans - it is the other way around. And whereas history may judge the oil indus
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by thedancollins 8y ago
Funny! Some smart guy was quoted as saying that the biggest barrier to communication is the assumption that it has taken place. If you ask somebody if they understand you will rarely hear, "I have no idea what you are talking about.&
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by thedancollins 8y ago
So, children are so good at learning because they don't "know" anything and therefore do not put cognitive barriers in place?
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by thedancollins 8y ago
Learning is about context and we tend to assume others have the same frame of reference. This is why it is so lonely being an expert in any given topic. It is also why certain very commercially successful musicians kill themselves. The b
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by thedancollins 8y ago
For years we've used water to cool our CPUs ... what happens if we drop the entire datacenter into water?
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Voldemort and Decentralization on the Blockchain(danc.tech)
1 points by thedancollins 8y ago|0 comments
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by thedancollins 8y ago
The respect comes with the single-mindedness of this code's approach. You would think the people doing this would have at least a little bit of The Joker in them - if they saw an opportunity to cause chaos for chaos' sake they te
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by thedancollins 8y ago
Making AIs use natural human language to express their "thinking" is extremely anthropocentric. I wonder if we will need to build AIs with patience settings.
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by thedancollins 8y ago
Great article derailed by the final paragraph. So, the author is disappointed that we want to ignore differences rather than focus on them. Inefficient and unnecessary. I find the author's point about blockchain trying to replace po