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by wirrbel 8y ago
I think I never was in a developed field that was as error prone as statistics, both intentional (fraud, p value hacking, etc) and with honest mistakes.
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by wirrbel 8y ago
For employees, collective bargaining is often much better than individual negotiation. I upped my salary for example by joining a unionized company, before I was at a non-unionized company and felt that I was better at negotiations than my
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I think wirth did however like to distinguish between procedures and functions. Not functional in todays meaning of the word, but similar in spirit.
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by wirrbel 8y ago
Just to make sure "functional programming" or "structured programming"?
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I was a bit astonished at first because my brain read "Bernie Sanders"
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I think he does cherry picking there because among many reasons why people recommend latex this is just one.
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I really don't like the Cambria Math font, alternative ones are * XITS https://github.com/alif-type/xits (port of STIX, kind of looks like Times New Romans which is not my preferred style but still better than Cam
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by wirrbel 8y ago
He slams Latex usage as a fetish. Then he actually has a hard time putting forth arguments against latex, ends up with very weak ones, for example he compares MacOS vanilla Emacs installation with a weird green-on-black colorscheme with MS
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I did read that piece from start to end and I always thought "the arguments against Latex must come soon", all that I read where kind of repetitions of their title and glorifications of MS Word et. al.
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I am pretty sure the author of that blog post has not done so. Everytime I used pandoc or similar tools to convert text from one format into another, I had to put in a lot of effort to manually fix up things. Its not realistic for most case
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I disagree (although I think I understand that people might find it strange). TDD is in a way a gamification of programming. You go back and forth between being rewarded with a green test suite, to challenging your implementation with anoth
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by wirrbel 8y ago
It is still part of the orthographic rules for Frakturschrift, i.e. not using a long s in fraktur would have been an orthographic mistake. Since Fraktur was used into the 1940s, people were very much used to it.
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by wirrbel 8y ago
design thinking is a method that helps justify management opinion with a process of processing people's input so long until it is diluted/lost enough and replaced by the view of ppl in power.
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by wirrbel 8y ago
this. Issue trackers like JIRA can be configured to search for commit-Ids in the messages, which will give you all commits associated with a ticket. Adding ticket IDs to commits has fallen a bit out of fashion since feature-branches and pul
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I heard a lot of good things about FrameMaker for text processing. For development environments I am deeply sorry that smalltalks are not a thing anymore. I know we have pharo, and that's great, but nothing with traction like let'
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by wirrbel 8y ago
If this works for you, good. I think I would be cautious giving this out as advice because you can run into problems this way with regards to different python versions. The activate script uses the python version used to setup the environme
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by wirrbel 8y ago
Surely google can assume that browser settings represent the user'choice when it fits Google's interest, and they can assume that browser settings don't represent the user's choice when it fits their interest. But everyo
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I like petri nets so much.
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by wirrbel 8y ago
Basically it seems you are lacking only two shell commands. virtualenv venv . venv/bin/activate Then everything works with pip pip install numpy I actually prefer the pipenv way (or the virtualenvwrapper way
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I have family in a nearby village, interesting to see this here :)
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I think it's not like a natural law. But several things help with it. Changing maintainers and committers for example. When the original ideas are lost, so is the structure of the code. Also the quality of the test suite makes a huge d
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by wirrbel 8y ago
With that kind of stuff, clients usually also depend on defects and accidently behavior and they are not happy touching their own Client-Code integrating the service with their systems because it is of the same quality as the service.
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I think agile is usually presented as an approach that tries to reduce a split between the business and the developers. If you take the business out of the equation you usually get development models that just-for-fun open source projects h
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by wirrbel 8y ago
What's wrong is to have a team wide iteration xycle instead of iterating within features / use cases
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by wirrbel 8y ago
Yes, that's how it should be and basically it sounds like you are then already doing a Kanban style working mode (and what purpose does the sprint rhythm than serve)? Scrum by the books usually implies that releases happen after the po
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by wirrbel 8y ago
My issue with sprints is not exactly the rhythm itself. It's the sabotage of continuous delivery and operation (DevOps in the original idea).
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by wirrbel 8y ago
"Beneath the wheel" (Unterm Rad) is a good read if you are interested in that aspect.
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by wirrbel 8y ago
The page currently times out loading, but from what I gather from the title, it seems that my distrust in the circumcicion against AIDS stories was on track. It always felt a bit like puritans trying to find empiric evidence for their moral
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by wirrbel 8y ago
on the other hand, I sometimes feel like he has done a lot of "history building", but I find his world sometimes incredibly sparsely described.
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by wirrbel 8y ago
I don't know jin Yong (what would I read from him first as european? Any recommendations?) But I tend to dislike the overarching glorification of Tolkien. Surely an impressive writer and world-builder but surely not the only one and no

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