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by throwaway9870 4y ago
That is part of the reason why people buy Deere. They have superb logistics and the best dealer network in farm equipment.
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
I think the natural evolution of programmers is to become more capable of building complex systems until you reach the realization that just because you can build it, doesn't mean you should. You then think hard about how to build as s
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
"Writing Solid Code" pushes this type of checking and I have been using it for at least 20 years with similar effectiveness as you. I don't understand why such a simple and pragmatic method is so overlooked.
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
I am not a security person, but I can't help but wonder where the advice of not writing things down comes from? I think my wife's password book on her desk is a lot more safe than most computer experts.
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
In my experience, mercenaries are never satisfied with their pay, they always want more. While I care about pay, I have also cared about a few other things: who do I work with and what can I learn from them, what type of work is it, locatio
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
> Mostly, the negativity just writes off ambitious people. Though it might make sense given your org, like others, might just have the same reward problems. Or the person has unreasonable expectations. On top of that, they are bad at sel
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
It is not that it is hard to understand the syntax or even write them, it is hard to read and change them. Here is an example I just grabbed off a random webpage: ^(?=. \d)(?=. [a-z])(?=. [A-Z])(?=. [!@#$^& ()_-]).{8,18}$ That is hard t
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
Beginners don't care about deleting a line, you can press DEL 80 times and get it done. They care about quickly typing something in or changing a config, saving and quitting. Easy to instruct with Nano without having to introduce the c
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
The glass is half-full or half-empty. We have websites and can do things I never dreamed of as a child. When I had to do product research when I was younger it meant going to a book store and pursuing a rack of magazines. Google was a start
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
I have worked in "lower tech"" fields and have worked extensively with trucking companies, so I can somewhat relate to what you are saying and agree it is a bigger obstacle than people in tech give it credit for. However, it
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
Great suggestions here, but one thing I would like to point out to the original poster is that, while I have read a lot of books, people have had a far greater impact on my thinking than any books. So I don't discount books, but it you
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
Giving a non-functional person a house would be a great way to destroy it.
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
Are you saying a young liberal owning a house would not be upset to see the price of it go down?
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
In a small organization, people usually succeed by being motivated by dream of success. In large organizations, people seem to succeed by fearing and avoid failure. That yields a very different organization.
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
Attempting to identify truth is called the scientific method.
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
Yes, I would agree with that.
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
"A fundamental problem with Galactica is that it is not able to distinguish truth from falsehood," In true science, it is exceptionally hard to distinguish truth from falsehood for many of the interesting subjects. It can take dec
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
I think you are conflating hardware watchdogs and software timers. The hardware watchdog should be to catch cases where the system is no longer running your software (or the kernel or the watchdog daemon). Timeouts for software catch things
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
Exactly. Every Intel machine has a hardware watchdog built into the ICH chipset. Make sure it is turned on.
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
Yes, and I even clicked through to the energy.gov article. The article does not define what "100% clean energy" is. It doesn't even use the term 100% clean energy except in the subtitles of a couple of graphs. It uses the ter
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
I have a real problem with statements like "100% clean energy by 2035". What does that even mean? You will have electric aircraft by 2035? Completely electric ag? Electric trains and trucks? No, not a chance. The article used the
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
Regulation can help detect fraud, it might discourage fraud, but it can't prevent it. MF Global, Enron, Maddoff, etc. How long did Maddoff run his little scheme before being caught?
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
I still don't get it. You need to put an if statement in that function to raise the exception. So I still don't see where 50% comes from.
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
> Aside: At this point, my laptop was bordering on unusable, even on battery power. How would grounding an outlet affect a laptop running on battery?
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
You are making two functions calls in the second loop, vs one in the first. If the result of read() could be checked for eof, then you would remove one call. Also, since the branch is so easily predicted, I would be surprised if there is mu
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
I worked with IBM in the early 2000s porting some IP to their processes and what was so difficult was that everything was proprietary to IBM. From the nomenclature, to the tools, to the models, etc. That was great when they were on top, but
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
The police are only part of the problem, the criminals still needs to be charged and convicted. There was a reason SF recalled their DA. Also, many of these people are mentally ill, and the arrest can turn physical. In the current environme
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
You are just digging yourself in a bigger hole :) Modern farmers are not anywhere close to uneducated peasants.
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
What do you you think the default behavior of an assert is? If you are turning them off, then you get what you describe, which is not what I am advocating.
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by throwaway9870 4y ago
Compiling out assertions in production is like taking your seat belt off when you leave the driveway. Seriously, in my experience, all the interesting stuff happens in production. We deploy two builds, app.debug and app.release. We run gene

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