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by unoti 11y ago
Regardless of what else you read, try this one technique for manual testing. You're probably interested in getting more serious about testing because of a couple of major defects that you have seen in the software after your last rele
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Medically, we now have drugs that break up blood clots and give heart attack patients a fighting chance if they get to the hospital fast enough. Same thing with some stroke victims. Today people who would have died from anaphylactic shock
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> At some point, the masses won't have any economic power anymore, and billions of meatbags will be left to starve. In some ways this is already underway. Very few of the people in the world have any economic power, and the proporti
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When it comes to radio, voice takes a lot more bandwidth than digital signals[1]. This has important practical implications. A typical voice signal takes about 3kHz of bandwidth, whereas a CW (continuous wave, Morse code signal) can be do
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> Suppose you could design your dream job that you'll be starting on Monday. It's at your ideal company with your ideal job title and salary. All you have to do is tell them what you want to do at your job and you can have it.
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I've had the same issue and here is what worked for me. You might want to work on cutting back to zero caffeine, and work on drinking plenty of water and doing general diet improvement. If you're eating and drinking lots of sugar
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> If you're a street musician setting up to play with an open instrument case, it's pretty important to "seed the pot" This concept is discussed at length, and backed up with scientific studies, in the excellent book
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What's a good way to get started developing similar apps? Do you recommend coding from scratch right in WebGL, or do you recommend starting with some framework or another? Do you have any thoughts on using Unity or Unreal Engine for W
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There is an implicit assumption that in the workplace, we're all rational adults. Reasonable people who deep down are all the same and just want to do the right thing for the company. That is usually true, but a leader should keep in
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by unoti 11y ago
It's Influence by Bob Cialdini. I've also read How to Win Friends and Influence people, and it's very weak in comparison. The Cialdini book is rigorously researched and backed by science.
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> ...If someone is openly running counter to that It's when they covertly run counter to that that the real trouble starts.
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I suggest a few basic tips: 1. Make them feel like you like them. Show a real and genuine interest in and admiration for them and the work they have done, and look for opportunities to tell them how brilliant they and their work are. It&#x2
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You're right. I've also often seen it where the disenfranchised people are the ones who wrote the original system we're replacing. And we need their help doing extracts for data conversion, and possibly interfacing to special
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Probably the biggest surprise I've seen in my career as a team lead is how often people ostensibly work with the team, but actually want to see the team fail. It sounds ridiculous, I know, but it actually happens quite often. Here are
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My lifelong dream of THC sourdough is now one step closer.
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In practice, until they change the law so that the service providers can determine fair use and discard the DMCA request in fair use cases, nothing will change much. Litigious people and organizations will file and file, and the service pr
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by unoti 11y ago
A good example of a use case I can think of would be to pass an (x,y) coordinate pair as a single parameter, and unpack it in the parameter definition. This would save having an extra line that says (x,y) = pt. Unless I'm missing some
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I never felt like the Road Not Taken was about individualism, even when I first read it in high school. To me it's about the fact that sometimes you have to make momentous decisions in life, in which neither choice is clearly right or
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When you're building a new app based around a handful of these services, how do you have any idea what it will cost to host your business on a startup? In the past I've avoided using these, and just used VPS servers doing my own t
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The root problem here is not economics, it is basic human nature. Humans have forever been seeking to increase their power base at the expense of others, and been corruptible by greed. This is not new, and it is not limited to capitalism.
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Nonsense! Your post was great fun. The code was fun, too. I particularly enjoyed your comment about to how Pi was referenced in the bible, along with the ensuing rabbit trail of research that took me down.[1] [1] http://www.tekto
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> what is the fair market price of global equities when some buyers can print money? You raise a good point. "Fair" has long gone out the window when one or more participants has a standing army. Which of course ties in to whi
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> They need to toss the dice and assume they interpret your intentions clearly. Actually, that's testing collaboration right there. If the question is vague, ask if they mean this, or that. Tossing the dice and assuming is exactly
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> What is absolutely baffling to me is that companies assign coding tests as a pre-qualifier for the usual whiteboard interview despite the coding test being a far more adequate measure of the abilities of an engineer. A coding test does
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Whenever you write an email, you should envision how it'll read as evidence in a court transcript. Envision a jury reading over your shoulder. That's essentially what will happen if there's a preservation order and a court
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"How many tabs do you keep open on your browser" would be an interesting question, to me, to see the results on. I'm often mystified by the stories of people who keep 50+ tabs open. I've never understood why, but I gue
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Someone (we?) should do an analysis on how many people did that, when the data comes out.
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It's the people that make a job good or bad; the technology plays a comparatively small role. I've worked with people I'd do anything for, including spending a couple years wading through old technology. You do it for the te
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by unoti 11y ago
How is mobile support now? I'm interested in making simple mobile titles, but Unreal seems targetted at making super high performance games on high end mobile devices, rather than simple games that most devices can run. Tappy Chicken
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The old days weren't that great. Today there is SparkFun, https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials , which is like 1000x what Radio Shack ever was in terms of Hobby Electronics. And there are hundreds of other sites focus

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