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by wgj 17y ago
I was referring to the follow up comments made on BarCampLA using the same gmail account as his original post there. Those comments have the same tone as the ones made here.
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by wgj 17y ago
His own replies to his google groups posting are just as bizarre. Sadly, this looks authentic.
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by wgj 17y ago
+1 for wiki suggestion. The value in an exercise like this is the insight into the collective assessment, especially spanning different software disciplines, and with broader expert input.
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by wgj 17y ago
Try this example: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=31&q=ruby%2Cr... There's still a strong correlation among the three queries.
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by wgj 17y ago
The author is a self-important dilettante. ...is designed to insult or discredit the author without any reference to the actual argument (or any objective facts.) If the goal is to move the discussion forward, how can this be "a reasonabl
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by wgj 17y ago
Try getting a theoretician to look at a proof of a famous conjecture written by an unknown. That was an intentional ad hominem for humor/effect?
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by wgj 17y ago
I didn't know about this device. Very cool. I have considered developing an algorithmic software concept based on lattices. This device is a hardware version of what I thought that might look like. I might as well mention that Robert Fripp'
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by wgj 17y ago
The circle of fifths is a by-product of the more generalized lattice theory: http://x31eq.com/lattice.htm As the Wikipedia article explains the Pythagorean Comma, there are actually many possible commas caused by equal temperament when tr
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by wgj 17y ago
There is already a filter on the search that limits the results to programming queries, but I don't know the algorithm. I tested by comparing the results for "ruby" and "rails". The curves were virtually identical, which would be impossible
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by wgj 17y ago
Actually, looking at the Regional Interest section, it looks like a much tighter cluster in the US than most other countries (with Python in the lead.) It's possible that PHP is just far more popular outside the US, and you can learn that
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by wgj 17y ago
Under TDD you write tests not after you've changed code, but before you have written any code at all. Under TDD, all tests initially fail, as there is no code yet to allow the test case to succeed. You then write the code necessary to all
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TenYears: Single Most Innovative Product of the Decade(crunchgear.com)
1 points by wgj 17y ago|0 comments
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by wgj 17y ago
Point taken. I didn't look closely enough.
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by wgj 17y ago
Just the ajax parts are missing. It's a demo for a UI kit, so that seems appropriate.
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by wgj 17y ago
He ended by implying he still has his day job. If I read that correctly, that means $12K above his salary and benefits, and with only part time effort.
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by wgj 17y ago
Thanks
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by wgj 17y ago
+1 (as long a /b/ stays up to keep the trolls from wandering)
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by wgj 17y ago
Which is spam, even if well intended.
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by wgj 17y ago
body { font-size: 62.5%; } This alone is gold if it works.
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by wgj 17y ago
Actually, I've always seen kLOC as a divisor: defects/kLOC, branches/kLOC, etc. Even metrics like functions/kLOC are useful, if you believe in small functions.
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Not sure if this means Media Temple will stop storing passwords in plain text
3 points by wgj 17y ago|3 comments
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by wgj 17y ago
That was a really long list of credits at the end. I'm guessing all those people worked for free to make that short film happen. The soundtrack alone is worth much more than $300.
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by wgj 17y ago
My point was simply that describing the tests as random or arbitrary diminishes the value of the results without requiring an alternate viewpoint. That would be fair if it were truly random, but I don't think it is. Edit: Your last edit pro
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by wgj 17y ago
While we cannot imagine the world of four dimensions, we can certainly think about it perfectly well. Sagan said things in a way that was always very rewarding for the listener.
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by wgj 17y ago
> it tests a whole bunch of random features It clearly can't be random if four other major browser vendors independently score over 90%, and if: Firefox 2, a browser released in 2006 and predates Acid 3, scores a 52/100 versus the cu
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by wgj 17y ago
if your conversion rate is 1%, losing a single customer is like 100 people never coming to your website. Strike that traffic from your logs. I'm not sure how well this actually holds up logically. (There are other parameters to take into
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by wgj 17y ago
I once bought a set of monolight strobes (for photography) made by a respected brand name (Bowens.) Every unit in the set failed shortly after the 1-year warranty due to failure of the electrolytic capacitors in the power supply. I used th
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by wgj 17y ago
Concurrent nav is a big feature for power users, but for the rest of the world, probably not. Edit: I'm surprised that this is such an unpopular point of view.
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by wgj 17y ago
A commenter on TC makes the same point: "I think Techcrunch is displaying some significant bias here. First of all lets get the fact straight – one of Techcrunch’s advertisers and partners is Ustream a company that is fighting neck and neck
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by wgj 17y ago
The lesson in A/B testing isn't to find magic bullets in other people's results. It's to actually do A/B testing. If you could generalize from other people's results, you could just catalog what works and be done. It doesn't work that way

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