timwiseman

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by timwiseman 14y ago
Additionally, suing a site designed to help teachers and run by a former teacher might generate some rather bad publicity.
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by timwiseman 14y ago
I hope not. My life is filled with regrets. I have done many things wrong that I wish I could undo, and missed many opportunities that I wish I could take advantage of. And it is often only in hindsight that I can tell the difference. Of
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by timwiseman 14y ago
Well said. Normally, a best practice becomes known as a best practice because it is the right choice most of the time. It probably won't be the right choice all of the time and the truly successful can excel by knowing when to creatively
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by timwiseman 14y ago
This makes sense, but a lot of the time the "one thing" you are talking about is simply the very last required thing. If you had done things in a different order the "one thing" would be something else entirely. And if you had omitted one
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by timwiseman 14y ago
Yes, most of them are normal coding practices. But ways to write better code generally are or at least should be normal coding practices. But many people do not know what the normal practices should be.
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by timwiseman 14y ago
I think you may be reading this article far more harshly than I was. For one, I do not think the person sitting at "sorta works" is necessarily a 'clueless hillbilly'. In fact, I suspect most serious developers travel up and down this pyra
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by timwiseman 14y ago
It depends on what you are doing with it and what you are comparing it to. For 50 Gigs, its extremely cheap. But if you really say want 5 gigs, then $10 a month seems a bit high, especially now that Gdrive gives you 5 gigs free. Its also a
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by timwiseman 14y ago
In an ideal world, this is precisely what we would do. Unfortunately, this is a world constrained by time and by knowledge. I do not have the time or expertise to evaluate everything I read in a clinical fashion. Given those constraints, w
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by timwiseman 14y ago
I do not think that this post is against all criticism, but it is against the non-productive "How hard can it be?" or "This is terrible" type or criticism, especially by someone who has never stepped into that arena and has no clue "Hard ha
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by timwiseman 14y ago
All true. And if you say "I could do better..." and it is in a remotely profitable field, perhaps you should be doing just that. Much of innovation happens because someone said, "I could do better" and then did. Nothing good came of peop
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Why my child will be your child's boss(cbsnews.com)
4 points by timwiseman 14y ago|0 comments
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by timwiseman 14y ago
In the case of this particular study, it seemed that the quality of the school as a factor was overshadowed by the desire to learn, as shown by the attempt to get into a better school. This does not mean that the quality of the school does
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The ethics of recycling content: Jonah Lehrer accused of self-plagiarism(arstechnica.com)
17 points by timwiseman 14y ago|9 comments
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Retina reluctance: Why buy a locked-down laptop?(extremetech.com)
6 points by timwiseman 14y ago|0 comments
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by timwiseman 14y ago
"Ultimately he's just doing the job he was hired to do." "I was just following orders" never makes a good excuse for doing something that is patently wrong. It is even less so for an independent lawyer who has tremendous discretion to refu
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by timwiseman 14y ago
But they don't govern the same way Congress does, which is part of the beauty of the system. They certainly play a role in governing, but where Contress is active (in theory), the Courts are reactive, waiting for a case to be brought to the
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Avoiding Learned Helplessness (2010)(artofmanliness.com)
1 points by timwiseman 14y ago|0 comments
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by timwiseman 14y ago
As to 1: it is in many ways insecure (though bound to be hacked might be a bit much.) While dropbox isn't technically a cloud based backup, it can be used that way and there was a period where a glitch left it totally exposed for about fou
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by timwiseman 14y ago
Yes, but that is often justified and understandable. HackerNews has one of the better communities out there but I know that getting downvoted without an explanation annoys me. This happens even on HackerNews occassionally.
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by timwiseman 14y ago
You are entirely right. With that said, schools right now often emphasize testing and test prep at the expense of any hands on work. Naturally, we should have the right balance, which seems to be what you are proposing, but if we must over
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by timwiseman 14y ago
Talent is a fair point. So is the resources/position one starts with, but I had considered that one part of luck.
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by timwiseman 14y ago
It seems there are 3 main factors in success (or lack thereof): Luck, working smarter, working harder. Luck is a major factor for everyone, but you can't control it. You can certainly influence working smarter, but it is often a matter of
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by timwiseman 14y ago
>Google tries stuff, fails a lot, and stumbles on as many successes as they engineer. True, but worth pointing out that often the best way to succeed, especially on anything truly innovative, is to be ready to try stuff and fail a lot.
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by timwiseman 14y ago
I fully agree, though I will caveat that many companies, mostly larger ones, have the vast majority of resumes funnelled through HR. HR may be much more inclined to just toss a resume that doesn't check every box that was listed as a "requ
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by timwiseman 14y ago
The word Go is far too overloaded in the English Language, and the difference is not always clear from context. This title could easily have refferred to the correct meaning of 5 weeks with the programming language Go, 5 weeks playing and s
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by timwiseman 14y ago
Well said. To go a bit further, limits on income are likely to encourage people not to try truly hard or truly risky ventures. Paul Graham addresses this at http://paulgraham.com/gap.html
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by timwiseman 14y ago
"Is there any skill besides coding that allows you to use your ability to make using your ability easier?" Code is probably far and away the best example, as you point out. But this is true to a lesser degree in areas like metalworking. I
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by timwiseman 14y ago
I agree with all of this. And I also find, both as a reader and writer, that footnotes come across better if paginated. Of course, on the web you have options like having the footnotes popup on hover or putting them to the left or right ma
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by timwiseman 14y ago
This is true, but the same can be said of being a great writer. George Orwell set out to have an impact on the world and he is still doing so long after his death because of the strength of his writing. The same can be said of being a grea
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by timwiseman 14y ago
My experience seems to be different from yours. I am a working DBA and I have friends that are working DBAs and we generally do not have a hard time finding work. I incidentally have stopped programmers from doing X or Y, but it was becaus

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