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by wwkeyboard 11y ago
You might try Toastmasters. Once you get past the first few "nervousness" lessons they focus on how to convey meaning with speech. Every chapter is different, so YMMV. Several of the speeches you have to prepare cover persuasion,
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by wwkeyboard 11y ago
I really live having good formatting and spell check in the commit messages. It's much nicer than the `git commit -m "blah"` messages. Sure I could use another GUI, but magit is very easy when I'm already in emacs.
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by wwkeyboard 11y ago
It's a little late for you, but Mike Monteiro's "Fuck you, pay me!" talk has a lot of good information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
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by wwkeyboard 11y ago
The high value project is a great place to find the parts that require the least amount of effort on your part but will have the highest value to the company and deliver those first. As an engineer this feels like "cheating". It&#
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by wwkeyboard 11y ago
People still ride horses and we've had cars for over 100 years. I don't see driving going away, it just might be constrained in when and where you are allowed to drive(maybe like Autobahn in Chicago and Motorsports Ranch in Housto
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by wwkeyboard 12y ago
So what happened to the "avoid success at all costs" motto?
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by wwkeyboard 12y ago
A major source of the oceanic CO2 is the atmosphere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification . It's not perfect but could be much better than burning dinosaurs.
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by wwkeyboard 12y ago
They also didn't link to the original study, where you could find this information. There are four links in the article, and they mention the original journal(but not the edition), and they don't link to the article. This seems li
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3D Printing: Titanium, Carbon Fiber, and The One:1 – /INSIDE KOENIGSEGG(youtube.com)
3 points by wwkeyboard 12y ago|0 comments
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by wwkeyboard 12y ago
I mostly agree, but I would qualify this with saying you don't need to know exact UML. I wouldn't worry about filled in triangles vs. diamonds, just the big ideas. Like everything enterprise, before it UML was wrapped in a three r
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by wwkeyboard 13y ago
+1 for Digital Ocean, the $5 droplet is fast enough for most of what I do. And if you haven't tried Mosh recently I'd recommend it, it's a lifesaver when I get caught in a coffee shop with spotty wifi.
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by wwkeyboard 13y ago
Just for perspective, here is the same graph adding Python and Java: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%2... At the level of 'google trends' (or really, any language ball-parking)
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by wwkeyboard 13y ago
As a tangent, we still don't have a good definition of 'large' software project. Clojure hasn't been around for 8 years, so we don't have 10 or 15 year projects to look at. And I think we'd have heard if there
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by wwkeyboard 13y ago
I love the idea of starting people on the path to learning how to build applications. However I think he brings up a good point, I can't find on the code academy website where it says "this is a start to long process of learning&q
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by wwkeyboard 13y ago
I think "standing on the shoulders of giants" is the cliche you're looking for. - Looking over the examples from the blog post, those aren't really from 'first principles'. They are assuming cars and an interne
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by wwkeyboard 13y ago
But where does that track record come from? It sounds like you are now defending the protectionism your previous comment was decrying.
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by wwkeyboard 13y ago
This has nothing to do with you writing webapps as a side job. It's about having some way for those corporations to prove the people who are verifying your work are competent to do so. That is the _whole_ point of the PE stamp!
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by wwkeyboard 13y ago
Exactly, why can't I open an appendectomy kiosk at the mall!?!
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by wwkeyboard 13y ago
Yes for the domain knowledge, but what about the software? Do you expect an aerospace or biomedical engineer to understand also how to write safety-of-life system?
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by wwkeyboard 13y ago
Edit1: A poorly written app could impact the ability to call 911. Even by draining the battery unexpectedly.
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by wwkeyboard 13y ago
That being said we've had many times more deaths from bad software than from bad spacecraft( http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~nachumd/horror.html vs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-re
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by wwkeyboard 14y ago
SRI accidentally granted Summly a too broad and cheap license for their summarisation technology, and it's cheaper than licensing from SRI directly. ding! ding! ding! I think we have a winner here.
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by wwkeyboard 14y ago
> an army of the top engineers in the world isn't worth anything if they're not working on something people want to use Lockheed Martin's F-22 team was worth billions, and nobody wanted that plane. But yes, war profiteering aside, your
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by wwkeyboard 14y ago
At their level you're better passing over a few good applicants than letting in some bad ones. If you don't like it thats something we need to talk about changing in our industry, not just shooting ire at a single company. Mentorship is not
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by wwkeyboard 14y ago
I bought a how-to-play-guitar DVD but I still can't get a gig! I even practiced every night for a month, man this sucks!
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Herd Immunity Demonstration(op12no2.me)
283 points by wwkeyboard 14y ago|59 comments
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by wwkeyboard 14y ago
They kinda tried this a hundred years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics_(Bookshelf)
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by wwkeyboard 14y ago
Houston, we've jumped the shark.
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by wwkeyboard 14y ago
Sometimes, but we don't know why there aren't rooms in those neighborhoods, or apartments sitting empty. If it's a genuine attempt to remove inefficiency, thats one thing, but an attempt to "beat the system"(the first part of sentence that
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by wwkeyboard 14y ago
No, consumer reviews are a replacement for safety inspections. The morbid side of me says "dead men post no reviews". But the real problem is how many people would need to be hurt (financially or physically) before enough reviews got out? I

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