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by wainstead 4y ago
I thought that was strange myself. At the bottom of the page we get: Methodology This report is based on proprietary data gathered and analyzed by Hired’s data science teams. For the purpose of this report, Hired examined software engineeri
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by wainstead 4y ago
> One year later it was a mess of network calls, no ORMs and nearly-raw queries because who needs an ORM, migrations run by SQL statements on bash scripts because who needs migrations. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to
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by wainstead 5y ago
Wikipedia gives it as a two-person creation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress#History
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by wainstead 5y ago
> Were there ever any real objective [hah] studies done about how much it improved software development? And did they show a significant improvement? I think years of hard experience across the industry found out that, for example, multi
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by wainstead 5y ago
SICP being https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...
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by wainstead 5y ago
Are schemas the same idea that Barbara Oakley calls “chunking”?
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by wainstead 5y ago
I still have my copy of Write to the Point, which you recommended.
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by wainstead 5y ago
Sometimes I wonder if the GDPR will go down in history like, say, the Magna Carta, a legal construct that changes history.
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by wainstead 5y ago
Don't, I only learned about it recently, and the standard itself is quite young!
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by wainstead 5y ago
The ops people. In many companies access to production is limited.
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by wainstead 5y ago
And there's a standard for it: https://www.w3.org/TR/trace-context/ Many libraries and tools support the standard now.
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by wainstead 5y ago
> Having to look at all that stuff, some of which can be very disturbing or shocking Yup, was the designated person to report all child porn for our photo-sharing website. It was horrific. Some of those images still haunt me today, they
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Early AI: “Eurisko, the Computer with a Mind of Its Own” (1984)(aliciapatterson.org)
6 points by wainstead 5y ago|1 comments
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by wainstead 5y ago
Wizard of Oz as well, like every other line is a memorable quote.
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by wainstead 5y ago
> I re-watched Hackers recently and it isn't that bad. They clearly did the research, It's aged very well; it was slightly cringe-worthy in its time. I watch it over about once a year now. I believe Emmanuel Goldstein consulted
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by wainstead 5y ago
> Technologies like this remain stagnant until the landscape is ready for them. So true it should have a name, like kstenerud's Law or something.
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by wainstead 5y ago
> I've also got the sinking feeling that it won't reduce the proliferation of low quality content for clicks because that business model is perfectly feasible in the subscription world. It might even speed it up as people gravi
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by wainstead 6y ago
Indeed, I stand corrected! While the Ogallala is still in trouble from over pumping, you’ve shown corn is mostly rain fed.
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by wainstead 6y ago
If you’re talking rain barrels, sure. But some states in America make it illegal for you to collect rainwater on your own property because it legally belongs to someone else.
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by wainstead 6y ago
> Judging vertical farming based on the performance of wheat is not valid. When I saw the test crop was wheat, I scrolled to see if there were any other crops, saw that there weren't, and abandoned the article because wheat has amon
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by wainstead 6y ago
> like Hackers-inspired visions of computer people as living Mondo 2000 articles. Upvote just for this line of poetry. Mondo 2000, haven’t heard that name in decades.
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by wainstead 6y ago
> until the money runs dry. And once a year as the government decides its budget you get to chew your nails as you wait to see if the money is in the next budget.
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It’s time to accept that disinformation is a cyber security issue(computerweekly.com)
26 points by wainstead 6y ago|6 comments
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by wainstead 6y ago
But, not having the time to review 198 updates shouldn’t justify automatically permitting the updates. I agree there isn’t time to review them, unless you have plenty of staff and time (no one does)... but the recent Solarwinds debacle was
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by wainstead 6y ago
It’s been turning up lately in the energy subreddit, with articles like: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/12/geothermal-energy-ren...
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by wainstead 6y ago
It’s behind the paywall, but my local library lets patrons access the WSJ through a service called ProQuest. Excerpt: There's just about no limit to the earnings, sales and productivity gains technology companies can generate. Tech com
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by wainstead 6y ago
Yeah, I’m not worried much about it either... it would be a benefit to reduce phosphorus mining in general due to its environmental impact, but even that can probably be addressed in other ways.
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by wainstead 6y ago
And it addresses the potential issue of “peak phosphorus”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_phosphorus
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by wainstead 6y ago
As to how they get the numbers, this is TIOBE's methodology: [1] Since there are many questions about the way the TIOBE index is assembled, a special page is devoted to its definition. Basically the calculation comes down to
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by wainstead 6y ago
True, however, the primary problem with the SO survey is the participants are self-selected [1], not randomly sampled. (It's explained in the survey's methodology). What this means is we have no idea if the sample of programmers i

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