yinzer-solomon

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by yinzer-solomon 2y ago
I'll belatedly second the recommendation of the "City Watch" series. I found "Night Watch" to be particularly enjoyable.
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by yinzer-solomon 3y ago
Sometimes, people are asked to become managers because their managers think that they have the right combination of skills and attributes to be good at the job. And sometimes, the people who were asked, due to a combination of stubbornness
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by yinzer-solomon 5y ago
I actually thought this thread was going to be about CIRA’s amazing set of Canadian stock photos, which includes references to the strategic maple syrup reserve: https://petapixel.com/2020/01/23/canadian-inter
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by yinzer-solomon 5y ago
I’m posting this in case it helps someone: I used to suffer fairly severe migraines with aura every month or two until I started taking a chelated magnesium supplement for an unrelated purpose. I found that my migraines dropped by 95% or mo
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by yinzer-solomon 5y ago
My understanding is that it’s not a technical issue, but rather a business and marketing one. Comcast doesn’t want the home service to compete with their costlier Business service, so they artificially limit the upload speeds to prevent hom
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by yinzer-solomon 5y ago
I would prefer not to estimate at all because estimates are, in the Lean sense, waste: i.e., something that your customers don’t value. Unfortunately, that argument never worked with my managers at project budgeting time. As a result, becau
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by yinzer-solomon 5y ago
As Goldratt says in “Beyond the Goal”: Any project management methodology that doesn’t account for Murphy’s Law is not a realistic methodology.
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by yinzer-solomon 5y ago
Stereotypes aside, some of us were/are both.
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by yinzer-solomon 6y ago
My pleasure. As iainctduncan mentioned, the authors are wonderful teachers, and the book serves as a good warmup before diving into SICP.
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by yinzer-solomon 6y ago
IIRC, “Simply Scheme” describes several different recursion patterns, and it provides a number of exercises that match each pattern.